Community Calendar

Watchhouse
with special guests Fruit Bats
Saturday, July 18
Show: 7 pm | Doors: 5:30 pm
Hellbender by The Orange Peel
All Ages

Some bands play songs. TAS plays entire albums — front to back, note for note — and they do it with a different lineup every time.

Led by local musician Caleb Davis, TAS is a rotating-lineup concert project with a simple but ambitious premise: assemble a crew of skilled players, pick an iconic album, and perform the whole thing live. TAS has taken on Pink Floyd's entire catalogue, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Allman Brothers, Metallica, and many more — each show a unique event with a handpicked ensemble matched to the material.

Now TAS raises the bar with "Recreating The Zappa Experience" — a complete performance of Frank Zappa's Apostrophe (') plus a set of additional Zappa classics. It's a gauntlet of odd time signatures, jazz-fusion complexity, and razor-sharp satire that has become a trademark of Zappa’s legacy. Joining Davis on guitar and vocals: Mark Stallings (keyboards), Chad Thompson (bass), Curtis Wingfield (drums), and Trevor Cook (percussion).

This is TAS at its most fearless. Don't miss it.

The Jazz Showcase is curated by esteemed pianist, scholar, and UNC Asheville music professor Dr. Bill Bares; this showcase series is dedicated to bringing the region’s finest jazz musicians and most compelling sounds to our stage in a true listening room experience.

APLR Presents: Chandra Shukla, Dotcome Bayley, Kima Moore, and Walker Farrell

Saturday, July 18th, 2026

AyurPrana Listening Room - 312 Haywood Rd, Asheville, NC 28806

Doors 6PM || Event 7PM

Chandra Shukla

Xambuca a.k.a. Chandra Shukla (born Vivek Chandra Shukla 1975 Alameda, California) is an experimental/avant-garde musician interested in audio, video, live performances, graphic design and runs the independent record label Erototox Decodings. His history stems from learning Indian Classical Music by learning tabla from the likes of Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri and sitar from Pandit Habib Khan. At the age of 17, Chandra Shukla met Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and for the next 4 years would be involved with joining Psychic TV and h/er for their live performances sometimes in the Bay Area and other times abroad. In 1998, joining P-Orridge’s first incarnation of Thee Majesty on stage in Stockholm Sweden, with Bachir and Mustafa Attar of The Master Musicians of Jajouka playing eps samplers and his Indian classical music. Though offering his skills to other projects such as Scribble Seven (Steven Stapleton’s Nurse With Wound live project) and joining Hans-Joachim Roedelius on three tours, and more recently touring with This Wilderness (Joe Coleman, Phil Puleo and Robbie O) and die Angel (Ilpo Väisänen and Dirk Dresselhaus) and being part of an array of numerous side-projects and lending his skills as a contributor. In 2021, Chandra Shukla along with friend Carl Michael von Hausswolff debuted their project ‘Travelogue’ (Touch. UK). Xambuca is his main electro-acoustic experimental project and one that has shared the stage with many guests including a rotating cast of characters with audio/visual elements both live and exhibited. Chandra Shukla once a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and Brooklyn/New York City now resides in Asheville, NC.

All ages
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Some bands play songs. TAS plays entire albums — front to back, note for note — and they do it with a different lineup every time.

Led by local musician Caleb Davis, TAS is a rotating-lineup concert project with a simple but ambitious premise: assemble a crew of skilled players, pick an iconic album, and perform the whole thing live. TAS has taken on Pink Floyd's entire catalogue, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Allman Brothers, Metallica, and many more — each show a unique event with a handpicked ensemble matched to the material.

Now TAS raises the bar with "Recreating The Zappa Experience" — a complete performance of Frank Zappa's Apostrophe (') plus a set of additional Zappa classics. It's a gauntlet of odd time signatures, jazz-fusion complexity, and razor-sharp satire that has become a trademark of Zappa’s legacy. Joining Davis on guitar and vocals: Mark Stallings (keyboards), Chad Thompson (bass), Curtis Wingfield (drums), and Trevor Cook (percussion).

This is TAS at its most fearless. Don't miss it.

Brevard Sinfonia
Earl Lee, conductor
Amaryn Olmeda, violin

Conductor Earl Lee leads the Brevard Sinfonia in a colorful orchestral program.

Featuring violinist Amaryn Olmeda in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, a work of lyrical beauty and sparkling virtuosity. Berlioz’s exuberant Roman Carnival Overture launches the concert, while Mendelssohn’s beloved “Italian” Symphony concludes the evening with sunlit melodies and irresistible rhythmic energy.

PROGRAM
HECTOR BERLIOZ Roman Carnival Overture
SERGEI PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 2
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 4, “Italian”

STANDING ROOM ONLY

BUCK MEEK
A gleaner of the forgotten, Buck Meek tips over the familiar and turns the unknown into a companion. On The Mirror, the artist’s fourth solo record and second album released by 4AD, there’s a tender power, countered by immutable vulnerability. With an uncanny curiosity, Meek conjures twin worlds to reveal the uniqueness in the mundane. Inviting in reflection as collaborator and demon as friend, The Mirror doesn’t seek to know but to ask, looking to the shape of a question rather than the illusion of its answer.

Meek grew up in Wimberley, Texas, teenage protege to an old guard of mystic Texas songwriters and musicians. He later moved to New York where he met Adrianne Lenker. The two lived in a van while singing their songs across the country before forming Big Thief.

The partnership of Meek and producer, James Krivchenia, emerged from a decade of work together in Big Thief. Conceptually, The Mirror emerged from the idea to combine Meek’s band’s live, kinetic energy with an oblique electronic world. The pair invited a collective atmosphere in which simultaneous experiment could occurr––the musicians responded to each other in real time, while their instruments triggered modular synthesizers and electronic magic boxes. The Mirror welcomed in friends, family, longtime collaborators from ranging musical eras of life as vital co-creators. New creative partners and longtime friends like composer and ambient musician Alex Somers joined in on synthesizer, toy microphone, and piano, and Mary Lattimore brought in the sounds of her prismatic harp.

Lexical mirrors are handheld, tactile, and kept close throughout the record––each one holding up a new truth. The Mirror aptly embraces the unknown with an abiding curiosity and Meek continues to reveal his skill as translator of human feeling and its endless portals. The Mirror looks for duality, finding it in the weeds and overgrowth.

“My demon is my darkness and my darkness is my angel /

I taught him how to read, now I’m teaching him to write.”

Join our intercultural summer day camps where children 6-12 years old explore music creation, international dance, music instrument building, and other forms of art in a joyful and supportive environment. Each child receives personal attention and a meaningful creative experience.

So you want to set odd shaped cabochons? I’ve got you! In this class you will learn to hand fabricate a custom sterling silver bezel setting for stones with varied shapes and heights. Through this experience you will use skills such as sawing, filing, soldering, bezel setting, finishing, and various polishing or surface texture options.

Experience is great, but not necessary.

This is a skills based workshop, but you will leave with a finished pendant.

I will have rose cut stone options available the day of class, but if you have an irregular or interestingly shaped cabochon you are hoping to set, please bring it. Just keep in mind that it needs to have a flat back (or close to flat) and if it is too large or too tall for the materials we have, we may be limited; in that case I can give you guidance on what materials you would need to procure to set it on your own in the future.

Workshop Cost $200

Materials Fee $40-$60 depending on your choices of materials

The word craft-itarianism was coined by 2026 Center for Craft Curatorial Fellow Alyssa Velazquez to name artistic projects that generate employment, raise awareness, or offer therapeutic support through craft. These programs provide a space where people affected by addiction, incarceration, and gun violence can find solidarity while learning a skill.

Craft-itarianism: Community Action Through Craft celebrates nonprofits and artists who believe in—and actively practice—the power of craft to support and empower individuals and communities.

This exhibition was curated by 2026 Center for Craft Curatorial Fellow Alyssa Velazquez. Launched in 2017, the Curatorial Fellowship supports emerging curators exploring new ideas about craft with mentorship, professional development, and a $5,000 honorarium to realize an exhibition.

On view February 27, 2026–September 27, 2026.