Hip new restaurants, art galleries, outdoor sculptures, and some determined native sons and daughters have turned downtown into a place to be.
Music on Main Street
The traveling exhibit features interactive kiosks displaying, for example, instruments, vintage sheet music, images of performers, and program bills.
Forty Years of Clay: Clayspace Co-op
In a 1,200-square-foot workspace in Asheville’s River Arts District, Clayspace founder Josh Copus and fellow ceramists make beautiful creations out of clay from a Leicester field.
Monday Night Contra Dances at the Grey Eagle Tavern
Once a week, fast feet heat up the dance floor at Asheville’s Grey Eagle Tavern as contra dancers convene for lively music and good company.
Clear Run Grocery
Most evenings, Clear Run Grocery sits dark and silent. But once a month, a bluegrass jam kicks up the dust and pulls in pickers and players from the surrounding Sandhills.
Keys to the Past
Inside the walls of Kluttz Piano Company in Granite Quarry, old can become new, and forgotten can become remembered, as one family keeps alive a piano restoration business that opened more than 75 years ago.
An Artist’s Perspective: William Mangum
Acclaimed watercolorist William Mangum recreates the world as he sees it through an art form he discovered largely by accident.
