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.
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Aaron Wood is quite the renaissance music man. He grew up steeped in the traditions of blues and folk music of North Carolina. His father has shared the stage with the likes of Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley and performed at The Grand Ole Opry, taking Aaron with him every chance he got. It didn’t take long before the music took hold, and he studied any kind of music he could get his fingers on.
One look at the long list of artists he has shared the stage with exemplifies his diversity and respect from his musical peers. From Jimmy Martin to Leon Russel, R.L. Burnside to Warren Haynes, Sara Evans to Carlos Santana, Aaron has played with and learned from some of those who have helped shaped music into what it is today.
Each Wednesday features a different performer joining Woody on stage.
https://www.facebook.com/events/408992216504465/?event_time_id=422003825203304
Come out and run HBC! Down and back runs with different turn-around points to push runners of just about every level. Run. Drink Highland beer. Have fun.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1855217761256340/?event_time_id=1855217794589670
Veil Magic: A Bellydance Choreography
One of the most beloved props in the bellydance world, the veil is fun to learn and impossible to miss onstage. In this 8 week series, students will learn an intermediate level choreography to a slow and enchanting song, “Darigh Nur” by Mario Krilis. Teacher Charlotte Louise has won or played in multiple competition settings with pieces that showcase her veil skills.
Classes will be every Wednesday from February 13th-April 3rd from 6:30pm. Cost is $90. Students who are performing may be asked to attend some additional rehearsals at no cost.
To reserve your spot sign up, here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=330572&stype=-8&sView=day&sLoc=0
FAQs:
Do I need a veil?
Charlotte has veils to borrow! However, you are welcome to purchase your own veil. A 3 yard silk veil is recommended.
Will there be performance opportunities?
Yes! There will be two performance opportunities. One in Asheville at Asheville Follies, and one in Jacksonville, Florida at the River City Raqs festival. Details for both will be discussed at length. Performance is always optional and never required!
What will the costuming be?
For performances, effort will be made to keep costs low. Bellydance costumes will be worn in warm colors and students are encouraged to use what they already own.
https://www.facebook.com/events/347872155797757/?event_time_id=347872172464422
Head full of useless knowledge? Now’s your time to shine! Join us every Wednesday at 6:30pm for a night of interactive trivia perfect for all skill levels.
Live scoring, music rounds, photo rounds and even themed categories!
Prizes awarded each week for the 1st place team!
https://www.facebook.com/events/277072849778679/?event_time_id=357420338410596
Trivia Night is every Wednesday Night at Legends on the Lake starting at 6:30pm. Arrive early to secure your seats and ensure that you do not miss any of the action! Compete as a team or individually for prizes each week. Trivia is free to all who would like to compete. Prizes will be distributed by team, one prize per team. The certificates are good for any following visit. We ask that teams be limited to a maximum of 8 players for the sake of seating and space.
https://www.facebook.com/events/254689012071408/?event_time_id=299382814268694
The Asheville socialists will meet this Wednesday from 6:30 to 8:00 pm on UNCA campus in Rhoades Robinson room 239.
This and all our weekly meetings are open to the public and parking is available on campus (maps.unca.edu).
https://www.facebook.com/events/2383873461657424/?event_time_id=2383873468324090
Bachata Sensual is an independent dance form with strict lead and follow principles. The dance is an interpretation of the music with mostly circular movements and body waves. When the music has stronger beats, however, the dance also uses isolations and dips. Open to all levels!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2063642227016573/?event_time_id=2063642233683239
This is a FREE cornhole tournament occurring weekly at Hi-Wire Brewing at Golden Belt in Durham, NC. Sign-up on site every Wednesday at 7pm. Weekly prizes will be awarded to the winners.
https://www.facebook.com/events/285867828779715/?event_time_id=285867855446379
Don’t miss Rebecca Loebe live at Isis Music Hall in Asheville, NC on Wednesday, March 6th!
Rebecca will be playing a rare full-band show in Asheville to celebrate the release of her 5th studio album. Come find out why the Alternate Root Magazine named this award-winning songwriter “One of the ten best female singers in America.”
? Grab your tickets here: bit.ly/AshevilleGhostsRelease
? Click here to see the music video for ‘Ghosts,’ which was recently premiered by Billboard magazine: http://bit.ly/LoebeBillboardGhosts
https://www.facebook.com/events/2100545190006427/
Contact Improvisation is a wonderful and expansive practice of connection with self and other. This 8 week series will deepen core skills for movement improvisation with others and expand movement potential.
No previous experience necessary. Material will be rich for a dancer of any level and accessible to new dancers.
Wednesdays in February & March
7:15-9:30pm
at Homewood
19 Zillicoa St., Asheville, NC
Taught by CJ O’Reilly with rotating assistants
Early Bird Registration Open until Jan 30th
Early Bird Price – $80-200 sliding scale (8 classes)
Drop-ins with permission only – $20 per class
Scholarships available – Contact CJ to inquire
We’ll explore fundamental concepts, elements and skills of the Contact Improvisation (CI) form with the goal of creating familiarity and confidence in the form so dancers are empowered, aware of their choices relating to safety and comfort, and understand expressions of consent in the context of CI by honing our connection with self and other.
For all levels:
Highly accessible to those completely new to CI.
A rich exploration of material for the long time dancer.
General skills we will develop include:
Self Connection
Moving from, tracking and awareness of a body’s center/core
Our relationship gravity and the floor
Lifts and weight sharing
the Improvisational Mind
The series will stack, develop, and review skills throughout.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2254033548200889/
Every Wednesday
https://www.facebook.com/events/400856010483395/?event_time_id=400856030483393
The New York Times calls it “the best musical of this century.” The Washington Post says, “It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals.” And Entertainment Weekly says, “Grade A: the funniest musical of all time.” Jimmy Fallon of The Tonight Show calls it “Genius. Brilliant. Phenomenal.” It’s The Book of Mormon, the nine-time Tony Award®-winning Best Musical.
This outrageous musical comedy follows the misadventures of a mismatched pair of missionaries, sent halfway across the world to spread the Good Word. Now with standing room only productions in London, on Broadway, and across North America, The Book of Mormon has truly become an international sensation. Contains explicit language.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1797563616931820/?event_time_id=1797563650265150
Dry Falls Village has been isolated for as long as anyone can remember. Her inhabitants grow weary and thirst for adventure. Now, they decide, is the time to venture into the wilderness and explore!
Do you have what it takes to brave the dangers of the unknown? Will you steel yourself and venture to uncover sights unseen? Can you handle what lies beyond the borders of the village?
This is West Marches!
The Bearded Dragons Inn hosts their weekly West Marches game. This is a drop in game for all to join. If you have never played before come and join us. Our amazing community will teach you all you need to know. If you have years, or even decades of experience stop on by as well as you’ll experience a whole new style of play. For more information check out our website: https://sites.google.com/view/west-marches-at-dry-falls/home
Please note that this game is family friendly but anyone under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian at all times.
https://www.facebook.com/events/401870287020606/?event_time_id=401870317020603
Lawrence at The Grey Eagle
https://www.facebook.com/events/2156266994451246/
Speedy Ortiz
w/ Ohmme, Wednesday
at The Mothlight
Wednesday, March 6th
Doors 8pm
Tickets: $13adv, https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1805940
https://www.facebook.com/events/269207560431200/
Garage Rockers!
Birdgangs (Boston)
https://birdgangs.com/media/
The Minnies (Asheville rockers)
more to come
Don Babylon
https://donbabylon.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/events/207933646757544/
$15 Advance / $15 Day of Show
David Jacob-Strain and Bob Beach have been performing together since 2010. They currently perform between 70 and 100 shows a year on both east and west coasts. Their live show moves from humorous, subversive blues, to delicate balladry, and then swings back to swampy rock and roll.
As a Montreal born Grenadian-Canadian, Kaia Kater grew up between two worlds: one her family’s deep ties to folk music; the other the years she spent learning and studying Appalachian music in the USA. Her old-time banjo-picking skills, deft arrangements, and songwriting abilities have landed her in the spotlight in North America and the UK, garnering critical acclaim from outlets such as NPR, CBC Radio, Rolling Stone, BBC Music, and No Depression.
Main Stage Seated :: Limited Tables Available with a Dinner Reservation :: All Other Seating is First Come First Serve General Admission :: Please Call Venue for Dinner (Table) Reservations
https://www.facebook.com/events/2541271122613277/
Citizen Cope
plus David Ramirez
Show: 9pm
Doors: 8pm
Ages 18+
Tickets & Info: www.theorangepeel.net/event/yacht-rock-revue-3/
Citizen Cope is both a person (singer/songwriter Clarence Greenwood) and an acoustic-driven band. Born in Memphis and raised in Washington, D.C., Greenwood is the leader of the group, and he steers the band’s soulful sound by serving as keyboardist, guitarist, lead singer, DJ, songwriter, and producer. Greenwood first broke into the music business by appearing on albums by Maryland-based rapper Basehead(1993’s Not in Kansas Anymore and 1996’s Faith), and he used that momentum to issue his first Citizen Cope album, Cope Citizen, in 1992. Greenwood spent the rest of the decade donating songs to several independently issued compilations — including 1997’s Settling the DC Score and 1999’s Anti-Racist Action Benefit — and appearing on the soundtracks to movies like Eat Me and Clubland. He also performed on Lazy K’s 1997 album Life in One Day and inked his own deal with Capitol Records.
Although Greenwood recorded an entire album, Shotguns, during his time with Capitol, the label never released the record and he was eventually released from his contract. Dreamworks took the opportunity to sign him in 2000, and Citizen Cope’s self-titled album was released two years later. The bad luck continued, however, as Greenwood felt the label mishandled his record. Using an advance from Arista, he bought his way out of the Dreamworks contract and settled into a partnership with his new label. The Clarence Greenwood Recordings hit shelves in September 2004 and received considerable attention, with the track “Son’s Gonna Rise” even appearing in a GM Pontiac commercial. The band remained with Arista/RCA for the release of Every Waking Moment two years later, but Greenwood had grown tired of the boundaries presented by any record label. Accordingly, he released The Rainwater LP himself in 2010, although the band’s fusion of blues, folk-pop, and laid-back hip-hop remained intact. Greenwood returned two years later with a mellower, more laid-back sound on 2012’s One Lovely Day.
www.citizencope.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y4oeTFOQv0
https://www.facebook.com/events/257107928301164/
Come join us every Wednesday at our new home The One Stop at Asheville Music Hall. 55 College St, Asheville, NC 28801
The show starts at 9:30, and there is no cover. Anyone wanting to perform needs to sign up by 9pm, and will get five minutes on stage. The order of sign-up is not necessarily the order of the show.
https://www.facebook.com/events/816873515152838/?event_time_id=816873538486169
Music starts at 9pm!
Elektric Voodoo is a “World Beat Rock & Roll” band from southern California that blends classic afrobeat, latin, rock & roll, psych, jazz, blues and many other influences into it’s own unique genre that tastefully straddles the line between modern and vintage.
The band started when Scott Tournet (founding member of Grace Potter & The Nocturnals) started writing new material after leaving the Nocturnals. “Musically I wanted to try something a little different than what I’d done before. I wanted to make music with an undeniable rhythmic pulse but I really didn’t want to make computer driven dance music as these past few years that seems to be much of what I hear.” To accomplish that, Tournet tapped into the rhythms of west Africa, Latin, and World music for inspiration. What came out the other side though was not just a world music project.
Tournet’s old band, The Nocturnals, had a quite a successful career which saw them write, record, and perform with The Allman Brothers, Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Taj Mahal, Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys), Robert Plant, Mavis Staples, Bob Weir, and many more. Through these experiences Tournet became schooled in song craft, soul, pop, blues, and classic rock & roll. So when he began writing songs to go on top of these powerful world rhythms the influences from his past shone through. What the listener is left with is a very unique sound that while immediately is very danceable, also offers innovation, song craft, and melody. Elektric Voodoo is a band that can excite and exhaust a Saturday night audience while also engaging and challenging more focused listeners.
Rounding out this powerful 7 piece ensemble with Tournet (vocals, guitar, harmonica) is Matt Bozzone (drums/percussion), Ty Kiernan (congas, timbales, percussion), Travis Klien (tenor sax, keyboards, percussion), Brad Nash (baritone sax, percussion) Willie Fleming (trombone, vocals, percussion), and Luke Henning (bass).
520 Haywood Rd, Asheville NC 28806
https://www.facebook.com/events/1212539968894333/
We will be honoring and celebrating the life of the infamous MG Road Christmas lights, which served as our beautiful decor and lighting for years. Much to our demise, these lights no longer adorn our ceiling and we are grieving this loss.
Come cry with us. Emo music w/ DJ Steadylove starts at 9PM.
There will be a message board for you to write your condolences/leave a love note for the bar in honor of the lights.
A photobooth will be in place for you to superimpose yourself into a photo with the Christmas lights while they were still with us.
Wear all black please, show some respect for the dead!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1275400779280975/
Come join us for an amazing night of music, prizes, and drink specials. It’s Music Bingo at Banks Ave. Test your music knowledge and compete against your friends and other patrons. It’s easy to play, and everyone is welcome! We’ll see you there!
https://www.facebook.com/events/962585360596619/?event_time_id=962585397263282
Adding a Southeast destination for designer toy makers and collectors, *Assembly Required brings designer, bootleg and art toy artists from around the country, to present and sell their work.
Asheville’s premiere designer toy expo, *Assembly Required, is presented by Unboxing Asheville, Morgan’s Comic’s, 103.3 Asheville FM and Appalachian Pinball Museum. Focusing on this artistic movement, designer toys are a form of lowbrow pop art. These toy makers pull inspiration from a variety of subversive segments of culture, as well as subcultural elements, including (but not limited to) comics, tattooing, street art, and everything related to toys of the 60’s through the 80’s.
Echoing production methods of traditional toy manufacturers, designer toys are usually intended to be displayed as collectibles, rather than to be played with. Toy makers mediums range from resin to vinyl, from plastic to plush; with molding, and production techniques such as kitbash, sofubi and bootleg (recently coined ‘Artisanal Action Figure’, by New York Times writer, Rich Juzwiak [11/23/18]). (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/style/bootleg-toys-action-figures.html).
Juzwiak interviews such artists as the Sucklord and Killer Bootlegs, both of whom will be present at *Assembly Required.
Happy Donors – Keeping and Finding the Best Donors:
Happy donors are generous donors, but what makes
donors happy? Donor relations guru Wayne Olson shows
you how to find new donors and tap into the things that
make them happy to get bigger and better donations.
https://www.facebook.com/events/339120393596083/
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0544a9ac2da7f58-its
https://www.facebook.com/events/636691250101580/?event_time_id=636691253434913
For adults who want to be more comfortable having significant conversations. Learn to the words to say. 1 out of 17 people has considered suicide. For clergy, youth ministers, teachers, professionals, and those who care. Coffee, conversation, food, and excellent leadership training for adults, who care about children and adults who are finding life difficult. The training is free but impactful, so please reserve your seat today. Space is limited.
https://www.facebook.com/events/547175675771787/
https://www.lakelogan.org/events/2019/lent
THURSDAY
9 AM Check in
10 AM Morning Session
Noon Lunch and free time
2 PM Afternoon Session
6:30 PM Dinner
7:30 PM Evening Session
FRIDAY
8 AM Breakfast
9 AM Morning Session
Noon Lunch, then depart
https://www.facebook.com/events/632286387204470/
If you like history and you appreciate environmental sustainability, then this tour is for you! Join us as we explore the history of the French Broad River and its seminal place in the development of Asheville. Our tour showcases not only the river, but also the great work of the RiverLink organization and its many partners that have worked together to protect and preserve the riverfront area so that locals and visitors alike can enjoy its beauty and grandeur. A portion of the ticket price is donated to RiverLink to support their efforts to protect and enhance the French Broad River. The tour includes lunch and starts/ends at New Belgium Brewery. Once the tour concludes, we encourage you to hang out at the brewery’s tasting room to enjoy one of their acclaimed beers or relax on their patio overlooking the French Broad River. (Note: Any food and/or beverage purchases at the brewery are not included in your ticket price.)
https://www.facebook.com/events/598987160573252/
Description: Winter can be the most beautiful time of the year at Chimney Rock. Leafless trees make for expansive views of Lake Lure and the Hickory Nut Gorge. The sky is clear; you’re likely to find a quiet spot to sit and enjoy the peacefulness. You may even see a critter scamper by you in the forest. Capture that special moment or scene on your camera, enter it in our Winter Wonders Photo Contest and tell us about it. We’ll use the winning entries on our website and Facebook album, and you’ll win some fun prizes. Photos must be taken within the Chimney Rock section of the Park.
Cost: No additional cost to enter.
https://www.facebook.com/events/267246603967105/?event_time_id=267246657300433
Sale Dates and Times:
Public Onsale : Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 10:00 AM
https://www.facebook.com/events/325190511547036/