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Friday, May 7th |
Human Trafficking is a global phenomenon. It is the fastest growing crime in the world! There are currently over 27 million people enslaved today and 80% of them are female. The victims are young as 4 years old and on average 14. This is why Tears of Color has been launched. This is an initiative by locals in the community of Asheville who want to do something about this horrific injustice using their creativity and art. This is also an opportunity for you, the individual, to raise your hand to make a difference. You can submit your artwork, purchase tickets and artworks at the gallery or simply donate. The proceeds will be going to our local shelter for victims of human trafficking; the Hope House and our global initiative; The A21Campaign. Join us for an evening you will never forget! |
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Monday, May 10th |
JABALI AFRICAN ACROBATS OF KENYA will put on a special family-friendly, community outreach performance on the Monday after LEAF, May 10th, 2010. Originating in Mombassa, Kenya these talented acrobats/artists have thrilled audiences of all ages with their unique display of athleticism, art, movement, and acrobatic majesty. This breath-taking performance exemplifies the link between athletics and the arts as incredible acrobatics, contortions, tumbling, human pyramids, and chair balancing skill of these performers turns to dance with the Congo Snake Dance, the Flamingo Limbo Bar Dance, Skip Rope Footwork techniques and comedy to electrifying music. Audience participation is always included. |
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Tuesday, May 11th |
In a career that has already spanned a half-century, Jorma Kaukonen has been the leading practitioner and teacher of fingerstyle guitar, one of the most highly respected interpreters of American roots music, blues, and Americana, and at the forefront of popular rock-and-roll. He was a founding member of two legendary bands, The Jefferson Airplane and the still-touring Hot Tuna, a Grammy nominee, a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the most in-demand instructor in the galaxy of stars who teach at the Fur Peace Ranch Guitar Camp that he and his wife operate in picturesque Southeastern Ohio. A singular performer/writer/arranger, David Bromberg's remarkable musical versatility and innovative resourcefulness have earned vast critical and popular acclaim. He is also impossible to classify: As one critic perceptively wrote, "David Bromberg fits no pigeonholes. He is part of everything contemporarily musical. He is a product of blues, country, jazz, folk, and classical music. From his early success as a guitar virtuoso, Mr. Bromberg has developed into a brilliant entertainer." |
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plus Fitz & The Tantrums |
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings have come a long way since their humble beginnings nearly a decade ago. Steeped within the gilded and gritty sounds of gospel, soul and funk, this nine-piece Brooklyn collective has continued to electrify fans, disc jockeys, critics, record collectors, and bloggers the world-over with their authentic, heart-felt sound. The authenticity clearly demonstrated on the band’s three critically-acclaimed albums – Dap Dippin’ (2002), Naturally (2005) and 100 Days, 100 Nights (2007) – captured and released by the independent Daptone Records. Their albums recall an analog era led by iconic studios like those at Motown and Stax Records, and have thrust the fifty-three-year-old Augusta, GA native and crew into the multimedia limelight. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings have appeared on CNN, Good Morning New York, MTV News, VH1, Conan O’Brien, Craig Ferguson, David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon, BBC Television, NPR radio shows like Morning Edition and Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and have been covered in a slew of publications, from personal blogposts all the way to feature stories in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, the Associated Press, Interview, the Village Voice, and Entertainment Weekly.
Music video for "100 Days, 100 Nights" |
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plus Big B, Tomorrows Bad Seeds & Dirty Penny |
Growing up in Santa Cruz California was a laid back experience for The Expendables: surf, skate, party and play music. Since 1997 The Expendables have staked their claim in the California surf rock genre. Blending Reggae, Punk Rock, and 80s style dueling guitar solos The Expendables have been turning heads for years. Meet the band, Geoff Weers (Guitars and Vocals), Adam Patterson (Drums and Vocals), Raul Bianchi (Lead Guitar) and Ryan DeMars (Bass). Their first release in 2000 “No Time to Worry” became an instant summer time classic with songs like the dub reggae “Right Time” and their punk rock favorite “Fire starter”. The band followed up with the release of “Open Container” in 2001 yielding such songs as the dance friendly “24/7” and their ode to one night stands simply titled “One Night Stand”. As the band began to gain respect and recognition regionally the band decided to record their third full length album, “Gettin’ Filthy” which included fan favorites, “Bowl for two” and “Sacrifice”. |
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In the summer and fall of 2005, three young black musicians, Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson, made the commitment to travel to Mebane, N.C., every Thursday night to sit in the home of old-time fiddler Joe Thompson for a musical jam session. Joe was in his 80’s, a black fiddler with a short bowing style that he inherited from generations of family musicians. He had learned to play a wide ranging set of tunes sitting on the back porch with other players after a day of field work. Now he was passing those same lessons on to a new generation. When the three students decided to form a band, they didn’t have big plans. It was mostly a tribute to Joe, a chance to bring his music back out of the house again and into dance halls and public places. They called themselves The Chocolate Drops as a tip of the hat to the Tennessee Chocolate Drops, three black brothers Howard, Martin and Bogan Armstrong, who lit up the music scene in the 1930’s. Honing and experimenting with Joe’s repertoire, the band often coaxed their teacher out of the house to join them on stage. Joe’s charisma and charm regularly stole the show. |
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with The Cheap Whiskey Band & County Farm |
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plus Norma Jean, Cancer Bats & Kings Of Prussia |
Apocalyptic meteor showers. Merciless and indiscriminant retro-viral transmission. Political espionage. Systematic elimination of multi-cultural nation-states, Every Time I Die and rampant corporate funded ecocide. Only one of these phrases is exempt from the nightmarish mural that American culture has fashioned with its pitiless hands and titled "Reality", which we display indefinitely in the halls of our nations consciousness. That phrase is "apocalyptic meteor showers", as it is actually part of a piece we call "The Future" which will be publicly showcased at a later date. The rest are insisting the attention of our population every minute of every waking hour, whether it be through subjective media coverage, unashamed domination of our city landscapes, full U.S tours with other metal/hardcore acts or corrupt lobbying geared towards steel industry tycoons by self-righteous right wing tyrants. Yet, there is hope of eliminating a majority of these pestilences with the advent of a broader social consciousness and a communal willingness to accept the responsibilities that come with utopian freedom. Every Time I Die, however, is not included in this aforementioned majority of curable social ailments, as the awareness which will hopefully one day eradicate most of these foes is the very fodder upon which Every Time I Die thrives. |
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Thursday, May 20th |
In 2005 Glen Hansard, lead singer of The Frames and Marketa Irglova recorded an album together in Prague while working together on the soundtrack of Jan Hrebejk's movie, Beauty In Trouble. 'The Swell Season' was released in April 2006 and also featured two Interference musicians, Marja Tuhkanen (violin) and Bertrand Galen (cello). In many ways, it was to prove partly inspirational for John Carney’s 'Once', a low-budget Irish indie film that turned out to be the most successful independent features of 2007. The pair not only wrote the songs for the movie but they both starred in it as well. Since the release of the film Glen and Marketa have toured extensively as The Swell Season and in February 2008 they took the Academy Award in the Best Original Song category for 'Falling Slowly'. Performing "Low Rising" on Late Night with David Letterman |
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plus Town Mountain |
There’s no other acoustic band quite like the Infamous Stringdusters. Emerging from a lively community of friends and colleagues that’s taken root in Nashville, they’re six musicians poised at the point where youthful energy is balanced with maturity, inspiration with discipline and creativity with experience -- exactly the sweet spot for great bluegrass that breaks new ground! The Stringdusters have just released their third album, "Things That Fly." They build on bluegrass roots to encompass elements of jazz, folk, rock, blues, and country music, and now they have combined surprising covers (U2's "In God's Country") with original compositions to create a unique anthemic sound on some numbers. The Infamous Stringdusters, says Nashville's Tennessean newspaper, "push bluegrass into new territory." Just as important, of all the bands that have done that, this one has been perhaps the most successful at building bridges with the music's traditional audience.
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plus AM |
“I know it’s kind of funny, this Midwestern guy doing Brazilian songs in Spanish,” says Josh Rouse about his new studio album, El Turista. “I don’t know if it fits, but I like the way it feels." Unexpected and utterly sublime, this sultry song cycle will shuffle seamlessly in tandem with Getz/Gilberto and Graceland, albums as boldly surprising in their eras as El Turista is in this one. The record marks a new direction for the critically acclaimed cult artist, while offering the musical sophistication and emotional depth Rouse’s devoted constituents have come to expect from him thanks to a consistently enthralling body of work highlighted by the modern-day landmarks 1972 (2003) and Nashville (2005), both of which are generously sampled on the marvelous 2008 Rhino retrospective The Best of the Rykodisc years. The new album bears the distinct influence of Spain, which the Nebraska native made his home five years ago with his Spanish wife Paz Suay; the couple and their first child now live in Valencia, on the Mediterranean coast. On El Turista, Spain serves as the point of origin for a globe-trotting musical journey that touches down in Cuba, Brazil and Africa, as well as Nashville, where the bulk of the tracks were recorded with Rouse’s longtime producer and close collaborator Brad Jones, and the couple’s former home of Brooklyn, where the seeds of the record where sown and some of the songs dreamed up. Music video for "Quiet Town" |
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plus Locksley |
Butch Walker may be remembered as the lead singer from the now broken-up Marvelous 3, who had a 1999 hit with "Freak Of The Week." But he's also been an in-demand producer in recent years. He was involved with Pink's "I'm Not Dead" album as well as her rendition of Stevie Wonder's "Tell Me Something Good," which will be on the upcoming Happy Feet soundtrack. Pink returned the favour by contributing vocals to Rise & Fall's "Song Without A Chorus." The list of acts that Walker has produced, mixed or written with also includes Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan, Bowling For Soup, Sevendust, American Hi-Fi, and The Donnas. He recently finished working with Pete Yorn and will be kept busy with Hot Hot Heat and The All-American Rejects this summer.
Music video for "The Weight of Her" |
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plus One Eskimo |
Michael Franti is a very big man who has always dared to say very big things through his joyous and passionate music during an unusually diverse and highly impressive career. Yet for all the wide-ranging, yet consistent excellence of his body of work, what’s most impressive about Michael Franti as a recording artist and live performer is his ability to inspire. Ultimately, the heartfelt music that Franti makes and his dedication to greater understanding on a global level, are not two aspects of his life, but very much one and the same. The Bay Area born Franti has been bringing our world exceptionally powerful, deeply felt music under a variety of names and in a wide range of genres for twenty years. From the intense punk rock of the Beatnigs, to the deeply political rap he made with the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy to his joyful and meaningful modern soul music with Spearhead, and now as Michael Franti & Spearhead, this still young man has released an impressive series of recordings that have vividly reflected his status as a musical citizen of this world.
Music video for "Say Hey (I Love You)" |
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Thursday, May 27th |
Northern California based synthesizer virtuoso Erik Norlander (ASIA featuring John Payne, Rocket Scientists, Lana Lane) will headline the evening, performing songs from his new album, The Galactic Collective. Norlander will be bringing the Moog legacy alive with his synth-heavy instrumentals and his "Wall of Doom" modular synthesizer (so named by his roadies). The Wall of Doom, a massive analog modular synthesizer with restored 1967 Moog modules at its heart, will grace the stage of the Orange Peel as the musical and historical representation of Bob Moog's legacy of pushing the boundaries of sonic reality. This marks Norlander's first performance in Western North Carolina. Opening for Norlander and accompanying musicians will be Asheville street musician sensations Blind Boy Chocolate and the Milk Sheiks featuring Dwight Hawkins (Saw, Guitar, Vocals), Nicky The Squirrel (Mandolin, Harmonica, Kazoo, Vocals), Tony Costa (Guitar, Kazoo, Vocals), Alex Brady (Gut Bass) performing ragtime, jug band, early blues & country. The event will also feature art from local artists auctioned via ebay from May 20th through the end of the event on May 27th. (more about the auction can be found www.moogfoundation.org ) Attendees will also be able to participate in a raffle with prizes like an iPod touch from CityMac, Moog instruments, and a studio day at Echo Mountain Studios.
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Saturday, May 29th |
Matt Stillwell's move to Nashville was the ultimate eye-opener. "I watched friends do showcases and hoped someone would show up," he says. "I watched them being promised record or publishing deals that might or might not happen. So I made the decision that what I needed to do was to eliminate the ‘no’s, and the way to do that was to go build a following." A man with a work ethic as big as his talent, Matt did just that, and in this age of American Idol and viral videos, he has built his following the old-fashioned way--one city, one club, one crowd at a time. Music video for "Shine" |
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