Friday, March 28, 7.30 PM, Diana Wortham Theatre, Asheville
Tickets: $35 and $30 (students and seniors) www.dwtheatre.com or 828-257-4530

Robert Bly is returning to Asheville by popular demand! Come enjoy a heartfelt and lively evening of Love Poetry from around the world (including poems by Rumi and Hafez) with award-winning poet, gifted translator, and celebrated storyteller Robert Bly. He will be accompanied by the lyrical music of Asheville’s own Free Planet Radio. This world-fusion group features Grammy award-winning bassist Eliot Wadopian, percussionist River Guerguerian, and multi-instrumentalist Chris Rosser.

Ya’ll know I love some Robert Bly (http://katbox.freakinuniverse.com/2008/01/29/i-love-this-poem/ ). And some Rumi.  So hook me up with tickets already. Amen.

The River Fest Sculptures will be coming down soon and everyone who hasn’t gotten out to the Amboy dog park (i think officially the French Broad park) there at Amboy and Riverview should soon if they can. This year had some great sculptures and some that moved around and a new addition in the middle - such as the one on the left here. This one’s a new one from Brian Glaze done in aluminum.

There were also some great dance and performance events surrounding the sculptures and Robert Winkler did a wonderful job of coordinating the installation and events surrounding these. Since they’re technically “in a floodplain” the sculptors can only get a permit for several months at a time rather than make anything permanent.

Come see them before they go!

Cit-Times….Chalk it up to the Grinch – Downtown Countdown, the city-sponsored family-friendly New Year’s Eve celebration, has been canceled. And the annual fireworks show is also in jeopardy, unless the city can find a sponsor to cover the $20,000 tab.

The Dec. 31 event, produced by Asheville Parks and Recreation, is being dropped due to low attendance, the possibility of bad weather and ongoing downtown construction.

Downtown Countdown grew out of the much larger First Night Asheville celebration, which featured several dozen performances at venues all over the city. That event was discontinued in 2003. Last year’s Downtown Countdown Downtown Countdown featured a battle of the bands and a fireworks show.OAS_AD(’ArticleFlex_1′);

Event organizers will do research to decide the future of a city New Year’s Eve celebration. Meanwhile, the department is searching for a business sponsor for a fireworks show this year. Any business interested in the sponsorship should contact Asheville’s festivals director Melissa Porter before Nov. 20 at 259-5689.

New work by Industree House & Ship to Shore
Saturday November the 10th at 6:05pm sharp
in front of the Fine Arts Theater in downtown Asheville (36 Biltmore Avenue)
. The gala will emulate the Hollywood glamour of the red carpet, bringing a sense of big city style to this little mountain town. Starlets, rockstars and models will be styled and outfitted by local designers, Paul Olszewski of Industree House (www.industreehouse.com), and R. Brooke Priddy of Ship to Shore (www.shiptoshoreshop.com). Exceptionally stylish rides will be provided by Lowriders of Asheville, bringing the starlets to the carpet in style. Live music mixing and sound collage will be provided by 2KLEEN (www.searchwielder.com) Security provided by the Asheville Grizzlies.
Check out a film, and stay for the show. See you there.

Jazz at Reuter Center for Jazz Composers Forum

Sunday Oct 28th

The Non-Profit Jazz Composers Forum presents Jazz icon Burton Greene on Sunday, October 28^th 4:00 PM . The concert will be at the Reuter Center on the campus of UNCA as part of the Jazz at Reuter Center series. The concert will feature the original music of Greene, who will play the first set solo and be joined in the second set by pianist Bill Gerhardt, bassist Mike Holstein and saxophonist Aimee Sullivan.

Originally from Chicago, Burton began his long career of many recordings and performances in New York´s legendary jazz scene of the 1960’s. He and Bassist Alan Silva contributed to the beginnings of free jazz in New York with the formation of their Free Form Improvisation Ensemble in 1963. He also co-founded the East West Trio with Indian sitarist Jamaluddin Bhartiya and percussionist Daoud Amin in 1973, one of the first World Music groups. In the last 17 years he’s been busy with his klezmer, Sephardic, Balkan jazz ensemble Klezmokum, and various jazz solo, trio or quartet combinations. He also has a solo orchestral electronics program, teaches jazz, world music workshops, and lectures.

Greene is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and performs periodically in New York. The Jazz Composers Forum and Asheville are lucky to have such a world class musician perform here.

For tickets and more information visit www.jazzcomposersforum.org

Price: $20, $10 for students under 25 yrs with ID

Date & Time: Sunday October 28^th 4:00 PM

Location: Reuter Center on the Campus of UNCA

A really great group is playing this weekend….

Charlotte St. Computers’s Greg Mayer is a great guy…They help keep all our ducks in a row.

This movie is very odd….Old Greg…

At the Emerald Lounge starts at 10pm

Martin Luther King Jr ballfield.

12-7p.m.

Sold out.

Family Activity Day at Bookworks on Haywood Rd.
September 22
Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Explore the art of the book! Enjoy a variety of bookish activities for all ages.