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Asheville FM Seeks Board Members

Asheville FM Seeks Board Members

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We are pleased to announce that 103.3 Asheville FM is looking for members of our community to serve as Board members to guide our vision and fulfill our inclusive and progressive mission. The Mission of Asheville FM is to keep Asheville thriving by producing diverse and eclectic programming that inspires our listeners to build connections across our communities and to discover new music and ideas. We do this by producing diverse, insightful and relevant news, talk, sports and music programming.

Board members attend meetings (6 per year) and serve on a committee and participate in fundraising, with the primary responsibility of providing leadership, vision and direction. Board members also develop and recruit volunteer leaders, oversee and procure financial resources, support our executive director, staff and volunteers; and ensure that programming achieves AFM’s mission. Asheville FM is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation.

Being on the board of Asheville FM is rewarding in so many ways! And fun! In addition to helping guide an important community resource, you will be making connections with other volunteers in our family and the Asheville community in general, and also learning about how local community radio serves the Asheville area. Asheville FM is a vibrant organization, our station is solvent and growing; and we need intelligent, passionate leaders to help shape our future.

Board members also attend our casual station get-togethers and other functions and get to know the members of our extended family.

As an organization that celebrates diverse voices, we especially seek women, and members of disabled, BIPOC, LGBTQ, and other historically marginalized communities. Please consider a seat on our Board today! We would love the opportunity to share our future plans with you. Please send your email of interest to [email protected] and we will send you a short application.

Thank you for your consideration!

Queer Calendar for Week of April 2

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  • It’s Thursday – and you can Join Jerri & Christopher every Thursday @6pm for country music, line dancing, and beginner 2 step! At Banks Ave Bar for Butts and Boots every Thursday* No Partner needed Also on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month
  • Friday, April 3 Asheville Drag Bingo: Over the Rainbow Fundraiser for Hendersonville Pride at the Hilltop Event Center at 7 pm. Asheville’s original and longest-running Drag Bingo show returns with a vibrant night of laughter and lucky numbers. Tickets start at $20, which includes bingo cards, and are available now at BeardedLadyProductions.org. Ages 21+.
  • Sunday April 5th, Asheville Trans Womens Picnic is hosting a picnic and clothing swap! Bring clothes you dont use anymore and share them with others who might enjoy wearing them. Please bring a picnic blanket to lay clothes out on as well. More info on this event can be found on their instagram pag, avlpicnic

Looking Ahead:

  • Thursday, April 9 Bertha; Grateful Drag at 8 pm at Grey Eagle. Tickets are $29.29 and the show is for everyone!. The world’s first Grateful Drag band, BERTHA is an all-start collective of queer and allied East Nashville talent coming together in wigs and full face for a good cause. BERTHA has captured the heart and imagination of Deadheads everywhere, with coast-to-coast demand for their electrifying live show. Whether collaborating with local drag queens in Mexico, or playing the most prestigious festival lineups in the States, BERTHA: Grateful Drag has only begun to make her impact on the world. Click here for more information.
  • Drag performer and finalist on Season 3 of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula, Dragula: Resurrection, and Dragula Titans 2! Priscilla Chambers is the host and creator of Party Foul, a drag show that lights up the Odditorium stage every Saturday night. Priscilla will be hosting the Friday night showcase Geektastic on July 10. Applications to perform are open until March 1. Visit their website for more information (www.landoftheskyburlesque.com)
  • Sunday April 12 it’s Sunday Funday Tea Dance at Banks Ave Bar. Our monthly Sunday Tea Dance welcominy spring with the event benefiting the great work of Pride on Main-Haywood County’s Pride festival. Please come out, share some laughter, join in the fellowship and donate to a wonderful nonprofit organization.
  • Saturday, April 18 from 11 am to 2 pm. Drag brunch fundraiser for Youth OUTright at Banks Ave. The brunch that slays together, stays together! The award-winning Asheville Drag brunch is back with another spectacular Saturday brunch. Shows are at 11 am and 1 pm. Expect big performances, bigger hair, and the biggest delicious brunch from Biscuit Head South. Tickets start at $25 and are available at www.AshevilleDragBrunch.com. Ages 21+.
  • Saturday, May 30 Mark your calendars for LEAF Love at Pisgah Brewing Company for a day of Deep Roots. Pisgah opened their doors to LEAF back in 2024 when they had to cancel the festival because of Hurricane HElene and they had a magical day of community and they can’t wait to do it again. This event will support LEAF’s mission to continue bringing Cultural Arts Education to schools and the community. Line Up announcements coming soon. Follow “leafglobalarts” on Instagram for more information.
  • Saturday, June 20 Pride on the Run 5k at Carrier Park French Broad Greenway. Join us for our 3rd annual pride 5k. Run, walk, roll, show up as you are. This event centers community, visibility, and movement. Every step supports Pride programming and local LGBTQ+ impact. What to expect: inclusive pace for all bodies, bright energy and loud pride, and community connection from start to finish. Bring your friends, flags, and your full self. More information on Blue Ridge Pride’s Facebook page.
  • June 27, 4-9pm The community has been asking for a Pride event in the month of June on the anniversary of the Stonewall riots. And Asheville Pride Fest is answering that call. Through the annual June Pride Fest event and ongoing collaborative partnerships with organizations and businesses across Asheville. Asheville Pride Fest welcomes local Product vendors, artist vendors, food trucks, entertainment performance, nonprofit organizations and volunteers to help make our annual LGBTQ+ June Pride celebration unforgettable. More information at AshevillePrideFest.org
  • July 10 – July 12, 2026 Land of the Sky Burlesque Festival. Embracing diversity and excellence, our 3 day burlesque festival is set in the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains. Join us in Asheville to celebrate 5 years of showcasing the best of the best in burlesque entertainment. We curate inclusive shows, offering a blend of vibrant performances amid a backdrop of fantastic food, outdoor adventures, and a warm, welcoming atmosphere. More information on the website.

Tonight!! “We Have Ignition” – Live on the 103.3 AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions – Thursday, April 2nd, 2026 – 8-10p – streaming world wide at www.ashevillefm.org

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“We Have Ignition”  This weeks’ Special Musical Guest –  performing live from the 103.3 AshevilleFM studio

– Join Dave Baker – our host for another great ALMS show (live performance / interview) – starts at 8pm –  broadcast live on 103.3FM..

 

AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions..

Join us! / Tune in – Turn it up!   Thursday, April 2nd, 2026

AshevilleFM is pleased to present this special event..  Support also comes from Arts AVL, Buncombe County, and North Carolina Arts Council

 

MUSICAL GUEST:   We Have Ignition 

We Have Ignition plays high energy original instrumental music. The band was founded by RL Martin on guitar with original members Jeff Manson on bass and Nick Harvey on drums. The bands influences stem from artists such as Man or Astro – Man?, The Dead Kennedy’s, Devo, and Dick Dale among others.

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Thursday’s at 8pm

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Concert Calendar 3/30-4/7

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Mon 3/30
– Mashup Mondays @ One World West
– Open Mic Underground @ One World Downtown
– The Hot Seat Comedy @ Static Age Loft
– Woody Wood @ The Grey Eagle
– Brian Felix Organ Trio w/ Jacob Rodriguez @ Little Jumbo
Tues 3/31
– Clouds of Delusion Tuesday Residency @ One World West
– Eda’s Bluegrass Jam @ Eda’s Hideaway
– Songwriter’s Roller Derby Showcase @ The Grey Eagle
– Rigometrics @ The One Stop
– Trust Blinks, Rig B, Lavender Blue, & The Balloon Stampede @ Fleetwoods
– Null, Dug, Soured, & Feral Watch @ Static Age Records
– Satanic Camp Out, Cutthroat Freak Show, Horse Breakfast, Freakin’ Nothin’, & ToyBox
@ Sly Grog
– Puscifer, w/ Dave Hill @ Harrah’s Cherokee Center
– Sanders, Boyd, Page, & Hall @ Little Jumbo
Weds 4/1
– Latin Night Wednesdays @ One World West
– Old Time Jam @ Jack of the Wood
– Country Line Dance w/ Kristey @ Eda’s Hideaway
– Lasso Twins @ The One Stop
– Western Wednesdays: Old Chevrolette Set @ Double Crown
– Robert Plant, w/ Saving Grace & Suzi Dian @ Harrah’s Cherokee Center
– Slomosa w/ The Mainliners @ Eulogy
Thurs 4/2
– Bluegrass Jam hosted by Drew Matulich @ Jack of the Wood
– Butts n Boots line dancing @ Banks Ave
– Seven Teller @ The One Stop
– Aaron Lane @ One World Downtown
– JJ & Co. @ One World West
– Mantra, Paprika, & Low Hawk @ Fleetwoods
– Frank Hurricane, Sleep Number, Nina GI, & Becca Leigh @ Static Age Records
– Lee Fields & Monophonics @ The Orange Peel
– Music to Listen to Records By @ Crow & Quill
– Lala Lala w/ Mother Soki @ Eulogy
– Live Music Yoga w/ Sean Johnson & Chris Rosser @ AyurPrana Listening Room
Fri 4/3
– John Craigie w/ Anthony DaCosta @ The Grey Eagle
– The Comedy Zone: Kevin Bozeman @ Wortham Center

– Asheville Comedy Festival: Spring Laugh Invasion @ Wortham Center
– Dan Clare Collective @ The One Stop
– The Snozzberries + Steve Kelly @ Asheville Music Hall
– 5J Barrow @ The One Stop
– On the Road to Toe Down @ One World West
– Luna Worldcast @ One World Downtown
– Mirah, Whym, & Son of a Gunther @ Static Age Records
– Reverend Horton Heat, w/ Black Joe Lewis & Piñata Protest @ The Orange Peel
– Reggie Headen & Nighttime Noon @ Jack of the Wood
– Sit a Spell Bluegrass Session @ Ginger’s Revenge
– Spring Breax! Jyde Hekel, McDubbin, Ixnée, & Maria Leigh @ Sly Grog
– Las Montañitas @ Crow & Quill
– TeaThyme Takeover @ Eulogy
– Idle County & Tombstone Poetry @ Eda’s Hideaway
Sat 4/4
– Woody Wood & Abe Reid (of The Blue Rags) @ The Grey Eagle
– The Comedy Zone: Kevin Bozeman @ Wortham Center
– Asheville Comedy Festival: Spring Laugh Invasion @ Wortham Center
– Riyen Roots @ The One Stop
– Not That Innocent: 2000s Dance Party @ Asheville Music Hall
– Gooseberry @ The One Stop
– Saturday Sessions @ One World West
– Pat Sheridan & Michael Dunham @ One World Downtown
– Rhythm & Blues Dance Party w/ Peggy Ratusz & Daddy Longlegs Dance Band @ One
World West
– Sanctum @ Static Age Loft
– Tatsuya Nakatani, XOR, Crocodylidae @ Static Age Records
– Wednesday, w/ Gouge Away @ The Orange Peel
– Nobody’s Darling String Band @ Jack of the Wood
– 65-North Pickers @ Jack of the Wood
– Eyes Up Here Comedy: Ladies of Atlanta @ Ginger’s Revenge
– Drag show @ O’Henrys
– Tuck It Up Buttercup: Drag & Dancing @ Banks Ave
– Firecracker Jazz Band @ Crow & Quill
– What’s In the Box? Comedy & Improv @ Story Parlor
– The Get Right Band w/ Hustle Souls @ Eulogy
– Chris McGinnis & Alex Williams @ Eda’s Hideaway
– Sophia Corinne w/ Laney Barnett @ AyurPrana Listening Room
– Morrissey Blvd. @ Sierra Nevada (amphitheater)
Sun 4/5
– Suns of Stars Sunday Residency @ One World West
– Bluegrass Brunch @ Jack of the Wood

– Traditional Irish Music Session @ Jack of the Wood
– Jazz Jam Sundays @ Gingers Revenge
– Bam-A-Lam @ The Grey Eagle
– New Dawn Starkestra: Space Bunny Apocalypse @ The Grey Eagle
– In Color with Eden Joel @ Asheville Music Hall
– Expensive Shiz & Cooling Prongs @ Static Age Records
– Juvenile w/ The 400 Degreez Band & special guests @ The Orange Peel
– Butts n Boots line dancing @ Banks Ave
– All Arts Open Mic @ Story Parlor
– Commodore Fox @ Sierra Nevada (amphitheater)
Mon 4/6
– Mashup Mondays @ One World West
– Open Mic Downtown @ One World Downtown
– The Hot Seat Comedy @ Static Age Loft
– John Cowan Trio ft. Luke Bulla and Ethan Ballinger @ The Grey Eagle
– Quinn Sternberg’s Mind Beach @ Little Jumbo
Tues 4/7
– Clouds of Delusion Tuesday Residency @ One World West
– The Golden Hours ft. David Wax Museum & Lowland Hum @ The Grey Eagle
– Williamson Brothers, Die Spinns, & Scrap Metal @ Fleetwoods
– The Will Boyd Project @ Little Jumbo

Out Here For Them: Updates As Prairieland Federal Trial Ends

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This week we spoke with AC and E, two members of the DFW Support Committee about the recently finished federal trial for 9 defendants in the terrorism case around the Prairieland Detention Center noise demo in July of 2025.

To hear a slightly longer episode, check out the podcast at our website or on the various streaming services.

To recap the case, in the midst of increased racist and nativist rhetoric, ICE and CBP snatch squad deployments ripping apart communities across the US in the first year of Trump 2.0, and the buildup of immigrant rendition and imprisonment in the southwest there was a July 4th noise demonstration called for to happen outside the infamous Prairieland Detention Center outside Alvarado, Texas. During the protest, meant to be loud enough for people held there to hear that they were not forgotten, participants used bullhorns, shouted, shot off fireworks and painted slogans. In response the staff called the Alvarado police and upon arrival the cop drew his weapon and aimed at dispersing protestors. At this point the state narrative and that of the defendants diverge: on the one hand the state argues that this whole event was a planned ambush for law enforcement by a north Texas Antifa terrorist cell in black bloc meant to draw police into a fight and then liberate the prison; on the other side the defendants claim the event was escalated to targeted gunfire by defendant Song meant to deter deadly violence by the cop and allow the crowd to disperse without bloodshed.

For the hour, you’ll hear folks from DFW Defense Committee talking about what evidence and arguments were presented in court, what evidence and arguments were suppressed, the strange decisions of the judge in jury selection, venue and other elements effecting the ability of those facing decades in prison to mount and defense and where we’re at now with the case. This case cannot be disconnected from the Trump administration’s call to name Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, to tie in projects and movements they consider to be enemies (ranging from Democrats to civil liberties groups, queer folk and immigrants rights advocates to anti-fascists, communists and anarchists and everyone in between) with the goal, some speculate, of more fully capturing the federal government under a white, christian nationalist and fascist regime. More on the case at PrairielandDefendants.Com

A couple of useful links for the case:

Next week, keep an ear out for a chat we plan to release with Nina of Anarchist Black Cross Dresden about the impacts of naming German antifascists as terrorists by the Trump Regime on the ability of various leftist, anti-repression groups there to do their work, to hold bank accounts for sending money to prisoners or pay for lawyers and about the shift towards the right electorally and politically that is being experienced in that country. You may be surprised about the parallels with the situation in the US.

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Liaizon Wakest on Autonomous Social Media and the Fediverse

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Liaizon Wakest on Autonomous Social Media and the Fediverse

proposed vediverse logo of multicolor pentagon/pentagram with logos for 6 different fediverse projects around it

This week, we spoke with Liaizon Wakest. Liaizon grew up in an anarchist commune in rural America. They can be found climbing into dumpsters from Mexico to Kazakhstan looking for trash to make art with. In recent years they have been focused on research into ethical technology and infrastructural anarchism. For the hour we speak about the interoperable, open source ensemble of federated online publishing servers and platforms known as the Fediverse and its most popular component, Mastodon. This conversation takes place in the context of media hullabaloo about Elon Musk seeking to purchase Twitter, the paradigm in which a rich egomaniac can own the addictive social media platforms over which so much social and political life is engaged and what positives we can draw from alternatives like Mastodon and the Fediverse.

You can hear this interview at TheFinalStrawRadio.NoBlogs.Org

You can find Liaizon’s account on Mastodon (an analog of twitter) at @[email protected] or on Pixelfed (an analog of Instagram) at @[email protected]. And you can follow us on Mastodon by finding @[email protected] or by visiting https://chaos.social/@TheFinalStrawRadio in a web browser.

Another interesting anarchist media project engaging the Fediverse is Kolektiva, which has a PeerTube instance at https://Kolektiva.Media (analog of youtube) and Mastodon at https://Kolektiva.Social where they’re welcoming new users. Kolektiva includes participation from projects like Sub.Media and AntiMidia

You can find a real good interview by our comrades at From Embers about Mastodon which I mention in the interview from February 3rd, 2022 entitled Social Networks, Online Life and The Fediverse: https://fromembers.libsyn.com/social-networks-online-life-and-the-fediverse

Announcement

Eric King Arrives at USP Lee: call-in continues

As a quick update on the situation of Eric King, he has been transferred this week from USP Atlanta to USP Lee where he and his supporters are concerned he’ll be placed into solitary and isolated for attack. You can find info on his situation as well as who to contact to press for his return to a medium security facility to match his current security points, visit SupportEricKing.Org and find the May 3rd, 2022 post whose title starts “Eric Transferred”

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AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions – “BEEKEEPERS” is up on the AFM Recordings tab – get the link!

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Featuring Musical Guest –  Beekeepers –  recorded live from the 103.3 AshevilleFM studios Thursday, March 19th, 2026 – Link is below (hover label) or you can go to the AFM RECORDINGS tab off the main menu to hear all the great ALMS recordings..

AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions..

Thursdays from 8-10am 

Support also comes from Arts AVL, Buncombe County, and North Carolina Arts Council

MUSICAL GUEST:  BEEKEEPERS

BEEKEEPERS  – group is described as a hip-hop-meets-hard-rock project, often collaborating with other local musicians..

We are BEEKEEPERS that new new coming from members of Natural Born Leaders, Papadosio, & Leisureville. There is no static genre, there is no static sound. Just really good music.

Album – MASSIVE AGGRESSIVE – This is for humans who use non discriminatory practices when they stick their hand in the record bin of life. Members of NBL and Papadosio.

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