Asheville Community Theatre is performing the musical classic Annie Get Your Gun through Oct. 13. Xpress critic Justin Souther writes: “The show is beloved, the songs are well-known and the one thing a musical like this needs — overwhelming enthusiasm — is something the ACT’s stable of actors has in abundance.”
Brooklyn instrumental collective Snarky Puppy gets a local send up in advance of their Thursday, Sept. 26, show at Asheville Music Hall.
Thursday is Friday eve — even more so on Thursday, Sept. 26, when there are almost too many music options to choose from. Consider this trifecta: Jane Kramer at White Horse, Ryan Shupe and the RubberBand at Isis and City and Colour at The Orange Peel.
Truth & Salvage Co. returns to Asheville to close out the Downtown After 5 season
Nashville garage-rockers Cheap Time rifle through their record collections as inspiration for their new album. They play the Double Crown on Sep. 21 at 10 p.m.
The New Orleans-based quintet will perform at the Emerald Lounge Friday, Sept. 20, at 9 p.m.
The Mississippi-based unpop star talks about writing pop music for an alternate universe and showing a little skin. He plays Broadways on Sunday, Sept. 22. Photo by Carson Culver.
This weekend brings a host of local music, outdoor celebrations and pets. As always, Xpress highlights the best in low-cost entertainment.
Romance novelist Nicholas Sparks writes about the influential arts institution
Alligator Indian releases a new EP that’s at once gorgeous and weird. They’ll hold a release party at Apothecary on Thursday, Sept. 26.
Rap superstar Big Boi’s new video for “Thom Pettie” features footage from his sold-out spring show at the Orange Peel in Asheville.
“This time last year I was plotting to kill a man and I was telling myself that it was noble,” says writer David Holthouse in his story, Stalking the Bogeyman. “I was doing it to protect the children. But really, more than anything else, I think I just wanted to shoot the son of a […]
A performing duo from Asheville’s Bright Star Touring Theatre will soon be packing up and checking in with the American Embassy in Moscow. But for the sake of theater — not political asylum. David Ostergaard, founder of Asheville-based Bright Star Touring Theatre, and Erin Schmidt, the company’s theater manager, will travel to Moscow to perform […]
Aoife O'Donovan grew up outside of Boston but spent her summers in Ireland. Even still, she ended up not in a trad music group but in bluegrass outfit Crooked Still and all-female folk-trio Sometymes Why. But O'Donovan is a solo artist, too: Alison Krauss covered her song, "Lay My Burden Down;" other songs have found […]
Scottish music quartet Battlefield Band got its start in 1969, taking its name from the Battlefield suburb of Glasgow. Founding member Alan Reid recently bowed out after 40 years of recording and touring, but as the band's bio points out, though lineup changes have been a part of the group's history, what's remarkable is the […]
Singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster is no stranger to Asheville, having already played a number of venues and a couple of Christmas Jams. Not many women make it onto the Christmas Jam roster, either, but Foster has the kind of chops that warrant hubris, and the kind of good-natured makeup that keeps her humble and relatable. When […]
Asheville's Ahleuchatistas is an expertly wrought aggregate of mechanical and organic, structural and free-form, art and math, sweet and bad-ass. Guitarist Shane Perlowin and drummer Ryan Oslance are, according to their bio, "on a musical odyssey of pure imagination, limitless in influences, combining tight-knit composition with improvisation, and delivering powerful live shows." Their journey has […]
In a mere five years, from 1925-30, architect Douglas Ellington transformed the landscape of downtown Asheville, designing such distinctive structures as Asheville City Hall, Asheville High School, the S&W Cafeteria and First Baptist Church. Now, more than 80 years later, his architectural legacy continues at another Asheville landmark, the Asheville History Center at the Smith-McDowell […]
Two exclusive songs from Sam Lewis’s Aug. 29 stop in Asheville. Videos of Lewis and Scott McMahan shot at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall by Jesse Hamm.
