Scenes from Blue Ridge Pride

Posted on by Alli Marshall

Didn’t make it to Blue Ridge Pride festival today? Here’s some of what you missed … but the festivities aren’t over yet. According to the website, there’s still:

• An after party at O’Henry’s/Straps/La Rue’s (237 Haywood St., Asheville, 254-1891) sponsored by Natalie Productions and WNC Leathermen – Outside Beer Garden w/ Live Music, Inside Dance Party w/ DJ iGuy, Female Impersonators, and Male Dancers! 8 p.m.-3 a.m., $5.
$5 8pm to 3am

• Interfaith Ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 3 – To conclude a week of festivities encompassing the theme “One Heart, One World, One Pride” Blue Ridge Pride invites you to come together spiritually as a community at 1:00 pm. Local faith leaders will be leading a service open to all who want to come together, united as one community. The service will be held at Riverside Park off of Amboy Road along the French Broad River. 

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About Alli Marshall
Alli Marshall has lived in Asheville for more than 20 years and loves live music, visual art, fiction and friendly dogs. She is the winner of the 2016 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize and the author of the novel "How to Talk to Rockstars," published by Logosophia Books. Follow me @alli_marshall
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