Once More, With Feeling
Hendersonville resident Emily Bodley, who was an opening act at the Downtown Rhythm & Brews Concert Series this year, is charismatically effervescent, and has…
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Rambling Back Home
Asheville- and Brevard-based bluegrass phenoms Steep Canyon Rangers are six players strong, four (very major) awards deep, and many decades immersed in the culture…
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It’s Summertiiiiime … and the Living is Bluesy
For a long time now, Brevard in summer has been synchronous with the Brevard Music Festival, a six-week-long classical-music institution that showcases some 80…
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Saluda Music Booker Has His Bands’ Backs
Robert Seiler grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and developed a love for this area while attending camp at Lake Summit as a child. After…
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Soul Survivor
“When we finish a show we want to be tired. We want to be really tired because we want to let it all out,”…
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Turning the Songbag Inside Out
Once a year, the Carl Sandburg Folk Music Festival celebrates a side of the icon some may be less familiar with — Sandburg the…
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Pack Mentality
They named their band after the leader of a wolf pack that terrorized Paris in 1450. But that gothic tale doesn’t quite fit Courtaud’s…
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Guitarist Eric Congdon picks from a world of influences
Eric Congdon had to feel a bit tired, but he wasn’t letting on. The morning after a late jam session in Brevard, the guitarist…
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Key of B(ares)
“I guess you could say it’s unashamedly artistic,” concedes Dr. William Bares, describing The Asheville Art Trio, his latest musical project with bassist Mike…
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Around the World for Roots
“I heard a lot of Bach and Bartók in the womb,” says Chris Rosser, trying to explain a lifelong interest in music spanning many…
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