From a press release:
New Earth MUZIQ purchases Asheville Music Hall, free grand opening show Jan. 10
New Earth MUZIQ is excited to announce the recent acquisition of Asheville Music Hall. To celebrate the grand opening of New Mountain Asheville’s new sister venue, New Earth MUZIQ will host a free “Time Machine Party” with Ben Lovett at Asheville Music Hall on Saturday, January 10th.
Since opening in October 2010, Asheville Music Hall has presented a diverse array of talent including Ghostface Killah, George Porter Jr., Gift of Gab, Mark Farina, Emancipator, Blockhead, Break Science, Mobb Deep, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Mike Dillon Band, Orgone and Greensky Bluegrass. The 360-capacity venue has served an important role in the expansion of Asheville’s music scene and has played an integral part in MoogFest, Warren Haynes Christmas Jam By Day, Brown Bag Songwriting Competition and the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit. The One Stop, located directly downstairs, offers live music six nights per week and houses the newly re-vamped Mojo Kitchen restaurant.
New Earth MUZIQ has confirmed that The One Stop nightly music schedule and weekly bluegrass brunch installment will not change. Mojo Kitchen will also continue to serve up its renowned delectables. The New Earth MUZIQ team – including local resident Adrian Zelski, co-manager of Asheville’s own world-folk-soul group Rising Appalachia and partner in New Mountain Asheville and Athens, GA’s New Earth Music Hall – is excited to expand on the brand that former owner Katherine “KP” Powell has created with Asheville Music Hall. The team is pleased to announce that KP will stay on at the venue as a talent buyer for future events. New owners Adrian Zelski and the New Earth MUZIQ team aim to make Asheville Music Hall “Asheville’s Funkiest Club.”
Who: Asheville Music Hall Grand Opening featuring “Time Machine Party” hosted by Ben Lovett (spinning music from one decade per hour beginning with the 60’s)
When: Saturday, January 10, 2015
Where: Asheville Music Hall
Time: Doors 8 pm
Ages: 21 +
Tickets: FREE
AMH owner Sam Katz was ranting on FB about how New Mountain was stealing their business. How NM has increased competition… Cry me a river. Did you not move here and cut into the music biz. AMH increased competition when they opened. Other clubs were affected. That’s how it is. You don’t own Asheville, but you act like it. Now we’ll see if New Earth MUSIQ can manage to keep 2 venues open.
The new year seems to be bringing a number of changes among Asheville’s music venues — The Altamont Theatre is about to re-open, Tiger Mountain is booking some live music shows, Lazy Diamond has already hosted DJs and we’ll see what happens with The National (opening soon on Wall Street) as far as music goes. At least it’s never boring!
MUZIQ? What the hell is muziq?
Things change, pretty darn quickly in this town, and now AMH and NM are in Co-Op-etition and it’s going to be awesome.
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