Community Calendar

The Wood Brothers
Friday, August 21
Show: 8 pm | Doors: 7 pm
The Orange Peel
Ages 18+

The Carson Moore Quartet features Dave Easley, Jeff Sipe & Asher Hill. They are four unique creative voices who have come together over their shared love for free improvisation. Carson Moore is a progressive banjo player that has worked with greats such as Bela Fleck, Mike Stern, Leftover Salmon, & Keller Williams and is striving to establish banjo as a permanent presence in the world of jazz fusion. Dave Easley is the pedal steel guitarist for Joni Mitchell, Peter Rowan, and Bill Kreutzmann of The Grateful Dead. Legendary drummer Jeff Sipe is a founding member of Aquarium Rescue Unit & has toured with Trey Anastasio, Jeff Coffin, Jimmy Herring, Warren Haynes, Keller Williams, John McLaughlin, and Shawn Lane. Asher Hill, out of Durham, NC, brings it on bass.

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.

Explore the mountain after hours with your own personal guides during our Grandfather by Night series! You’ll discover some of the park’s nighttime wonders, watch a stunning sunset (weather permitting) and experience the mountain as never before! The Twilight Hike version will include a hike after sunset to discuss and look for the creatures that are more active after the sun goes down. The group will explore a unique forest ecosystem from top to bottom in search of salamanders, owls, flying squirrels, fireflies and any other creatures they might come across. The Twilight Hike program is not accessible to guests with limited mobility. Participants signed up for this version will need to participate in the hike, as staying behind while the rest of the group hikes is not possible. Advance registration required.

The Wood Brothers
Ric Robertson
Friday, August 21
Show: 8 pm | Doors: 7 pm
The Orange Peel
Ages 18+

Join Mattie Decker, a certified forest therapy guide, for a relaxing 2 to 2.5-hour stroll through the forest at Grandfather Mountain. Through a series of invitations, you will have the opportunity to focus on being present in the moment, deepening your connection with nature and community and enjoying the many gifts nature has to offer. Forest bathing walks invite guests to spend time in nature in a way that invites healing for us, as well as our fraught ecosystems, and our community. Registration opens online on June 22 at 10 a.m.

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.

Join us August 19th – 23rd as we nurture community and build resilience amid the intersecting crises of our time. We’ll spend 5 days charting a wilder path together through storytelling, skill-sharing, songs, ritual, and homegrown feasts. Are you seeking a place-based life that weaves accountability with land and community? What do we discover when we deepen into seasonal living that learns from and serves the watershed? What are the cultural practices that honor our interlocking communities, pasts, and futures? What are the earth skills and land practices that grow our resilience while helping us heal our bodies and renew our spirits and minds?

https://dreamingstone.org/wilder-way/

Together, we will tend all of these questions and sow seeds for a world beyond crisis and collapse. We will reckon with the obscenity and severity of historical and current levels of oppression, so as to dive into the grief work needed to usher us through this age of premature death and competition, toward a culture of life-affirming cooperation with the regenerative powers and sacred mysteries of the earth. Together we will practice deeper intimacy with our food, our shit, our waterways, and the seasonal arcs that recycle us. Meals will weave abundant connections, integrating foraged ingredients with locally grown, storied food. Together we will experiment in creating a new/old bioregional culture attuning to the land, our bodies, the collective, and sacred presence. We welcome all faith traditions, cultural lineages, gender expressions, and experience levels with these ideas. We will center the experiences of those disproportionately impacted by our racist state and actively build trust and capacity for collective liberation.

Workshop Examples: * Mead-making * Songs for Resistance * Eco-Socialism * Mutual Aid * Wildlife Tracking * Traditional Canoe Skills * Plant Propagation * Wild Edible Weeds * Green Burial * Conflict Resolution * Cooking over Fire * Food Preservation * Forest Ecology * Nixtamalization * Community Preparedness / Resilience * Somatics of Liberation

This event will take place at the Dreaming Stone Arts & Ecology Center August 19th-23rd, 2026.

Work trade and child care available.

Contact Aliza for information via aliza@dreamingstone.org.

Celebrate 20 years of Asheville on Bikes with community members and vendors at this free event!
The 2026 Summer Cycle, sponsored by Mosaic Community Lifestyle Realty and JAG Construction, rolls forward on Saturday, August 22nd. There will be rides, a pop-up bike park, food trucks, and other festivities.

Summer Cycle
August 22, 2026
2:00 PM – 7:00 PM
at New Belgium Brewing

Summer Cycle Event Schedule
2:00 pm – 7 pm: Pop-Up Bike Park
3:30 pm – 4 pm: Summer Cycle Check-In
4 pm: Summer Cycle Begins
5 pm – 7 pm: Post-Ride Festivities

About The Knackered Ramblers

The Knackered Ramblers unite two deeply respected figures in traditional American music: Grammy‑winning mandolinist Mike Compton and acclaimed banjo player, vocalist, and educator Laura Boosinger. Compton, mentored by bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe, has built an extraordinary career performing and recording with legends ranging from Doc Watson and Ralph Stanley to Elvis Costello and Sting, and contributed to the award‑winning O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack. Boosinger, a North Carolina native, has dedicated her life to preserving and sharing Appalachian musical traditions through performance, teaching, and cultural work, including her role with the Blue Ridge Music Trails and her induction into the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame. Together, they bring a rich blend of mastery, history, and heartfelt storytelling to their performances, grounded in the enduring traditions of bluegrass and old‑time music.

4:45 PM — Doors open

4:45–6:00 PM — Dinner service from Treska’s Kitchen

5:15–6:00 PM — Opening musical performance by Twilight Grove

6:30–8:00 PM (approx.) — MainStage performance

During MainStage: Drinks available; dinner service concluded, light snacks available

We encourage guests to arrive early to enjoy a relaxed dinner and live opening set before the main performance begins, as the evening is designed to create an intimate, focused listening experience for both artist and audience. Come unwind with great food, beautiful scenery, and live music as the sun sets over the lake.