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WNC Pottery Festival Expands for Fifth Edition

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:00:00 +0100

The Fifth Annual Western North Carolina Pottery Festival will be held in downtown Dillsboro, NC on Saturday, Nov. 7 from 10 A.M to 4 P.M. This year the festival is bigger than ever. There are more exhibitors this year than ever before and there is even a pottery competition!

The Western North Caro [...]

YWCA Black & White Gala

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:00:00 +0100

The YWCA will be holding their annual Black & White Gala on Thursday, October 1st, 2009. The event will be held at the Orange Peel at 101 Biltmore Ave. and will begin at 7:00 PM.

This FUN evening will feature silent and live auctions, food from local restaurants, and high energy dance music by Westsound. The mission of [...]

Parking Lot Flea Market

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:00:00 +0100

Gather your extra stuff and sell it off at the huge Parking Lot Flea Market, scheduled for Sunday, September 27, 2009 in the parking lot of Ecycle Me at 101 South Lexington Avenue in Downtown Asheville, NC. Sell! Sell! Sell! Buy! Buy! Buy!

10% of the proceeds will go to Asheville GreenWorks. The sale starts at a leisurely 10:30 on a Sunday in downtown Asheville. Very much a social eve [...]

Larry Keel & Natural Bridge

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:00:00 +0100

Larry Keel and Natural Bridge will be performing at the Catawba Valley Brewing Company [map ] in Morganton, NC. Make your plans for Saturday, October 10 2009 from 7:00 - 11:00PM. The price is $15 in advance, $20 at the door.

Connecting traditional songs of yesterday with their own original and inventive sounds of today, Larry Keel & Natural Bridge [...]

Auditions for "The Songs: An Asheville Arts Center Cabaret"

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:00:00 +0100

The Asheville Arts Center will be holding auditions for their Fall Community Theatre Show on Saturday and Sunday, August 29 and 30 from 4:00PM to 7:00PM. The show will be a Broadway Musical Revue, so if you love to sing the show tunes, get your rear in gear and get out there. They will be selecting approximately 30 adults and childr [...]

August 14th and 15th Parties Celebrate 5 Years for the Asheville Arts Center

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:00:00 +0100

The Asheville Arts Center will be turning 5 years old and is celebrating by throwing not one, but TWO parties.

The Friday evening party will be held at the South location on Summit Avenue (off of Hendersonville Road before Long Shoal’s Rd). The Saturday party will take place at the Main location on [...]

Asheville Arts Center Fall Semester

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:00:00 +0100

Asheville Arts Center has announced the beginning of its Fall Semester, which will run from August 17 - December 18, 2009.

It's a fact that music, drama & dance lessons aid your child's cognitive skills hugely as they develop. Whether you are putting your newborn into our Kindermusik program or your 7 year old in private music lessons, you're raising a smarter [...]

DIG Festival, August 20 and 21

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:00:00 +0100

The Downtown Independent Groove Festival, a.k.a. the DIG Festival is coming to Asheville next month and I for one can't wait. The festival spans 2 nights and includes a wide variety of musical acts appearing all over Asheville. Check out the lineup:

Night 1 - August 20, 2009

The Orange Peel - [...]

Bele Chere 2009 Wraps Up

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:00:00 +0100

Well, another year of the Bele Chere Festival has come and gone. Tomorrow the cams will all be reset to their previous positions and Asheville can go about its business. It was a fun year for the festival, even if sales were a bit down. We're looking forward to next year!

On an administrative note, the site had so [...]

Fund-raiser and birthday party for Pritchard Park

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:00:00 +0100

Pritchard Park is having a birthday party on Friday, July 31. The party/fundraiser will run from 6:30 to 9:30PM at the S&W located at 56 Patton Avenue. The event is being held by The Friends of Pritchard Park, which is comprised of Asheville GreenWorks and the Downtown Asheville Residents Associatio [...]

Welcome to Bele Chere 2009

support@taisweb.net — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:00:00 +0100

It's official, Bele Chere 2009 has officially arrived! As usual, on this very special occasion, we have changed all our camera views to give you live shots of the action. Our robotic West Cam (affectionately known as RoboCam) is still giving all us Asheville natives a good view of tr [...]

Catch Brushfire Stankgrass July 10 at Pisgah Brewing Co.

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:00:00 +0100

For those who didn't know, you can catch the awesome Brushfire Stankgrass tonight at the Pisgah Brewing Company. The show starts at 8'ish. It should be an awesome show. If you can't make it, though, don't worry, because they're also gonna be at Carolina Mountain R [...]

Benefit for Asheville GreenWorks Thursday, July 16

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:00:00 +0100

If you don't know about Asheville GreenWorks , they are a volunteer organization working for a "Clean and Green" Asheville and Buncombe County. If that sounds like a good cause to you, we recommend you attend the benefit that is being held on Thursday, July 16 2009 in their honor a [...]

Asheville Arts Center to Host an Ice Cream Social

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:00:00 +0100

Mark your calendars for August 6, because that's when the Asheville Arts Center will be hosting an Ice Cream Social. The ice cream is being provided by The Hop Ice Cream Cafe , which we all know is some good stuff. Party starts a [...]

Pardon Our Dust

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:00:00 +0100

Just a quick note here. Sorry for the low frequency of the blog and Twitter posts lately, we have been undergoing some internal changes here and we're working on making AshevilleLiveCam.com better than ever!

Asheville Awaits the 31st Annual 'Bele Chere' Festival, July 24-26th

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:00:00 +0100

July 24th will mark the start of Asheville's 31st annual 'Bele Chere' Music and Art Festival and the influx of 350,000 estimated festival-goers. According to their website, "The festival features four stages of free- live music and an impressive array of arts and crafts; as well as entertainment and activities for children. Surrounded by the natural beauty of the mountains of Western North Carolina- come join us for one of the Southeast's largest free outdoor street fe [...]

Asheville Edition of TED Talks in the Works

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:00:00 +0100

Local fans of the California-based TED conference (technology, entertainment, design) have begun planning Asheville's own TEDx event for late summer in hopes of highlighting our own group of inspiring thinkers with fascinating ideas.

TED (technology, entertainment, design) is an annual conference that defines its mission as "ideas worth spreading". TEDxAsheville executive director Jennifer Saylor is currently seeking recommendations for local speakers and el [...]

Phish Concert Expected to Clog Asheville Streets

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Sun, 17 May 2009 19:00:00 +0100

Phish Comes to Asheville~ and is bringing a following of nearly 15,000 fans. The City of Asheville is planning ahead for a Tuesday, June 9 concert (with a ticketed attendance of 7,200) by the band Phish that is expected to cause traffic delays and result in limited parking. Officials have released a memo via Citizen Times warning downtown drivers to "avoid parking in lots marked with signage as towing zones, even if the lot is empty." and advising that concert goers "carpool to th [...]

Asheville Gets $32 Million Climate Research Center

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:00:00 +0100

Full Story from the Asheville Citizen Times :

Asheville will be home to a new federal research center that will look to satellites to study the Earth's changing climate.

The National Climate Data Center in downtown Asheville will house the new Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites that will bring $32 million to the area over the next five years and at least 20 scientific jobs.

The institute pools resources between the National Oceanic and Atmospher [...]

Secret Agent 23Skidoo DVD Release Party

dan@wilcoxtravel.com — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:00:00 +0100

For the first time EVER on planet earth, the 23 Skidoo DVD will be available, with award winning videos and uncut, vivid footage of the one-year anniversary show........WERE YOU THERE??? Maybe you are on it!! So come on out May 16th to the Grey Eagle from 12:30-3pm. Tickets a [...]