Asheville Music Lessons

This Sunday afternoon at the Orange Peel (2:30pm) the kids from the Asheville Music Schools Rock Academy will take the stage under the leadership of Anne Coombs for the First Annual Benefit Concert for Youth at Jazz. Youth at Jazz is a great organization that has helped many young people have an opportunity to [...]

Just a quick note that I’ve updated the Asheville area Music Stores page (and Music education/lessons page) with the new arrival of Dixieland Music Co., in Woodfin. They opened the 17th of October at the Town and Country Shopping Center on Weaverville Highway (Merrimon). They will be open 10-6 M-F and 10-3 Saturdays. [...]

If you like mountain music it looks as though you need to find your way to Chimney Rock state park on August 15. They will host “Music on the Mountain: Songs from the Southern Highlands” for the afternoon at the Meadows at Chimney Rock as a joint event with the Rutherford County Arts Council. [...]

Just wanted to post a quick mention of a relative newcomer to the Asheville music supply scene… Soli Classica. Karen Sams runs the store and will help you find just what it is you’re looking for. She is a piano instructor and has a good knowledge of the repertoire as well as familiarity [...]

A new music venue is opening this weekend out in Black Mountain – White Horse Black Mountain (website). Here’s how they describe themselves:
A UNIQUE * MUSIC-BASED * MULTI-USE FACILITY IN THE WESTERN NORTH
CAROLINA MOUNTAINS
Here’s they’re opening night info:
NOV. 1st 7 pm OPENING NIGHT!
LARRY KEEL AND NATURAL BRIDGE
www.larrykeel.com
call (828) 669-2502 or email whitehorseblackmountain@gmail.com [...]

I’m posting a bit early this week to get out word that the Asheville Choral Society will be performing Paul McCartney’s Ecce cor Meum (Behold my Heart) on Sunday October 12th at Diana Wortham Theatre in Asheville. The performance will be at 4PM and tickets start at $40. This is only the third [...]

If you don’t know – the southeast and Western North Carolina are experiencing a severe gas shortage. Asheville North Carolina seems to be particularly dry. Here is a page with some help for those Look for gas in Asheville, NC.

I had some of my students taking part in the Asheville Music School’s recital this past Sunday and wanted to congratulate them as well as ALL those who participated in the event. For quite some time now we’ve been having our recitals at the UNCA campus in Lipinsky Hall Room 018. It gives [...]

I mentioned some time back, the closing of Dunham’s Music House (McFayden Music) here in Asheville. Well, I found out that many of the people that were involved with Dunham’s have gone in at a new location called The Music Center. They opened this week in the River Ridge Shopping Center (next to [...]

This is just a shameless plug for the place that I teach piano lessons, The Asheville Music School. I’ve mentioned that in the “About Me” page I believe, but wanted to write a post about the school. The Asheville Music School has been around for over 10 years now at it’s location at [...]