Salvage Station hosts the riverside shindig, which features six local music acts, on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Theatre Review: Crimes of the Heart at Asheville Community Theatre
This is the story of three Mississippi sisters who’ve drifted apart, but when Babe shoots her abusive husband, tongues start wagging all over town. This stirs wild, wandering songstress Meg homeward to their grandfather’s house where their faithful sister Lenny has been a caregiver.
In photos: RiverLink’s annual Anything That Floats Parade and RiverFest
The river was filled with colorful and creative float inventions. Spectators lined the river’s edge to take in the sights.
Ahleuchatistas return to The Mothlight
Parish and Oslance play a free show with Ava Mendoza and Jessica Pavone at The Mothlight on Monday, Aug. 22.
Smart bets: Erica Russo
The Mothlight hosts the release party for Erica Russo’s new album Honey on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Smart bets: Packway Handle Band
Packway Handle Band performs songs from their recent album, a collaboration with Jim White, at The Grey Eagle on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Faces in the crowd: WNC crowdfunding initiatives
Each week, Xpress highlights notable WNC crowdsourcing initiatives that may inspire readers to become new faces in the crowd. This week features an art print project plus a local nonprofit’s efforts to raise awareness of the Alexander Technique to combat Parkinson’s disease.
Q+A with JJ Grey, who returns to Pisgah Brewing Co. on Aug. 19
“I love playing Asheville. … The audience there is into it in a way I wish I could take as a training video to train audiences in other parts of the country.”
Acoustic Asheville: Oh, Jeremiah
The latest edition of Acoustic Asheville features Oh, Jeremiah, a folk duo from Mississippi.
Conscious party: Slide the Fletch, take two
A multitude of outdoor water games, including a 20-foot tall slide, plus live music and food make the second Slide the Fletch fundraiser appropriate for adventurers and spectators alike. Hall Fletcher Elementary hosts the benefit event on Saturday, Aug. 20.
Theater Review: All My Sons at HART
Arthur Miller’s first big-hit play, All My Sons from 1947, is an intimate and moving tale of a munitions manufacturer in Ohio following World War II.
Local studios offer aerial arts lessons for all skill levels
Performing aerial arts — aka aerials — such as silks, trapeze and hoop may seem to require an almost superhuman amount of strength. But as new circus-arts studios and collectives have opened throughout Asheville in the past decade, opportunities for both serious performers and beginners have grown.
GeekOut festival finds its niche
The theme of this year’s GeekOut is “Indie, Meet Tech.” It will showcase art that has a technological flair to its aesthetic. GeekOut begins Friday, Aug. 12, with a promenade and costume photo shoot at Pack Square.
Smart bets: Adam O’Fallon Price
Price’s free reading takes place at Malaprop’s Bookstore and Café on Tuesday, Aug. 16.
In Photos: LEAF Downtown
Celebrating the second LEAF Downtown festival with musical performances, festival vendors and attendees.
A place for ideas: BMCM+AC opens a second location
“We want people to know this is a place to gather,” says Jeff Arnal, executive director of BMCM+AC. “ A place to think and to study and to exchange ideas. That’s part of what a study center is about. And we welcome folks to come and do that.”
Smart bets: Sourwood Festival
The Sourwood Idol competition starts the weekend event on Friday, Aug. 12, and the festival continues on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 13 and 14.
Theater Review: How I Became A Pirate by Asheville Creative Arts
The show is lighthearted, fun, silly and filled with laughs for children and their parents. It works well on many levels. The songs are creative and charming.
Smart bets: Elizabeth Cook
Derek Hoke opens for the seasoned performer at the Altamont Theatre on Saturday, Aug. 13.
Smart bets: Anything That Floats Parade and RiverFest
Participants in RiverLink’s Anything That Floats Parade put in at Hominy Creek Park on Saturday, Aug. 13, at 11 a.m., and the nonprofit’s larger RiverFest event lasts from 1-7 p.m., at the RiverLink Sculpture and Performance Plaza.
Theater review: 9 to 5 at Flat Rock Playhouse
The musical version, by Dolly Parton and Patricia Resnick, is now showing on Flat Rock Playhouse’s main stage through Saturday, Aug. 20.