The Terrain Biennial originated in 2011 as a fun way to actively engage the local artistic community in the Oak Park Neighborhood of Chicago. This year it expands to 12 locations in four countries, including an installation in West Asheville by local artist Nora Hartlaub.
Historic Biltmore Village is currently accepting submissions for brochure cover art. The winning artist’s work will be featured on 60,000 brochures a year. The prize package also includes $250 cash, one night stay at the DoubleTree Biltmore Hilton Hotel, and gift certificates from local businesses. Press release from contest organizers: Calling All Artists: Historic Biltmore […]
Musicians Kinobe (from Uganda) and JaJa (from Congo) will headline this year’s MusicFest Fundraiser for Global and Rural Health event, which raises funds for MAHEC. The Saturday, Aug. 29 fundraiser’s lineup also includes Zansa, Kari Sickenberger and Vince Jr. Band. Press release from event organizers: MusicFest Fundraiser for Global and Rural Health Saturday, August 29th […]
Local blues musician Mac Arnold and his band, Plate Full O’ Blues, will perform as part if the 4th annual Bids & Blues Fundraiser on Sunday, Sept. 13. Press release from event organizers: Blues legend Mac Arnold and his band, Plate Full O’ Blues, with special guest Eric Congdon, will headline the fourth annual Bids […]
Singer-songwriter Alyn Mearns aka Yes the Raven will perform at White Horse Black Mountain on Saturday, Aug. 29. Though classically trained, Mearns says he tired of the academic world and came to the realization that pop music was a more powerful art form. And, though he uses words like “diaphanous” and “urban dreamscape” when describing […]
RiverLink’s Fall Salon Series launched on Friday, Sept. 4, with a presentation and Q&A session about local Alcohol Law Enforcement policies. A program on the Cherokees’ relationship to rivers takes place on Friday, Sept. 18. Press release from event organizers: WNC is home to an increasing number of craft brewers and an ever-expanding number of […]
Biltmore Estate announces the opening of a new exhibition, “Fashionable Romance: Wedding Gowns in Film.” The display runs Feb. 12 through July 4, 2016, and features notable wedding apparel such as a veil worn by Mary Lee Ryan Cecil and her cousin Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy. Press release from Biltmore Estate: Biltmore has been a […]
Black Mountain-based author David Madden presents his new book, The Tangled Web of the Civil War and Reconstruction: Readings and Writings from a Novelist’s Perspective, at Malaprop’s on Saturday, Sept. 5. 7 p.m. reading. Press release from the publisher: This unique collection of writings by the celebrated author David Madden provides a multitude of reflections […]
Now in its third year, Poetry Cabaret offers two nights of spoken word performance and live music. Shows are held Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 7 and 8, at The Crow & Quill. Press release from event organizers: Poetry Cabaret III throws down again—this year for two nights, September 7 and 8 at The Crow and […]
Funk-rockers The Get Right Band and folk-rockers Lovestruck Suckers share a stage at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall and 185 King Street in Brevard.
Award-winning author Pam Durban will present her new short story collection, Soon at Malaprop’s on Monday, Aug. 24, at 7 p.m. The title story was selected by John Updike for Best American Short Stories of the Century. Q+A from Durban’s publicity team: How did this terrific collection of short stories come to be published by […]
Each song on the Alex Krug Combo’s new EP, Gentle Spotted Giants, is delivered with absolute care, even as its wrung from the singer’s guts. The album is launched at a release party at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall on Saturday, Aug. 22, at 8:30 p.m.
Local troupe Lindsey Kelley Dance holds its inaugural Summer DanceFest — a curated performace — on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 28 and 29. Events take place on the second floor of the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, and is part of the Broadway Block party. Press release from the dance company: Lindsey Kelley Dance […]
The one-man play, A Life of Sorrow, the Life and Times of Carter Stanley, runs at N.C. Stage Co. from Wednesday, Aug. 12-Sunday, Aug. 16. It stars bluegrass enthusiast and historian Gary Reid. Tickets are $10, $16 and $20. Press release from N.C. Stage: Presented as a part of the Catalyst Series. He played the […]
The singer-songwriter, now based in Brooklyn, shares a video for his song “Dance with Me.”
Longtime local recording business, Collapseable Studios, announces that it has closed. Press release from studio owners: Collapseable Studios, the popular, affordable destination for local recording artists since 1997, has closed its doors at 503 Haywood Road in West Asheville as it undergoes another metamorphosis. Aaron Price and Bill Reynolds founded the initially mobile studio in […]
Les Femmes Mystique and Les Filles Charm bring back their “Hot August Nights” show for the second year. Held at Scandals on Saturday, Aug. 29, the event includes dancing, singing and a DJ. Press release from event organizers: Hot Summer Nights 2015 It’s the second annual Hot Summer Nights, and once again, you are in […]
Renowned artist William Wegman (you’ll recognize his weimaraner photos) is represented in Cubism and Other-isms, the newest exhibit at the Asheville Art Museum. The show is on view Friday, Aug. 22 to January 24, 2016, with an opening reception on Saturday, Aug. 23, 3-5 p.m. Press release from the museum: The Asheville Art Museum thrilled […]
Three or four times a year Mark and Michael Holland — offstage twins and an onstage old-time, country and blues duo — make the trip up the mountain from Carrboro to play a weekends worth of shows at Ben’s Tune Up. Upcoming dates are Friday and Saturday, Aug. 14 and 15, from 8-10 p.m., and Sunday, Aug. 16, from 2-4 p.m.
While the debut, self-titled album by keyboard and drum duo Rad Lou is certainly not meant as background music — and its songs might prove challenging to fit onto a playlist — its exuberance, energy and undeniable sense of delight in creating art makes it right at home among local releases.
Former Ashevilleans SeepeopleS returned to Asheville in March with new album The Dead Souls Sessions. Since the release of that project — the band’s first effort since Apocalypse Cow, Vol. II in 2009 — SeepeopleS has also been working on videos. Seen here, “Used,” created by Victoria Karol.
