Events

Boomtown Arts & Heritage FestAVL proudly announces its return for a third year, set for September 4 - 6, 2026, at Pack Square Park in the heart of downtown Asheville. The free, all-ages festival celebrates Western North Carolina’s local music, regional culture, and architectural history with multi-genre main stage performances, interactive family programming, and heritage...

Thursday, September 3  •  5:00 pm - 10:00 pm | From $61.33 Event Details and Tickets Come join us for a night of live music on the outdoor stage as part of the French Broad River Brewery Summer Concert Series! The Movement: The Movement has been winning the hearts and minds of alt-reggae fans since...

Join Alex Bazemore and Friends for a Monday night residency at French Broad River Brewery. The bluegrass/ Jamgrass group is a mash up of local Asheville “all star” musicians set to explore new musical frontiers together and melt faces. Alex and his rotating cast of local musicians play sets with ranging genres and styles influenced...

The JLloyd MashUp explores different genres of music including Acid Jazz, Funk, Soul, Afro Beat, Reggae, Break Beat, and Latin. Led and curated by Jonathan Lloyd (The Fritz/Dubconscious/Cadillac Jones), the band is made up of some of Asheville’s busiest and hardest working musicians on the scene. Music starts around 8:30.Going until 11:15ish. $10. Thank you...

Sanders, Boyd, Page & Hall distill the pure essence of improvisational expression, converging as alchemists of sound, transmuting musical elements into their most essential forms. This quartet embodies the philosophical concept of quintessence—the fifth element beyond earth, air, fire, and water—representing the fundamental substance from which all musical reality springs. Their original compositions crystallize the...

Clouds of Delusion is an Asheville based Grateful Dead tribute band consisting of high level jazz trained musicians. The core members of Clouds include Ryan Ptasnik on percussion, Garrett Andrews and Luke Shriver on guitar and vocals, and Jackson Chisholm on bass and vocals, plus joined by special guests throughout the residency. They are heavily...

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...

Alien Music Club Trio is a nerdy/sexy/eclectic/genre-bending group featuring James Kylen (drums/vocals), Chuck Lichtenberger (keys/vocals) and Jonathan Pearlman (guitar/vocals). All three contribute original material along with diverse covers by artists as The Beatles, Ozzy Osborne, Radiohead, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and much more, with a generous dose of jazz standards by the likes of Miles...

Grass Underground: a weekly live music event celebrating and exploring the wide world of Bluegrass and its many influences in a unique basement setting right in the heart of downtown Asheville, NC! Hosted by Connor Koz (guitar, vocals for Coyote Rodeo), he brings a rotating cast of his many friends from all over the Grass...