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Courtesy of Claire Hoke/Asheville musician Claire Hoke, shares how she transformed stressful relationships and the pandemic into a healing song for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert contest. -
Matt Peiken | BPR News/While Kenn Kotara's work lives in abstraction, the artist said social-political exploration is always at play. It’s right there in the title of his new show—”Order in an Unruly Zoo.” It’s on view through June 10 at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts.
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In the recording studio with Lena Machina of the Asheville goth rock band Secret Shame -
The word anxiety comes up often as Zander Stefani describes his life. He said he channels some of it into his abstract artwork. “It’s like I’m painting…
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A lot of artists will tell you an inner voice propels them to create. The Asheville playwright Jamie Knox says, for her, it’s often a voice that isn’t her…
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BPR is pleased to share the schedule for upcoming broadcasts of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra 2021-2022 season. Hosted by BPR arts producer Matt…
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Gavin Stewart and Vanessa Owen are rehearsing with two other dancers inside a studio at the Wortham Center for Performing Arts. Everyone is masked. “OK…
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Dozens of businesses in downtown Asheville boarded up their windows when protesters marched in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis. Those…
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John and Cinnamon Kennedy formed their first band before they knew how to play their instruments.“One day, John and our neighbor were like ‘We’re making a…
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Heather Newton's mother has written nine novels for young adults. She’s also the first to read and critique whatever Newton thinks is ready to go out into…
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The Asheville Symphony's new Alt ASO series fulfills something music director Darko Butorac has wanted since arriving in Asheville three seasons…
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Evan Kafka spent this past Friday night mounting animal heads on a wall as people strolled by sipping cups of wine.To be clear, Kafka’s “trophy series,”…
