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North Carolina’s International Folk Festival Folkmoot is a ten-day event featuring more than 200 international performers from ten countries with performances in 12 Western North Carolina communities. Folkmoot performers are primarily college students who are acting as cultural ambassadors for their home countries. In 2015, Folkmoot is expecting musicians andContinue Reading

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Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site has launched into a fun summer season of theater, farm life demonstrations, and historic walks. Now until August 8, 2015 there is something new to see or do at Connemara. Wednesday through Saturday mornings at 10:15 a.m., the amphitheater adjacent to the Sandburg HomeContinue Reading

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by Pat Barcas – There is to be no more summer vacation for the Asheville Lyric Opera. 2015 will be the first official year of the group’s season being a year-round calendar model, with summer performances of Rigoletto kicking off at the Brevard Music Center and the Diana Wortham Theatre.Continue Reading

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at Asheville Community Theatre The New Yorker called this show “more fun than a chair-throwing episode of Jerry Springer set to music.” The New York Post added that it was “undeniable fun!” The Great American Trailer Park Musical is a wheel-spinning, mud-splattering good time of a musical that’s good-natured –Continue Reading

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HART’s third show this season is the outrageous musical comedy Nunsense. Directed by Suzanne Tinsley and featuring some local favorites, Nunsense includes Leslie Lang, Lyn Donley, Karen Covington, Tabitha Judy, and Lea Parker. The show opened off Broadway in 1985 and holds the record as the second longest off-Broadway showContinue Reading

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Now through May 10, 2015 HART presents a comedy which many consider Neil Simon’s masterpiece. The autobiographical play is set in the 1930s and the action is seen through the eyes of young Eugene Morris Jerome. The play is one of the funniest and most touching of all of theContinue Reading

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Fourth Annual Benefit Concert Founded in 2011, the Asheville Young Musicians Club will present its fourth annual benefit concert Sunday, May 31, 2015 at 3 p.m. at Bent Creek Baptist Church in Asheville. The program is co-sponsored by the Asheville Chamber Music Series and the Asheville Area Piano Forum. AYMCContinue Reading

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The Front Porch Theater at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts presents a production of Steel Magnolias. Written by Robert Harling and directed by Stuart Williams, DDS, the performance is scheduled to coincide with Mother’s Day weekend. “This is the perfect show to round out our second season andContinue Reading