Join us on the market this Saturday, October 26th, from 11 to 2, for some Halloween fun! Bring the kiddos down for an afternoon of seasonal memories with trick-or-treating, live music with Cosmic Cowboy Ernest Wince and Andrew Logan Hensley, food and treats, and a market hay ride down to our pumpkin pad where vendors are stocked with a beautiful array of pumpkins for carving, decorating, and baking!
Free Barn Dance & Volunteer Fair
@ Hickory Nut Gap Farm Fairview
– Free Live music 1pm-5pm and dancing with local youth band the Lucky Buckeyes & our favorite square dance squallers, the Old Charlotte Highwaymen. – Cretaceously craveable eats by Grush’s Cajun Dino Grill. – Beer proceeds will go to ASAP Farmers’ Emergency Relief Fund. – We will have a Funding Wall, full of posters with QR codes linking attendees directly to organizations, local businesses, families and friends who need our community’s financial help to stay afloat and rebuild. – Local pumpkins, squash, apples, fresh pressed cider and seasonal offerings are back! – Hay Rides & Pony rides 11am-4pm, proceeds benefit Project HNG!
We will be hosting an ongoing Volunteer Fair for all of you wonderful non-profits, local farms and gardens, community-organized groups, local businesses-turned-emergency-community-hubs, and more. We hear you have the resources, you just need the helping hand. Please contact megan.auten@hickorynutgap.com to send a volunteer or staff member to table at this event.
Surreal Sirkus Arts Festival
@ Pack Square Park/Sly Grog Lounge
Join the Sirkus (you’ve always wanted to!) for a uniquely local experience of performance, art vendors, food, beer, spirits and more! surrealsirkus.com
Brandon Johnson & Friends
@ Owen Theatre Mars Hill
Join us this Saturday at 2:00 as we welcome Brandon Johnson & Friends for this benefit concert with proceeds going to My Sister’s Attic in Marshall, NC, to sponsor more community meals at Smokin’ Joe Lasher’s, and to make it possible tor SART to continue these fundraisers. Event Details and Tickets
Live Music w/ Kid Billy (Billy Litz)
@ Mills River Brewing Co.
Come meet your neighbors!
We’ll be providing the chili, cornbread and fixings! You bring the stories!
Live Music from 4-7pm. Don’t miss Ranford Almond’s raspy fresh vocals and Appalachian strings. Reminiscent of John Prine and Townes Van Zandt, young singer/songwriter Ranford Almond will amaze you with his old soul.
Nobody’s Darling String Band is a group of five ladies who are seasoned Old Time musicians, that play lively Mountain Music every Saturday from 4 to 6 at Jack of the Wood. A fiddle, guitars, standup bass and banjo uke round out this engaging and energetic group, playing in the traditional style of Appalachian roots music.
Jack Of The Wood is still a downtown hot spot for food, brews and drink since 1997 and founders Joan and Joe Eckert who still own it, have maintained the original lively English and Irish vibe. The old-time mountain and Irish music jams continue, including a hot bluegrass jam Thursdays and brunch every Sunday. The venue extends a welcoming feeling to regulars and newcomers to this day. https://jackofthewood.com/
Folk/Americana/Mountain – Emily Martin and her band is a blend of intrepid lyrics and modern folk-mountain sound.
$10 SUGGESTED donation at the door. In the aftermath of Helene, we are not turning ANYONE away. Come and enjoy the pub, get some food, grab a drink, and have a good time!
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Hatch-O-Ween 4 HOPE with LAZRLUVR
@ Asheville Sports Club South Slope
Join us on Saturday, October 26 for Hatch-O-Ween 4 HOPE, a benefit event sponsored by Linked 4 Life supporting All Souls Counseling Center and their mission to provide mental health services for Asheville’s artists and hospitality workers.
Asheville Sports Club (137 Coxe Ave.)
6 PM onwards (21+ only)
Live music by Lazrluvr – your favorite ’80s tribute band, 7–10 PM!
Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ Food Truck
Drink specials and plenty of Halloween fun
Costumes are highly encouraged
Suggested donation: $5 at the door. All funds raised will go toward supporting mental health services for Asheville’s artists and hospitality workers
Sponsored by Linked4Life & in partnership with Hatchworks Coworking Asheville– let’s come together for a night of fun, and hope.
Burnt Reputation is a ROCK band from Asheville that plays an eclectic mix of rock music from 90’s grunge era, 80’s Pop covers, Classic Rock, Mash-ups ORIGINALS and more! No Cover.
Shiloh & Gaines – Your neighborhood bar……no matter where you live.
Coffee ~ Spirits ~ Pool ~ Darts ~ Live Music ~ Dog Friendly ~ Karaoke ~ Open Mic Night & More! Find our music schedule and more at shilohandgaines.com
Colossal Human Failure, East Ritual and Sunny Govan Trio Quartet
@ 27 Club Asheville
Her five-foot stature belies a powerful voice that continues to “wow” patrons of all ages, as does her eclectic mix of songs that remind audiences of the old ones they have forgotten, while putting a unique twist on the new ones of today.
Paul DeCirce’s Always Dead (PDAD)
@ Highland Brewing Company
Stop in for the pub’s long running Traditional Irish Session each Sunday afternoon beginning around 3:30pm. Many talented local musicians come from WNC to jam away into the night – all on our pub stage! Sunday is a perfect day to enjoy a pint or afternoon Irish coffee! Slaínte!
Jack Of The Wood is still a downtown hot spot for food, brews and drink since 1997 and founders Joan and Joe Eckert who still own it, have maintained the original lively English and Irish vibe. The old-time mountain and Irish music jams continue, including a hot bluegrass jam Thursdays and brunch every Sunday. The venue extends a welcoming feeling to regulars and newcomers to this day. https://jackofthewood.com/
Busy Weather // tinyTVs // On The Block
@ Haywood Country Club
We’re so friggin stoked to be rocking out with our friends @tinytvs and @ontheblocknc this Sunday! It’s FREE, it’s Bill’s Birthday, and definitely something we all need! Album release show, cathartic release show, let’s go!
IAMAVL Music Industry Benefit Jam
@ The Mule at Devil's Foot Beverage Co.
Old Sap: Fast, old-timey clawhammer meets modern song styles and finger-picked compositions to tell stories of loss, of finding joy in adventure and uncertainty, and of learning to bear life’s ugliness with grace and a sense of humor.
Free Burgers and Blues ft. Melissa McKinney and the Smashville Food Truck
@ Mountain Fly Outfitters Canton
Free Burgers and Blues with live music from Melissa Mckinney and special guests Jack Mascari & Doug McElvey. Free Burgers start at 4:00 pm untill gone. Music from 5-7.
Join us for an incredible night of haunted surf rock, spellbinding jazz rock, and spooky tiki drinks. Come in costume or dressed to catch a wave- the Monster Wave ft. Adrianne Blanks & The Oracles.
Come out this Sunday for some dark gritty spooky live music with The Amatory Murder on tour from NYC with support from Hellfire 76 from CLT and local synth rocker BRUSCHETTA DELOREAN
FREE SHOW!! DONATIONS ENCOURAGED!! ALL AGES PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED 1pm – 4pm DAILY
The Grey Eagle is proud to be the new home of the Sweet Relief Concert Series offering FREE MUSIC for the people of Asheville on our outdoor patio stage EVERYDAY from 1-4pm. The Grey Eagle Taqueria and bar will be open.
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PATIO: Hayley Renae w/ Miguel Schwiderke
@ The Grey Eagle
FREE SHOW!! DONATIONS ENCOURAGED!! ALL AGES PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED 1pm – 4pm DAILY
The Grey Eagle is proud to be the new home of the Sweet Relief Concert Series offering FREE MUSIC for the people of Asheville on our outdoor patio stage EVERYDAY from 1-4pm. The Grey Eagle Taqueria and bar will be open.
Every Tuesday, savor experimental Musica Universalis, focused primarily on the group’s original writing and sonic explorations. These aural wayfarers fear no boundary.
FREE SHOW!! DONATIONS ENCOURAGED!! ALL AGES PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED 1pm – 4pm DAILY
The Grey Eagle is proud to be the new home of the Sweet Relief Concert Series offering FREE MUSIC for the people of Asheville on our outdoor patio stage EVERYDAY from 1-4pm. The Grey Eagle Taqueria and bar will be open.
Hey y’all! Come grab some dinner & a pint and enjoy some of our best local musicians playing at our long-running old-time jam! 5-9pm every Wednesday @jackofthewood $1.00 off all Jameson, too!
Jack Of The Wood is still a downtown hot spot for food, brews and drink since 1997 and founders Joan and Joe Eckert who still own it, have maintained the original lively English and Irish vibe. The old-time mountain and Irish music jams continue, including a hot bluegrass jam Thursdays and brunch every Sunday. The venue extends a welcoming feeling to regulars and newcomers to this day. https://jackofthewood.com/
Minør – Music by Asheville Music School
@ One World Brewing - West
Pre-Halloween show with Minør! Support youth music education, local music, and local venues. Asheville Music School rock band Minør is an advanced group for middle/high schoolers.
Original one-man-band, american roots, singer songwriter. An American roots musician, Jay has hundreds of original songs in his repertoire. (outside show, weather dependent)
The Swannanoa Grassroots Alliance is a collaboration of neighbors, local nonprofits, businesses, and churches actively working to inform the community and support relief, recovery, and rebuilding efforts in the Swannanoa Valley.
FREE SHOW!! DONATIONS ENCOURAGED!! ALL AGES PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED 1pm – 4pm DAILY
The Grey Eagle is proud to be the new home of the Sweet Relief Concert Series offering FREE MUSIC for the people of Asheville on our outdoor patio stage EVERYDAY from 1-4pm. The Grey Eagle Taqueria and bar will be open.
We are helping our friends @daytrip.avl throw a party in the RAD to lift their spirits!
Join us Thursday, October 31st – “Trick or treat yo’ self.”
Expect: Live music, @devilsfootbrew sodas, DJ, Costume Contest and Dance Party between @theradbrewco and @anocheasheville , Kids Trunk or Treat and Pumpkin Painting in the field at @allsoulspizza 4-7.
The baddest ghouls in town @djlilmeowmeow and @highlarrious will be on entertainment
Trunk or Treating with the Pubsters
@ Cultivated Cocktails Distillery & Tavern
Please join us for some much needed scary shenanigans and fun with live music by My Magnificent Nemesis, Chris Cooper Quartet, and costume contest hosted by Pablo Falbru with $100 cash & Leilo prizes! Bring supplies to donate to our hurricane relief supply center or take something home.
ELEVATED KAVA LOUNGE WEST IS HOSTING THIS FUNDRAISING EVENT ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT.
WEAR A COSTUME AND BE PREPARED TO DANCE.
ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE CONCERT AND TATTOO RAFFLE WILL GO TOWARDS RAD FLOOD RELIEF (RADA).
Velvet Truckstop + Woody Wood & Hollywood Red w/ Ashley Heath & Sons of Ralph
@ The Grey Eagle
Come gather around for some true and original honky tonk music. Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms are known to roots music fans across the globe for their soulful harmonies, driving dance tunes, classic original songs, and commitment to the raw truth of rural American music.
8:00 Show time. $15.00 Advance tickets (call 828-254-6453) / $18.00 day of show.
Firecracker Jazz Band Halloween show
@ The Double Crown
Firecracker Jazz Band is an explosive, fun-soaked, experience. The band revitalizes traditional jazz with unbounded energy and makes jazz the people’s music once again. With jubilance and vigor paying homage to the pioneers of early 20th century jazz, including that of dixieland and New Orleans, Firecracker Jazz Band carries the still-burning torch that was once lit by such greats as Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke and other heroes of pre-war jazz music. $10
Swingin’ Samhain featuring Queen Bee & the Honeylovers
@ Crow and Quill
Queen Bee and the Honeylovers is classic swing band based in Asheville, NC. Their music takes inspiration from the hot club and small combo sounds of the 1930’s and 40’s.
The New Mastersounds w/ Datrian Johnson & The Rising River Band
@ Asheville Music Hall
Your favorite Waits boys are back and ready to cut the rug at Westville Pub! Come see an inebriated, yet thoroughly entertaining, tribute to the one and only, Tom Waits! $5 cover
White Oak Splits
@ Town Pump Tavern Black Mountain
Zapato is an instrumental Jazz/Funk trio composed of various musicians from several bands in the blossoming music scene in Asheville, NC. Staying in the tradition of Jazz the group utilizes the new modern classics.
Asheville Sports Club (137 Coxe Ave.)
6 PM onwards (21+ only)
Live music by Lazrluvr – your favorite ’80s tribute band, 7–10 PM!
Bear’s Smokehouse BBQ Food Truck
Drink specials and plenty of Halloween fun
Costumes are highly encouraged
$1.00 off all Jameson, too! 
Join us Thursday, October 31st – “Trick or treat yo’ self.”
The baddest ghouls in town @djlilmeowmeow and @highlarrious will be on entertainment
