Ages 11-14
Drop off and pick up at the Oakley Center.
Spend the day canoeing along a beautiful section of the French Broad River in Asheville. Canoers must be able to swim and feel comfortable in a canoe. Trip may change due to water levels.
Outdoor Recreation
Christine Murawski 828-251-4029
outdoorprograms@ashevillenc.gov
FREE and Fun for All Ages!
Join us at the Edneyville Library for a monthly sing-a-long. We get together the 3rd Monday of each month. All ages are welcome! Sing, strum, or just tap your toes!
For more information, contact the Edneyville Library at 685-0110.
To honor of our friends at Asheville Pinball Museum and their 3rd anniversary, we will be showing The Last Starfighter on the BIG screen! One night only, 8/25/16 at 7pm. $3 tickets available at our 675 Merrimon Avenue location starting 8/20/16.
Receive one free kid’s entrée with the purchase of each adult entrée. Free entrée valid for kids 12 and under on items from the “Just for Kids” menu, for a limited time at participating locations only. Drinks not included unless otherwise specified. Not valid with any other discounts or coupons. Dine-in only. For a limited time.
On Saturday, September 24th at 5:30pm come out to the Town Center and enjoy TRAC’s 31st Annual Music In The Mountains Folk Festival. The Festival is “dedicated to the preservation of mountain music and culture” and includes bluegrass and traditional music, ballad singers, storytellers, and dancing.
This years festival will honor Bob Lominac
Enjoy performances by Bobby McMillon, Will Ritter & Sarah Ogletree, JC’s Most Wanted and many more! Tickets available at either TRAC Gallery. Call 828-682-7215 or 828-765-0520. Visit toeriverarts.org for more information.
Buy your tickets through Friday, September 26 and save $2. Tickets are available at either TRAC Gallery (Burnsville at 102 W. Main St. or Spruce Pine at 269 Oak Avenue).
Our mission is to bring together authors, readers of all ages, novice writers, listeners and learners in small, intimate settings. We are a festival of readers who appreciate discussing the ideas in literature.
Jump on this rare opportunity to train with Chinese Acrobatics coach Lin Junming! He’s the real deal, y’all. Lin was in the circus for 20 years. Check out his website for his incredible credentials. $15 for handstands, tumbling, and pyramids.
On Tuesday August 27th all day on Merrimon The Hop will be celebrating its 41st Birfday, and our 11th Anniversary as owners! And, as is our custom, we will be giving away Free Kiddie Scoops of Ice Cream to anyone who walks in the door!!! That is our way to say Thank You for the many years of amazing love and support.
Asheville artists Melissa Engler and Graeme Priddle will demonstrate wood turning techniques as well as various applications of surface design that take turned objects to new levels. Both Graeme and Melissa are accomplished artists individually but also collaborate on sculptural works in their shared studio space at Grovewood.
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Watch Asheville artist Yvonne Engler demonstrate the mesmerizing, time-honored art of weaving. On a traditional foot-powered loom, she will skillfully compose an assortment of intricate patterns using an array of colors and fibers. Yvonne studied fiber arts with a concentration on weaving at Haywood Community College in Clyde, NC.
The Carolina Cud Chewers are a Carolina stringband devoted to preserving the force and beauty of classic performances made by musicians active in the recording of 78 RPM records in the 1920’s & 30’s. From their base of operations in Asheville, NC; Carolina Cud Chewers travel “all over” to play their traditional brand of Carolina String Band music. Although they do perform some of the old fiddle tunes from Southern Appalachia, they are at their best when performing the “white country blues” and “rural ragtime” of the mountains and the Piedmont.
Influenced by great Carolina stringbands of the 1920’s such as Charlie Poole And The North Carolina Ramblers, The Carolina Tarheels, and Wilmer Watts And His Lonely Eagles, the Cud Chewers play a variety of historic songs from traditional and popular sources. The Cud Chewers play music from a time of transition, when the rural South was becoming industrialized and for the first time musicians who had lived in relative isolation, found themselves playing with other musicians and creating what we now call country music.
More of a gang than a band, the instrumentation variously includes finger-style banjo, bowed cello, Hawaiian guitar, Spanish guitar, blue yodeling, mandolin, musical saw, bones, and fiddle. The Cud Chewers are led by core members Brody Hunt and Antone Costa, members of the semi defunct band, Blind Boy Chocolate And The Milk Sheiks. Their attention to historic detail along with their powerful singing and playing really makes them one of “Carolina’s Best!
Thursday, September 8, 2016
7 p.m. The Carolina Cud Chewers in Concert, Lipinsky Auditorium. Opening performance by the UNC Asheville Blue Grass Ensemble.