WOMANSONG INVITES YOU to Our December Concert, “Lead With Love”
Womansong, Asheville’s largest and longest-running women’s community chorus, invites you to our winter concert, “Lead with Love”, this year performing with outstanding local chanteuse, Peggy Ratusz and singer/songwriter, Kathryn O’Shea.
WOMEN WHO MADE MUSIC HISTORY Concerts Crowd Funding Update! THANK YOU!!!
We’ve created a 7 minute slide show video that chronicles our journey thus far. It beautifully illustrates how your past donations have changed, and your future donations will continue to change, our lives for the better. With your generosity, friends, family and fans, see in this video how we’ve been able to set our dreams in motion. This is a pictorial account of your hard earned and philanthropic contributions to Women Who Made Music History Concerts, LLC, in action!
2018 Outstanding Woman State Legislator Supporting the Arts Award – Becky Carney D-NC
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Women in Government (WIG) Select North Carolina State Representative Becky Carney as the 2018 Recipient of the “Outstanding Woman State Legislator Supporting the Arts” Award
EQUAL MEANS EQUAL CAMPAIGN NATIONWIDE The push is on to have the ERA Ratified in the U.S. NOW!
MAGNETIC THEATRE a theatre dedicated to original works
MAGNETIC THEATRE is a not-for-profit production company that gives original works and the people who make them a home to share with enthusiastic audiences. We are proud to be the only professional theatre in the southeast (that we know of) dedicated to world premieres, and one of the few in the country. Click here: See what’s going on at the Magnetic Theatre!
NORTH CAROLINA STAGE COMPANY
NC Stage Company has been voted best local theatre 8 out of the past 9 years in the Mountain Xpress Best of WNC Poll. NC Stage was also recently awarded the American Theatre Wing National Theatre Company Grant.
HART Haywood Arts Regional Theatre
Welcome to one of the treasures of Western North Carolina. The Haywood Arts Regional Theatre, founded in 1985, is a volunteer-based community theatre showcasing the talents of the people of the region. HART, under the leadership of Executive Director Steven Lloyd, has grown into one of the most active theatres in the Southeast, producing a year-round schedule of plays and musicals from its home, The Performing Arts Center at the Shelton House. Opened in 1997, and funded by the support of people throughout the community, HART’s home is a stunning facility constructed in the style of the traditional Summer Stock playhouses of the 1920’s. Architect Joe Sam Queen and builder Pat Burgin used native materials to create a facility that is both grand and informal. Click here for seasonal shows Haywood Arts Regional Theater
FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE 2018
Flat Rock Playhouse, the State Theatre of North Carolina, enriches lives through the art of theatre by nurturing talent, inspiring creativity, and encouraging growth.
Asheville Listen Live!
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Featured Artist: DAVID LA MOTTE
LaMotte’s first album in a decade offers twelve new songs played by three dozen musicians from six continents. A fusion of cultural influences, from blues to bluegrass and from Latin to African, are mixed together by LaMotte and his two co-producers, Chris Rosser and Tom Prasada-Rao, to create an aural travelogue that mirrors LaMotte’s own geographical journey in the last ten years. The songs are also informed by his personal journey—becoming a father, living and working around the world, and exploring his own capacity for positive impact in questions of justice and peace.
AN ANTHEM ESPECIALLY FOR YOU: a KebMo and Roseanne Cash Duet, “Put a Woman in Charge”
GRAMMY-award winning blues artist Keb’ Mo’ has released a new track titled, “Put A Woman In Charge” featuring Rosanne Cash eldest daughter of country star Jonny Cash and lyrics written by Beth Nielsen Chapman.
UNCA Cultural Events Series and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary program, offering core courses in WGSS as well as related electives from a variety of departments across campus. The program is designed to offer perspectives on the experiences of women, the effects of the construction of gender and of sexuality in our society.
Aretha Franklin Queen of Soul laid to rest in Detroit. “Make Love Great Again!”
Stevie Wonder’s full performance. “Make love great again!”
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Jennifer Holliday and choir help Aretha climb higher.
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DIFFERENT STROKES Performing Arts Collective
Click here for our Current Season Shows
Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective Inc. is a 501(c) 3 certified non-profit organization which purposes to increase and sustain opportunities for more diversity within the Western North Carolina performing arts community, by producing, and working with other performance artists or groups to present works which confront issues of social diversity in a provocative way; and by providing opportunities for audiences to explore visions of our diverse world.
BLUE RIDGE MUSIC TRAILS of North Carolina – Events
Click here for Events Listing: Blue Ridge Music Trails Events and places of interest.
| Wednesday night bluegrass at the Ugly Dog Pub in Highlands Monday night music at the Tasty Weasel Taproom in Brevard and…need a holiday gift idea??? How about the Beautiful Blue Ridge Calendar? It WILL fit in a stocking! All proceeds support the work of the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area, including The Blue Ridge Music Trails. |
SART Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, Mars Hill
The Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre is dedicated to presenting theatre of the highest professional quality thereby enriching the Southern Appalachian Region through artistic programming, education, and outreach.
Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre
P.O.Box 1720 / 44 College Street
Mars Hill, NC 28754
Business Office 828.689.1384
Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre
WNC LEGACY: PERFORMING ARTS Lytingale Wanted to Sing Folk Music. Her Songs Still Echo the Ethos of the 1970s
FREE PLANET RADIO – World Music Today
Since 2001, Free Planet Radio has been bringing its exciting and innovative world-jazz-classical music blend to both concert stages and classrooms. Based in Asheville NC, this musical partnership began with a clear mission statement as “the shared vision of three multi-instrumentalists exploring the infinite and seamless relationships between musical cultures through the universal language of sound.”
PAN HARMONIA receives 2 grants from the North Carolina Arts Council for its 2017-2018 season!
A NCAC Project Support grant helps to fund November’s program “Americana” and in March, “JS Bach’s 333rd Birthday Bash plus Joseph Boulogne, aka The Black Mozart.” This funding is actually federal monies, as comes to NCAC from the National Endowment for the Arts.
ASHEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Concerts and Masterworks Series
The Asheville Symphony Orchestra performs and promotes symphonic music for the benefit, enjoyment and education of the people of Western North Carolina. The Asheville Symphony was established in 1960. At that time, all musicians performed on a volunteer basis and the Symphony was without a resident conductor or manager.
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