Calendar of Events
Upcoming events and things to do in Asheville, NC. Below is a list of events for festivals, concerts, art exhibitions, group meetups and more.
Interested in adding an event to our calendar? Please click the green “Post Your Event” button below.
We invite young LEAFers to join LEAF Resident Teaching Artist Adama Dembele for a virtual drumming and dance class for elementary age kids. Adama is a master djembefola (djembe player) from the Ivory Coast, West Africa, and has been a part of LEAF since 2005. He currently teaches year round after school classes with LEAF Schools & Streets, and he is excited to offer video classes in which students can take a journey to explore the sounds, rhythms and movements of West African culture right from their own home!
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Due to Covid-19, we are live streaming Storytime in lieu of an in-store event. Join us on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/malapropsbookstore/ to tune into Miss Malaprop’s Storytime from your home.
Join us with your wee ones every week on Wednesdays at 10 am for classic and contemporary stories sure to enchant and entertain. Together, we’ll introduce children to the wonderful world of books! Recommended for ages 3-9.
https://www.instagram.com/malapropsbookstore/
This event is now virtual! Join us on Instagram @malapropsbookstore (on your mobile device) for a live presentation and Q&A with Sarajane Case at 2 pm EDT. Click here for more information on viewing live video on Instagram.
Find a way to bring out the best in yourself with this heartfelt, informative, and approachable guide to all things Enneagram.
The Enneagram personality system consists of a spectrum of nine personality types. Based on the hit Instagram account, @enneagramandcoffee, this book is an introduction to the Enneagram itself, along with information about each type. With the feeling of your best friend telling you about the Enneagram and beautiful illustrations mixed in with the writing, this book is digestible and engaging for new and seasoned Enneagram fans.
Sarajane Case is a writer, speaker, and podcaster from North Carolina. Case works with people through online courses, in-person workshops & business masterminds to use the Enneagram as a tool for self-exploration, expression, & entrepreneurship. A type 7 herself, Case enjoys helping others know who they truly are and how they orient in the world.
This event is free. We ask that you purchase the books featured at our events from Malaprop’s. When you do this you are not only supporting the work it takes to run an events program, you are also telling the publishers that they should keep sending authors here. Books can be ordered online 24/7. See malaprops.com for more information about current shipping and delivery options.
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Thank you so much for your support! To care for you and our staff, Malaprop’s is closed to the public and we have ceased curbside pick up. We have also suspended in-store events and bookclubs until May 15th. Meanwhile, we are exploring new subscription services, delivery options, and more digital content. Please see the ways we are still serving you below. Stay home and stay safe!
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As always, you can order online 24/7 at malaprops.com. You can also call us at 828-254-6734 between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily to order by phone. Yes, we can make suggestions! All orders will require prepayment. We accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express and Paypal.
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We are now offering home delivery throughout all of Buncombe County! The only requirement is a two-book minimum purchase. Deliveries will be made on Tuesdays and Fridays, with any order placed before 5 pm the previous day. Orders will safely be left on your doorstep.
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FREE shipping via media mail is available for orders over $50.00 (before tax) sent to addresses in the continental United States. Other orders ship via Priority Mail or other services with prices listed at checkout.
We want to thank you again for your continued support at this time. If you’re looking for other ways to support our staff, you can donate to Malaprop’s via the icon to your right, contribute the Cafe Barista’s virtual tip jar, or to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation (BINC), which provides grants to booksellers in times of need. To support other local businesses, visit ashevillestrong.com.
Please take care of yourselves!
As more festivals, performances and concerts are canceled due to the coronavirus shutdown, musicians of all stripes and sizes are taking to social and streaming platforms to play live for their fans.
NPR Music is compiling a list of live audio and video streams from around the world, categorized by date and genre, with links out to streaming platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Some will require registration or a subscription, but most will be free, often with digital tip jars and opportunities to directly support artists by buying music and merchandise.
April 16
classical
The Metropolitan Opera: Rossini’s Le Comte Ory
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
Link: Met Opera
Live with Carnegie Hall: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Time: 2 p.m. ET
Link: Carnegie Hall
New York Philharmonic
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook
Detroit Symphony Orchestra: With Violinist Jennifer Koh
Time: 7 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook
Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra: BeethovenNOW
Time: 8 p.m. ET
Link: Philadelphia Orchestra
multi-genre
Sound Mind: A Covid-19 Mental Health Benefit Concert: Chad Urmston of Dispatch, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, Foy Vance, Langhorne Slim, Jade Bird, Ballroom Thieves and more
Time: 8 – 11 p.m. ET
Link: YouTube
R&B / Soul
Allen Stone
Time: 4 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook
Lincoln Center at Home: J. Hoard
Time: 4 p.m. ET
Link: Lincoln Center / Facebook
country / americana
Americana Highways: Jaimee Harris, Silver Lake, Corey Grubb, Dallas Burrow
Time: 7 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook
Caribbean
Kobo Town
Time: 4 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook
rock
Pickathon Presents A Concert A Day: Heartless Bastards
Time: 4 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook / Twitch / YouTube
Low Cut Connie
Time: 6 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook
The Weeks
Time: 6 p.m. ET
Link: YouTube
Reader Meet Writer Okra Pick Series with the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance
Steven Wright – April 16 at 5 pm EDT on Zoom
The event is free but attendance is limited and registration is required. Please CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
If you elect to attend, we will email you on the day of the event with the link & password to attend this virtual event.
“With this splendid debut, Steven Wright announces his arrival as a major new voice in the world of political thrillers. I enjoyed it immensely.” —John Grisham
A piercing portrait of our fragile democracy and one man’s unraveling, The Coyotes of Carthage paints a disturbingly real portrait of the American experiment in action.
Steven Wright is a clinical associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, where he codirects the Wisconsin Innocence Project. From 2007 to 2012 he served as a trial attorney in the Voting Section of the United States Department of Justice. He has written numerous essays about race, criminal justice, and election law for the New York Review of Books.
Mitch Fortune brings you an irreverent and nostalgia filled night of pop culture trivia every Thursday night 7-9 pm at the One Stop in Downtown Asheville. A potpourri of movies, music, TV show trivia just for you!
Join host and Malaprop’s bookseller Patricia Furnish to discuss a range of books across different periods of history. The club tackles challenging subjects, hence “NOTORIOUS.” Click here to see a full schedule of what the club is reading. Club attendees get 10% off the book at Malaprop’s!
The club meets at Malaprop’s on the 3rd Thursday of every month at 7:00 pm.
Tickets: $25 – $55 (plus applicable fees)
Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 8:00 PM
The descent into darkness is a trope we find time again across history, literature, and film a protagonist plunging further and further into the depths. But there is also an abyss above. There is a winding white staircase that goes ever upward into the great unknown each step, each turn, requiring a greater boldness and confidence than the one before. This is the journey on which we find Angel Olsen. Olsen’s flight is both upward and inward. Olsen’s artistic beginnings as a collaborator shifted seamlessly to her magnificent, cryptic-to-cosmic solo work, and then she formed bands to play her songs, and her stages and audiences grew exponentially. But all along, Olsen was more concerned with a different kind of path, and on her vulnerable, Big Mood new album, All Mirrors, we can see her taking an introspective deep dive towards internal destinations and revelations. In the process of making this album, she found a new sound and voice, a blast of fury mixed with hard-won self-acceptance.“I guess you could say some bold and unexpected things have happened in my life” Olsen said. “It feels like part of my writing has come back from the past, and another part of it was waiting to exist.”All Mirrors gets its claws into you on both micro and macro levels. Of course, there’s that singular vibrato, always so very close seemingly simple, cooed phrases expand into massive ideas about the inability to love and universal loneliness. And then suddenly huge string arrangements and four horsemen bellowing synth swells emerge, propelling the apocalyptic tenor. Throughout All Mirrors, Angel fully lets in the goth tones that always lurked at the ends of her songcraft.“In every way from the making of it, to the words, to how I feel moving forward this record is about owning up to your darkest side,” Olsen said. “Finding the capacity for new love and trusting change, even when you feel like a stranger. This is a record about facing yourself and learning to forgive what you see. It is about losing empathy, trust, love for destructive people. It is about walking away from the noise and realizing that you can have solitude and peace in your own thoughts, that your thoughts alone can be just as valid, if not more.”The first step of All Mirrors was conceiving a back-to-basics solo record, which she recorded with producer Michael Harris in Anacortes, Washington. Soon after that was completed, a more ambitious version of the album began to percolate in her mind. This second, more maximalist version of All Mirrors evolved slowly with producer John Congleton, arranger Jherek Bischoff, Swiss Army Knife musician/arranger Ben Babbitt, and a 14 piece orchestra.“I was determined to keep it bare bones in order to contrast with the not yet recorded full-band record,” Olsen said. “I wanted to have versions of these songs that are completely raw and real in the way some of my earlier recordings are, so that I could have the choice to play alone or with a band.”While remaking the album with full production and new collaborators, Olsen developed a new relationship with control. And in that process, she developed an even clearer vision of herself as an artist.“It’s scary to be your own compass, to trust new faces, to be a stranger but sometimes that’s the only way forward,” she said. “When you’ve been in a repetitive cycle so long it’s difficult for anyone to see you as someone who could come out of it. When you’ve made an example of yourself that people expect, some voices remind you of that example even when you know in your heart you’ve made changes.”“As I see it, in order for an artist to survive some kind of change, change needs to be a constant. For myself, that constant change means having some kind of epiphany or clarity expressed in song. I don’t know if it’s something I inspire or attract, or if it’s just in the way I’m looking at my surroundings, but drama is something that surrounds my world and always has. I’m at least happy that I’ve learned to write it down.”
Tickets go on sale Friday 11/22 at 10am!
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Thank you so much for your support! To care for you and our staff, Malaprop’s is closed to the public and we have ceased curbside pick up. We have also suspended in-store events and bookclubs until May 15th. Meanwhile, we are exploring new subscription services, delivery options, and more digital content. Please see the ways we are still serving you below. Stay home and stay safe!
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As always, you can order online 24/7 at malaprops.com. You can also call us at 828-254-6734 between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily to order by phone. Yes, we can make suggestions! All orders will require prepayment. We accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express and Paypal.
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We are now offering home delivery throughout all of Buncombe County! The only requirement is a two-book minimum purchase. Deliveries will be made on Tuesdays and Fridays, with any order placed before 5 pm the previous day. Orders will safely be left on your doorstep.
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FREE shipping via media mail is available for orders over $50.00 (before tax) sent to addresses in the continental United States. Other orders ship via Priority Mail or other services with prices listed at checkout.
We want to thank you again for your continued support at this time. If you’re looking for other ways to support our staff, you can donate to Malaprop’s via the icon to your right, contribute the Cafe Barista’s virtual tip jar, or to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation (BINC), which provides grants to booksellers in times of need. To support other local businesses, visit ashevillestrong.com.
Please take care of yourselves!
As more festivals, performances and concerts are canceled due to the coronavirus shutdown, musicians of all stripes and sizes are taking to social and streaming platforms to play live for their fans.
NPR Music is compiling a list of live audio and video streams from around the world, categorized by date and genre, with links out to streaming platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Some will require registration or a subscription, but most will be free, often with digital tip jars and opportunities to directly support artists by buying music and merchandise.
April 17
classical
The Metropolitan Opera: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
Link: Met Opera
Lincoln Center at Home: The Villalobos Brothers
Time: 5:30 p.m. ET
Link: Lincoln Center / Facebook
The Violin Channel Presents (all times ET)
2 p.m. Cellist Julian Schwartz
7:30 p.m. Pianist Pedja Muzijevic
Link: Violin Channel
Jazz
SF Jazz Fridays at Five: Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Time: 8 p.m. ET
Link: SF Jazz
folk
Nadia Reid
Time: 6 a.m. ET
Link: EventBrite
Honeysuckle
Time: 8 p.m. ET
Link: YouTube
SONiA disappear fear
Time: 2 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook
country / americana
Pickathon Presents A Concert A Day: Jeff Tweedy
Time: 4 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook / Twitch / YouTube
Americana Highways: Jeff Plankenhorn, Jon Byrd, Alice Wallace, Rebecca Loebe
Time: 7 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook
rock
The Wonders (That Thing You Do!)
Time: 4 p.m. ET
Link: YouTube
Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum
Time: 3 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook
Brett Newski
Time: 9 p.m. ET
Link: Brett Newski
The Music on the Fly pop-up concert series continues at 5 p.m. on Friday, April 17, featuring Asheville singer-songewriter Kathryn O’Shea via a Facebook Live feed on the Ashvegas page on Facebook. This event is normally held at the Asheville Regional Airport, but with the COVID-19 outbreak, we’ll be broadcasting from home. Stay safe, and we hope you’ll tune in.
Kathryn will be playing songs from her new album, titled January 9th, which she is releasing on Friday, April 10th.
Join us at The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall every Friday at 5:30PM for our FREE Acoustic Grateful Dead series Featuring members of Phuncle Sam and great drink and food specials.
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Thank you so much for your support! To care for you and our staff, Malaprop’s is closed to the public and we have ceased curbside pick up. We have also suspended in-store events and bookclubs until May 15th. Meanwhile, we are exploring new subscription services, delivery options, and more digital content. Please see the ways we are still serving you below. Stay home and stay safe!
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As always, you can order online 24/7 at malaprops.com. You can also call us at 828-254-6734 between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily to order by phone. Yes, we can make suggestions! All orders will require prepayment. We accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express and Paypal.
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We are now offering home delivery throughout all of Buncombe County! The only requirement is a two-book minimum purchase. Deliveries will be made on Tuesdays and Fridays, with any order placed before 5 pm the previous day. Orders will safely be left on your doorstep.
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FREE shipping via media mail is available for orders over $50.00 (before tax) sent to addresses in the continental United States. Other orders ship via Priority Mail or other services with prices listed at checkout.
We want to thank you again for your continued support at this time. If you’re looking for other ways to support our staff, you can donate to Malaprop’s via the icon to your right, contribute the Cafe Barista’s virtual tip jar, or to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation (BINC), which provides grants to booksellers in times of need. To support other local businesses, visit ashevillestrong.com.
Please take care of yourselves!
As more festivals, performances and concerts are canceled due to the coronavirus shutdown, musicians of all stripes and sizes are taking to social and streaming platforms to play live for their fans.
NPR Music is compiling a list of live audio and video streams from around the world, categorized by date and genre, with links out to streaming platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Some will require registration or a subscription, but most will be free, often with digital tip jars and opportunities to directly support artists by buying music and merchandise.
Some artists are planning daily streams — like Ben Gibbard and Christine and the Queens — and will be noted below as information becomes available.
This is a living document, updated every day until it’s no longer needed.
If you would like a live concert to be considered for the list, please fill out this Google Form. Thanks!
April 18
classical
The Metropolitan Opera: Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
Link: Met Opera
Jennifer Koh’s Alone Together
Time: 7 p.m. ET
Facebook / Instagram
multi-genre
One World: Together At Home: Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney, Billie Eilish, Kacey Musgraves, Lizzo and more
Time: 8 p.m. ET
Link: ABC, NBC, CBS, iHeartMedia
For more details, check Global Citizen’s website.
Jazz
Lincoln Center at Home: ¿Que Vola?
Time: 10 a.m. ET
Link: Lincoln Center / Facebook
rock
Pickathon Presents A Concert A Day: Divine Fits
Time: 4 p.m. ET
Link: Facebook / Twitch / YouTube
The Kruger Brothers perform progressively-minded, classically-conscious music that’s wildly diverse, but ultimately rooted in the tradition of American bluegrass. The Brothers will perform as a trio and alongside the Hendersonville Symphony String Quartet!
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