Hayseed Dixie
Saturday May 24, 8:00 pm
Tickets $15
Standing Show
Tickets $15
Standing Show
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(828)348-5327
18 Church St Asheville NC 28801
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Original Music Series - Keith Davis
Tuesday, May 21 - 8:00pm
Tickets: FREE (Donations welcome)
Keith Davis is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator with 30 years of professional experience. He currently lives in Greenville, SC. Keith performs regularly at jazz festivals, clubs and events throughout the Southeast both as a solo pianist and with many of the finest musicians in the area.He also teaches piano lessons, with a focus on improvisation, and also serves as Adjunct Instructor of Jazz Piano at Furman Uiversity.Keith also teaches Chen Style Tai Chi and Qigong.Be the first to comment! Read 81 times -
Hayseed Dixie
Friday May 24, 8:00pmTickets $15
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This is a standing show! There will be seating around the perimeter but is NOT a traditional seated show.
Formed in 2001 with the release of their first album, titled "A Hillbilly Tribute To AC/DC," Hayseed Dixie are acknowledged as the creators of the musical genre "Rockgrass." Hailing from the Appalachian Mountains of the Southeastern United States, the band consists of:Barley Scotch - vocals, guitar and fiddleReverend Don Wayne Reno - banjo and vocalsDeacon Dale Reno - mandolin, guitar and vocalsJake "Bakesnake" Byers - bass and vocals
Having sold over 500,000 records worldwide, the band has successfully spread like a virus to every continent except Antarctica.Be the first to comment! Read 518 times -
Chatham County Line
Saturday, May 25 - 8:00pm
Tickets: $15 Advance / $18 Day of Show
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On a recent summer evening in downtown Raleigh, NC, Chatham County Line set up shop at a stately theater filled with hundreds of their most devoted fans and captured for the ages what they do best: gathering around a single microphone to play and sing their own songs.
The result, the two-disc audio and video collection Sight & Sound, is an essential document of one of the finest acoustic ensembles North Carolina has ever produced. In a state rich with bluegrass, folk and country legends, this quartet stands out for its left-of-center approach, bringing a rock ’n’ roll sensibility to roots forms in a manner that appeals to traditional and contemporary camps alike.
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James McCartney
With special guest Risa Binder
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 8:00 PMPrice: $15.00
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Following a year that introduced him to international success in 2012, James McCartney now heads towards an exciting and unprecedented 2013 year that will see him release his first full-length album and embark on a forty-seven date, twenty-seven state tour of the USA.McCartney is fresh off the release of his two digital-only EPs, Available Light and Close At Hand, as well as his first physical release, The Complete EP Collection, a special two-disc package that includes the debut EPs in their entirety along with five bonus tracks.Now, James McCartney is set to release his first full-length album, Me, May 21st on ECR Music Group. “For my first album I wanted to make a record that would be intimate, deeply personal, and honest,” says McCartney. “An album that would say, ‘This is who I am…both musically and personally. This is me.’”The tour to accompany the release of Me reflects this singular idea.Beginning April 6th, McCartney will visit forty-seven cities coast to coast performing a unique solo-acoustic show in intimate and elegant listening rooms throughout the country. Accompanying himself on guitar and piano, McCartney’s soaring vocals, songwriting, and musicianship will take center stage in this distinctive and powerful setting.
Risa Binder knew early on that she wanted to be a singer-songwriter, andPaper Heart, her debut album, is evidence that she had plenty of reason to believe.The Columbia, Maryland native also understood that she'd eventually have to move to New York to realize her dream, but she has done so by way of Los Angeles—and especially Nashville.Indeed, the songs on her album show the sense of country storytelling that she picked up in Nashville, as well as the pop melodic sensibility that comes from numerous bi-coastal excursions.Be the first to comment! Read 630 times Read more...- Jonathan Scales Fourchestra
with Casey Driessen
Saturday, June 1st - 8:00pm
Tickets: $10
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Jonathan Scales Fourchestra is an example of musical sincerity. Weaving together collective and individual influences without compromise, they are as much themselves as they are a unit—a crucial trait of landmark instrumental ensembles. Equally captivating is steel pannist and founder Jonathan Scales’ compositional skill as is his tasteful, avant-garde improvisational approach. Driftwood Magazine says "Scales is to steel pans ….what Béla Fleck is to the banjo—an über innovator." Drummer and percussionist Phill Bronson drives the Fourchestra’s time-shifting, modern grooves with graceful polyrhythmic chops and the listening ability of a true master. (His talent has been praised by Victor Wooten, Oteil Burbridge, Chris Thile, Ellie Mannette, and others.) Bassist Cody Wright, the group’s newest addition, rounds out the ensemble with a groundbreaking hybrid picking style stemming from his background as a highly practiced fusion guitarist. With gut-wrenching grooves and blistering, soulful melodic lines, Wright’s mix of flash and feel adds a unique depth to the Fourchestra. Together, the group explodes onto stages with an indescribable sound that is as much felt as it is heard, and is said to have "a Thelonius Monk-like attitude with a Mozart creativity that works." (Pan on the Net) The group’s self-titled debut collaborative album features unparalleled sonic density and envelope-pushing compositions. Guest collaborators include Grammy winning masters Victor Wooten and Howard Levy (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones) and is fully orchestrated with horns and strings.
Be the first to comment! Read 44 times- Pan Harmonia 2nd Sunday @ 5 - Daring Duos
Sunday, June 9, 5:00 PM
Tickets: $12 advance/$5 for students available at www.pan-harmonia.org/shop or $15 at the door
2nd Sunday @ 5 Pan Harmonia at the Altamont
Daring Duos by Beethoven, Bartok, Ravel, Jeremy Cohen, and the Johan Halvorsen Passacaglia!
Elizabeth Gergel, cello and Christian Aldridge, violin
Pan Harmonia is pleased to bring Elizabeth Gergel and Christian Aldridge to our 2nd Sunday Series. We first met Elizabeth when she performed on our 2010 Generation Next concerts. It has been a joy to work with her since and watch her move into the professional realm. Elizabeth is presently a McNair Scholar in cello at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Christian Aldridge is an award-winning violinist just finishing his degree at USC. He will be studying at the prestigious Mountaintop Mastercourse in Elizabethtown, NY, before moving on to graduate work in the fall at Louisiana State University.
Don’t miss the opportunity to hear these dynamic young professionals, Christian and Elizabeth, a “daughter of Asheville.” BTW It’s her 21st birthday!Be the first to comment! Read 6 times Read more...- John Fullbright
Friday, June 14 - 8:00pm
Tickets: $13 Advacne / $15 Day of Show
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“I have no doubt that in a short time, John Fullbright will be ahousehold name in American music.” — Jimmy Webb
John Fullbright burst upon the Southwest music scene in 2009 with a stellar live album recorded at the Blue Door, the legendary venue in Oklahoma City. From his home in Okemah, Oklahoma—also the hometown of Woody Guthrie—Fullbright had already honed hissongwriting and playing skills to a degree that he was a favorite at festival campgrounds before he waseven out of high school.
Quickly produced as a “calling card” for the 2009 Folk Alliance Conference, Live at the Blue Door went on to set sales records at WoodyFest, the annual folk festival honoring Woody Guthrie.In the intervening years, Fullbright has opened for a host of folk and Americana names—includingJimmy Webb, Joe Ely, Kevin Welch, Michael Fracasso, and Steve Poltz—from Oklahoma to Europeand back.
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Saturday, June 22 - 8:00pm
Tickets: $10.00
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If you listen closely, you can hear a heartbeat in the songs of Erick Baker. A warm familiar pulse of love and loss echoing from somewhere just under the surface. Written with unguarded lyrical honesty, Erick's songs are passionate confessions that reflect many of our own deeply rooted emotions and secrets.Since releasing his debut EP, It's Getting Too Late To Say It's Early, in 2008, Erick's powerful voice and deeply personal songwriting style have led listeners through music rich with themes central to the emotional cornerstones of their lives. And recently, the message of Erick's music has quickly started to spread.This medley of heartfelt insight, accentuated by strong melodic hooks and emotive vocals, drives Erick's second full-length album, Goodbye June. Produced by Ken Coomer, (Wilco, Uncle Tupelo), Goodbye June skillfully blends a divergent set of influences – rock, pop, soul, blues, country, and folk – into one seamless, signature sound that defines Erick's distinctive voice.Be the first to comment! Read 176 times Read more...- Mike Compton & Joe Newberry
Sunday, June 30 - 8:00pm
Tickets: $15.00
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In their 2012 debut album, LIVE, Mike Compton and Joe Newberry mine one of the more neglected segments of country music history, that period during the '30's and '40's when brother duet music was transforming into bluegrass. These two masters of the bedrock of old time music collaborate with a vision that's both modern and ageless.Few are better equipped for the task with Newberry able to replicate the under-appreciated power of country rhythm guitar styles and exquisite open back banjo. Mix in Mike's mastery of the Monroe style of mandolin and their simpatico duet singing and you have a two person string band that can effortlessly move from traditional songs to contemporary instrumentals to 'mother' ballads to original compositions with an ease that belies their intensity.It's not about the number of notes with Compton and Newberry. It's about telling the truth and paying homage to the song."*East Tennessee Blues * Righteous Pathway * Sittin On Top of the World * Lazy John * *Rocky Road Blues * How Long Blues * Evening Prayer Blues * Kentucky Waltz * Rocky Island * *I Know Whose Tears * Raleigh and Spencer * Fly Around My Pretty Lil Miss *Be the first to comment! Read 206 times- Leon Redbone
RESCHEDULED: Friday, October 4th 8:00pm
(originally:Sunday, May 4, 8:00 PM)
Tickets: SOLD OUT
The careers of performers who reside in the limelight are usually short-lived and over-overexposed. So it’s refreshing to encounter Leon Redbone, who has for decades remained so musically resonant and personally elusive. Though his iconic guise of white fedora, jacket and sunglasses has been thoroughly satirized (anybody remember the “Leon Redbone workout” Far Side cartoon?), it’s easy to overlook what a genuinely gifted artist he remains – a role he inevitably tries to downplay.“In some ways I’ve always been complacent in my approach to music,” Redbone says. “So in some ways maybe I’m the pure definition of consistent.”At the core of his initial calling was the desire to simply honor songs from the past – a waltz with bygone days that established him as sole curator of the museum of 20th century music. Over the course of his 30+ year, 15+ album career, the bard has continued his love affair with tunes from the turn-of-the-century (as in the second-to-last century), flapper-era radio ditties, Depression-spawned ragtime and World War II folk-jazz.“I’m just an entertainer, and I use music as a medium for entertaining,” he says in his trademark rumbling voice. “But I’m not really an entertainer either, because to be an entertainer it implies you have a great desire to want to entertain.”Be the first to comment! Read 882 times Read more... - Jonathan Scales Fourchestra