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All Go West Music Festival
2017-06-17 - 2017-06-18
All Go West Music Festival, a free to the public event in West Asheville, NC. 30+ acts across 5 stages.
Main Stage, Isis Music Hall & The Brew Pump are all ages.
The Mothlight is 21+.
**Saturday June 17th, 2017**
12:00pm – 2:00am
Main Stage, Isis Music Hall, The Mothlight & The Brew Pump
**Sunday June 18th, 2017**
12:00pm – 10:00pm
Main Stage & Isis Music Hall
All Go West 2017 Lineup:
Gift of Gab x Empire Strikes Brass
Axxa/Abraxus
The Nude Party
RBTS WIN
Phillips, Baum, Cardine, George, McMurry & Sanders
Doc Aquatic
Midnight Snack
Big Mean Sound Machine
Stephanie Morgan
The Bronzed Chorus
Nest Egg
Jamar Woods Acoustic Band
Mike Live x King Garbage
Young Bull
Forlorn Strangers
In Plain Sight
Ouroboros Boys
The Digs
All The Saints
Les Amis
DJ Bowie
White Whoolly
4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra
Shallows
Matt Townsend & The Wild Lights
Strength In Covers (feat. David Brown, Cailen Campbell, Andy Pond & More)
The Space Cowboys & The Cosmic Girls (Jamiroquai Tribute)
The Ragbirds
Foul Mouth Jerk x Dr. Ock
Mike Rhodes Fellowship
Dark Water Rising
Bryan Marshall & His Payday Knights
Mother Explosives
The No Ways
Mistresses
Bald Mountain Boys
Jackson Harem
More TBA!
Visit www.allgowest.com for more information.

Bryan Marshall & His Payday Knights / Natural Lite @ The Lazy Diamond
2017-06-15 22:00 (America/New_York)
21+, $5

Town Hall on Gerrymandering
2017-06-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Haywood Community College Auditorium,, 185 Freedlander Dr, Clyde, NC, 28721
The “Fair Vote Town Hall” on Wednesday June 14th at 7:00PM at the Haywood Community College Auditorium in Clyde, North Carolina is designed as a citizen’s education and discussion night on the impact of gerrymandering on voter representation in North Carolina.
A Non Partisan Panel has been assembled and includes: Tom Ross – Former UNC President and Superior Court; Judge Chris Cooper – Chair of WCU’s Political Science Dept.; Jane Pinsky – NC Coalition for Lobbying & Government Reform; Robert Orr – Former NC Supreme Court Justice; To Be Announced – Former and/or Sitting NC Legislator (R); Joe Sam Queen (D)- Former NC Representative- District 119; Rep Chuck Mc Grady (R) – Rep. District 117; Video Address Brian Irving (L) – Chair of NC Libertarian Party.
The Town Hall’s format is designed to allow for a robust dialogue between the audience and the panelists
Town Hall Flyer (17)

Peter Brötzmann & Heather Leigh Duo w/ Thom Nguyen @ The Mothlight
2017-06-12 21:00
21+, $15

Xpand Fest
2017-06-10 | Buxton Ave and Banks Ave, Asheville , NC
Asheville nonprofit Xpand Your Vision in partnership with C.H.A.I. Life Arts and the South Slope Neighborhood Association presents Xpand Fest outdoor street festival on June 10th on Banks and Buxton Avenues.
The event will feature local musicians, performance artists, a nonprofit arcade, art booths, a community enrichment project and discussions around sustainability to highlight the arts as innovative tools towards social advancement and change.
For more information xyvision.org or Xpand Fest on facebook and instagram.

Pabst Presents: SOUL Control - Al Lover & Harvey Leisure @ The Lazy Diamond
2017-06-09 22:00
21+, FREE
All night, all vinyl, badass soul dance party…$1 PBR’s

House and Land (Record Release Show) w/ Nathan Bowles, Emmalee Hunnicutt @ The Mothlight
2017-06-09 21:00
21+, $8

nest egg (recording live record), hidden ritual, acid reign @ The Mothlight
2017-06-07 21:00

Ben's Summer Music Bash
2017-06-04 12:00 - 23:30
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Ben’s Tune-Up New Home For Asheville Musicians
Downtown Asheville, NC – June 4th 2017 – Ben’s Tune-Up celebrates the diverse styles of music Asheville has to offer by booking only locally based acts for their new annual Summer Music Bash.
Music is the heartbeat of this town, I’ve been blown away by the talented musicians that I have had the honor of working with. Ernesta Carter – Music Coordinator Ben’s Tune-Up
With an eclectic line up featuring Headliners Push/Pull Strikes Brass and Andrew Scotchie and the River Rats Ben’s Summer Music Bash is posed to be one of the hottest events of the summer.
Ben’s Summer Music Bash is dedicated to keeping the tradition of music alive and accessible to all the children of Asheville, which is why they decided to have the event benefit Leaf Schools and Streets’ Burton St ONEmic Studio.
The Burton St ONEmic Studio features Teaching artists like Ben’s Summer Music Bash performers Lyric and Nex Millen and former Studio Manager and Teaching Artist, Music Bash Event Producer, Edward Link. The Burton St ONEmic Studio is a place where children can learn everything from Music Production, DJ skills, to Songwriting for little to no cost to their parents. For more information on the program please visit theleaf.org.

Mothers w/ Axxa/Abraxas @ The Mothlight
2017-06-03 21:30
21+, $10
Mothers began in 2013 as the solo project of Athens, Georgia-based visual artist Kristine Leschper while she studied printmaking at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Now a quartet, their debut album ‘When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired,’ released via Grand Jury Music and Wichita Recordings, has earned the young band high praise from the press, including from NPR Music (‘First Listen’), The New York Times, Pitchfork, The Guardian, NME (‘Radar’), and Q Magazine, among many others, while the band themselves have been included on numerous ‘Musicians to know’ lists for 2016 including from Stereogum, Vulture, Spotify, Paper Magazine and others. Comprised of eight original songs – the majority of which were written while Leschper was finishing art school in early 2014 – Mothers’ debut LP is an introduction to the foundations of the young band, a snapshot of a particular period of their genesis that maps both where they began and where they are heading.
Tumbling out of the mind of Asheville, NC resident Ben Asbury, Axxa/Abraxas oozes with psychedelic bursts of fuzz, organ and synth as a backdrop to solid, jangley pop tunes. After a number of early tape releases the first Axxa record was released in 2014 by Captured Tracks. 2017 will see the release of the 2nd Axxa LP, ‘Family Alta.

Meatbodies, Western Star @ The Grey Eagle
2017-06-01 22:00 - 23:30
All Ages, $10 ADV / $12 Day Of

Future Islands w/ Zack Mexico, Nervous Dupre
2017-06-01 21:00 - 23:30
18+, $20 ADV / $22 Day Of

Western Wednesdays w/ Hearts Gone South, Jon Hatchett @ The Double Crown
2017-05-31 20:00
21+. $5
Local lovelies Hearts Gone South and New Orleans based Jon Hatchett bring their best to the Double Crown on the last Wednesday of the month of May! Two power-house country acts in one night, this is not to be missed! Stick around after the bands for DJ Dave spinning Classic Country and Honky Tonk hits! 8pm get there on time! Food will be first come first served.
https://www.facebook.com/heartsgonesouth/
https://www.facebook.com/jonhatchettband/

Kikagaku Moyo w/ Al Lover, Acid Reign @ The Mothlight . FREE MEMORIAL DAY MONDAY!
2017-05-28 21:00
21+ FREE
Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様 (Japanese for Geometric Patterns) is the musical union between five free spirits. Go Kurosawa (drums, Vocals) and Tomo Katsurada (Guitar, Vocals) formed the band in 2012 as a free artist’s collective. They met Kotsuguy (Bass) while he was recording noise from vending machines and Akira (Guitar) through their university. Ryu Kurosawa had been studying Sitar in India, upon returning home he found the perfect outlet for his practice.
They recorded their first EP in a day and posted it to Bandcamp. On the other side of the world, a small label from Greece was listening and offered to press a limited run of LPs. Interest picked up through the blogging community and the band found tight group of dedicated fans around the globe. Since 2013 the band has released two full lengths, an EP, and several singles. They have toured Australia, the United States, Europe and Japan extensively. Kikagaku Moyo love to connect with people through performing, whether they are playing in a barn deep in a Swedish forest, on a desolate Mediterranean beach, or beside a sleepy river at 2014’s Levitation Fest they bring out the magic in everyone present.
Their latest release “House in the Tall Grass” (Guruguru Brain) was recorded in the winter of 2015/16 in Tokyo. Their delicate use of melody and soft vocal harmonies contrast seamlessly with fuzzed out sitar riffs and feedback. To Kikagaku Moyo a song is like a breath of wind through the leaves or a fish jumping from the water. Their music is a conversation—sometimes delicate and tender other times explosive, but always human and always changing.
w/ Al Lover
https://allover.bandcamp.com/
Acid Reign
(Members of Nest Egg)

Brody Hunt & The Handfuls, Bryan Marshall & His Payday Knights @ The Lazy Diamond
2017-05-25 22:00
21+, $5
-BRODY HUNT & THE HANDFULS- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65GLTUfchFA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyPu7lqCkLQ

-BRYAN MARSHALL & HIS PAYDAY KNIGHTS- classic country & western honky-tonk cover tunes from the 50’s-70’s era! Full band with pedal steel! Be sure to wear your two-steppin’ shoes.

Gospel Night with The Pilgrim Wonders @ The Double Crown
2017-05-25 22:00
21+. $10

Wayne "The Train" Hancock @ The Grey Eagle
2017-05-24 21:00 - 23:00
All Ages. $12 ADV/ $15 Day Of

Gringo Star w/ Shantih Shantih, Shaken Nature @ The Mothlight
2017-05-24 21:00
21+. $8 ADV/ $10 Day Of

Tobin Sprout (ex-Guided By Voices) w/ Elf Power @ The Mothlight
2017-05-23 21:00 - 23:30
21+, $12 ADV / $14 Day Of

Olga (LA), Simple Machines, Nguyen/Olson Duo @ The Lazy Diamond
2017-05-22 22:00
21+. $5 Suggested.

Drag Sounds/ Konvoi @ The Lazy Diamond
2017-05-21 22:00

Mac DeMarco, Tonstartssbandht, Boulevards OUTDOOR SHOW at The Meadow
2017-05-21 19:00 - 22:00
12 Old Charlotte Highway
All Ages – 12 and under requires venue approval
$25 ADV/ $28 Day Of

BASK (Ramble Beyond Record Release) w/ Nest Egg, HAAL @ The Mothlight
2017-05-20 21:30
21+. $10
BASK : Progressive; heavy; psychedelic; americana, have all been used to describe Bask. The truth, we are four musicians based in Asheville North Carolina who love making music. We want rhythm heard for miles, melodies remembered for weeks and an honesty and sincerity felt to your bones. Most of all we want you to listen without concern for what you are hearing. To listen only for the sake of hearing.
Esse Quam Videri,
-Bask
Nest Egg has already made a name for themselves with their amazing fog-heavy, zoned and honed live show. Warping minds and winning fans with their heady, atmospheric take on progressive, ethereal vibed-out rock music. Psychedelic when the mood turns mellow, but driving when they hit the gas and float the cosmic flux. Really, when you get right down to it, Nest Egg are bringing on a sound that few have had the ability to channel and refine with this level of mastery.

Sahba Sizdahkhani/ Falcon Mitts / Sarah Louise & Tashi Dorji Duo @ Downtown Books & News
2017-05-20 19:00 - 23:00
All Ages. $5-$10 Donations.
Sahba Sizdahkhani
Sahba is an Iranian musician currently based in California. His love affair with sound began at age 12, upon hearing The John Coltrane Quartet for the first time. Drums were his first instrument and led to performances with Peter Brotzmann, Miho Hatori (Cibo Matto), Mary Halvorson, Marc Ribot, and Sophia Knapp. He has recorded with bands on the imprints of Dischord Records, Southern Lord, and Drag City. Sahba launched his solo project recently, where he primarily plays 104-string custom Persian santour.
https://soundcloud.com/sahba13
http://www.sahbasizdahkhani.com/
Falcon Mitts
https://soundcloud.com/patrickkukucka/5514-halcon-falcon-mitts
Sarah Louise & Tashi Dorji Duo
Is a duo guitar improvisations

Sidewalk Surfers/Phantom Playboys/Shaken Nature @ Burger Bar
2017-05-19 21:00
21+ $5

Doug Tuttle (formerly MMOSS) w/ Nightlands, Livingdog @ The Mothlight
2017-05-17 21:00
21+. $7
*New Hampshire-native Doug Tuttle (ex-MMOSS) presents the follow-up to his 2013 solo debut self-titled album with It Calls On Me.
Eschewing the jittery, love-lorn anxiety of his first solo outing, It Calls On Me presents a decidedly more dreamy journey through softer, sun-burnt landscapes, while still showcasing Tuttle’s trademark masterful guitar-work and his very own brand of impeccably-crafted, fractured psychedelic pop.
*I Can Feel the Night Around Me, the third album from Philadelphia’s Nightlands, showcases Dave Hartley’s finely tuned ability to layer his voice and conjure some of the most beautiful and elaborate virtual choirs in modern music. If his first two records were vocal layering experiments, his third stands as Hartley’s thesis statement: “I was determined to use vocal stacking to enable my songwriting, not shroud or obscure it.”
He recorded most of the album alone in a cold warehouse basement, which he affectionately calls The Space — it’s where The War on Drugs (of whom Hartley has been a core member for the past decade) formerly rehearsed and stored their equipment. Indeed the music seems more geographically inspired by the microclimates of the Lost Coast and the moonrises of Big Sur than the post-industrial cityscape of North Philadelphia. Perhaps his periodic westward sojourns and healthy obsessions with mid-career Beach Boys albums and Denis Johnson’s Already Dead: A California Gothic were influencing him more than he was aware.
*Livingdog is the moniker under which Corey Robert Parlamento writes and performs his own unique brand of indie-folk music. Originally from South Florida, Parlamento spent some years away from song writing to travel and work. These experiences range from a life as a shepherd’s right hand in the Piemonte mountains of northwestern Italy tending to herds of goats and sheep, all the way to the life of an operating room orderly carrying severed limbs to laboratories in a hospital somewhere in the sun soaked mires of eastern South Florida. His music weaves in out of those two worlds. At one minute you could be a gentle breeze on pasture wheat in a cool Italian summer, and the next you could be a pool of blood on cold linoleum. But, whichever world of his you end up in, you still get a sense of the beauty that lives within it. Currently living in Asheville NC, Parlamento spends most of his time writing and recording. He has self-released two albums since his emergence in the Western North Carolina music scene.

Friends of Community Radio Board Meeting
2017-05-15 16:30 - 18:30, 2017-04-17 16:30 - 18:30 | AshevilleFM Studios, 864 Haywood Rd., Asheville, NC, 28806, United States

The Soul Shakedown
2017-05-06 18:00 - 21:00 | Boathouse Riverside Pavilion, 318 Riverside Drive, 318 Riverside Drive, Asheville, United States
Join Green Opportunities on Saturday, May 6, 2017 from 6:00-9:00 pm for the Second Annual Soul Shakedown by the River!

Come down to the Boathouse Pavilion at 318 Riverside Drive in Asheville’s River Arts District for a soul shakin’ party. Dance to the grooves of Asheville’s own Natural Born Leaders playing a mixture of funk, soul, reggae, and hip hop. There is musical performances by some of Green Opportunities’ all-star alumni, including GO Build members 18Bird (Eric Howell), Doug Dew (Doug Dewberry), Alpha Lee (Greg Lynch), and Siyah (Isa Whitaker).
The event will feature soul food favorites from Green Opportunities’ Southside Kitchen and Guest Chef Joe Scully of Chestnut and The Corner Kitchen.
Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door and include entertainment, food, and two drinks (wine or beer). All proceeds benefit Green Opportunities’ work to build a strong, inclusive workforce for Asheville by providing job training to adults facing employment barriers.
Green Opportunities would like to make the Soul Shakedown accessible for GO students and low-income community members, so please consider sponsoring an inclusivity ticket.
Ticket page and more info here.

Spring Pledge Drive
2017-04-29 - 2017-05-05
Tune in for our Spring Fund Drive and help us reach our on-air fundraising goals! Call now to make a pledge 828-259-3936. Or pledge online at www.ashevillefm.org/donate
