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Nov
25
Mon
Join us for Monday night karaoke! Show starts at 7, with your host and kj Marc Keller.
We are going to keep our Strictly Bluegrass Jam with Host Branson Raines going. Every Monday night at 7:00 p.m. at the historic Methodist Church in the Walnut Community. The address is 15 Barnard Road, Marshall, NC. All Bluegrass lovers, listeners, pickers are welcome to join us to play, sing and fellowship. The strongest thing we will have to drink is Coffee! There is no charge, we will keep the music free!don’t let us Down now, come on down.
The Acoustic Jam will continue on Thursday nights at 7:00 p.m. at the Church as well. Calvin Parham and Logan Clark will host the Jam.
Hosted by Sam Wharton. Come pick!
MR JIMMY is the solo project of Blues guitarist & vocalist Jim “Ang” Anderson, who has fronted The Chicago Kingsnakes for the past 35 years. Blue Monday at the Joint next door started as a solo Blues show with Mr Jimmy and has evolved into a Jam Session of sorts. Jimmy is joined with different musical cohorts every week.
Every Monday Night! Sign up at 6:30, music at 7:15! Come on down tonight to get a taste of some great neighborhood music. P.S. No Wagon Wheel! Host Taylor Martin and Friends.
Asheville-based troubadour Ben Balmer bringing special guests & showcasing his wide range of vocals, his exceptional guitar & killer harmonica.
Come on out and enjoy some music with our house DJ. Til 1am on Friday & Saturday
Nov
26
Tue
We hope you enjoy our guide to the Asheville area’s dynamic music scene.
If we somehow help to brighten up your day, please consider a $5 donation to help support our efforts in providing the area’s most complete local music calendar.
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This Tuesday please come out for my Curated Fourth Tuesday series (in place of my open mic/regular open mic will be 2nd Tuesdays).
We have one of the best food trucks in town for Tuesday! Delish delishfoodtrucknc serves up delicious Venezuelan cuisine. If you’ve never had one of their arepas, you are missing out! Here’s the event:
7:00 Tuesday 11/26
Grammy nominated singer/songwriter/guitarist
Darren NicholsonAsheville’s Velvet Soul Sweetheart
Ashley HeathThe dude with the most pure bonafide country voice in these here parts
…Jason Curtis
and WORLD CLASS dobro player
Tommy Maher of
Fireside Collective!
Expect some collabs and 3 part harmonies! I’ll be hosting and harmonizing as usual.
$10 suggested donation at the door. Pay what you can whether that be more or less. It all goes to these fine musicians!
1) Perform an internet search for the key words that music loving visitors use, i.e. “Asheville live music” or “live music Asheville”. See which site populates.
2) Promote your gigs on that site.
Hope That Helps!!!
P.S. (Ask about the discounted “Recovery Rates” for our LOOK HERE featured listings available through December!)
Winter Lights is a spectacular open-air walk-through light show made from over one million lights! Located at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville, North Carolina, this year’s event features favorites like the famously tall 50-foot lighted tree and the Quilt Garden, along with enchanting new details designed to delight and surprise. Live Music Nightly!!! Event Information and Tickets
Join us for an unforgettable evening of music, culture, and community at A LEAFy Friendsgiving, a special fundraiser concert benefiting LEAF Global Arts, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering global arts education and cultural exchange. This heartwarming event will take place just before Thanksgiving, bringing people together to celebrate the spirit of giving and the power of the arts.
Tuesday, November 26, 5:30pm doors / 6:30pm show.
$22 advance and $25 day of show.
The highlight of the evening will be a performance by the LEAF Kono Band, a vibrant ensemble of resident teaching artists from LEAF Global.
We are deadicated to bringing you all things Grateful Dead and related.
Tuesdays are back baby! Grateful Family Band serving up your favorite Dead tunes.
$5 – $10 Suggested Donation
Family Friendly
See you out there!
Real Live Jazz – No Cover
Every Tuesday, savor experimental Musica Universalis, focused primarily on the group’s original writing and sonic explorations. These aural wayfarers fear no boundary.
Mudpuppies and Mojo Sound Production presents Open Mic 🎙️
We need to support our local Music more than ever.
Join our host for November, the very talented Hope Griffin, and let’s keep the music alive in WNC.
Bring your instrument and take the stage solo or with other local talent. If you’re a music enthusiast, enjoy the show.
Sign Up Starts at 6:30.
On Tuesday, we feature amazing specials:
Buy-One, Get-One Free Appetizers &
1/2 OFF Bottles of Wines.
We hope we see you there
Hot Jazz ~ Standards (Great American Songbook) ~ Swing
We provide full backline–drum kit, amps, piano, keys, and PA with mics/inputs. The jam is hosted by Chris Cooper and Friends, who play for the first half hour or so, and then the jam opens up.
Come on out and enjoy some music with our house DJ. Til 1am on Friday & Saturday
(musicians, comedians, dancers, poets, storytellers)
$10 Suggested Donation at the Door (Cash or Venmo accepted, think tip jar, goes 100% to musicians!)
Nov
27
Wed
Asheville’s music scene is born of age-old traditions, nurtured by a spirit of independence and the muse of the mountain landscape. Here you’ll find our rhythm is proudly rooted in old-time mountain music, but it’s our full spectrum of innovative musicians who truly define our sound. Asheville offers a lively, and perhaps unexpected, experience for the musically-minded traveler.
Through the Bring Back the Heartbeat campaign, IamAVL is partnering with local venues and establishments to offset their costs to get our musicians back to work. Independent Arts and Music is a 501(c)3, so donations can be tax deductible. iamavl.com/music-industry-relief-fund
Our mission is to provide a platform to help expand the reach of Asheville based musicians and artists, to make some great music and art, and to have a great time while doing it.
We hope you enjoy our guide to the Asheville area’s dynamic music scene.
If we somehow help to brighten up your day, please consider a $5 donation to help support our efforts in providing the area’s most complete local music calendar.
Venmo: click here
Last 4 digits – 3383
PayPal: click here
The super talented Hunter Begley will be preforming a solo show. Come enjoy Thanksgiving Eve while listening to the captivating tunes from a favorite local musician!!
Acoustic Old Time/Bluegrass Jam!! C’mon Out!!
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!
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)
Kayla McKinney will be playing country hits!
Hosted by Billy Litz (weather permitting)
I’m very happy to have a great lineup of friends joining me for Well Crafted Wednesdays.
11/27 – Chris Cooper & Zack Smith
Winter Lights is a spectacular open-air walk-through light show made from over one million lights! Located at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville, North Carolina, this year’s event features favorites like the famously tall 50-foot lighted tree and the Quilt Garden, along with enchanting new details designed to delight and surprise. Live Music Nightly!!! Event Information and Tickets
The Saylor Brothers are a jamgrass fusion group from Asheville, fronted by brothers Will & Ben Saylor, of Brushfire Stankgrass. This project is a foray further into the realm of bluegrass jam, with more emphasis on improvisation piled on top of a structure of traditional bluegrass and innovative original songwriting. As a trio with Greg Stiglets on bass, the band packs a large sound coming from three acoustic instruments, and often adds a fourth player for further improvisational and bluegrass firepower.
Jam > Grass > Jam is not an open bluegrass jam but is a residency featuring a rotating casts of special guests from Asheville’s bluegrass/jamband scene.
In true pub fashion, White Horse Black Mountain hosts a traditional Irish-style session twice a month, on the second and fourth Wednesdays, starting at 7pm. (FREE)
Come demonstrate your talents at Open Mic.
You sing, they dance
21+ // $
Swing Asheville is BACK!!
Join us for our weekly dance series in our beautiful new home, the Haywood Park Hotel.
Weekly dance is $10 admission and includes:
Free beginner swing dance lesson (7-8 pm)
Social swing dance to DJed music (8-10 pm)
‘Lights Out Asheville’ – a blues/fusion dance hour to top off the night (10-11 pm)
The Wolves invade our taproom.
Spinning an all vinyl, all black metal soundtrack of infernal rites – @radagasttheblack and the Wolves In The Taproom DJ force take over our South Slope haunt on Wednesday from 7-10 PM.
lo-fi pop and rocknroll with Jason Krekel & Craig Kelberg
Celebrate All Aboard AVL and Travers Brothers 4th annual Thanksgiving tradition – The Last Waltz experience with members of world renown musicians. “It started as a Concert and Became a celebration.”
$23.60
w/ Brandon Manitoba
From $12.70
**NOV 27TH – LOCK , STOCK & TEARDROPS**
**DOORS AT 8PM – $10**
It’s time for our weekly Wednesday Open Mic with Caleb Beissert!
Get in line early to get a good spot, the list fills up super fast!!
Sign up at 8 pm, Mic starts at 8:30
All forms of entertainment welcome, (not just poetry.)
We are currently going through some technical issues with our server, so if you are having problems getting on the website and you have our “calendar” page saved to your home screen, we suggest you delete this and save our main page ” LiveMusicAsheville.com ” to your home screen instead.
Thanks for your patience and continued support!!!
Suggested $5-$10 Donation @ The Door // 21+
Nov
28
Thu
We hope you enjoy our guide to the Asheville area’s dynamic music scene.
If we somehow help to brighten up your day, please consider a $5 donation to help support our efforts in providing the area’s most complete local music calendar.
Venmo: click here
Last 4 digits – 3383
PayPal: click here
1) Perform an internet search for the key words that music loving visitors use, i.e. “Asheville live music” or “live music Asheville”. See which site populates.
2) Promote your gigs on that site.
Hope That Helps!!!
P.S. (Ask about the discounted “Recovery Rates” for our LOOK HERE featured listings available through December!)
Thanksgiving Feast at the White Horse Black Mountain. A free feast open to the community.
Hosted by:
Seek Healing, Quietude, & Connect Beyond Festival
11-1:00 – Listening Circle
1-4:00 – Food + Activities + Ambient Live Music
4-6:00 – Live music with Lillie Syracuse
Travel through time from the ’60s to ’90s through Iggy Radio’s rock, pop, and jazz show! A plethora of sounds and styles. Beatboxing mixed with killer guitar and loop mastery. A one man orchestra. Plays all the songs you love.
Enjoy the holiday spirit & eat your pre-ordered meal with us in our dining room after you pick up!
We’ll have live music 2-5PM & the bar will be open until 5PM.
Please Note: No meal service is available other than pre-ordered pick ups.
21 +
Everyone Welcome
Potluck
Winter Lights is a spectacular open-air walk-through light show made from over one million lights! Located at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville, North Carolina, this year’s event features favorites like the famously tall 50-foot lighted tree and the Quilt Garden, along with enchanting new details designed to delight and surprise. Live Music Nightly!!! Event Information and Tickets
Give thanks for Spencer Taylor Jr. and The Highway QCs returning to The Double Crown Thursday Nov. 28th! 9 pm $10
The Double Crown is celebrating Thanksgiving with none other than the Godfather of Quartet himself Spencer Taylor Jr. and The Highway QCs! The QCs are marking their 78th year after forming in Chicago in 1946. Spencer Taylor Jr. took over as lead singer in 1956. His predecessors in the group included Johnnie Taylor, Lou Rawls and Sam Cooke. The Godfather turned 96 this year and is still going strong. Come on out and help us celebrate 78 years of The Highway QCs!
We are currently going through some technical issues with our server, so if you are having problems getting on the website and you have our “calendar” page saved to your home screen, we suggest you delete this and save our main page ” LiveMusicAsheville.com ” to your home screen instead.
Thanks for your patience and continued support!!!
Nov
29
Fri
We hope you enjoy our guide to the Asheville area’s dynamic music scene.
If we somehow help to brighten up your day, please consider a $5 donation to help support our efforts in providing the area’s most complete local music calendar.
Venmo: click here
Last 4 digits – 3383
PayPal: click here
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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 enjoy some great music with this talented artist! If you want to see a Fun, One Man Show who is classy, interactive, and a song guru see Daniel Sage.
Musicians in The Round Black Friday Potluck and benefit for Manna Food bank.
Enjoy authentic Blues music from Mr Jimmy while imbibing in the friendly atmosphere of the The Station.
He performs original material, and puts his unique spin on classics from the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. His singular style is both energizing and soothing, captivating and liberating.
Bluegrass and original music with Rudy’s Rythym & Revue.
Tonight Vollie & Hank are here to play smooth pop standards. Come out and enjoy the music!
CELEBRATING TWENTY YEARS OF STATIC AGE RECORDS
6PM til Late
Be there as we unveil ‘DNA’ – a dynamic celebration of creativity, fusion, and expression.
This special exhibit combines innovative experimentation with timeless techniques where art, music, and community merge together.
📅 November 29th, 2024
⏰ 6PM – MIDNIGHT
🎟️ FREE ADMISSION!
📍 109 Roberts St. Asheville, NC 28801
Featuring music performances by @who_is_enki , @morgan.bevis6 , @peter.the.poet , @rhino.audio , @dj_sporelax , @tonyj.tj , @trinityjustice
One-Man-Band trumpet, keys, harmonica, guitar, americana/blues/soul/ragtime.
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