The festival takes place Saturday, April 21 in downtown Asheville. Get in the Earth Day mood by uploading your photos. Six winning entries will be featured in Xpress and will win VIP passes to the festival. (Photo of the first Earth Day in 1970 from www.earthday.org.)
The roster includes New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band, bluesman Taj Mahal and Afrobeat heir Seun Kuti (pictures) with Egypt 80. Photo from Nigerian Music Movement.
Passing on Moogfest? Or looking for more local electronic music this weekend? Don’t miss RogueFest at the Garage at Biltmore. The two-night extravaganza includes Asheville-based performers like Quetzatl, GalaxC Girl and many more.
Autumn LEAF kicks off this weekend at Lake Eden in Black Mountain. Among the dozens of national and international performers, a number of local artists will also be featured on various stages.
Asheville’s Hardlox Jewish Festival takes place on Sunday, Oct. 16.
The annual event wraps up today. Sunday hours are 11 a.m.-7 p.m. at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church of Asheville, 227 Cumberland Ave.
The Lexington Avenue Art and Fun Festival is happening in downtown Asheville this weekend, Sept. 3-4. Here’s an aggregation of Twitter dispatches from the local celebration (hashtag: #laaff).
The local festival returns on Labor Day weekend, celebrating its 10th year and expanding to two days. Here, to whet your appetite, is a preview of some of the music on the lineup.
The latest update to October’s Moogfest adds nearly two dozen more acts (including TV on the Radio, Childish Gambino — seen here — and St. Vincent) to an already packed lineup.
We’re alive. We finally made it into the Dark Carnival, the 12th annual Gathering of the Juggalos. We had lofty ambitions of broadcasting a live stream from the festival, but it turns out that 3G coverage in Cave-in-Rock, Ill., isn’t so great. Imagine that. For now, we’ll try and update this page as much as we can with pictures and what’s going on.
Sunday, Aug. 8, marked the debut of VegFest, Asheville’s first all-vegetarian festival. Vendors started setting up their booths as early as 10 a.m., and by 10:30 a.m., folks were already wandering toward Battery Park for the festivities. The event began officially at noon and lasted until 7 p.m. that night. Festival organizers estimate that more than 1,500 people attended.
Charleston, SC,-based roots and Americana band The Blue Dogs and Charlotte-based rockers The New Familiars perform at tonight’s at Downtown After 5.
Bonnaroo 2011 was hot – and we’re not just talking about the temps. Asheville guitar god Aaron “Woody” Wood played scorching sets that garnered national radio time; local b-boy crew Fresh Trix wowed crowds with their funky body contortions; locally based music marketing company Music Allies ran a huge backstage operation, and countless other peeps with local connections worked, played and partied hard just down the road in Manchester, Tenn. Photos by Jake Frankel
Our correspondent is having a hard time finding wireless access for his computer. His Thursday dispatch from Bonnaroo was delayed, but here it is — complete with ongoing live Twitter coverage. 
Hard to believe it’s only seven weeks until Asheville’s largest street festival of the summer. But as the dates (Friday-Sunday, July 29-31) draw nearer, more bands are announcing their plans to play Bele Chere’s many stages.
The festival returns this year during the weekend of October 28-30. Tickets go on sale Saturday, June 4 at noon. Photo by Reggie Tidwell.
Xpress snapped pictures of a lot of lovers at the first Big Love fest, a day of all-local festivities that we’d say was a Big Success. Also, check out the video.
With the end of April approaching, anticipation for LEAF is in the air. This spring’s schedule is jam-packed full of rich sounds and songs. Here, some highlights …
A serious injury will keep the full band from playing Moogfest. Still, the other members plan to attend. Details as they arise…
Foogmess, the “local alternative to the very expensive, very not locally focused Moogfest,” has 16 bands — all local — to Moogfest’s 61.
LaZoom begins its Haunted Comedy Tours this Friday, Asheville on Bikes’ annual Pumpkin Pedaller is coming, and there’s a family-friendly fall festy (no scary costumes!) in the works.
