Strings to Come
North Carolina Guitar Celebration ushers in a new era at Brevard Music Center Though he’s closely associated with the Nashville session scene, bluegrass/Americana musician and…
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Laid Back, On Fire
Randall Bramblett returns with a new album and no compromises The music business has a built-in tendency to categorize artists: they’re a rocker, a…
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Batons and Ballots
Musicians and audience members will help choose new director/conductor By: Margaret Butler With a lift of the baton — or three — Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra…
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The Pipes of May
Spring concert features newly refurbished organ When the organ at St. John in the Wilderness bursts forth for this month’s American Guild of Organists concert,…
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Six Centuries of Consensus
Achieving mesmerizing vocal harmony without a conductor What multiple Grammy Award nominee Stile Antico does is unusual enough that it’s best to go right…
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The Show Must Go On (With a Different Name)
Local theater rebrands for 2022 For the past two years, live theater shows in Hendersonville have been few and far between, putting both a…
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Springing Back Into Theater
Bold Life celebrates the solid return of live theater this month with stories about events at three local companies. Hendersonville Theatre emerged from the…
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All Ears
Chatham Rabbits have crafted ingenious ways to connect with their listeners Chatham Rabbits is the wife-and-husband duo of Sarah and Austin McCombie, who named their…
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They Really Were There
Sixties band brings nostalgic fans up to 40 songs per night There’s an old saying — attribution unknown — that “if you remember the…
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Someone Like You
By: Margaret Butler Tryon Little Theater presents characters over caricatures in Gospel musical It’s the summer of 1938, and nestled in the Smoky Mountains of…
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