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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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=352862325433660
The 10th annual season of Concerts on the Creek returns to Jackson County, N.C., in 2019. Held from 7-9 p.m. every Friday from Memorial Day through Labor Day at the Bridge Park in Sylva, these FREE, family-friendly events are organized by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, the Town of Sylva and the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department. Bring a chair or blanket. Donations are greatly appreciated. Please visit www.mountainlovers.com or call 828-586-2155 for more information.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1404403719696144/?event_time_id=1404403753029474
The Lucky Strikes Orchestra is proud to take to the solar stage once again for another wonderful season with Music In The Valle! Join Jim, Doug, Steve, Jamie, Rusty and Wes for a night of fun, dance-able song selections from Beach and Motown to Classic Rock & Roll 50s-70s. Make new memories with timeless music with The LSO!
This night of music would not be possible without our sponsor Keller Williams High Country! The Cardinal food truck will be on-site serving up the best burgers in the High Country. Don’t forget to bring $5 per person or $10 per family to help us keep the Music in the Valle tradition alive. As a nonprofit recreation facility we depend on donations to keep the Park beautiful!
https://www.facebook.com/events/557359088122639/
The Rough & Tumble are excited to begin their Howl Back Tour at ISIS Music Hall in Asheville, NC on Friday July 26, 2019 at 7PM.
The Rough & Tumble are as easy to detect as a stray dog on your doorstep– and as difficult to send home. The dumpster-folk, thriftstore-Americana duo, consisting of Mallory Graham & Scott Tyler and their menagerie of classic folk and homemade instruments, have been hobbling around the country in their 16ft camper with their dogs since 2015, taking their songs to the far corners of the US and to the weird little towns they pass along the way. Written during a time of doggedly trying despite the odds and a self-proclaimed “year of honesty,” The Rough & Tumble will release their new studio album Howling Back at the Wounded Dog. Join the pack live on their Howl Back Tour beginning in July 2019 so you can sing along when the album comes out September 6, 2019. For more information, visit www.theroughandtumble.com.
https://www.facebook.com/events/401758433969632/
$12 Advance / $12 Day of Show
To celebrate the release of their new album, Howling Back at the Wounded Dog, dumpster-folk/thriftstore-Americana duo, The Rough & Tumble, will be performing new material at Isis Music Hall.
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/613719879091856/
The delicious adventures experienced by Charlie Bucket on his visit to Willy Wonka’s mysterious chocolate factory light up the stage in this captivating adaptation of Roald Dahl’s fantastical tale. Featuring the enchanting songs from the 1971 film starring Gene Wilder and new songs, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a scrumdidilyumptiously magical musical.
Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory follows enigmatic candy manufacturer, Willy Wonka, as he stages a contest by hiding golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. Whomever comes up with these tickets will win a free tour of the Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of candy. Four of the five winning children are insufferable brats: the fifth is a likeable young lad named Charlie Bucket, who takes the tour in the company of his equally amiable grandfather. The children must learn to follow Mr. Wonka’s rules in the factory… or suffer the consequences. This Broadway-style staging of Willy Wonka will take audiences on a fantasy ride into the land of pure imagination and is guaranteed to delight everyone’s sweet tooth. A full two-act live stage production.
Music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. Adapted for the stage by Leslie Bricusse and Timothy Allen McDonald
Presented by the Overlook Theatre Company
Ticket Prices: $12 Student, $17 Adult
Join DJ JAM and friends for Soul, R&B, Smooth Jazz & Reggae on Fridays this July from 9pm-1am.
Cover $5
https://www.facebook.com/events/2319954958092228/
Give us 2-4 hours. Enjoy a day of music and memories — and the knowledge that you helped to bring a community together! You’ll also get a little swag: a 11th Annual Festival Tee Shirt, snacks, a drink ticket, and our new Blue Ridge Pride Center buttons and stickers. Volunteer roles include: setup and breakdown, selling wristbands, beverages or merchandise, and assisting with volunteer check-in or VIP. Learn more and sign up here.
The BMC Audi Raffle is our single largest fundraiser for Student Scholarships, and makes it possible for hundreds of students to attend who otherwise could not!
Because of your patronage and the support of many, BMC can provide $1.4 million in financial assistance every year so our talented high school and college musicians can experience a life-transforming summer at Brevard Music Center!
Buy YOUR Audi Raffle Ticket online or at one of our upcoming concerts!
The winner will have ultimate flexibility in choice of model:
Any 2019 Audi from Audi Asheville with an MSRP up to $50,000!
The winner will be announced during BMC’s Season Finale concert on Sunday, August 4th. You do not have to be present to win!
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Farm Beginnings® Farmer Training is entering its fifth year offering a year long farmer training.
Organic Growers School has graduated 43 farmers in the last 4 years and will graduate 55 by
September 2019. Organic Growers School will begin this year’s program in October 2019 at
Creekside Farm & Education Center at Walnut Cove in Arden, NC and is currently accepting
applications. The 2019-2020 program will continue a partnership with Living Web Farm who
offers a diversity of farm and organic living workshops that students will have full access to, in
addition to on-farm workshops at the The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy’s
Community Farm in Alexander, NC . Applications will be accepted for the program on a rolling
basis until September 15th, 2019. Early bird discount of $100 off for applications received by
August 1st.
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.
The Appalachia Now! catalogue is now available for pre-order. The 64-page, full-color illustrated book is published in conjunction with the opening special exhibition Appalachia Now! An Interdisciplinary Survey of Contemporary Art in Southern Appalachia, includes descriptions and images from the 50 featured artists, plus a foreword by Executive Director Pamela Myers and a statement from Jason Andrew, guest curator.
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.
Get ready for one of the coolest (and cutest!) events of the summer season! Ultimate Air Dogs presented by Ingles is a must-see at TIEC. Watch as the athletic dogs launch into the pool while chasing after their favorite toys, all earning points based on how far they soar. Entertaining, fun, and adorable… What more can you ask for?! Come enjoy the thrilling talent and big splashes of talented air dogs at TIEC on June 29-30 and July 27-28 on the grass near Legends Plaza.
103.3 Asheville FM and Pansyfest Present The “Local Queer Music Showcase Benefit” Friday, July 26 doors at 8 pm show at 9 pm at the Mothlight, 701 W Haywood Road, in West Asheville. Featuring Secret Shame (Darkwave Post Punk), Joybang (Riot Rock), Nomadic War Machine (Anarchist Dark Electronica), and Dead Name (Gay Fight Riff Punk). Suggested donation of $10 at the door to benefit Pansy Collective and Asheville FM. (Pay more if you can, less if you can’t.)
Proceeds will benefit the two organizations and help fund Pansy Fest 2019 in August.
https://www.facebook.com/events/480405406053012/
Chicago Don hosts the AGB Stage for our Big City Blues Jam. Come sign up to play!
Chicago, Detroit, New York. Bright lights. Big city. Get mesmerized in the sound of Big City Blues. Clear, sharp melodies on horns and harps contrast the deep, rich back beats of the electric bass. Keyboard riffs battle electric guitars that are on fire, and classic blues drum beats drive home the groove. Lose yourself in a night of soulful music reminiscent of Freddie King, Charlie Robison, Billie Holiday, Luther Allison in the smoke filled dance halls of the past.
https://www.facebook.com/events/285784058770493/?event_time_id=285784102103822
“The Dirty Soul Revival unites, and quite possibly, resurrects the Southern Rock n Roll experience. This band conveys the heart and soul of Rock n’ Roll’s past that today’s radio airwaves are lacking. From Blues Rock, to Hard Rock, to Stoner Rock with a blend of Funk; SOUL is what The Dirty Soul Revival is all about! “
– David Gibson, Ocean Media
The name says it all. Music is expression and only through expression is music kept alive. Forget genres, forget the endless pandering to the masses, forget the formulaic radio vomit that has been created in the studio for the sole purpose of separating you from your dollar. This is music made for people who want to see people bleed, hear people cry, watch someone fail while wishing them to succeed. This band was founded on hate. Love. Fear.
The band was founded in 2014 by husband and wife duo Abraham and Jenni Lynn Anderson jamming in their attic. As the band evolved so did it’s members resulting in Abraham on slide guitar and vocals, Brandon Hill on lead guitar, and Wilson Wedge on Drums. The sound has changed over the years but always leans on the cornerstones of American music. Blues, Country, Rock and roll, Soul, and the unnamable line that connects music of all backgrounds.
The Dirty Soul Revival has kept a solid touring schedule since it’s inception and has shared the stage with the likes of Blackberry Smoke, The Kentucky Headhunters, Shooter Jennings, Black Stone Cherry, Atlanta Rhythm Section, and more. They have rallied a loyal fanbase in their hometown of Asheville, NC and throughout the southeast while touring across the U.S.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLBBfnEyO60
https://www.facebook.com/thedirtysoulrevival/
http://www.thedirtysoulrevival.com/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1094109250779723/
Join us & Johnnie Blackwell Music for another night of Live Band Karaoke!
https://www.facebook.com/events/419520138655499/
Join us & Johnnie Blackwell Music for another night of Live Band Karaoke!
https://www.facebook.com/events/419520138655499/?event_time_id=419520145322165
8-11PM
$5
Tristan Welch is a musician / artist from northern Virginia that creates sonic soundscapes with his guitar which incorporates loops that are drenched in reverb, delay, and distortion. He likes to call his compositions; heavy ambient movements.
https://versesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/40-hours
Lunar Creature – Lunar Creature is Meghan Mulhearn and David Lynch. Rich, dark mood music combining violin, guitar, bass and synth in unexpected ways.
https://soundcloud.com/divinecircles/ancestors-lunar-creature-new
https://m.facebook.com/lunarcreature/
The Ambient Eye – Monica Stroik, Doug Kallmeyer (Verses Records) Generating visuals manipulating sound manipulating visuals generating sound. Live, documented, scripted and improvised
https://m.facebook.com/theambienteye/
https://youtu.be/zfRLRVeNGCk
https://www.facebook.com/events/1773330976101513/
Criss-crossing the country for 30 years, Ellis Paul just released his 20th album, The Storyteller’s Suitcase, the first self-produced. He says: “This album is more truly me than anything I’ve ever made.”
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/2076041835778351/
Redd Kross at The Grey Eagle
https://www.facebook.com/events/908900706120479/
Petey Pablo
& Special Guests: 19 Summers Tour
Show: 9pm
Doors: 8pm
$18 – $20
Ages 18+
Tickets & Info: www.theorangepeel.net/event/petey-pablo-special-guests-19-summers-tour/
One of the more versatile rappers who came out of the Dirty South school of hip-hop in the early 2000s, multi-gold and Grammy-nominated North Carolina native Petey Pablo has demonstrated the art of mixing poignancy with sharp, gut-wrenching lyrics that reach across age, race and social status. The gruff-voiced MC was born and raised in Greenville, NC, and is best known for rap anthems such as “Raise Up,” “Freek-A-Leek” and “Carolina Colors,” have become mainstays on urban radio and as sports stadiums across the country.
“Raise Up” peaked #1 on the US Billboard Rap Chart and #25 on the Billboard Top 100. “Freek-A-Leek” climbed to #2. In addition to his solo career, Pablo has collaborated with artists such as Ciara “Goodies,” Timbaland “Red Bone,” Chris Brown on “Drop Rap,” Lil Wayne “Gangsta Shit,” Sticky Fingaz “Ghetto,” and many others. His collaboration rose to the top of the Billboard US Top 100, R&B and UK charts in 2004. Pablo has demonstrated his versatility with roles in “Drumline,” “Just Another Day,” and most recently on Empire, a guest appearance that included writing the song star Terrence Howard performed “Snitch Bitch.”
His albums Diary of a Sinner: 1st Entry and Still Writing in My Diary: 2nd Entry, showcase a diverse effort that ranges from stereotypical Dirty South decadence to poignant, autobiographical tunes that reflect on the challenges and hardships he experienced growing up poor in the Deep South. In early 2003, Petey Pablo’s debut album received a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album.
www.peteypablo.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/2806998769342077/
Sleepy Poetry, Bergenline, Anywhere From Here at Fleetwood’s
friday july 26th
show starts right at 9
only $7
https://www.facebook.com/events/462609950973706/
Join DJ JAM and friends for Soul, R&B, Smooth Jazz & Reggae on Fridays this July from 9pm-1am.
Cover $5
https://www.facebook.com/events/2319954958092228/?event_time_id=2319954968092227
West End Blend w/ Maj Deeka at The Grey Eagle
Maj Deeka
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Four of Raleigh’s most versed musicians formed Maj Deeka in early 2018 when Evan Bost asked his good friend and musical mentor Andy Blair to join the rhythm section of Matt Kirk and Ryan Masecar for a dynamic jam that traversed musical styles and emotions seamlessly. The group proved to be a natural fit, and a high-octane quartet was born.
Maj Deeka exhibits all the qualities needed in a prolific jam band: a collective ear for interesting harmony and melody, a rock-solid groove, chops on hand when the music calls for notes, and the time-earned sensibility of knowing how to take a piece of music and make it bigger than the sum of its parts.
Having recently celebrated their 1 year bandiversary, Maj Deeka has been on a 75° trajectory since the band’s inception, seemingly reaching new milestones with every show. At a late 2018 performance supporting national touring act Ghost Light, the band debuted original material with hair raising three-part vocal harmonies, contemplative lyrics, dense composition, and lightning hot improvisation. Several months later while supporting Asheville based Dr. Bacon, Maj Deeka emanated explosive energy and creativity from the first note, playing directly off the relatively unfamiliar crowd’s interaction like it was their thousandth show.
The band’s second year is marked by bigger stages, new original tunes, and new cities, and the only certainty is that no one, including the band, knows what they might pull off next.
https://www.facebook.com/events/444921722955951/
Genre: Funk
Cover: $5 Suggested Donation @ Door
Show: 10PM
Ages: 21+
ShwizZ
ShwizZ is a one of a kind duo from Nyack, New York. Drawing a substantial influence from classic progressive rock and funk, they consistently put their musical abilities to the test to deliver a high intensity and musically immersive show. By using thier skills in the studio, the duo is able to recreate the feeling of listening a record, only live in front of your face!
web: https://www.shwizz.com/
Lee Ross
A musical adventure with lots of smiles, laughter, and more.
New Orleans funk infused with reggae and all sorts of dance-ish sounds!
tunes: https://soundcloud.com/LeeRossMusic123
https://www.facebook.com/events/2335231606534048/
Every Friday night you can find DJ Databoy and DJ Woodside spinning your favorite rap records. Dancing is permitted! No Cover.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2530249150380639/?event_time_id=2530253730380181