Music

They call what they do Pre-War Electric Blues — referring to an era of musical changes around World War II. ” It’s that mix…

He felt trapped in a life that required the big paycheck to pay the big mortgage to keep the marriage rolling, and it all…

Lyric owes a lot of her current success to her days busking on the streets of Asheville. If she could, she’d still be doing…

Driving back from their first out-of-town shows in 1997, Lazybirds would take advantage of the open early-morning airwaves to dial in the “Blues Before…

Blues master Mac Arnold and his band, Plate Full O’ Blues, will once again headline the Bids & Blues event to benefit the Hendersonville…

Guitarist Shane Parish (formerly Perlowin) was a teenager when he informed a relative that his goal in life was “to explore music.” “I was…

Nitrograss could rely solely on musicianship. Its mix of dizzying bluegrass originals and newgrass classic-rock send-ups — from The Kinks to Dire Straits —…

“For me it always comes back to making people dance,” says guitarist Silas Durocher. “That’s really The Get Right Band’s sole mission.” When people…

The band is named for a particular mountain ridge in the county where the five members of Balsam Range grew up. “We’re Haywood County…

April brings many joys (well, maybe not on the 15th) as the last of a sullen winter blows away and green replaces gray as…