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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Vibrant guitar and piano duo covering a variety of different genres, mostly rock, a little motown, and whatever else inspires us.
https://www.facebook.com/events/434630627335443/
Singer/pianist Laura Laughter and guitarist Tim Levene are a versatile duo covering classics from the 60’s on. You’ll hear fresh arrangements on a variety of blues, rock, and motown
favorites that aim to remain true to the original artist, while also showcasing the range and purity of Laura’s vocals and the ingenuity of Tim’s guitar playing. Their set will include the duo’s interpretations of favorites from artists Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Jackson 5, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Jim Croce, Dire Straits, Doobie Bros, Allman Bros, U2, Guns and Roses, Dave Matthews, John Mayer, and many more.
https://www.facebook.com/events/329528971041379/
Live Music from 2pm-5pm every Saturday & Sunday! See you there!!
https://www.facebook.com/events/332780750760502/
A strengths based approach to parenting and teaching Autistic children. This workshop covers sensory overload, meltdowns, shutdowns, sensory eating, and focuses on learning the “why” behind behaviors.
– What to look for in a support specialist
– What causes behavior
– Helpful accommodations
– Change the environment, not your child
– How to avoid the pervasive “doom and gloom” language that surrounds an Autism diagnosis
– How to select the right therapy program(s) for your family
Ingles Sunday Family Fun Days
Every Sunday enjoy post game autographs and kids run the bases.
Sock Giveaway presented by Coca-Cola! Make sure you’re one of the first 1000 fans in the gate to redeem your pair!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1990776927894304/
Join us at Mills River Brewery for a fun paint night! Hues of Hendo supplies all materials – including one 12×24 canvas, an easel, an apron, the use of painting supplies & of course, step-by-step instruction for each painter.
All you do is show up ready to have fun, enjoy some awesome beer & get your own creative juices flowing!
$30 per painter
To register and reserve your seat(s), simply email [email protected] so we know to save a spot for you.
Cheers!
Jessica
https://www.facebook.com/events/423525548438088/
Jack of the Wood : Sunday-Irish Session
Sundays
1 till who knows when?
Traditional Irish music is kept alive at Jack of the Wood with our unplugged Sunday session.
Jack of the Wood
95 Patton ave
Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 252.5445
PATIO SHOW :: The Brown Mountain Lightning Bugs + Vagabond Crowe at The Grey Eagle
https://www.facebook.com/events/452363162210909/
Spend your Sunday by the river with music from Asheville Circus! Make it a Sunday Funday!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2378625855795986/
We’ve got a great line up for this year, come out and see some great local bands paired with great local brews!
Aaron Woody Wood and The Love Drugs- June 2nd
Pleasure Chest- June 9th
Caromia- June 16th
Eleanor Underhill- June 23rd
Pierce Edens – June 30th
Roots and Dore- July 7th
Juan Holiday- July 14th
Bald Mountain Boys- July 21st
Modern Strangers- July 28th
David Earl- August 4th
https://www.facebook.com/events/329487861049108/?event_time_id=329487887715772
Bywater Bluegrass Jam Every Sunday from 4-7pm and hosted by Drew Matulich! Come out and enjoy some Bluegrass Music on the French Broad River and bring a friend!
https://www.facebook.com/events/256311128567439/?event_time_id=256311185234100
Doors at 5
Opener at 6
Greensky Bluegrass
For more than a decade and a half, the members of Greensky Bluegrass have created their own version of bluegrass music, mixing the acoustic stomp of a stringband with the rule-breaking spirit of rock & roll. They redefine that sound once again with their sixth album, Shouted, Written Down & Quoted.
Like the band’s own name, Shouted, Written Down & Quoted is a collection of opposites, full of dark psychedelic swirls, bright bursts of acoustic guitar, soundscapes, solos, freethinking improvisation, and plenty of sharp, focused songwriting. It’s wild and wide-ranging, showing off the diversity Greensky Bluegrass brings to every live show. At the same time, Shouted, Written Down & Quoted is unmistakably a studio album, recorded during two different sessions — one at Echo Mountain Studio in Asheville, North Carolina; the other at the Mountain House Recording Studio in Nedarland, Colorado — that comprise the band’s longest block of recording time ever. The result is an 11-track album whose songs cast a wide net, mixing the full-throttle energy of a Greensky Bluegrass concert with the nuanced approach of a band that’s still eager to explore.
“You can call us an acoustic ensemble, or a drum-less rock band, or a rock & roll bluegrass band,” says mandolin player Paul Hoffman, who, along with guitarist Dave Bruzza, handles most of the album’s writing duties. “All of that shifting identity has taught us to cover a lot of ground. There’s a flow to this album, just like there’s a flow to our setlists. There are some aggressive, rocking moments. Some bouncy, funky moments. An acoustic think piece or two. It’s a balance of moods and textures that we create as a band, almost like a mix tape.”
Formed in 2000 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Greensky Bluegrass kicked off their career playing living rooms and open mic nights across the Midwest. By 2005, they were touring nationally, and by 2006, they were playing the first in a long series of appearances at the annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Bandmates Hoffman, Bruzza, dobro player Anders Beck, banjoist Michael Arlen Bont, and upright bassist Mike Devol spent most of the following decade on the road, fine-tuning a live show modeled not after the toned-down production of traditional bluegrass music, but the full-on spectacle of rock.
“We play two sets of music every night with a big light show, and really care about creating a large scale production,” notes Bruzza, adding that, “the goal isn’t just to play important music. We want to cultivate an experience, where people can escape from their everyday lives for a minute and put their worries aside.”
Playing as many as 175 shows per year, Greensky Bluegrass have graduated to headlining status at some of the country’s most iconic venues, selling out amphitheaters like Red Rocks and world-class auditoriums like the Ryman. They’ve become a regular name on the festival circuit, too, adding Bonnaroo, the New Orleans Jazz Festival, Austin City Limits, Forecastle, and Outside Lands to their touring schedule. Supported by a grassroots audience whose members often travel for hours to see the band, Greensky Bluegrass are still a proudly independent act, enjoying the success of a major-label act — including a Number One debut on the Billboard Bluegrass chart for their fifth album, 2014’s If Sorrows Swim — without giving up complete control of their own business.
Released on the band’s label, Big Blue Zoo, Shouted, Written Down & Quoted kicks off with “Miss September,” a song that splits its focus between Hoffman’s mid-tempo melodies and the band’s instrumental solos. Most of the album’s tracks strike a similar balance, showcasing a group whose vocal hooks and flat-picking skills share the spotlight equally. Meanwhile, the guys stretch their legs on “Living Over” — an improvised, seven-minute knockout that’s already become a live staple — and show surprising restraint with “While Waiting,” a slower song whose ebb-and-flow arrangement often finds no more than two bandmates playing at once. “Room Without a Roof” features some of the group’s most layered production to date, with electric instruments adding some thick sonic padding, while “More of Me” cranks up the drama, with Hoffman singing about heartache over a bed of minor-key guitar arpeggios.
“We tend to have a darker sense to ours songs than most acoustic bands,” Bruzza adds, “but we still have light moments, too. We’re trying to explore the textures and sounds we can make, while still having the instrumentation of a bluegrass band. There aren’t many rules. We’ll run a dobro though an amp on a song like ‘Past My Prime.’ We can get pretty epic. This album is a crazy carnival one minute, and it’s a psychedelic Pink Floyd jam the next.”
Equal parts dark, driving, and dynamic, Shouted, Written Down & Quoted is Greensky Bluegrass at their best, fusing the fiery fretwork of their live shows with the focus of a true songwriting outfit.
https://www.facebook.com/events/367170194133107/
Come and join us to celebrate the 3rd Anniversary of the Beer City Sisters at our monthly Communion Sunday.
As always hosted by our Irrelevant Mother Sister Margarita and performances by some of the best Comedy Drag Queens in town. It’s a show not for the easily offended.
This time, and for all the month of July, proceeds of the show will go to PFLAG who’s mission is to provide support, advocacy and education to the Communities in Asheville, just like us! The thing about PFLAG, they seek to offer support groups to parents and family members, to foster and promote understanding, and otherwise support to our LGTBQ+ Community.
We will have a silent auction, raffles and many surprises. Come celebrate and let’s us help other that search a better community in Asheville.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2347552065497969/
A new way to play trivia!
Feud Time is a survey-based trivia game with up to 6 players per team & 4 rounds of fun.
https://www.facebook.com/events/316757909191222/?event_time_id=316757982524548
$20 / $20
Greg Greenway is one third of Brother Sun, one half of Deeper Than The Skin – entirely himself. From Carnegie Hall to Car Talk to All Things Considered, few musicians have such style, passion, and sheer musicality.
Seated Lounge Show:: 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/412864342865744/
The walkable streets of Gatlinburg become a live stage during the city’s summer-long performance festival. Visitors are invited to encounter costumed storytellers, musical ensembles and cloggers portraying characters from time periods as far back as the 1800s along the Parkway.
Daily performances from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.
https://www.facebook.com/events/352862205433672/?event_time_id=352862308766995
It’s that time again! Join us for our 2nd Summer of Harry Potter Trivia Tournament! Seven consecutive weeks of Harry Potter Trivia! All questions will come directly from the books. Each week will cover various topics including characters, magical creatures, Hogwarts itself and spells used by your favorite witches & wizards!
– Max team size is four per team but it does not need to be the same four people each week. Teams need to email [email protected] to register!
– Grand Prize: the winning team will receive their choice of 4 tickets to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando along with a 3 nights lodging OR instead of the trip each member of the winning team will receive their own $100 Casual Pint Gift Card! Top 5 scores of 7 weeks will be scored to declare a winner!
– Prizes will be awarded to weekly winners as well!
– Be sure to get your team signed up because there is limited space!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1203193369881554/?event_time_id=1203193389881552
$22.50 Advance / $25 Day of Show $12 Children under 18yrs
U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion Jamie Laval and enchanting vocalist Megan McConnell take their audience on an exciting musical journey through Scotland, Ireland, and Brittany (Celtic France), evocatively reimagining ancient love songs, toe-tapping peasant dances, and the recounting of mysterious tales from the Celtic world.
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/269978027231384/
Come and see what all of the fuss is about and say a farewell to Charlie and Hannah before they leave Asheville.
$5 gets you the following:
7:30-8:00pm – Beginner basic Blues dance lesson Charlie Myers & Hannah Clark.
8:00-10:00pm – 2 hours of Blues music with DJ’s Charlie Myers & Hannah Clark
10:00-11:00pm – DJ Bingading
Trippy Baby Blues – A modern twist of melancholy with a dark Blues soul. A mixture of medium to slow tempo.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1021433458056261/
Come to Aux Bar for Pizza Karaoke Sunday Nights 10pm-2am, there is even free pizza when you sing!
https://www.facebook.com/events/382756985684012/
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Summer Reading Programs continue and July’s library events are full of fun, interesting, and educational opportunities. Check out one of the many book clubs or reading times with our therapy dog. Also, the Early Bird Special: Classics & Casseroles will have you watching classic movies while noshing on potluck items. As for Summer Reading Programs, you can get down with Groovin’ on Grovemont and launch fireworks with the Bottle Rockets! program.
There’s so much going on in July, check out the Summer Reading Programs and July Library Events lists below.
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Come experience the love of clay with our talented artists at Odyssey ClayWorks! Learn to sculpt, coil, and even get to try your hand at throwing on the potter’s wheel in a fun and upbeat atmosphere. All skill levels welcome.
Momentum Gallery in downtown Asheville hosts new summer exhibitions – Mariella Bisson, Setting Shapes; Oil paintings by two new painters: Samantha Keely Smith and Paul Sattler; and a group invitational called Give Me Wood. These exhibitions continue at 24 N Lexington Avenue through the end of August.
Mariella Bisson deftly delineates the sculptural planes of regional waterfalls and sylvan scenes creating refreshingly contemporary landscape paintings. Her oil-over-collage paintings feature built-up texture, suggesting the complex surface of stone and tree bark, lichen, and moss. Bisson’s paintings demonstrate a strong understanding of formal composition and reflect a sensibility honed from time she’s spent immersed in the outdoors. Of note, Bisson is a two-time recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant and was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in painting.
Samantha Keely Smith creates inspired and stirring abstract paintings in oil. The Brooklyn-based artist sees her paintings “as an expression of our internal turbulence. They reflect the overwhelming reality of being constantly aware of what is happening in the wider world – Change is the only constant.” Smith’s nebulous compositions are evocative of luminous cloudscapes and primordial oceans. Brilliant areas of stained pigment collide with waves of painterly brush strokes ultimately conjuring imagined environments with a timeless quality. “These paintings are about the essence of who we all are, as human beings… We all want love and connection.” Smith’s works give form to fluctuations between turbulence and calm present in everything from our emotions to the temporal world. Overall, Smith’s focus is on the underlying psychological impact of the dawning awareness of our shifting reality.
An accomplished oil painter, Paul Sattler was the recipient of the John R. Solomon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. In 2004, he was selected to exhibit at the 179th Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art at the National Academy of Design in New York, where he received the Wallace Truman Prize. Dramatic narratives unfold in his charged and enigmatic oil paintings which reference historic and literary sources. Sattler comments, “A diverse population of animals are enmeshed in my works’ human-inhabited environments, theatrical locales, and domestic dramas.”
Give Me Wood is an imaginative and evocative collection of contemporary painting and wood sculpture. Central to the identity and creation of all the extraordinary two- and three-dimensional works in the exhibition is the common material of wood. The participating artists defy logic, explore space (both real and imagined), carve, bend, turn, and otherwise construct some truly amazing and innovative work! Featuring Michael Alm, Garry Knox Bennett, Gil Bruvel, Christian Burchard, Tom Eckert, David Ellsworth, Ron Layport, Wendy Maruyama, and Sylvie Rosenthal.
Ally Venable Band at The Grey Eagle
https://www.facebook.com/events/613974372454420/
Come get right with Hilliary and her band of bawdy angels every Sunday at 9:00!
Sponsored by Asheville Soap
https://www.facebook.com/events/1066159653583849/?event_time_id=1066159670250514
Spotlights
w/ Vampyre
at The Mothlight
Sunday July 21st
Doors 8pm
Tickets: $10adv, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spotlights-tickets-60771427977
Spotlights is the Brooklyn-based married couple of Mario and Sarah Quintero.
In Spotlights, the Quinteros summon a supreme sound, equally heavy and dreamy. A tar-pit sludge-rock foundation is blanketed by layers of shimmering shoegaze. Their debut full length TIDALS was released on Crowquill Records in the spring of 2016 as a follow up to the synth laden, doom-pop EP, Demonstration. Tidals’ songs rock hard and memorably, bringing to mind hints of bands, from Failure to My Bloody Valentine to Godflesh to Smashing Pumpkins and beyond.
Spotlights was handpicked by Deftones to support the band on three weeks of its summer U.S. tour in August of 2016. Select dates included support from 90’s post-hardcore, greats, Refused. They quickly followed up with a second national run in September with If These Trees Could Talk.
In December 2016 they self released the 3 song “odds and ends” EP, SPIDERS, featuring a cover of the song She Spider by MEW, and a remix of Joseph, the closing track on TIDALS, done by Aaron Harris (Isis/Palms). The Spiders EP served as the perfect way to hold fans over while the band continued work on their new record.
When it came time to record the the follow up full length to TIDALS, the Quinteros didn’t have to look far to find the perfect producer. “Choosing to work with Aaron [Harris] on our new record was a no brainer for us. We get along great and he completely understands where we are coming from musically and knows just how to capture that.” says Mario. Sarah adds “Plus, he’s an incredible drummer and we tricked him into playing on four of the songs!”. The three of them spent a week in Los Angeles at Palmquist Studios, putting together one of the most dynamic, and emotive collection of songs to date.
The new album, SEISMIC was released on Ipecac Recordings on October 6th 2017, flowing a massive 12 week North American tour with Melvins.
https://www.facebook.com/events/301700040756771/
Come get heavy with metal to start your week off right!
(Starts and ends early so you can get to work:)
The Stone Eye
https://thestonedeye.bandcamp.com/
AuguR
https://www.facebook.com/AuguRMetal/
Ghoststalker
https://www.facebook.com/ghoststalkermusic
https://www.facebook.com/events/603247326844297/
Come to Aux Bar for Pizza Karaoke Sunday Nights 10pm-2am, there is even free pizza when you sing!
https://www.facebook.com/events/382756985684012/?event_time_id=382757015684009
Genre: Electronic, Future Bass, Downtempo
Show: 11PM
Cover: Donations @ the Door
Ages: 21+
Spectacle
BIOGRAPHY
In the winter of 2015, a striking new voice formed in the heart of Denver’s electronic music scene. Spectacle’s orchestral instrumentation (violin, synth, guitar) quickly made the duo stand out amongst the crowd; each performance being an experience that is refreshingly original. Hard hitting drops, alongside an afro-cuban feel make for an irresistible groove and a heady tropical soundscape. Beautiful soaring violin melodies, and deep rhythmic bass synth lines drive each musical passage through every member of the audience. Band members Michael Mahan and Jessica Borth work in unity gripping the crowd for a show that is both mesmerizing and captivating from start to finish. Spectacle brings their audience through an innovative and dynamic journey show after show after show..
BRAND ABSTRACT
The Spectacle Duo’s unique instrumentation brings a multi-dimensional sound not typically heard in the electronic music scene. Spectacle breaks the mold of traditional EDM by incorporating Jazz, Funk, Classical, Afro-Cuban beats, and live instrumentation performance into an intricate masterpiece of harmonic styles and landscapes. The Trio, most commonly described as refreshing and exciting, offers its audience a new hybrid of genres that span all ages.
web: http://www.spectaclemusic.net
vid: https://youtu.be/TGPSGQGVfw0
https://www.facebook.com/events/895444694126960/