Brewgrass Festival is proud to announce its 20th anniversary event will feature The Travelin’ McCourys with special guest Peter Rowan and additional performances the Jon Stickley Trio and Bobby Miller and the Virginia Daredevils. The festival will return to Memorial Stadium in downtown Asheville, NC on Saturday, September 17th, 2016,Continue Reading
Attention All Artists! Exhibition Opportunity: Bring Us Your Best Our Annual Juried Exhibit August 20 through September 15, 2016 Bring work in August 18 from 4 to 6 THEME: Bring us your best work for this special exhibit. Look at some something from a different perspective, use your medium in a new way, pushContinue Reading
In a single night—graduation night—Thomas has to decide: do what everyone has always expected of him, or forge an entirely new path? Bryan Bliss’s absorbing examination of one boy struggling with expectations and realities will appeal to readers of Sara Zarr and Chris Crutcher. Thomas is supposedContinue Reading
In my ongoing efforts to stay current with the many releases that cross my desk I’ll again try to keep my comments to around 150 words or less. So much music and so little space to cover it all! Neil Young + Promise of the Real ‘Earth’ Reprise Records Continue Reading
Debut novelist Adam O’Fallon Price, whose previously published stories have appeared in The Paris Review, Glimmer Train, EPOCH, and Narrative, arrives this summer with The Grand Tour (Doubleday; August 9, 2016; $26.95) — a cinematic, darkly comic road novel about two deeply flawed characters whose struggles with thwartedContinue Reading
A Rash of Stories – A benefit performance to raise funds for the Haywood Street Congregation’s Downtown Table, Next at NC Stage A Rash of Stories, adapted from Ron Rash’s prize-winning stories, will be presented by Barbara Bates Smith and musical accompanist Jeff Sebens at North Carolina Stage CompanyContinue Reading
Pan Harmonia Season 17 World Class Chamber Music • Authentic • Local Pan Harmonia, Asheville’s own chamber music company, offers a mosaic of concerts, educational residencies and community outreach. We love bringing our signature mix of chamber music masterpieces and new works to as many listeners as possible through informalContinue Reading
Smokin’ Rodz in the Smokies Polish the chrome, buff up the paint, and get those hot rods ready to roll!! On August 12-13, 2016, The Vintage Street Rodders of America will be showing off the finest 1948 and older street rods and customs at the “Smokin’ Rodz in the Smokies”Continue Reading
Appalachian Summer Theater Series at UNC Asheville’s OLLI to Premiere Barbara Bates Smith’s One-Woman Show, Aug. 7 The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UNC Asheville will present the premiere performance of A Lee Smith Patchwork, a one-woman show by Barbara Bates Smith, at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 7 in theContinue Reading
