Band, Montell Jordan and Chubb Rock (May 29). Gladys Knight began singing with her siblings at age 8, calling themselves 'the Pips.' The group opened for R&B legends in the 1950s, then headed to Motown and crossed over to pop music. Notable concerts with special guests include Los Angeles’ Mother’s Day Evening of Soul with Patti LaBelle (May 8) and Concord, California’s Stone Soul Concert alongside Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Zapp, S.O.S. Then, Knight will perform solo shows in Westbury, New York (April 22), Pittsburgh (April 23), Nashville (April 25), Durham, North Carolina (April 26) and Ridgefield, Washington (May 12). Other acts scheduled to appear include Stephanie Mills and Howard Hewitt. Next up, she’ll share the stage with Patti LabBelle in Chicago (April 8) and St. Per nj.com, tickets to see Knight are available on StubHub, Vivid Seats, Ticketmaster, SeatGeek and MegaSeats. and world tour, and Knight will co-headline with Patti LaBelle on select dates. Sunday at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in Asheville, is a fundraiser for the Reynolds High School Community Foundation, which was. The night of music, which begins at 8 p.m. Meanwhile, t he ‘Midnight Train to Georgia’ singer has kicked off her U.S. So far, the event called An Evening With Gladys Knight and Friends has the superstar singer, country act Little Big Town and Asheville’s own Lyric on the bill. It’s also the venue of one of Asheville’s most popular nights: the Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions.READ MORE: Gladys Knight and Diana Ross Had 37-Year Feud Gladys Knight & Patti LaBelle Although many of the concerts are standing only, the hall hosts seated dinner shows too. Many top musicians have graced the concert hall, from Sam Bush to Taj Mahal, covering all genres, including jazz and Afrobeat. Today it is the home of the family-run Isis Music Hall & Kitchen. If that’s not enough, Citizen Vinyl also holds tours.īuilt in 1937 as a single-screen cinema, Isis Theater stopped showing movies 20 years later. One particular pleasure here is looking through the glass wall that separates the factory floor from the café and seeing the records being made. The social hub of the enterprise, though, is the Session Café & Bar, a coffee shop, bar and music venue that’s open from 09.00 to 21.00 daily and plays only vinyl – a music “menu” provides customers with a breakdown of the songs and albums of the day. Downstairs is the only record-pressing facility in North Carolina, as well as a shop selling vinyl, art and plants. Upstairs is a recording studio run by founder and producer Gar Ragland. Located in a 1938 building that was built as the home of local newspaper The Asheville Citizen-Times, Citizen Vinyl does many things at once. I’m a big believer in sharing the knowledge that you have and being part of the community. This includes performance and production as well as the business side. Inside/Out is about teaching the music business to urban artists. You also run the Inside/Out urban music workshop. It’s been amazing to see the range of the industry here, from musicians, recording studios and publicists to session players, graphic designers and lighting designers. Before the pandemic we hosted events every month and we do an educational programme. In 2015 you founded the non-profit Asheville Music Professionals (AMP).ĪMP has a database to help you find anything music related. And Michael Bublé’s saxophonist and trumpet player live here – two great musicians! We have people like Moses Sumney and Angel Olsen. Singer-songwriter Indigo De Souza is from here – she has an incredible voice. You can get a sense of that at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, an exhibition and performance space dedicated to preserving the history of its influential namesake college, founded in 1933. It feels like all of these artists who have been a part of this place have left their mark. Roberta Flack and Nina Simone lived here. Manchester Orchestra, The Avett Brothers, Zac Brown Band, Asheville Symphony, Flogging Molly, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers. Which artists have recorded at Echo Mountain? It’s pretty rare that you can do that in a town of 100,000 people. Between the music venues, breweries, hotels and restaurants, you can survive playing music without having to spend eight months on the road. Asheville is also one of the few places where you can make a living playing music. Yes, we have that here but we also have great electronic music and a decent hip-hop/rap scene. When people think about Western North Carolina, they think of the traditional music of Appalachia: folk music and bluegrass.
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