Homeword Reignites Youth Artists by Bryan Head On Saturday, March 5, HomeWord, a local youth poetry organization, will present the second annual MatchStrike Youth Arts Showcase. MatchStrike brings together over 25 youth artists from various mediums in a gallery and concert-style showcase of local youth talent. The event will featureContinue Reading
by Anna Lee Zanetti – Celebrate the National Park Service’s Centennial and experience America’s most visited national park on guided hikes with Friends of the Smokies. View breathtaking vistas, rushing waterfalls, historic homesteads and much more tucked away in Great Smoky Mountains National Park with the 2016 Classic Hikes ofContinue Reading
by Amy Garza – In 2008, Catch the Spirit of Appalachia (CSA), a western North Carolina not-for-profit 501c3 organization, began recording Stories of Mountain Folk, a radio program that aired weekly on local radio station WRGC. When WRGC closed in September 2011, the organization teamed up with Hunter Library toContinue Reading
Call for submissions for the 9th Annual Music Video Asheville (MVA), the annual showcase to celebrate the collaboration of Asheville musicians and filmmakers. Last year, 65 local musicians and filmmakers submitted their Music Videos for consideration in this growing event. Thirty videos were selected to be shown at the screeningContinue Reading
The Curmudgeon by Peter Loewer – To most of the customers in The General Store of 2016, it was again obvious that until the coming November anything was possible. Who could possibly guess what would happen until then, including war, pestilence, treachery, treason, famine, floods, fires, the implosion of Google,Continue Reading
After completing the Asheville Area Arts Council’s Creative Business Program, new local Silversmith has a successful debut at the Big Crafty Holiday Market and East West Pop Up Shop. All in less than a year, Emma Zanetti, a local jeweler and silversmith, attended a two month metalsmithing intensive at PenlandContinue Reading
The first single, “Giving Her More” is out now. Take a listen and share! Chapell’s debut album, “The Redhead’s Allegations” will drop in March of 2016! Alan Chapell didn’t take the conventional route because, in his own words, “It never felt like the right time.” Born on the mean streetsContinue Reading
by Patty Smyers – The Arts Council of Henderson County, in collaboration with the Transylvania Community Arts Council, and the Tryon Fine Arts Center in Polk County, announces the Regional Artist Project Grantees for 2015-16. These grants are for artists who wish to further develop their professional careers through suchContinue Reading
The Curmudgeon by Peter Loewer – It was obvious that Christmas was coming to the old general store because Cityfella (who, with his wife, had fled Atlanta for the holidays) was helping Storekeep arrange a dozen or so six-foot-high Frasier firs that were there with an option for sale fromContinue Reading
