Music Calendar

Frank Cassel is a lifelong, award winning, self-described “banjo man” who recently moved to Weaverville. Alongside West Asheville locals Michael Avery on mandolin and Sam Gottlieb on guitar, he’ll perform lively and engaging folk, bluegrass and original music for all audiences including kids and seniors.

Electronic Collaboration

lo-fi pop and rocknroll with Jason Krekel & Craig Kelberg

Free Show

$25.10 adv

$12

21+

Lazrluvr bandmates serenading!

WNC’s #1 Folk/Acoustic Artist

folk rock

Come listen to Americana and Modern Western music performed by Seth & Sara.

Our amazing Thursday BlueGrass jam hosted by Cast Iron Bluegrass tonight with special guest Lyndsay Pruett sitting in with us on fiddle!! Don’t miss your chance to check out some of the best pickers from all over WNC! A real show-stopping performance only at Jack of the Wood! The Bluegrass Jam will start after the host band at 8:30. Pickers bring your instruments! Enjoy $1 OFF all our bourbons every Thursday

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/

blues/alt-folk

Blues, Rock n Roll & Soul Music, sure to make you move! ​Funky but chic SINCE 2012

Free donation based

Every Thursday!!

Thursday night karaoke with Terraoke.
See ya tonight.

Come on out and enjoy some music with our house DJ. Til 1am on Friday & Saturday

Join us for an epic night of live music on Friday, October 25, 2024, at One World Brewing West, celebrating the strength and resourcefulness of the people of Appalachia, those helping us rebuild, honoring those we’ve lost, and sharing hope for those who are still unaccounted for.

Headlined by the legendary go-go band Pump Blenders out of D.C., this party for a good cause will feature performances by local favorites Reggie Headen, Datrian Johnson, E’Lon JD, and Mike Martinez’s Big Blue.

Blue Note Junction is an inclusive, healing, educational, and entrepreneurial hub that will not only support the health and wealth of the local BIPOC community but also promote the spiritual, emotional, and economic health and sustainability of the entire city. By attending this event, you’ll be supporting local musicians, makers, and business owners and ensuring the resilience of the community for years to come. Admission is donation-based.

Enjoy authentic Blues music from Mr Jimmy while imbibing in the friendly atmosphere of the The Station.

folk-rock

Ashley Heath continues winning over Americana lovers’ hearts with her voice of “velvet soul,” driving her career forward and playing music full-time since spring of 2015.

Suggested $5-$10 Donation

reggae, funk, and jam

No Cover!

Come on out for this extravaganza! The Tokes Brothers play all your favorite Retro-Americana and Cosmic-Country tunes!

With an extensive selection of Beer, Cider, Seltzer, & Hard Sweet Tea on Tap, our Mills River location also offers a full liquor bar, cocktail list, wines and non-alcoholic options plus a full kitchen! See what’s on tap and more at amb.beer/mills-river

Leeda “Lyric” Jones, best known as Lyric is a singer-songwriter, musician, and music teacher. She is a Western North Carolina favorite and holds several Mountain Xpress “best of” awards including, but not limited to: best funk band,best vocalist, best lyricist, best r&b/soul, best singer-songwriter, all around favorite band and band that gives back to the community.

Come on out to hear some dazzlingly diverse songs, all played at your request! That’s right, you pick ’em and I perform ’em live!

Don’t miss Parker Zelter and Friends bring High Energy Americana/Bluegrass Jams to the stage at The Mule.

Pizza and live music!

Greg Speas will be hosting another Open Mic night. Come on in and enjoy some wonderful local talent.

4th Annual Cellar Fest.

Chasen Wayne is keeping the Texas music scene thriving, both as a phenomenal Singer-songwriter, and as a vocalist that hearkens back to the classic country days of Merle, Waylon, and Willie. With clever ever-engaging songs and a boot-stomping band behind him, Chasen Wayne & The Honky Tonk Machine are a band you won’t want to miss.

$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!

A groovy blend of funky roots and bluesy Americana. 

classic rock, blues and boogie

Duo show w/ Old Sap

“Lake doesn’t need to hide behind a microphone with her big bold ragtime jazz voice. It is something that singles out the leaders of a revival, their gifts revitalize the source, and that is what you hear all the way through” – Spiral Earth 

Asheville’s tried and true blue cover band. No cover.

$20 – $25

Pay what you can. A Benefit Show For Hurricane Relief

New Orleans Party Jazz

$10 cover

Iggy Radio’s latest and greatest rock, pop, and jazz will be on display for a live show! Guitar guy, looping wizard!!!

Sports and sushi. Music and trivia. Friends and rivals. At MUDPUPPIES, we bring so many different things to the table. But it’s the way we do it that makes them all just a little better. Great service, friendly fans, and a welcoming atmosphere turn games into get-togethers and competitors into comrades. mudpuppiesavl.com/

$10 cover at the door.

TICKETS: ADV $15 / DOS $20 // 21+

$

Honky Tonk

Free

ADVANCED: $20.21

$5 Suggested Donation at the Door
21+

Music to groove to while shopping for local goods.

Join us for a benefit event at The Mule at Devil’s Foot Beverage on Saturday, October 26, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.. This pop-up, for our Asheville-area friends, is a gathering in support of artists who are serving their communities. Artists are paid from the LEAF Artist Relief Fund. Join us for family-friendly events all day: live music on two stages, Easel Rider, dance, instrument petting zoo, vendors, LEAF Love, and more. By donation at the door.

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 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.

Come join us at The Apocalypse Parlor, celebrating the unity our communities used to help ourselves survive and recover. There will be live local bands all day & night, ending with an open jam. There will be food, tea, coffee, a kids tent, axe throwing, bonfires, sooty & singe fire spinners, a free store, and an open jam at the end of the night; All donation-based.

Join the Sirkus (you’ve always wanted to!) for a uniquely local experience of performance, art vendors, food, beer, spirits and more! surrealsirkus.com

Ka-pow is the culmination of years of exploration into, jazz, funk, blues, soul and anything else that makes listeners wanna jump out of their seats and dance!

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

One-Man-Band trumpet, keys, harmonica, guitar, americana/blues/soul/ragtime.

$19.45 adv

groovy soul, rock n roll

4th Annual Cellar Fest

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.

Plenty of patio seating, so bring the pups.

Enjoy authentic Blues music from Mr Jimmy.

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/

Riyen Roots and Kenny Dore are keeping the blues alive……One show at a time!! Blues Soul Roots Music From The Carolina Mountains.

Asheville-based indie soul band

This new side project from Skunk Ruckus frontman, Jim McCarthy, will be bringing lots of Hillbilly Gut Rock and Backwoods Blues.