The instrumental tribute band will stop at the Salvage Station on Friday, Dec. 17.
Smart bets: A Benefit for Our VOICE
The Krektones and Nest Egg perform, with DJ sets by Greg Cartright, at Lazy Diamond on Friday, Dec. 16.
Acoustic Asheville: Story Daniels
The band got together in downtown Swannanoa on a smoky day to give an exclusive three-song performance for Xpress.
Rising Appalachia plays two Asheville Solstice shows
Since the group’s start in 2006, sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith have positioned Rising Appalachia as both a musical project and a vehicle to express their social justice concerns, and to help foster a community with like-minded interests.
Smart bets: Sirius.B
Sirius.B’s performance will follow two openers: fellow gypsy band Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands and pirate-rockers Plankeye Peggy.
Ben Phan and the Soul Symphony open album Kickstarter with a local show
On Sunday, Dec. 11, Ben Phan and the Soul Symphony’s album crowdfunding campaign will go live, and later that night, the band will perform the to-be-recorded work in its entirety at The Grey Eagle.
RBTS WIN taps nature, space and heart on new EP
New recording King Summer, a three song EP in advance of full-length Sensitivity Kit — due out next year — takes the band’s vision to the next level. RBTS WIN will perform those songs, other new material and back catalog favorites at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall on Saturday, Dec. 10.
Smart bets: The O’Connor Band
The O’Connor Band holds an album release show at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall on Thursday and Friday, Dec. 8 and 9.
Acoustic Asheville: The Battlefield
The folk quartet is built on three lead vocalists and layered with acoustic guitar, drums and occasionally mandolin and banjo.
Smart bets: Fruit Bats
The band, led by singer-songwriter Eric D. Johnson, returns to The Mothlight on Sunday, Dec. 4.
Smart bets: Sierra Hull
Brevard listening room 185 King Street hosts an intimate evening with the bluegrass virtuoso on Saturday, Dec. 3.
Shane Parish records interpretations of Appalachian folk songs
“Originally the theme was death and judgement,” says Parish of the album that would become Undertaker Please Drive Slow. He’ll release it with a show at The Grey Eagle on Sunday, Nov. 27.
Smart bets: FRITZgiving
Other local acts like DJ Marley Carroll and Hustle Souls join the bill for FRITZgiving at Asheville Music Hall on Friday, Nov. 25
Smart bets: TRiG
TRiG returns for his second show at The Orange Peel with fellow local artists Trip Gang, Deelayne, Leequan, Lazz and YPC Darius on Friday, Nov. 25.
Acoustic Asheville: Marco Benevento
Long known for his work in the alternative jazz world, Benevento is currently melding that sound with psychedelic pop.
Charles “Wigg” Walker continues to build on his long and winding career
After years playing with big R&B orchestras, including his own Nashville-based group, The Dynamites, Walker has begun performing with a smaller, more intimate backing band in what he calls a soul-jazz style.
Devils in Dust celebrates its self-titled debut album with a release party
After years of local and regional success with groups of their own, Asheville musicians Leigh Glass and Corey Bullman have combined their musical projects into one group, Devils in Dust. Along the way, they also fell in love and got married.
Matt Townsend launches a political-tinged two-part EP series
“I didn’t have a plan that I was going to write political songs, but the songs occurred out of the unavoidable situation we’ve been in,” Townsend says. “It’s always a tenuous line to walk: music, politics, that kind of thing.”
Smart bets: 11:11 Awaken Asheville
Bryan Divisions will host the event alongside hip-hop performers The MadScientist, Siyah, Edmond Ivory and MNMK and electronic musicians Guilty Pleasure and WiZo at Timo’s House on Friday, Nov. 11
Smart bets: North Carolina Banjo Clinic
Banjo enthusiasts will gather at Crosspoint Church in Montford on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 11 and 12.
Weyes Blood returns to The Mothlight
The growth Natalie Mering exhibits on her new Weyes Blood album Front Row Seat to Earth is the type of breakthrough music lovers dream about, yet rarely see.