PRESS RELEASE: To share music with the community beyond its summer festival season, Brevard Music Center (BMC), in partnership with Brevard College and the Osher Lifelong Learning Center (OLLI) in Asheville, is proud to announce its presentation of free community concerts this December. On December 6, tenor Joseph Evans and pianist Douglas Weeks will perform […]
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Smart bets: Winter’s Tune
A multi-generational group of local female fiddlers share the stage for the showcase at Broyhill Chapel on the Mars Hill University campus, Friday, Dec. 4.
VIDEO: Free Planet Radio and The Opal String Quartet
In a live performance from August, local world music outfit Free Planet Radio collaborates with chamber music collective The Opal String Quartet for a performance of “You, who’ve gone on pilgrimage.”
VIDEO: “Spivey Mountain Jam” by Kendra Warren
The local singer-songwriter penned this song about one of her dad’s boyhood misadventures.
Smart bets: Wish List Celebration
American Folk Art compiled a “gift closet” stocked with special works from the 40 artists who the gallery showcases. The show opens for Black Friday, Nov. 27, at 10 a.m.
Bradshaw Call and Betsy Puckett Reunite for “Santaland Diaries” at ACT
PRESS RELEASE: Asheville’s non-traditional tradition returns to Asheville Community Theatre! This year’s production of The Santaland Diaries once again stars local favorite Bradshaw Call, who stepped into the candy-cane striped stockings for the first time in 2013. The show will be presented in its original Asheville location, the intimate 35below theatre. The Santaland Diaries will […]
Velvet & Lace events at Buxton Hall Barbecue focus on female bartenders
PRESS RELEASE: WHAT: VELVET & LACE DETAILS: A celebration of the female presence in Asheville’s bar scene WHERE: Buxton Hall Barbecue, 32 Banks Avenue, South Slope of Asheville WHEN: Once a month, over the course of six months, always on the first Thursday of the month. TIME: Each event runs from 10 p.m. to 1 […]
Bill Kirchen performs a honky-tonk holiday show at The Grey Eagle, Dec. 13
PRESS RELEASE: WHO: Bill Kirchen and Too Much Fun WHEN: Sunday, December 13, at 8 pm WHERE: The Grey Eagle TICKETS: $17 advance/$20 door Forget the Nutcracker and Handel’s Messiah. They’re so overdone. For a taste of real holiday cheer, nothing says joy to the world and peace on earth like Bill Kirchen singing “Daddy’s […]
Ben Lovett unveils the 3rd installment of his Lovers & Friends series
PRESS RELEASE: Award-winning composer, songwriter and producer Ben Lovett had a vision — to turn a series of blind dates with 12 Los Angeles-based musicians he had never met into a collection of new songs. That experiment is a project entitled Lovers & Friends. The four ensuing EP releases make up “Season One” and feature […]
Badger plays a free show at Asheville Music Hall, Dec. 9
PRESS RELEASE: Badger will make its debut at Asheville Music Hall on Wednesday, Dec. 9. The improvisational, all-instrumental group – a quartet of longtime contributors to the Asheville music scene – includes members of Papadosio, Asian Teacher Factory and 2ppm. It’s ideas rather than songs that the musicians will come prepared to explore. From there, […]
Angela Kim Designs host a holiday style event, Dec. 11
PRESS RELEASE: Local Fashion Designer Angela Kim is presenting her limited edition Holiday Collection at Monkee’s of Biltmore, 7 All Souls Crescent in Asheville on Friday, December 11. The pop-up shop will be open from 1 – 6pm, with drinks and hors d’oeuvres from Ruth’s Chris Steak House, compliments of Monkee’s of Biltmore. Local models […]
Sheila Kay Adams and the Scofflaws play White Horse Black Mountain, Dec. 4
PRESS RELEASE: Friday, December 4 – 8:00 p.m.- Sheila Kay Adams and the Scofflaws, Appalachian and Americana, $15 advance/$18 door North Carolina’s reigning storytelling queen of the banjo, Sheila Kay Adams, joins with Americana songwriter/guitarist Dan Lewis and fiddler Branson Raines as The Scofflaws for an evening of musical mischief at the White Horse Black […]
Artists panel discussion at Brevard College Dec. 3
Press release: The Brevard College Division of Fine Arts cordially invites the public to attend a panel discussion in connection with the exhibition, “Mindful Places,” which is currently installed in the Spiers Gallery of the Sims Art Center. The panel discussion begins at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 3. The three artists represented in the […]
Montford Park Players announces performing arts impact awards
Press release: The Montford Park Players, North Carolina’s longest running Shakespeare Festival, announces that voting is now open for the 1st Annual Performing Arts Impact Awards for 2015. These awards are designed to recognize those individuals and organizations in the Asheville region who exemplified an extraordinary commitment to the performing arts in 2015. We seek […]
Attic Salt presents family-friendly theater every Saturday, Dec. 5-May 21
Press release: Attic Salt presents Saturdays On Stage Family-Friendly Theater Every Saturday! Produced by Attic Salt Theatre Company at The Magnetic Theatre 375 Depot Street, Asheville, NC 28801 Saturdays, December 5 – May 21, 10:00am Family Theater Performances Attic Salt Theatre Company, the team who produced family favorites The Tale of the Pig and Newly […]
Howard Hanger and friends publish “The Main Thing: Community and Celebration at Jubilee!”
Press release: The Main Thing tells the story of how ideas grow into community and community into a spirituality. “More a verb than it is a noun, Jubilee! is about what we do far more than who we are,” says Paul Howey, long-time attendee at Jubilee! Community on Wall Street in downtown Asheville, NC. In […]
Yours Truly, 1970s Film Stock and Judas Horse perform at The Mothlight, Dec. 5
Press release: Asheville bands Yours Truly, Judas Horse and venue The Mothlight are proud to bring triad-area guitar virtuoso Eddie Garcia, AKA 1970s Film Stock to the Mothlight on Saturday, December 5 in support of his new release Hand Painted. “He powers his individual abstraction with fondness for Alan Licht and Derek Bailey, his guitar […]
Asheville Symphony Orchestra performs a Simply Sinatra Christmas, Dec. 11
Press release: World-renowned Frank Sinatra interpreter Steve Lippia joins the Asheville Symphony at 8 p.m. on Friday, December 11, for “Simply Sinatra Christmas,” an enchanting evening filled with Sinatra’s classic holiday songs and the legendary crooner’s signature works at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in downtown Asheville. Maestro James Fellenbaum, the resident conductor of the Knoxville Symphony, […]
Cameron Maybin of Atlanta Braves becomes an ambassador for LEAF Schools & Streets
Press release: At LEAF Community Arts (LEAF), we believe in the power of building communities, connecting cultures and enriching lives through the arts and our first LEAF Schools & Streets Ambassador, Atlanta Braves’ Cameron Maybin, agrees. Around this time each year, LEAF welcomes conversations from the community and encourages membership which, coupled with other fundraising […]
Goodwill celebrates tacky sweater season
Press release: Christmas is right around the corner and that means Americans are starting to think about… pullover, cardigan or vest? We’re talking tacky Christmas sweaters, of course. And Goodwill is always the first store people think of to find the best selection at bargain prices. With that in mind, Goodwill has launched a tacky […]
Diana Wortham Theatre announces the Y.E.S. Emerging Artists Fund
Press release: The Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Asheville announces the Y.E.S. Emerging Artists Fund, a new program to support young performers by providing scholarships for graduating high school seniors pursuing a career in the performing arts. A limited number of Emerging Artists Fund scholarships beginning at $1,000 each will be awarded to finalists during […]