‘We haven’t really seen any widespread emergence of the periodical cicada so far, but we think it’s really going to be isolated to very small areas in southern Buncombe and around the Arden area and in Fairview,” says Owen.
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Q+A with Pritchard Park Songwriter Series artist Maddie Shuler
Shuler will perform as a soloist on Thursday, July 12.
Q+A with Pritchard Park Songwriter Series artist Stevie Lee Combs
Combs will perform a solo set on Thursday, June 28.
Q+A with Pritchard Park Songwriter Series artist April Bennett
April B. and The Cool performs as part of the local series on Thursday, June 21.
Q+A with Pritchard Park Songwriter Series artist Carly Taich
Taich performs as part of the free programming on Thursday, June 14.
On the road again: A Q&A with author John Grisham
In conjunction with the release of his new book, Grisham has taken to the road for the first time in 25 years, making appearances at independent bookstores from Vermont to Tennessee. Xpress caught up with the prolific author during his stop at Malaprop’s.
Q+A with Arouna Diarra & The AZA Band
Diarra is a n’goni & balafon player from Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso in West Africa. He’s been in Asheville for nearly five years and has fronted West African groups Mande Foly and now The AZA Band with multi-instrumentalist Biko Cassini and percussionist Jessie Lehmann.
Q+A with Third World
The reggae band is currently at work on a forthcoming album with producer Damien Marley. Though Third World is not touring, the group made an appearance at fall LEAF on Saturday night.
Q+A with LEAF performer Jimbo Mathus of Squirrel Nut Zippers
“I have been fortunate enough to recruit among the best of the best musicians and entertainers from the Southeast, particularly New Orleans,” says Jimbo Mathus. “The new show is a realization of all of the potential that lay in the material that we wrote and performed 20 years ago. It is truly a dream come true.”
Q+A with JJ Grey, who returns to Pisgah Brewing Co. on Aug. 19
“I love playing Asheville. … The audience there is into it in a way I wish I could take as a training video to train audiences in other parts of the country.”
5 questions with The Slocan Ramblers
The quartet played Merlefest and then took the month of May to tour around North Carolina. The musicians make a stop at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall, hosting a bluegrass session, on Tuesday, May 24.
5 questions with Hiroya Tsukamoto
The musician, who is currently based in New York, where he performs with his band Interoceanico, makes a stop at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall on Thursday, March 10. He’ll play an intimate set in the venue’s upstairs lounge. In advance, he talked to Xpress about his move to the U.S., his global influences and his newest project.
Q+A with Lindsay Starck, author of ‘Noah’s Wife’
Chapel Hill-based author Lindsay Starck took on epic subject matter for her debut novel: The biblical story of Noah. But rather than the ark building it’s his spouse who captured Starck’s imagination.
5 questions with Anthony D’Amato
While currently working on a follow-up to 2014’s The Shipwreck From The Shore, D’Amato is also on tour and will make a stop at The Grey Eagle Friday, Nov. 13. David Wax Museum headlines.
5 (or more) questions with The Bright Light Social Hour
“I like to put a song on repeat in headphones and fall asleep, Dalí-style, in a chair, with a spoon in my hand.” Bassist Jack O’Brien talks about the Austin-based band’s approach to videos, open communication and creating innovation music.
6 Questions with LEAF performers California Honeydrops
“The California Honeydrops don’t just play music—they throw parties,” says the website for the San Francisco Bay area band. The group performs on The Lakeside Stage Friday, Oct. 16, at 6:15 p.m. and in Eden Hall, at 9:15 p.m.
Meet LEAF performers The Faerie Kin
Asheville-based performance troupe The Faerie Kin is a collective of “of enchanted stiltwalkers and merry elves.” They roam throughout LEAF all weekend and perform at Elfhaven Village and the Roots Family Stage.
8 Questions with LEAF performers The Revivalists
Rock and soul band The Revivalists are based in New Orleans. The group, led by vocalist David Shaw, formed in 2007, and recently released its latest studio album, Men Amongst Mountains, which seems fitting considering this festival’s concept.
5 Questions with LEAF performer Jeff Thompson
In advance of this season’s LEAF, the 41st bi-annual iteration of the festival, we’re talking to performing artists from the LEAF lineup about the festival’s New Orleans-meets-Western North Carolina theme. Local singer-songwriter Jeff Thompson talks about his NOLA roots.
Nine questions with The Walking Guys
The Walking Guys is a collaboration of four Nashville-based musicians on a 1,600-mile tour, on foot, from Portland, Me. back to Tennessee. They will perform at The Root Bar Saturday, Oct. 3, and at The Town Pump Monday, Oct. 5.
Five (or more) questions with Eilen Jewell
Singer-songwriter Eilen Jewell grew up in Boise but lived in Santa Fe, L.A. and Boston, and toured the Canada, Europe and Australia before settling back in Idaho. Her new album, Sundown Over Ghost Town, was largely inspired by that return. Jewell and her band play The Grey Eagle on Wednesday, Sept. 16.