The Black Mountain brewery has significantly expanded its outdoor concert stage over the past six years and become an annual tour stop for acts like Trampled By Turtles and Dr. Dog.
Dobra Tea hosts EmpTea Bowls fundraiser
For the third year, Dobra Tea’s Black Mountain location will partner with local artisans and musicians to raise money for the Dr. John Wilson Community Garden.
Smart bets: The Secret B-Sides
How will you spend Record Store Day 2016? One option is a free show by two local bands. After eight years with the same lineup, The Secret B-Sides know how to stir up a crowd with its “solid-gold baby-making music,” according to the soul band’s website. Also on the bill is Slo_Gold, the side project that sees […]
ACT stages The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Man Who Came to Dinner, a chaotic comedy about the worst house guest in the history of house guests, in onstage at Asheville Community Theatre through Sunday, April 24.
Author Fred Chappell and record label founder Josh Rosenthal both give readings in Asheville
Fred Chappell will read from his new fantasy book at Malaprop’s on Friday, April 15. A tour in support of Record Store of the Mind, with accompaniment by local musicians at each stop, brings Rosenthal to Downtown Books and News on Thursday, April 14.
Smart bets: Piper Jones Band
Jack of the Wood hosts Celtic bagpiper E.J. Jones and two collaborators on Friday, April 15.
Theater Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? At N.C. Stage
The play, performed at at N.C. Stage Company through May 1, theorizes that a different breed of people exist past the midnight hour.
Smart bets: Grant Lyon
Funny Business at the Millroom presents a show by the comedian, writer and actor on Friday, April 15.
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 virtuosic violinist Carl Schmid’s entertainment startup plus a permanent new home for Mechanical Eye Microcinema.
Five questions with The Filthy Six
ON tour with Mumford & Sons, an improvised lineup gave trumpet player Nick Etwell a chance to bring his soul-jazz project, Filthy Six, to new audience — and they’ll perform at Asheville Music Hall on Wednesday, April 13.
Conscious party: Asheville to Africa
Performers include South African singer Laura Reed, Congolese fire-eater Seeko and Ugandan multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter Kinobe. And for $10 extra, dinner is available from The Kente Kitchen. The benefit show is at White Horse Black Mountain on Thursday, April 21.
30 Days Out: a look at upcoming concerts
This week’s roundup includes Hot Tuna, Orgone, Jazz is Chamber Music! and Karen Lovely.
Sound track: “Eleven Dialogues” by Up Jumped Three
While the conversations between the instruments are active and cerebral, moods wash through the music so that it’s felt emotionally as well as intellectually.
And this year’s Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize goes to … Alli Marshall
Mountain Xpress is pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize is our very own Arts & Entertainment editor and writer, Alli Marshall. Her story, “Catching Out,” was selected by author and prize judge, Ron Rash. With over 200 stories submitted, this year’s contest also marks the highest number of […]
Asheville Art Talk: Julia Fosson of Julia Fosson Encaustic Art & Paintings
Encaustic painter Julia Fosson, whose workshop is located in the Hatchery Studios in the River Arts Districts, spent years unaware of the art form. It is a multifaceted, multilayered medium that involves beeswax, blow torches, heating guns and hot plates, along with dammar — a type of tree sap in which the beeswax is cooked.
IN PHOTOS: Thao and The Get Down Stay Down
Thao and The Get Down Stay Down returned to Asheville this week in support of new album A Man Alive. The Grey Eagle show also included sets from Emily Easterly and Saintseneca.
Author of Appalachian novel signs books at The Mother Earth News Fair
Becky Crabtree describes her debut novel as a mix of romance and mystery with life in a small farming town as a backdrop for the theme of good versus evil. Drunk on Peace and Quiet takes place in West Virginia, but the author says it’s relatable to anyone with knowledge of life in the Appalachian Mountains, “Their truck tags may be different colors, but the church bazaars, the yard sales, the church politics and the power of mountain women are pretty much identical.”
Asheville songwriter-turned-Nashville author presents debut YA novel
Zentner presents his debut young adult novel, The Serpent King, at Malaprop’s on Saturday, April 9. Local YA author (and Zentner’s longtime friend) Stephanie Perkins will lead a Q&A at the event.
Smart bets: Music Video Asheville
Diana Wortham Theatre hosts the red carpet affair on Wednesday, April 13.
Three-week event is inspired by the artists of Black Mountain College
Using Josef Albers’ Interlude concept as a model, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the Media Arts Project will break from their regularly scheduled annual fundraiser, the {Re}Happening. In its place, Interlude, held in downtown Asheville, offers works by more than 30 artists over the event’s three weeks.
Smart bets: Redleg Husky
As part of an ongoing residency, the trio will fill One World Brewing with its self-described “boot-stomping folk” during a CD release show on Wednesday, April 13.