Tag Archives: New Mountain AVL

You may recognize the music of singer/songwriter RIVVRS from his song “Ready To Begin” as the theme song for the NFLs Monday Night Football during the 2016 season.  He also has had songs featured on television shows like the Netflix original series “Flaked,” as well as “Bates Motel” on A&E.  Most recently, the song “I Will Follow You” was recently featured in the NBC series, “About A Boy.”  

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On Monday, October 3, New Mountain AVL celebrates the grand opening of The Summit -- taking over the top floor of the New Mountain complex located at 38 North French Broad Avenue in downtown Asheville.

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Come Get Downtown for SoulTown at the 2^nd Annual LEAF Downtown AVL, taking place July 30-31, 2016 in the heart of Downtown Asheville at Pack Square Park.  Join LEAF for soul at its finest – infused throughout stages, conversations, connections, roaming art and then some!  LEAF Downtown AVL seeks to be an inclusive, family-friendly, FREE event that showcases talent in a wide variety of musical genres and backgrounds with artists such as WAR playing hit songs on the main Pack Square stage; the eclectic Big Sam’s Funky Nation; and Bill Myers & The Monitors, world-class ensemble musicians; and many others from national and regional stages.  Visit theLEAF.org/downtown for more info!

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On Thursday January 14th 2016, Govinda, Kaminanda and Asheville’s own Captain EZ join forces to bring a night of downtempo bliss to the stage at New Mountain Asheville.

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The Mantras, a group of self-proclaimed North Carolina boys, are gearing up to ring in the New Year the 828 way.

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John Scofield and Jon Cleary have both been busy in 2015, together and on their own. Scofield just returned from a month of touring all of Europe, sitting in with The Roots on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon earlier this year, and kicking off 2015 with a collaboration with Asheville native Warren Haynes and Gov’t Mule, dubbed Sco Mule. He also released a new album, called Past Present.

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Phutureprimitive is bringing his "dripping wet love drops of nasty mind-melting sonic bliss" to the New Mountain Theater on Wednesday, October 14, all the way from the Bay Area.

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At the 1^st Annual LEAF Downtown this past weekend, over 15,000 people gathered in Pack Square Park to celebrate communities, creativity, diversity, and families – a grand finale to two weeks of programming around Asheville focused on supporting arts education.  LEAF Downtown included a Funky Cocktail Crawl, which launched on July 17^th; Bootsy Funk Dynasty Day, held at New Mountain AVL on July 31^st; the LEAF Art Dash 5K, which looped through downtown Asheville on August 1^st; the unveiling of the Unfolding LEAF stage (U-LEAF) on August 1^st; and the weekend long event on August 1^st and 2^nd.  In addition to high public attendance, the event hosted 75+ VIPs, approximately 100 volunteers, 100+ staff and 500+ individual youth and adult artists performed on the Downtown Stage, Café’ Stage, Community Arts/U-LEAF stage and/or the three Busker Bazaars.

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Last year was my first Asheville Beer Week experience, and this year the only thing that would excite me more than the 9-day 2015 Asheville Beer Week (May 22-30) would be a 31-day Asheville Beer Month! While a full month of May filled with special beer events would put my stamina and “party grampa” (#partygrampa) status to the test, I believe I'd be up for the challenge. Alas, it is but an extended week...and here's what I'll be enjoying this first weekend:

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