Asheville native and Grammy Award-winning musician Bryan Sutton discusses his new guitar camp and concert series.

Asheville native and Grammy Award-winning musician Bryan Sutton discusses his new guitar camp and concert series.
Launched in 2017 as a fundraiser for the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina, Cold Mountain Music Festival returns Saturday, June 4, after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19.
Entering its 20th year, the 2022 Asheville Fringe Arts Festival returns to multiple venues throughout Asheville.
Over the course of the last year, local artist Joshua Marc Levy asked 14 North Carolina-based artists and organizations to create an original art piece as if it were the last work they’d ever make.
The N.C. Music Hall of Fame recognizes four honorees this year with ties to Western North Carolina.
The nonprofit Preserving a Picturesque America hosts a benefit art sale and exhibition that reinterprets scenes from the historic Buncombe Turnpike.
Following last year’s pandemic-related pause, LEAF Downtown returns to Asheville for its sixth annual gathering.
Nearly two decades after her death, musician Nina Simone remains relevant to local and national acts.
At the start of COVID, local historian Mary McPhail Standaert began sending out emails to friends and family featuring tidbits of local history. She considered it a fun and creative way to stay in touch amid the pandemic. But as the project evolved, she came to realize she had unintentionally launched her latest book.
Nearly 90 years after its premiere, a classic from the golden age of Chinese cinema receives a new soundtrack by local musician Min Xiao-Fen.
Local filmmaker David Weintraub examines the history of moonshine in his latest documentary, The Spirits Still Move Them.
Local Cloth, an Asheville-based nonprofit composed of fiber hobbyists and full-time professionals alike, is leaving its space on the South Slope and heading to the River Arts District.
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo returns with his latest album, “The Beat Bach Symphonies,” a collaboration with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra and several international musicians.
Xpress caught up with three local artists to discuss how COVID-19 has altered their creative approach.
With time on his hands, songwriter Dave Desmelik decided to complete a long-shelved project that focuses on the 12 months of the year — but not necessarily 2020.
In 1979, teenage guitarist Allan Day was inspired to write his own songs in the style of the Buzzcocks, the Ramones and other punk heroes. Now, in 2020, he’s finally recorded and released that album.
Classical music informs the songwriting and arrangements of this Asheville chamber-folk artist.
The itinerant singer/songwriter and the Asheville-based musical collective took decidedly different paths in crafting their latest works.
The HGTR/Moves side project and their husband-wife tour mates discuss their latest projects.
The jump blues/swing band plays the Asheville Guitar Bar patio on Oct. 23 while Steven Fiore’s solo project hunkers down in Tryon.
The Asheville jangle-pop quartet leverages its success as poll-winners and high-profile opening acts on its up-tempo, irrepressibly catchy debut album, “Dangerous Fiction.”