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Working musicians have enough of a struggle without worrying about losing their instruments and equipment to theft. And yet, that happens all too often. In ...
From Dobra Tea: Asheville, N.C. (February 22, 2012) - Dobrá Tea will host Loose LEAF Weekend, a LEAF International benefit which features music, dance, classes ...
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will make a stop in Asheville on their next live tour, playing the Orange Peel March 17 at 9 ...
Press release From MedWest-Harris-Haywood-Swain Sylva, N.C. – The MedWest-Harris & Swain Foundation is proud to announce the upcoming 14th Annual Smoky Streak, to be held ...
Crews are working today to repair damage to the Peter Guice Bridge over the Green River on Interstate 26 in Henderson County caused when a ...
Want to help the Blue Ridge Roller Girls choose which bands perform at the half times this year? Duh, of course you do. How? Come ...
Old-time music meets analog-effects madness. Here's the scoop. One day someone brought a Banjolin to the Moog Store and ran it through a MF-108M Cluster ...
Local "Space Rock" band Silver Machine are no longer lightyears away from their $1,500 goal to release their album. In relative terms, they're now within ...
Local YouTube-user halfaspieguy catches the weekly Irish session (held every Sunday starting at 5) at Jack of the Wood.
Local hip-hop artist Eazy debuts his new music video for the track "Blue & Yellow." Farside Films in association with Money Hungry ENT. present BLUE ...
Birmingham, AL,-based folk musician Jessica Lingle gives her "awkward intro" about her song "Waiting Patiently." The song is about Asheville, her "favorite place in the ...
According to the Asheville Citizen-Times, The Ivy Building was designed by Willis Irvin, a noted Southern architect who in the 1940s completed the design of ...
Asheville-based 14-year-old singer/songwriter Julia Pethtel performs her original tune "Through Me."
If you've been following the Xpress-produced Busk Break field-recording series, it should hardly be surprising that our local streetcorner performers tend to make for great ...
Here's the new video for "Ocean Apart" by The Bayonets, partially filmed at Echo Mountain recording studio in Asheville. I shot this music video for ...
From Rolling Stone: "We're right at the finish line," singer-guitarist Seth Avett says of his band's seventh album. "It's just the formalities now." The folk-rock ...
Check out this just-released video for the song "I like it" by Asheville based band Stephaniesid. Video produced by Monkeywhale.
Is there a better way to celebrate the New Year than with a WNC-specific, fun-as-heck parody of Rihanna's "We Found Love"? There's only one way ...
If there's one thing musicians take seriously, it's their gear. Local bassist Bryan White -- best known locally as part of Brushfire Stankgrass -- gives ...
Asheville-based funk band The Fritz performs "Sawbones" on Eleven O'Clock Rock, a program on the Knoxville-based internet broadcasting company Knox ivi.
In this recent video, the Evergreen Community Chorus perform their version of the Mumford & Sons tune "Roll Away Your Stone" at Barnes and Noble in Asheville.
In the first graduation ceremony at the Kimmel Arena, 222 new graduates of UNC at Asheville emerge into an uncertain job market.
Hendersonville Times-News reports: More than 50 people lined the Davidson River Bridge in Pisgah Forest to join thousands of others across the country Thursday in ...
From Our State magazine: Steve Wilmans bailed on Los Angeles, California, nine years ago and bolted to Asheville. Then in his early 30s, the successful ...
From The Spartanburg Herald-Journal ... A group of Asheville, N.C. musicians are getting together this weekend to celebrate the music and legacy of a country ...
Spinner.com seems to like the new tune by Asheville-based singer/songwriter and Band of Horses guitarist Tyler Ramsey. Check the site to listen to his new ...
BlogAsheville contributor Sanuk D reviews the new stephaniesid album Starfruit. Here’s a sample from the review. Stephanie Morgan obviously wants to get something done. But ...
From The San Francisco Examiner: We’ll start the week with a quick don’t-miss-this-act reminder that Oregon’s great folk/blues/rockabilly outfit Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside ...
Music journalist Robin Tolleson writes about a new kind of album for regional musican Eliza Lynn. Eliza Lynn had never considered making an album this ...
Reposted from Jason Sandford at Ashvegas ... Here’s the invite from Asheville band Telic, via their newsletter: Come out to The Garage in Biltmore 101 ...
PRESS RELEASE: The Asheville Practical Shooting Association is holding a Women On Target® Instructional Shooting Clinic at the Bear Arms Indoor Range in Brevard, North ...
Wall Street Journal rock and pop music critic Jim Fusilli has named Massive Attack's performance at Moogfest in Asheville this past October as one of ...
Nat Geo Music recently published an interview with world-touring Asheville-based band, Toubab Krewe. Nat Geo Music’s record label released the group’s new album, “TK2.” Here’s ...
The Asheville Music School is happy to announce an Open House at its new facility in downtown Asheville. We will be celebrating our positive changes ...
The Asheville Music School is happy to announce an Open House at its new facility in downtown Asheville. We will be celebrating our positive changes ...
Musician Mia Borders (miaborders.com) headlines Blue Ridge Pride, a free festival held in downtown Asheville, on Saturday, Oct. 2. According to a press release, “Mia ...
From a press release: Keith Flynn & The Holy Men will perform in Waynesville, NC at the First United Methodist Church, Friday, Sept. 24 at ...
I have been listening to Tortoise since they began. John Herndon is a friend. Last night however, i got back to the reality that while ...
Here’s the press release fromLEAF in Schools & Streets: Playing for Change Band ~ A Global Movement of Peace through Music ~ Featured on CBS ...
From a press release: “Mothers of Invention: Music by Women celebrating trio music of Louise Farrenc, French virtuoso pianist and contemporary of Robert Schumann; Hilary ...
From a press release: “WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN introduces SATURDAY DINNER CLASSICS 9/11 - 5:30 pm dinner, 6:30 performance BY RESERVATION ONLY (online reservations must ...
Local bands Vertigo Jazz Project and The Asheville Jazz Allstars team up with Geniass Productions and Mo Daddy’s Bar to present the Soul Jazz Jam, ...
Singer/songwriter Ash Devine (ashdevine.net) is also a clown for Gesundheit! Institute — the holistic health organization made famous in the movie “Patch Adams.” Devine (a ...
According to the Joyful Noise website, the organization (based at the First Presbyterian Church in Weaverville) is “a non-profit community arts center that serves Buncombe ...
In a press release, Asheville Lyric Opera’s General and Artistic Director David Craig Starkey announces the local opera’s twelfth season (2010-2011) “which will feature five ...
Craggie Brewing company not only makes (and serves) Asheville-centric beers (“Battery Hill,” “Toubab Brewe”), but also hosts local music in its public house. Find the ...
Musician Dup Crosson, the mastermind behind electronic indie-pop act Saint Solitude, gave an interview to Indyweek.com this week, in which he discussed the demise of ...
Now in its second week, the Keowee Chamber Music Festival (which runs through Monday, June 21) offers a number of public performances: • At the ...
Rock band Mother Soul, major players on the Asheville music scene during the 1990s, is enjoying quite a resurgence — including a number of local ...
As publicist Sam Katz puts it, “We have Vertigo Jazz Project in this Friday for free! Why? Because we LOVE you, as does Vertigo Jazz ...
“Come celebrate the start of summer with Asheville’s home town favorites The Blue Rags,” writes local publicist and blogger Erin Scholze on her Web site, ...
From a press release: White Horse Black Mountain will host its second exciting classical program called “Three to Tango” on Sunday, May 30, 2 p.m. ...
FROM THE HERITAGE FESTIVAL NEWSWIre The Chamber Choir from North Buncombe High School has been invited to perform at Festival at Carnegie Hall in New ...
WLOS-TV reports a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at 2 p.m. Friday, April 30, on schedule, with traffic flowing immediately thereafter: The new bridge in Biltmore ...
A North Buncombe High School Jazz Band press release: Jazz Band & Winterguard Free Exhibition The North Buncombe High School Jazz Band and Winterguard will ...
From the Black Mountain Music Scene blog, an all-star WNC musical event including David Holt and Malcolm Holcombe: April 10-11 Pony Up Benefit at White ...
From an e-mail release received today: The Literacy Council of Buncombe County invites you to participate in the 20th Annual Literacy Council Spelling Bee on ...
“How lucky are we, that in a town of our size (really folks - it’s just not that big) we have the opportunity to experience ...
Macon County News reports that the Army Corps of Engineers wants more information from the Macon County Airport Authority — but only has until Feb. ...
Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach has been touring in support of his side project (Dan Auerback & the Fast Five) and label (Polymer Sounds). He ...
Smoky Mountain News reports: “Johnnie Cure said she never expected to become a local celebrity when she started speaking up during the public comment period ...
