Fri 8/7 Beausoleil at White Horse Black Mountain

Friday August 7

Beausoleil with Michael Doucet

at White Horse Black Mountain

8pm

www.myspace.com/beausoleilcajunband

http://www.whitehorseblackmountain.com/

Once again, White Horse Black Mountain brings World Class and World Famous music to Black Mountain. This time it's the Grammy award winning cajun music of BeauSoleil. This band has played major halls and festivals in every corner of the globe and it's a real treat to have them perform in the intimate confines of White Horse Black Mountain.


A large crowd is anticipated and advance tickets are available.


Bandleader Michael Doucet is often credited as the key figure in popularizing Cajun music.Frequent performers on A Prairie Home Companion, host Garrison Keillordubbed BeauSoleil the worlds greatest Cajun band. In their live show, the Grammy winners present the best of Cajun musical traditions, filling dancefloors and exciting festival audiences everywhere.



Regarding their latest CD, Alligator Purse: BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, the best known and most highly respected Cajun band in the world, make their Yep Roc Records debut with the releaseof Alligator Purse, their first studio project since 2004. The inspired and eclectic disc features inventive reinterpretations of Cajun classics by suchLouisiana legends as Dennis McGee and Amédé Ardoin, as well as freshreworkings of songs by Muddy Waters and JJ Cale. Among the many guestsjoining the band for select tracks are Natalie Merchant, Garth Hudson, JohnSebastian, Happy and Artie Traum, Bill Keith, Jim Weider and Roswell Rudd.BeauSoleil have a Grammy win and 10 nominations over their 30-plus yearcareer and are one of the most frequent guests on National Public Radio'slegendary program, A Prairie Home Companion.

Aug 7-9 2009- Sourwood Festival Musical Entertainment

          2009 Sourwood Festival

Click HERE for info on the 2010 Sourwood festival


Since 1977, The Black Mountain Sourwood Festival has brought fun and entertainment to Black Mountain. In addition to the food and craft booths, the festival features local and regional musical entertainment throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday.

The festival, sponsored by the Black Mountain-Swannanoa Chamber of Commerce, is named after the regions important honey source, the Sourwood tree, which blooms in mid to late summer each year.


FRIDAY
5th Annual Sourwood Idol Contestsponsored by WNCW
Friday eventing 7-9
Single singing acts cash prize first $300 2nd $200 and third $100.



SATURDAY
10:00 am Jerry Pearson, vocalist - 50’s, 60’s, some Elvis
11:00 am Fuhmann & Susan Maffett - keyboard & flute
11:30 am Mountain Thunder Cloggers - Various ages
12:00 noon Country Music Duo – 2 acoustic guitars & vocals
1:00 Motownblue – William Stafford with Allen Green and group
1:50 Southern Mtn Smoke – Cloggers –various ages - Old Time Freestyle
2:10 Black Mtn. Ramblers – Jackie Moore band – Mountain Music
3:00 Song O’Sky Chorus – Sweet Adelines
3:30 Dance Spirations – Children and Youth – Ballet, Tap, Clogging
4:00 Dave Foraker – Keyboard Blues
4:30 Green Valley Cloggers
5:00 Sunshine Trio – Keyboard & vocals
6:00 The Moore Brothers – 11 yr. Jacob on mandolin, guitar & fiddle
7:00 Cheri Cagle – Vocalist – Jazz
8:00 Gary Cody – Guitar & vocalist
Evening – Dance with Gary and friends



SUNDAY
9:00-10:00 am 1st Baptist Church Youth
12:00 Psalms 100 – Gospel group
12:30 Gerard Freeman and group
1:00 FaithWalkers4 – Gospel quartet
2:00 Robert Swain and group – Buitar, base and bongo
3:00 KGB “Kurt’s Garage Band” – Scott Roy – Rock & Roll – 70’s, 80’s
3:30 Adrienne Weir - Vocalist
4:00 Jennifer James – Contemporary Christian
4:30 Gary Cody

Fri 8/7 Marsupial at Pisgah Brewing

Friday Aug 7

Marsupial

at Pisgah Brewing

8pm

http://marsupialmusic.com/
www.myspace.com/marsupialband
http://www.pisgahbrewing.com/

MarsupiaL's special blend of progressive rock, jam-band, southern roots and jazz transcends any preconceived classification. Mick Skidmore of Relix Magazine explains, “The band operates as a tight-knit family and has a common philosophy of crossing all available musical boundaries. In the past five years, this quartet has created a buzz around the southeast U.S. with an eclectic vision that melds an improv-heavy mix of jazz-rock and progressive rock with superior melodic content".

Now, with the eminent release of MarsupiaL's fourth CD, 'Genus Thylacinus’, on March 24, 2009 the band is being touted as "One of the nation's brightest stars in the prog-rock scene."
"In addition to making a name for itself through powerful live shows, MarsupiaL is quickly earning a reputation as one of the most thoughtful recording artists in the prog-rock field, earning comparisons to national acts such as Umphrey's McGee," says the Mountain Times. The band's 2006 release 'Curtains' garnered rave reviews worldwide from critics and fans alike, and quickly became a favorite on WNCW's 'Arc Overnight' program. This follows the success of 'Moby Fleck', an album that landed in the top 20 regional albums for the year 2006.



REVIEWS:

One of the hardest working and certainly most talented bands swimming in the crowded and competitive Asheville music pool, MarsupiaL is a nimble crew achieving (and deserving) to explode onto the southern jam seas.A highly effective prog ..n' rock dual-guitar attack, MarsupiaL has tightened and Seasoned it's epic rock the old fashioned way: Via metric tons of live gigs and touring over the last three years-plus. Indeed, the practice has paid off, as these guys exhibit a penchant for tight, directed epic jamming with a purpose.

Stuart Gaines ~ Honest Tune Magazine

MarsupiaL creates a combination of hook-laden rock and roll to tightly composed yet loosely flowing jams.The songs that expand your mind on disc possess your synaptic functions entirely when being interpreted live. From the opening jam of the lush Why Are These Pillows Following Ye, off of their debut dancing about architecture, through to the hour-long, 5 song second set MarsupiaL sets the music blazing. Time signatures change and combine with a stunning rapidity, solos flare and die and songs become moving targets.

Dave Terpeny ~ Kyndmusic.com

The band operates as a tight-knit family and has a common philosophy of crossing all available musical boundaries. In the past five years this quartet has created a buzz around the southeast U.S. with an eclectic musical vision that melds an improv-heavy mix of jazz-rock and progressive rock with a superior melodic content. This is an outfit with much promise.

Mick Skidmore ~ Relix Magazine

Thu 8/6 Secret B-Sides at Pisgah Brewing

Thursday Aug 6

The Secret B-Sides

at Pisgah Brewing

8pm

Based in the bohemian stronghold of Asheville, North Carolina, the Secret B-Sides produce a fresh new sound, rooted in the classic feel of Soul music and updated with the sensibilities of Hip Hop and modern R&B.


The Secret B-Sides groove is built on the danceable core of drums and electric bass, laid down by Robin Tolleson (Mr. T,) and Shayne Heather, respectively. Juan Holladay contributes fly lyrical play, and compositional chocolate à la nylon-stringed, electric guitar and vinyl-smooth vocals. Hammond organ, Wurlitzer, Clavinet, and Voyager keys are all tastefully dealt by the Jeff K'norr, like yummy sugar sprinkles. Usually in cohorts with the Big Time Horns section, and most likely conspiring with Charles Stewart (the one you know as CHACH) the B-sides are able to create a multifaceted sound aggregate from a talent pool sometimes adding up to eight or more members at any given point in the time-space-attitude continuum. You can think of the B-Sides like a giant, purple crystal patch nestled deep in Asheville's subterrania, if you want to.



http://www.myspace.com/entertheboom

Sat 8/1 Mariam Matossian at White Horse Black Mtn

Saturday August 1 2009

Mariam Matossian

and Free Planet Radio

8pm

http://www.mariammatossian.com/
http://www.freeplanetradio.com/
http://www.whitehorseblackmountain.com/

Mariam Matossian - Nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award (Outstanding World Music Album of the Year for her album In the Light) and two Canadian Folk Music Awards (Traditional Album of the Year for In the Light and Best New/Emerging Artist) in 2008, Mariam Matossian is an example of the musical treasures that exist in the world next door.



Vancouver born and raised, Mariam has been collecting traditional Armenian folk songs and creating her own melodies since she was a child and initially, singing them mainly in her community. Most of the traditional songs she sings have been passed down through her family – songs that have been favourites of her grandmother and her mother, and now they have become her own favourites. With over ten years of training in classical voice, Mariam brings the range and control of a classical singer to the spontaneity and passion of the folk tradition and combines the two to produce a synthesis that has earned her rave reviews from everyone who has heard her.


With a voice that’s been described as “uniquely lilting”, “mesmerizing” and “innocent”, this rising artist is fast making a name for herself, and the rich music traditions of her Armenian heritage are finding a new and appreciative audience. Mariam has been featured on CBC Radio and Radio Canada many times and her concerts have been recorded by the CBC and broadcast nationally across Canada.


In 1998, she travelled to Armenia, the first member of her family to set foot in the Homeland. She volunteered for an English language newspaper there and through that work, learned about the plight of the many street children. In 2002, she took a leave of absence from her teaching career to return to Armenia to work with these children. It was during this time that Mariam’s passion for singing met her new commitment to bring attention to contemporary Armenia. When she returned to Vancouver, she continued to perform the songs she had learned from her family and songs she had learned in Armenia, including those taught to her by some of the children she had worked with in Yerevan.


Free Planet Radio based in Asheville, NC is becoming one of the most exciting partnerships in world music today.Their world-jazz-classical fusion is a trans-cultural canvas that is at times deeply reflective and at other times rhythmically mind-bending.

This ensemble is composed of River Guerguerian, Armenian-Egyptian born in Canada, an award-winning multi-percussionist / composer whose lyrical percussion style earned him a long-standing tenure with Turkish flutist virtuoso Omar Faruk Tekbilek; Eliot Wadopian, a two-time Grammy-award winner, proficient on string and electric basses, a 17 year member of the Paul Winter Consort. He’s also worked with Hal Galper, Glen Velez, and Eugene Friesen; Chris Rosser, an accomplished pianist, composer / producer, renown for his outstanding performances on a variety of indigenous stringed instruments. He studied under the master Ali Akbar Khan.
These artists emerged from three of the country's finest conservatories, and have established themselves in concert halls and studios, appearing on over 250 recordings and in 30 countries. Their individual talents have garnered worldwide recognition in Carnegie Hall, the Hong Kong World Music Festival, the Sydney Opera House, and the Madrid International Jazz Festival.

Sat 8/1 South 85 at Town Pump Tavern

Saturday Aug 1

South 85

at Town Pump Tavern

8:30pm

www.myspace.com/townpumptavernllc
http://www.south85.com/

With roots deep in the Carolinas, South85 blends country, folk, southern rock, and bluegrass to give you a listening experience that you won't soon forget. Driven by the original songwriting of Kathy Osborne and the voice of Tracy Wyatt, South85 is in a classification all their own - radio worthy songs along with an atmosphere of a back-porch jam.


The marked “cowgirl” attitude and lifestyle exemplified by both Tracy and Kathy is interwoven throughout songs of independence, celebration of the south, hope, and plain old fun. South85’s sound is influenced by southern rock legends like Marshall Tucker Band, the Black Crowes, cross-genre Americana artists Old Crowe Medicine Show, Gillian Welch, and the sweet southern classics such as Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn. The band may blend a rocking electric stratocaster with a banjo or ease an acoustic ballad with dobro and mandolin with their varied sounds and themes.

Sat 8/1 Funkuponya at Pisgah Brewing

Saturday August 1

Funkuponya

at Pisgah Brewing

7pm

http://www.pisgahbrewing.com/
http://www.funkuponya.com/index.html

Funkuponya, a quartet based out of Raleigh, North Carolina was formed by a chance meeting off Craigslist in the spring of 2008. Featuring Doug Carter on guitar, Brian Werner on keys, Leo Kishore on bass, and Carl Blackwell on drums, the band strives to create ear catching melodies mixed with heated improvised jams, resulting in a rhythmic experience that keeps the body moving. Polished guitar mingles with stratospheric keyboards to keep the audience on their toes. All the while, the no-nonsense rhythm section keeps the music honest and forward-moving. These are the new guys on the Southeast funk and jam scene.

Sat 8/1 Blair Crimmins at Beacon Pub

Sat August 1

Blair Crimmins & the Hookers,

with Richard Barrett& friends

and Lyndsay Wojcik

at Beacon Pub

9pm

http://www.blaircrimminsandthehookers.com/

"With a smile and a glint in his eye, Blair Crimmins entices listeners into his world. Songs jump with a 1920's gaudiness, reminiscent of tawdry, dangerous jazz. A multi-instrumentalist, he delivers off-kilter piano lines and rapid guitar strum, but tenor banjo, ukulele and accordion aren't out of the question. While devious lyrics can mirror the sinister Charlestons they accompany, Crimmins also has a grab bag of unjaded torch songs at his disposal, spotlighting the loneliness of a life spent in the shadows." - Independent Weekly