Calendar of Events

Check out this month’s live music lineup:

Friday 11/2 Billingsley
Saturday 11/3 Peggy Ratusz

Thursday 11/8 Patrick Dodd Trio & Royal Suits
Friday 11/9 Ashley Heath & The Paper Crowns
Saturday 11/10 Sanctum Sully & Leeda Lyric Jones

Friday 11/16 The Dirty Badgers
Saturday 11/17 Lucky 757

Friday 11/23 RichNelsonBand
Saturday 11/24 Gold Rose

Tuesday 11/27 Fwuit!

Friday 11/30 Porch 40

https://www.facebook.com/events/1218679134923930/?event_time_id=1218679171590593

Miss Nelson can’t control her crazy classroom because she’s just too nice. But when she disappears, her replacement is the hard-as-nails, detention-loving, recess-canceling, homework-overloading substitute teacher Viola Swamp! With the Big Test approaching, the kids suddenly realize how much they miss Miss Nelson and they’ll do anything to solve the mystery of her disappearance and bring her back.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1980793755551543/?event_time_id=1980793772218208

Come celebrate Samhain with Mother Grove Goddess Temple. We will meet at French Broad River park and engage in honor and celebration of Samhain and the new year!

https://www.facebook.com/events/329758264451307/

Singer songwriter Tessia

https://www.facebook.com/events/287125108688900/

Come Join me at The Poe House November 2nd for music, good vibes and an awesome venue!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1864705633613360/

I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Psalm 16:8 (NIV)

Do you want to stand unshaken in this troubled world? With Jesus you can live victoriously in any circumstance. He wants to transform you, to empower you, to set you free. Seize God’s promises and battle powerfully in prayer. With Him, you can change the course of your life. Join a sisterhood of prayer warriors impacting the next generation for Christ.

For more details visit the Moms in Prayer International website at
https://momsinprayer.org/events/unshaken-blue-ridge/

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Closing reception for the “Vigilante” show. Prints and paintings for sale, music by BOBBIE SNAKES!!

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THE LOVE TALKER 
By Deborah Pryor

The Love Talker is an eerie and sensual play set in an age when strange spirits walked the earth and magic was all around.

A GHOST STORY 
By John Pielmeier

Two hikers seek shelter from a winter blizzard in an isolated Maine cabin. They meet a mysterious girl and soon the three share ghost stories, at first fanciful and then suddenly disquieting as the imagined becomes the real.

Crooning voices, soulful guitars, and rollicking pianos bring heartfelt lyrics and magical melodies to life in the brand-new Peace Voices Songwriters Concert Series. Led by Greenville favorite Edwin McCain and accomplished songwriter Maia Sharp, each concert brings a new guest singer-songwriter to the Upstate for a one-of-kind performance. Join us this season in Genevieve’s theater lounge for this intimate listening room experience.

Phillip Lammonds
Raised in the Appalachian foothills of the Carolinas, Phillip Lammonds has a way of elevating life’s ordinary moments with the turn of a phrase and the lift of a just-right melody into soulful, poetic perfection. Lammonds began writing songs just after college when he formed The Blue Dogs, along with his buddies Hank Futch and Bobby Houck. He recently signed a publishing deal with Curb Records in Nashville and has written songs with, or for, artists like Darius Rucker, Lee Brice, Edwin McCain, Blake Shelton, Craig Morgan, Josh Turner, and Hootie and the Blowfish.

Edwin McCain
Called the “great American romantic” by The New York Times, Edwin McCain has built an enviable career over the past 20 years. His enduring love songs and wedding must-haves “I’ll Be” and “I Could Not Ask For More” have become two of the biggest love songs in the history of pop music. 2018 marks the 20th year of the hugely popular “I’ll Be,” which topped the Billboard charts in 1998 and has proven to be a timeless classic over the past two decades. After recording his mega hits and experiencing the success that comes with a television show (Flipping Ships), McCain now performs upwards of 100 shows annually throughout the US.

Maia Sharp
Maia Sharp wears many hats. She has had her songs recorded by The Dixie Chicks, Bonnie Raitt, Trisha Yearwood, Keb’ Mo’, Cher, Edwin McCain, and Art Garfunkel. She produced McCain’s album Mercy Bound and, most recently, two songs for Garfunkel’s retrospective double album, The Singer. Sharp has six solo releases, and her latest duo project is Roscoe & Etta, with writing/production partner Anna Schulze. Each release has led to extensive touring throughout the US and UK, and appearances on Mountain Stage, Acoustic Cafe, World Cafe, NPR’s All Things Considered, CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today.

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Performed by students ages 8-13 in our Tanglewood Youth Theatre Production Class: Kids doing theatre for kids!

It’s Junie B.’s first day of first grade, and a lot of things have changed for her: Junie’s friend, Lucille, doesn’t want to be her best pal anymore and, on the bus, Junie B. makes friends with Herb, the new kid at school. Also, Junie has trouble reading the blackboard and her teacher, Mr. Scary, thinks she may need glasses. Throw in a friendly cafeteria lady, a kickball tournament and a “Top-Secret Personal Beeswax Journal,” and first grade has never been more exciting!

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Alceste is an iconoclastic rock purist. He has declared that he is sick of hypocrisy and will tell everyone exactly how he feels. Simultaneously, he is romantically involved with Cecelia, a break-out pop star who is shallow, venal, and not the most faithful lover. In order to prove his devotion to truth, Alceste tells would-be rapper Lil’ Tastee that he has no talent, only to discover that the fickle Cecelia might be carrying on with Lil’ Tastee behind his back.

Playwrights Andrew Gall and Megan Powell originally created this adaptation of Molière’s The Misanthrope for the Wing & Groove Theatre Company in Chicago. This production will be its North Carolina premiere.

Featuring:
Jason Phillips
Mary Katherine O’Donnell
Eugene Jones
Heather Bronson
Jered Shults
Tippin
Daniel Henry
Daniel Moore

Production Team:
Direction: Andrew Gall
Lighting Design: Abby Auman
Sound Design: Mary Zogzas
Costume Design: Victoria Smith
Stage Management: Jessica Johnson

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Join Michael Peterson defense attorney David Rudolf for an evening of behind the scenes insights into the case and the making of the series. The discussion, centered on questions from the audience, will examine Rudolf’s decision to let the filmmakers have access to his trial preparation, and provide insight into the most contentious issues in the case, including the State’s blood spatter expert, Elizabeth Ratliff’s death in Germany, Peterson’s bisexuality, and the Owl Theory.

This event will also feature prominent Asheville Lawyer Sean Devereux and will be moderated by Criminal Attorney Meghann Burke.

https://www.facebook.com/events/319413512143383/

The one-eyed storytelling champion who was recently awarded Most Outstanding Production at the London Fringe Festival, Stéphanie Morin-Robert, recounts her life in BLINDSIDE as a feisty 7-year-old cancer survivor, wielding her glass eye as a superpower and leaving the audience teetering in side-splitting laughter. Friday, November 2, 2018 at 8:00 p.m. at Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Asheville. Tickets: Regular $35; Student $30; Child $20; Student Rush Day-of-Show (with valid I.D.) $10. Box Office: 828-257-4530 or www.dwtheatre.com.

https://www.facebook.com/events/884119198454492/

Sale Dates and Times:
Public Onsale : Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 10:00 AM
VIP Packages Public Onsale : Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 10:00 AM

“Bob Dylan’s career has lasted the better part of fifty years now. That’s pretty remarkable. What is more impressive is that Dylan has remained not only active for almost all of that period, but controversial. He has never gotten by on sentimentality or nostalgia. He has never repeated his successes. For better or for worse, Dylan has always pushed his work ahead.

“Bob Dylan is as great a songwriter – ah, let’s not beat around the bush – as great an artist as America has produced. But he’d be the first to tell you that he is part of a long line, one link in an endless chain. You can follow his influence backward or forward according to your own inclination. Or you can spend a long time just listening to Dylan’s five decades of contributions. Wherever you go into it, and whatever you get out of it, your time will be well spent.”

Bill Flanagan – New York, 2007

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WHERE: THE BLOCK off biltmore, 39 S. Market St, 28801
WHEN: Friday November 2, 2018
DOORS: 7:30pm | SHOW: 8pm
GENRE: a Tribute to The Beatles & Paul Simon
AGES: 21+
SEATS: seated general admission / standing room
TICKETS: $10 adv. / $12 d.o.s.
WEB LISTING: http://theblockoffbiltmore.com/index.php/event/bridge

PLEASE NOTE: ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS EVENT WILL GO TO THE ELIADA HOME FOR CHILDREN!

The concept of scaling down obscure and beloved Beatles tunes hatched during a conversation Peggy Ratusz shared with Jonathan Pearlman several years ago. They figured, with all the tribute and specialty shows taking place around the country, no one had truly done much with Beatles tunes, other than copy them verbatim. Pearlman has been brainstorming arrangements and Ratusz tests them out during their many acoustic shows together. Encouraged by the applause they receive each time they do their versions of classics like Oh Darlin, Two Of Us, Back in the USSR, I’ll Follow the Sun, they decided it was time to put the finishing touches on these songs and present them in a special show. Because the two of them grew up listening to, learning and playing Paul Simon tunes, they determined it to be a no brainer, to throw some of his greatest hits into this special night, bridging the acoustic sensibilities of Simon with the rock and roll aesthetic of the Beatles. Their buddies Eric Congdon on guitar and vocals and Grant Cuthbertson on upright bass along with Micha Thomas on kit and percussion, will add the missing links to the arrangements and play key roles in bringing their concepts/arrangements to fruition! For ONE NIGHT ONLY: “Bridge”, Paul Simon meets the Beatles will soothe, move and groove you!

Hendersonville, NC based guitarist Eric Congdon has a low-key virtuosity. His style radiates both skill and charm. Whether playing solo or with a small ensemble, Congdon’s forceful yet delicate style doesn’t flaunt as much as it insinuates. The N.C.-based Congdon has been playing for 30 years. Congdon counts Tommy Emmanuel and Rev. Gary Davis among his influences. His latest album is called “Acoustic Wanderer.”

Grant Cuthbertson, now residing in Flat Rock, NC, has been in integral part of the music scene in Asheville for over 30 years. He is one of the main reasons why it thrives as it does. He wears many hats and provides the area’s most notable venues with quality sound equipment. An accomplished bassist both electric and upright, Grant’s love of all things Latin and Jazz as well as Blues, Swing & Gypsy Jazz, has made him one of the MOST sought after players in WNC.

Guitarist and virtuoso, Jonathan Pearlman’s (aka, JP) influences are far-reaching, absorbing Lennon/McCartney, Hendrix, Clapton, and Motown. Jazz-fusion bands of the early 70’s were also influential, like Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report and Frank Zappa. “Alien Music Club” is a music production and creative organization he developed more than 10 years ago. He also hosts the weekly Alien Music Club Jazz Jam at Barley’s Taproom in Asheville every Thursday night. “It’s a great opportunity to meet and share musical ideas with some of the best players while at the same time mentoring young musicians!”

Austin, Texas transplant, Peggy Ratusz has been pulling from the cream of the Asheville music crop since moving here in 2002. This “ruby throated” chanteuse has been a finalist in the International Blues Challenge in 2008, 2010 and 2016. A winner or runner up in the Mountain Xpress’s ‘Best of’ Poll for 9 years in the Blues category, (3 years straight 2015, 2017 & 2018), she won in three categories in the 2016. (Best Vocalist, Best in Blues and Artist Who Gives Back). She’s opened for Tedeschi-Trucks Band, Geoff Atchison, the Beach Boys and the recently departed Denise LaSalle.

Where would most any notable act in the area be without drummer/percussionist, Micah Thomas? He plays with panache and with the heart of an old soul. An affable and charming young man, his professionalism and skill are what make him an “in-demand” and “go-to” player. Brushfire Stankgrass, Liberated State are just two of the groups he spearheads and/or co-created. Currently working with Jesse Barry and the Jam, he also sessions and moonlights with Eric Congdon’s jam band.

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‘Creative Improvised Music For The Space Age’ Featuring:
Gil Scott-Heron’s Midnight Band saxophonist Bilal Sunni-Ali, and RAH Amen percussionist from the Sun Ra Arkestra! Also performing Asheville’s own Mike AndersEN!
This should be an extraordinary night of music with musicians gathered together to perform improv style Avant-garde, electronic jazz, art music, space, afro-fusion or whatever may happen!
$8

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Live Music and DJ with DJ P_LO. Playing Livee latin music as well spinning Salsa at the Artisan!

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Nicki Bluhm

Compass Records is excited to announce the release of renowned singer/songwriter Nicki Bluhm’s new album, TO RISE YOU GOTTA FALL out June 1. To celebrate the announcement, Rolling Stonepremiered the tle track yesterday, hailing the song as “a blast of Memphis soul.” TO RISE YOU GOTTA FALL as recorded in Memphis at the legendary Sam Phillips Recording studio and features two co-writes with Ryan Adams and a Dan Penn cover. For these live band analog sessions, Bluhm brought in producer Matt Ross-Spang (Margo Price, Jason Isbell), and the studio band included Will Sexton (guitar), Ross-Spang (guitars), Ken Coomer (drums and percussion), Al Gamble(Hammond B3), Rick Steff (piano) and Dave Smith (bass), with Reba Russell and Susan Marshall (background singers), Sam Shoup (string arrangements) and various special guests.

“It was the very first song we tracked,” Bluhm told Rolling Stone, “and Ken just started playing the groove and the band slowly started to drift in. Ken is such a present musician, and he’s listening to the words and reading the room and the vibe…There’s a line in the song that says, ‘I went looking for some perspective, so I knocked on my mama’s door,’ and he just hit the drum — the rim — like a knock, which brought a playfulness and lightness to the song. I love Will’s guitar playing, too. It’s so understated, but he makes himself known. It’s like the old saying goes: ‘The young bull charges down the hill, but the old bull takes his time.’ These musicians were tasteful; they’re all old bulls full of experience and class. Having a string section arranged by Sam Shoup was the icing on the cake. Memphis had melted into my California soul.”

After six years with her band the Gramblers, and recent high-profile collaborations (Phil Lesh, Infamous Stringdusters, Ryan Adams), Bluhm wrote the life-chronicling songs for TO RISE YOU GOTTA FALLover a two-year period, during which she got divorced and moved to Nashville, TN. The album is a chronicle of her state of mind following these deep and fundamental life changes.

“These songs are quite personal,” Bluhm says. “They are the conversations I never got to have, the words I never had the chance to say, and the catharsis I wouldn’t have survived without.”

Bluhm’s divorce, along with the need to challenge herself, inspired the West Coast na ve to make her spur-of-the moment, cross-country move to Nashville in 2017.

“Nashville was inspiring because of all the songwriting going on here,” Bluhm says. “When I would come to Nashville on writing trips it was just percolating… it was intoxicating. So I very hastily, in a matter of days, decided to move. I just had this gut feeling.”

Ross-Spang happened to be mixing a record in Nashville at the time and they met up and hit it off immediately.

“I really needed someone who was going to take the reins and have a vision for the album and he really did,” Bluhm says of meeting Ross-Spang. “My ex-husband had been my musical director, co-writer, and producer on all my records except one and I was looking for someone to step into that leadership roll, which Matt did very gracefully. I was looking for a clean slate; the only baggage I wanted to bring into the studio were the words to the songs I was singing. I wanted it to be a fresh experience; I didn’t want to even have history with anyone in the room that would pull me into old habits or ways of thinking. So we agreed we’d record in Memphis.”

Once settled in Sam Phillips Recording, the sessions revolved around tracking live with an ace band assembled by Ross-Spang.

“We really just recorded live and we didn’t do that many takes of each song,” Bluhm says. “The final versions we ended up with were all one take. It was really refreshing to go analog. It minimized over thinking and second guessing, forced us all to stay in the moment and play from the heart. Sam Shoup did all the string arrangements and when he walked in the room I thought he was a housepainter; he was the most understated, unlikely suspect. That was the thing about Memphis that was cool… not a lot of egos, just people making music for music’s sake. Throughout the session there was a lot of listening and trusting. Matt really spends me curating his sessions and who he decides to bring in; he knows how to keep the vibe right. What you are hearing is, as Jerry Phillips would say, ‘not perfection but captured moments in time.’

“I had lost my partner in so many ways,” Bluhm continues, “my musical partner, my life partner, my creative partner, and all of a sudden I was left on my own, to start my own engine. It was really intimidating and scary,” she says “but I had support from my management, my agent, my friends and family, and ultimately I just had this guttural drive that I didn’t even know I had in me. I was on autopilot, ready to move forward and take the steps I had to take to keep moving forward. When the album finally comes out it’s going to be like setting a caged bird free.”

Bluhm will be touring this year and beyond in support of TO RISE YOU GOTTA FALL. The confirmed tour dates are below with more to be announced soon.

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Join Jeff, John, Keith, and Stan for a night of live music and good times!!!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2179071755674031/

Open Road NC hits the Sanctuary Brewing Company stage for the very first time Friday, November 2nd @ 8 PM! This one is sure to be a night to remember!

Open Road is a new four piece band located in Asheville NC. Our music is Americana with hints of folk, rock, and jam.

https://www.facebook.com/events/292654508006635/

Hey everyone, this is going to be a fun night you won’t want to miss.

Live DJ, Margarita specials in many flavors, and a great time with your favorite salsa dance tunes… it’s all happening at The Artisan of Flat Rock.

$10 door charge for all members and their guests.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1348323818635626/

SOLD OUT
8pm Doors
9pm Mourning Dove
940 Mel Washington
1030 Sequoyah Prep School

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NIGHT ONE: Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters (seated show) at The Grey Eagle

with special guest: Bob Sumner Music

AMANDA ANNE PLATT & THE HONEYCUTTERS

LISTEN: https://open.spotify.com/album/3y3Zrv42YZur33craetflX

LOOK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K168ib7ltTc

Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters are on tour with their latest album, a self-titled disc released June 9, 2017 on Organic Records. Lyrically driven, the songs of Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters blend the band’s old-school country roots attitude with their shared influences of rock and folk. Amanda says of the album, “I think it’s just about life and all that that entails. Including but not limited to death, strangers, birthdays, money, leaving, arriving, seasons, corruption, and love.”

“This is a band that does everything right,” says Goldmine’s Mike Greenblatt. “Platt deserves all that might come to her over this, her fifth (and best) album. Backed by pedal steel, electric guitar, keyboards, bass, drums, percussion, and vocal harmony, it’s Platt’s show as she writes, sings and co-produces. Complete with lyrics of introspection with the kind of words you can chew on long after the album ends, it also works on a lighter level by dint of the fact that it just sounds so damn good. Go as deep as you want. It’s all good, as they say.”

Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Amanda is a storyteller by nature with an incredible band backing her. Performing along with Amanda Anne Platt, The Honeycutters are Matt Smith on pedal steel and guitar, Rick Cooper on bass, Josh Milligan on drums and harmony vocals, and Evan Martin on keys and guitar.

There is an empathetic and charming wit ingrained in Amanda’s songwriting. She has a knack for accessing a deep well of emotion and applying it to her story-telling, whether she is writing from her own experiences or immersing herself into the melody of emotions in another person’s life.

“She’s soothing (even in the hurtin’ songs) and sobering (except for the drinkin’ songs) and nuanced in a way that I think tops even those rather famous ladies of the moment named Margo and Kacey… I’d be hard pressed to find a finer string of recordings from any band working in the classic country/mountain tradition in these last five years,” writes Music City Roots’ Craig Havighurst.

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Darren Nicholson CD Release Party (Henderson) “Fret A Spell” New Instrumental Recording

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The SRA National Finals Rodeo is coming to the WNC Ag Center on Fri, Sat & Sun, Nov 2-4th! Get it on your calendar and get ready to watch the top cowboys and cowgirls compete to be the best! Bullriding, barrel racing, bronc riding, team roping and so much more.

https://www.facebook.com/events/421700941694223/?event_time_id=421700948360889

Tickets available now!
$28 adv $33 DOS (General Admission)
Show: 8pm
www.thewillisclan.com
The Willis Clan will release their fourth studio album titled “SPEAK MY MIND” via Thirty Tigers/Willis Clan Records on September 28, delivering a very personal project with messages of courage, healing and hope. The single by the same title, “Speak My Mind,” will be available digitally on August 10, followed by a national tour launching on September 7 in Sellersville, Penn., continuing through November 18 in Modesto, Calif. The former TLC reality stars of their own hit television show, “The Willis Family,” and “America’s Got Talent” fame, wrote and recorded the new collection as a follow-up to their 2015 release, “HEAVEN,” which landed in the Top 10 on iTunes’ Pop chart (#6).

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Knoxville Rockers rocking out with Asheville shoegazers!
David Webb’s Burning Bush
https://davidwebbsburningbush.bandcamp.com/track/tail

Crumbsnatchers
https://www.crumbsnatchersband.com/

Sleepy Poetry
https://sleepypoetry.bandcamp.com/

Shutterings
https://shutterings.bandcamp.com/

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The Gypsy Swingers are an up tempo jazz quintet playing in a style reminiscent of the European swing jazz scene started by Django Reinhardt in the ’30s featuring diverse vocal styles in an acoustic format. Lady Q sings everything from Latin standards to New Orleans blues and plays the kazoo and light percussion. Mario Piccolo plays a Selmer style guitar working off the rhythms created by Magic Sean (guitar) and Craig Sandberg on bass. Drayton Aldridge weaves in striking violin melodies.

Appreciated by young and old, dancers or just sitters, Gypsy Swingers music is just fun! Music starts at 8:30pm!
http://www.reverbnation.com/thegypsyswingers

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The Renegades crew are heading back to The Social! We’ll be slanging our Appalachian Rock& Roll for all the good folks of East Asheville. See y’all there

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Lovely acts on a lovely Friday night!
Starts a 9:30pm, $3-5 donations for the artists

Eternal Garb – spiritual and experimental
http://eternalgarb.bandcamp.com/album/two-tears

Loretta Davis – soulful piano balladeer to conjure the ghost of Amy Winehouse
Https://lorettadavis.bandcamp.com/

Social Circle (Athens, GA) – Lynchian lo-fi lounge singer
Https://socialcircle.bandcamp.com/album/lost-voices/

We hope you can make it!

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