Music Calendar

Dave Desmelik is a singer-songwriter and instrumentalist whose musical focus is on original compositions. What attracts listeners to Desmelik’s tunes, old and new, is the element of authenticity incorporated in them. There is no sugar coating involved.

90’s Nostalgia with Carl Anton

Their sound is a soulful blend of rootsy jam/rock blues.

Join us for a captivating evening of music as we present Jordan Scheffer, accompanied by the remarkable talents of guitarist, Daniel Seriff and Ugandan musician Chinobay. $25 +

Show: 8pm | Doors: 7pm
$30 – $35

ADVANCED: $27.00
DAY OF: $30.00

Blending honkytonk & gritty cowboy seclusion, Americana/Country artist Andy Buckner’s music embodies a balance of party anthems & instantly relatable heartache healers. Andy’s grainy, soulful voice embraces his North Carolina roots & shares authentic songs inspired by his upbringing. $15 +

Join us for an electrifying night of music as we present Flash Bang Mafia with a special guest performance by Coven at Silverados on August 11th at 9pm. Get ready to be blown away by a night filled with pulsating beats and unforgettable performances in the heart of Black Mountain, NC!

Orange Doors w/ Seismic Sutra + Impending Joy. Genre: psych rock, garage psych. $

The Swell Fellas return to Asheville with The Silver Doors, and Smoke. $

The Wallet Chains is a vintage country & swing band led by vocalist & guitarist Leo Johnson and featuring accomplished musicians Drayton Aldridge (fiddle), John James (pedal steel) & Connor Law (upright bass). The band’s unique blend of vintage country & infectious swing rhythms creates an irresistible sound that transports listeners to a bygone era of honky-tonks, whiskey-soaked nights & heartfelt storytelling. $5 cover

The annual downtown Black Mountain summer tradition, named for the popular honey produced by the Sourwood trees that grow in the area, is spreading out and taking a trip back in time with craft demonstrations and acoustic music in Town Square and more.

2023 MUSICAL PERFORMANCES

Saturday August 12, 2023

Black Mountain Avenue Stage:

• 11:00am Emigre (Celtic Band)
• 1:00pm Seth & Sara (Modern western duo)
• 3:00pm The Jazz Disciples (Keyboard & brass)
• 5:00pm Stimulus (Blues rock)

Cherry Street Square

• 10:00am  New Found Gap Band & Hightop Harmony (Bluegrass)
• 12:00pm Upbeat Ukulele Band
• 2:00pm The White Water Bluegrass Company (5 piece swing band)
• 4:00 pm Luke Whittaker (Country)

Let’s get together August 12, 2023 to meet our neighbors, listen to great music, and eat!! Live music by The Mountain Mountain Mountain Boys!!
Featuring: David Hughes, Johnny Caucasian & David Schmucker.

Rock Academy students perform rock songs of various genres, including blues, classic rock, hard rock, heavy metal, punk, and more. $

Event starts at 2pm
$10 Admission

$12.00 +

Vintage Vinyl – Playing 60s & 70s greatest hits!

From $36.50 + via ticketmaster

Show: 8pm | Doors: 7pm
$15 ADV/ $20 DOS

Popped collars, teased hair and fingerless gloves…this 80’s tribute sensation doesn’t only bring style, but an award winning lineup of musicians together as well, in an authentic 80s experience that’s sold out every show!

If you like Garage Punk this is the show for you! Come celebrate the release of Bad Sleepers new 45 with Green Quams and Tight! $

ADVANCED: $20.00
DAY OF: $25.00

The annual downtown Black Mountain summer tradition, named for the popular honey produced by the Sourwood trees that grow in the area, is spreading out and taking a trip back in time with craft demonstrations and acoustic music in Town Square and more.

2023 MUSICAL PERFORMANCES

Sunday August 13, 2023

Black Mountain Avenue Stage:

• 12:00pm Dark City Kings (Indie rock fusion bank with a touch of country)
• 2:00 pm Triange Afrobeat Orchestra (American Funk & Jazz)
• 4:00pm The ShooBees (60’s tunes & blues standards)

Cherry Street Square

• 1:00pm Jane DeCuir (Americana blues-guitar & vocal)
• 3:00pm Greg & Colleen (Original songs in Americana style & well known covers)

DAY OF: $12.00
ADVANCED: $10.00

A day of connectivity and community hangs. Join us at the South Slope Taproom for LEAF Global Arts’ Family Jam. Enjoy arts and crafts for all ages, food and beverages, and performances from Minor, Honey Rockwell and her Breakdancing Crew, Fuego AVL, the Aztec Dance Chichimeca Youth Team, and Carolina Diva Diamondz.

Get ur overdue gnarly-music fix in one the most beautiful places ever. Blues and Psychedelic Live Music played by savvy primates.

This Sunday it’s goin’ down! Come join us for a funky good time!!! BoogiTherapi is an all star Funk party band based in Asheville, headed by frontman Ryan Barber. We provide the perfect blend of high energy dance covers & funky soulful originals.

This ensemble infuses beloved melodies with a somber allure, transforming the familiar into haunting masterpieces. From $10

Doors 7 PM // Show 8 PM
$10

PREMIUM SEATING: $27.00
DAY OF: $20.00
ADVANCED: $17.00

Show: 8pm | Doors: 6:30pm
$45 – $50

Wastoid w/ On the Block + DSHK. Genre: punk, hardcore $

Starts 9PM
Cover $10
21+ ONLY

ADVANCED: $30.00
DAY OF: $35.00
PREMIUM SEATING: $40.00

Please join Blues & Jazz Chanteuse, Peggy Ratusz tonight for live music on the Back Porch!

Strawberry Runners will perform at Citizen Vinyl on Tuesday, August 15. 6 p.m. doors / 7 p.m. show. Tickets are $10 advance / $15 day of show. Lyle De Vitry, Rachel Angel, and Elise Leavy share the bill.

This evening with Ivy Eld, her band, and other special musical guests is sure to be a heart-expanding and soul-nourishing show for listeners. It will be a cross-cultural musical experience that invites us all to get curious about our own ancestral roots. At this show, Ivy and her band will play some folk rock tunes from her debut album. She is also delighted to host and perform with some wonderful guest artists who hail from a variety of cultural identities and heritages–Eastern Band Cherokee, Mexican/Aztec, African American, Scandinavian, Celtic, and more. This evening will be about celebrating our diversity, cherishing our shared humanity and commonalities, and experiencing the healing that can come from music, stories, and honest reflection and connection.

$15 advance, $18 day of  at The Grey Eagle box office or click here!

Event Details TBA!

The amazing CAM GIRL are bringing their punk rock pals from Nashville to blow our mind on a hot August Tuesday night! $10

Chris Caruso plays quirky blues and more! Enjoy beer, food, and music at Bike Night at La Tapa!

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – THE END IS NERO
w/ Phantogram & The Armed

Show: 6pm | Doors: 4:30pm
From $74.50 +

Indie Folk from Asheville, NC. This charismatic husband-and-wife duo is not your average folk band.

Stevie Tombstone’s saga canopies like a rock n’ roll oak, the kind with wild, ever-searching roots that tangle and gnarl above the earth. Stevie will be joined onstage by Amanda Neill (backing vocals) and A.Lee Edwards (guitar) for an evening of Folk Country Blues. Black Mountains own Max Sweeney opens the show. $10

DAY OF: $12.00
ADVANCED: $10.00
PREMIUM SEATING: $15

Grindcore, Hardcore, Immigrantcore $

Kenichi Minami (Ken) is a Japanese singer, songwriter, guitarist, and pianist. KEN MUJO is Minami’s solo performance outfit: a wild jet engine of tube amplified, howling feedback-laden acoustic guitar driven songwriting & noise performance. $10 Adv/$12 DOS

Havoc + OPEN. Genre: garage punk $

Join for a special Perry + Wine Tasting with Greg Pfaender Southeast Regional Sales Manager for Authentique Vin Thomas Meunier. Tasting from 5-8 accompanied by live music from Joe Pollock. He plays a blend of American Primitive music, in the style of John Fahey or Leo Kottke.

Join us this Thursday for a delightful evening of Celtic Pipes & Bagpipes by our very own Connell Sanderson! Free Event, All Ages, Dog Friendly, Mead, Beer, Snacks, & N/A Drinks!

Fae Nectar is North Carolina’s first and only fantasy themed Meadery!

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.

Now Open in Biltmore Park for lunch, dinner, weekend brunch, social hours, and features a spacious dining area, semi-private dining area, and a large indoor and outdoor bar with a covered patio.

We’re bringing the rhythm and melodies to Isa’s Bistro every Thursday from 6pm to 9pm! Free live music by folk-americana singer songwriter Ryan Furstenberg.

Matisyahu and G. Love & Special Sauce will be performing LIVE on the Outdoor Stage at Salvage Station on Thursday, August 17th with special guest Cydeways! Included in your show ticket is Kendall Street Company, playing late night on the indoor stage! Doors open at 6:00 PM and the music starts at 6:00 PM. This is an ALL AGES show, with General Admission Tickets and VIP Packages available for this event! Tickets from $36

Road Soda is an Original Rockin’ Country Folk Band.
They are a Collaboration from Bristol TN made up of traveling songwriting multi-instrumentalists. The play a variety of original tunes and covers , everything from country, folk and blues !

Enjoy an evening of live music in the Museum’s Windgate Foundation Atrium featuring Jessie Meltz and her harp. Free for Members or included with Museum admission

Tyler Lynch takes the stage! Join us on 8/17 for a night filled with mesmerizing country and acoustic rock tunes.

Live Music with Sofie Pederson

Show: 8pm | Doors: 7pm
$17.50 – $20

Killer punk bill with Totally Slow and Night Night touring to Asheville with local support from the amazing Small Doses! $10

Turrigenous on tour to promote their latest release, Vesper the Evening Star. With Razorbeast and The Discs.
21+, no cover, donations encouraged

I’m singing and picking country music this Friday at Jack of the Wood filling in for Jackson Grimm. 4-6 PM Stop in Jack of the Wood Fridays from 4-6 pm for some honky-tonkin’ country classics from local songwriter & multi-instrumentalist John Duncan! Plus $7 Moscow Mules every Friday!

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/

Come on out and enjoy some good old folk music!

The band tours the southeast covering the music of Widespread Panic. Night after night their set lists are never the same, with having over 150 songs in rotation you will not see the same show twice. MF also include songs from Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Talking Heads and many others.

The Ghost Walks! Old blues and soul with some of Asheville’s finest musicians. Featuring Jason Krekel, Scott Sharpe, Cary Fridley and Dave Perkins playing the music of Memphis Minnie, John Lee Hooker, Wanda Jackson, Junior Wells and more!

Delivering their own brand of Americana music, the duo blends together elements of classic country, bluegrass and folk, producing a stripped down style of music that exemplifies the sound that has helped shape their lives.

DAY OF: $12.00
ADVANCED: $10.00

Sim Hickman and Louly Peacock – Louly and Sim perform as an acoustic duo, combining eclectic and popular covers as well as their original songs.

We came together to play and enjoy sharing our music. Each member has an extensive musical history and a true love of performing traditional mountain music. 

Dolly Roger is an acoustic singer-songwriter duo from Charlotte, North Carolina. Their sound has been described as 70s folk-rock meets dreamy bedroom-pop with a bit of 90s influence.

DAY OF: $12.00
ADVANCED: $10.00

Come grab a couple beers and a pretzel with us during our Twisted Fridays, 7pm-9pm every week with local live music!

Americana Soul, Singer-songwriter & guitarist, Whitney Mongé learned to capture the power of authenticity while honing her skills as a street performer. Her rich and sultry voice, accompanied by a raspy break at the edges, has drawn comparisons to esteemed artists like Brittany Howard and Lenny Kravitz. Mongé’s bluesy, percussive guitar style is unique in it’s own right, and she mentions John Mayer and Dave Matthews as influences in her musicianship.

On Friday, Aug. 18, Nashville-based folk artist Molly Parden will play an intimate show at Citizen Vinyl.

Doors at 7 p.m. / show at 8 p.m.

$15 advance / $20 day of show.

Darrell Scott’s Electrifying Trio, featuring Jeff Sipe and Bryn Davies, will be performing LIVE on the Indoor Stage at Salvage Station on Friday, August 18th, 2023! Doors open at 7pm and the music starts at 8pm. This show is 18+ only and we offer FREE ON-SITE PARKING! Root Down will be serving their delicious twist on Southern Soul food PLUS we will have our FULL bar open for you to enjoy! $35 +

SOLD OUT!!

Where creativity is always the headlining act, we bring the community together with live performances by a roster of local musicians.

Julia Sanders brings her bandmates and songs to the Cork & Keg. Playing with her are K.M.Fuller, Stacey Glasgow, and Mick Glasgow.
Her new album is “Morning Star”, produced by John James Tourville of New West Records and The Deslondes. It is a meticulously arranged musical landscape anchored by transfixing vocals and a compact but thoughtful narrative style that calls to mind forebearers like Gillian Welch and Emmylou Harris.
$7.00 at the door.

Mama & The Ruckus is a Blues & Soul band from Asheville, NC fronted by powerhouse vocalist Melissa McKinney. This band is filled with a firelike intensity, and you can anticipate music that will take you on a ride through all your emotions. BYOB & $ for the band!

Baby Yaga’s songs are upbeat & infectious with a dose of 90s grunge. Hailing from Charleston, New York, and Asheville, the band delivers angsty lamentations about love & sex with anthemic hooks & a high energy show.

Asheville’s Powder Horns, led by Brett J Kent, bring together punk, garage rock and noise rock sounds, alongside a discernible share of eighties-infused power pop.

Neo psychedelia from the mountains of Asheville, NC. Pulling styles from garage rock, world music, prog rock, and put into 1 form. Feel the waves of Seismic Sutra, it will have you dancing around a fire in the woods

DOORS @ 8PM
MUSIC @ 9PM
$12 @ the door // 21+

Genre: metal, powerviolence, grindcore. $

Crosby Tyler will be bringing you some of his new originals done in that good ol’ classic country style! Put your boots on and come out!

Come meet The Evan Collins and start your weekend off with some original fantastic original music and a couple covers. 9 to 11 on the Root Bar Stage.

Come celebrate Pinkeye’s EP release at this sick punk/indie show! $