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Around Town: Exhibit to feature Asheville artist’s sky paintings
Asheville artist Jenny Kiehn’s work will be featured in an exhibit at Covenant Community Church. Plus, Story Parlor celebrates its first anniversary, Downtown After 5 kicks off its 35th season and Juniper Bends returns after a COVID-related absence.
Letter: How to reduce more waste at Downtown After 5
“We think that with some basic education, the cups can end up in the right place so they get composted.”
VIDEO PREMIERE: “Brighter Than One” by Travers Brothership
The Asheville-based soul/rock quartet believe that the song’s “message of togetherness and love” is especially relevant in 2020.
Musician April Bennett gets creative in finding her ‘new normal’
Instead of a packed house, musician April Bennett and local hip-hop band Lyric played to a nearly empty space at the Orange Peel for the May 15 livestream of Downtown After 5. “It was definitely weird playing in one of the biggest rooms in the city with no people in it except for the staff who were recording it,” she remarks with a laugh. “But I was really glad for that [opportunity]. It was definitely a much-needed morale boost during these crazy, crazy times.”
Smart Bets: Lyric and April B. & The Cool
Downtown After 5 goes digital to kick off its 2020 concert series with a pair of local bands.
Southern Avenue returns to Asheville for Downtown After 5
Southern Avenue formed after Ori Naftaly, who had a successful solo career in his native Israel, came to the U.S. to participate in the International Blues Challenge.
The Downtown After 5 concert series celebrates a major anniversary
Friday, May 18, the 30th annual Downtown After 5 concert series launches with an especially localcentric show: Asheville All-Stars, a super-group comprised of a rotating cast of Asheville’s favorite singers and musicians.
Asheville All Stars play fourth consecutive Downtown After 5
After the fourth annual showcase on Aug. 19, over 75 musicians will have represented their city as an Asheville All Star.
Smart bets: Jeff Thompson Giving Trio
The Jeff Thompson Giving Trio, which draws on the additional talents of keys player Aaron Price and drummer James Kylen, plays The Grey Eagle on Saturday, Jul 16.
30 Days Out: a look at upcoming concerts
This week’s roundup includes Buckethead, Susto, Cha Wa and Shantih Shantih.
Smart bets: The Suffers
Local band Holy Ghost Tent Revival opens for the Suffers at Downtown After 5 — a free street festival held on Lexington Avenue — on Friday, Sept. 18, at 5 p.m.
Stage sights: Local concert highlights from July 2015
Relive concerts by Jim Lauderdale, World Party, JJ Grey & Mofro, Toubab Krewe, Acoustic Syndicate, Robert Earl Keen, Downtown After 5, Transputer, Slayer and more.
VIDEO: Bayou Diesel performs at Downtown After 5
Local cajun-zydeco band Bayou Diesel kicked off the 2015 Downtown After 5 concert series, opening for C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band. Here’s a tune from the opening set: “Co Fa – I Need Your Love”
Xpress Playlist: Love lost and found
These are not your ordinary love songs. And some aren’t actually love songs at all — Malcolm Holcombe’s “Pitiful Blues,” EDJ’s “For the Boy Who Moved Away” — but the emotions still apply. On this week’s playlist: • “When You Were Mine” by local rockers Posh Hammer. • “Pitiful Blues,” the title track from the new album […]
Five o’clock world
Fridays are worthy of celebration in any week. The daily grind gives way to the wide-open window of the weekend and, in warm-weather months, downtown Asheville’s streets take on a festive atmosphere of buskers, shoppers and diners claiming patio seating. So Downtown After 5 — held the third Friday of each month, May-Sept. — capitalizes on what’s already a party-in-the-making.
Downtown Association announces Downtown After 5 summer lineup at kickoff party at The Orange Peel
At a kickoff party at The Orange Peel, the Asheville Downtown Association announced the summer 2014 lineup for the Downtown After 5 music series, followed by an electrifying performance from Empire Strikes Brass.
Earth Day on pavement?
If anyone questions the validity of the Huffington Post's recent article regarding the fluff which fuels Asheville's reputation, then you should look no further than the absolutely preposterous Earth Day celebration which was auspiciously sited on the rolling , um, pavement of Lexington Avenue. Yeah, that’s right: an Earth Day celebration on pavement. Had the […]
It was a blue night for a gray DTA5
Two local bluegrass faves warmed up the crowd at a gray and chilly Downtown After 5 on Friday, Sept. 16.
Videos: Cedric Burnside and Lubriphonic at DTA5
Cedric Burnside, filling in at the last minute for the Lee Boys, played to the revelers at Downtown After 5. Lubriphonic was first up. At the end of the evening, they all played together. Jesse Hamm caught it all.
Cedric Burnside Project replaces The Lee Boys for this Friday’s DTA5
A death in The Lee Boys’ family forced the cancellation of the band’s headlining appearance at Downtown After 5 on Aug. 19. Cedric Burnside Project will take the stage instead.