Get your Thanksgiving relaxation started early with a weekend chock full of fun events. From holiday light shows to gallery openings, costume party extravaganzas, yoga kirtans and storytelling festivals – this weekend is jam packed! Check out this list of weekend highlights and visit the Mountain Xpress Community Calendar for a complete list of weekend events! FRIDAY Winter Wonderland […]
Scales is currently touring with a collective of esteemed musicians — the group held its first rehearsal at the beginning of this week. Scales’ current seven-date tour includes a performance at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall on Sunday, Nov. 20.
The concert was part of a fundraiser event for local nonprofit MountainTrue, benefitting French Broad River conservation.
The evening of music, will simultaneously celebrate the Rosser family and the release of Road to Dreamland.
The Compton-born, Atlanta-based renaissance man discusses his numerous projects and their common bond.
For their second full-length album, The Resonant Rogues are returning to Echo Mountain Recording Studios. Their crowdfunding campaign for the project culminates on Friday, Nov. 18, when the band performs at The Mothlight.
Logan’s classical training and tantalizing allure of a good girl gone bad will be onstage at the Crow & Quill on Saturday, Nov. 19.
The three women-led groups will perform at Isis Restaurant and Music Hall on Thursday, Nov. 17.
The Toledo, Ohio, native was a musician without a genre, so he came up with his own: country Midwestern.
Since he was 11 years old, Jem Klein has perfected the craft of flute making.
The project, a collaboration with local filmmaker and director Andrew Anderson, was shot at Skinny Dip Falls.
For this year’s Taste of Asheville, Asheville Independent Restaurants will partner with the local busking collective to highlight the city’s street performers.
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.
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.
“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.”
Bach to Bernstein: Our 25th Anniversary Celebration will take place at Arden Presbyterian Church on Saturday, Nov. 12.
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
Banjo enthusiasts will gather at Crosspoint Church in Montford on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 11 and 12.
The couple met in 2009 at the National Old-Time Fiddle Contest in Weiser, Idaho.
Each week, Xpress highlights notable WNC crowdsourcing initiatives that may inspire readers to become new faces in the crowd. This week features new albums by Jordan Okrend and The Resonant Rogues plus a K-9 for the Sylva Police Department.
Twice monthly, my blog 30 Days Out spotlights upcoming music shows and events of note, shining a light into some less well-lit corners, where some fascinating artists schedule performances. I do my best to give ample advance notice so that you can adjust your budget and calendar in a way that lets you get to […]
