The sixth annual concert and auction takes place Monday, Oct. 16 at Flat Rock Playhouse Downtown.
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The sixth annual concert and auction takes place Monday, Oct. 16 at Flat Rock Playhouse Downtown.
The four acts — The Veldt, Moon Hootch, The New Mastersounds and JD McPherson — spotlighted in this edition represent very different styles of music.
Lukas Nelson is fresh off the heels of releasing his fourth studio album with his band Promise of the Real.
Through exploring the role of art and aesthetics in social activism, the Radical Beauty conference — a new event hosted by the Montreat Conference Center from Monday, Oct. 9 through Thursday, Oct. 12 — offers an alternative approach to promoting cultural change.
A well-written, superbly played collection, the album displays the group’s distinctive character. Certainly there are hints of the band’s influences — the usual suspects — but there’s a fresh and modern approach applied to all 11 group-composed songs.
Not surprisingly, Russ Wilson has his own opinion as to why big band jazz has endured. “For lack of a better term, it appeals to the masses,” he says. “Besides the true musical value — which has to be there — there’s entertainment value to it.”
Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard teams with Nashville singer-songwriters Jesse Lafser and Becca Mancari for a Sunday, Oct. 8, show at The Orange Peel.
The local singer-songwriter swaps songs with Chuck Brodsky and Jonathan Byrd on Saturday, Oct. 7 at White Horse Black Mountain.
The inaugural two-day music festival is set for Oct. 7-8 at Pisgah Brewing Co.
Each week, Xpress highlights notable WNC crowdsourcing initiatives that may inspire readers to become new faces in the crowd. This week features a graphic novel told through the lens of a cell phone, an immersive musical by The Synthesis Experiment and a comedic film about the wild ride of parenting.
The Franklin, Tenn.-based singer-songwriter is a classically trained musician, and that shines through in his music.
The warm, welcoming set could have continued for another 10 songs without complaint from the crowd.
The North African guitarist and his band play a free show at The Mothlight on Monday, Oct. 2.
Dogwood Alliance is highlighting the synergy of spoken-word art forms — adding in plenty of music and other activities as well — at The Woods & Wilds Storytelling and Music Festival. The event takes place Sunday, Oct. 1, at Salvage Station.
Asheville’s own Greg Cartwright and his band play The Grey Eagle on Saturday, Oct. 1.
As the annual conference attests, ideas and influences continue to ripple from the legendary school. This year’s theme is “Process + Performance.”
The 43rd annual celebration of Southern Appalachian music, dance, arts and crafts takes place Saturday, Sept. 30 at Western Carolina University.
The 50th edition of the annual festival runs Oct. 2-7 on and around the campus of Mars Hill University.
The benefit festival for Haywood County fire departments takes place from noon to 9 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 30 at GoodyAcre Farm in Waynesville.
At Isis Music Hall for a recent tour stop, Hiatt took time out to give a stripped-down performance of two songs exclusively for Xpress and Acoustic Asheville.
Percussion is a rarity on Pearl Diver, but something like it crops up on “Hayabusa Terra,” along with stringed instruments. The album’s ever-present subtlety means that those instruments are used less as means to convey a melody and more to insert deft splashes of tone color here and there.