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BEABADOOBEE

  • May 23, 2022
  • Venue:  Orange Peel Social Aid and Pleasure Club
  • Address: 101 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801
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An Evening For Kids Deserve Justice

  • May 25, 2022
  • Venue:  Salvage Station
  • Address: 468 Riverside Drive, Asheville, NC 28801
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Aquanet Goth Night

  • May 25, 2022
  • Venue:  Asheville Beauty Academy
  • Address: 28 Broadway Street, Asheville, NC 28801
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The Wailers

  • May 25, 2022
  • Venue:  Orange Peel Social Aid and Pleasure Club
  • Address: 101 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801
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Well-Crafted Wednesdays w/ Matt Smith

  • May 25, 2022
  • Venue:  Highland Brewing Company
  • Address: 12 Old Charlotte Highway, Asheville, NC 28803
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Asheville Sessions featuring Vollie Mckenzie

  • May 26, 2022
  • Venue:  Isis Restaurant and Music Hall
  • Address: 743 Haywood Road, Asheville, NC 28806
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Dirty Logic: A Tribute To Steely Dan

  • May 26, 2022
  • Venue:  Salvage Station
  • Address: 468 Riverside Drive, Asheville, NC 28801
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Lady and The Lovers Unplugged at Downtown Taproom

  • May 26, 2022
  • Venue:  Highland Brewing Downtown Taproom
  • Address: 56 Patton Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801
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Little Feat Waiting For Columbus Tour

  • May 26, 2022
  • Venue:  Harrah’s Cherokee Center - Asheville
  • Address: 87 Haywood Street, Asheville, NC 28801
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Lord Nelson

  • May 26, 2022
  • Venue:  Isis Restaurant and Music Hall
  • Address: 743 Haywood Road, Asheville, NC 28806
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An Evening with Ash & Eric

  • May 27, 2022
  • Venue:  Isis Restaurant and Music Hall
  • Address: 743 Haywood Road, Asheville, NC 28806
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Beer and Bratwurst Stein Hoisting Contest

  • May 27, 2022
  • Venue:  Catawba Brewing Company - South Slope
  • Address: 32 Banks Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801
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Bluegrass with Unspoken Tradition

  • May 27, 2022
  • Venue:  Isis Restaurant and Music Hall
  • Address: 743 Haywood Road, Asheville, NC 28806
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David Barnard: Resident Artist at Citizen Vinyl

  • May 27, 2022
  • Venue:  Citizen Vinyl
  • Address: 14 O'Henry Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801
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GRINDfest 2022

  • May 27, 2022
  • Venue:  Black Wall Street AVL
  • Address: 8 River Arts Place , Asheville, NC 28801
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ROBERT EARL KEEN

  • May 27, 2022
  • Venue:  Orange Peel Social Aid and Pleasure Club
  • Address: 101 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801
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The Feels Live in The Meadow

  • May 27, 2022
  • Venue:  Highland Brewing Company
  • Address: 12 Old Charlotte Highway, Asheville, NC 28803
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Alien Music Club Presents “Leonard Cohen: The Deep Cuts”

  • May 28, 2022
  • Venue:  Isis Restaurant and Music Hall
  • Address: 743 Haywood Road, Asheville, NC 28806
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American Craft Sake Festival

  • May 28, 2022
  • Venue:  Ben's Tune Up
  • Address: 195 Hilliard Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801
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An Evening with Nikki Talley & Jason Sharp

  • May 28, 2022
  • Venue:  Isis Restaurant and Music Hall
  • Address: 743 Haywood Road, Asheville, NC 28806
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Asheville 8 String Collective Live at Highland Brewing Downtown

  • May 28, 2022
  • Venue:  Highland Brewing Downtown Taproom
  • Address: 56 Patton Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801
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Skiffle Creek on the Orchard Pavilion Stage

  • May 28, 2022
  • Venue:  The Orchard at Altapass
  • Address: 1025 Orchard Road, Spruce Pine, NC 28777
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Spring in the Garden Music Series: Free concert with Jason Whitaker

  • May 28, 2022
  • Venue:  Hilton Garden Inn Asheville South
  • Address: 9 Rocky Ridge Road, Asheville, NC 28806
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ASHEVILLE BAROQUE CONCERTS: Whirlwinds

  • May 29, 2022
  • Venue:  St. Giles Chapel in Deerfield's
  • Address: 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, NC 28803
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Brunch & Beats

  • May 29, 2022
  • Venue:  Forestry Camp
  • Address: 10 Shady Oak Drive, Asheville, NC 28803
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Steep Canyon Rangers

As a premier American bluegrass band, the Steep Canyon Rangers have had the opportunity to travel to, and perform in, some of the nation’s top music cities. But for this North Carolina group, half of whose members live in Asheville and half in the neighboring community of Brevard, there’s no place like their home base.

“The (Asheville) music scene, along with everything, has just exploded – the variety of everything that goes on here, just the level of talent. There are so many (music) venues, you can’t even keep up with everything going in town right now,” the band told National Public Radio’s World Cafe. “It’s an inspiring place.”

Naturally, Asheville is where the Steep Canyon Rangers prepared for their 2017 national tour with three days of performances at the nationally-renowned venue, The Orange Peel. In 2018, The Rangers were back on tour through November, continuing their collaboration with actor/banjoist/comedian Steve Martin while also adding in comedian Martin Short to shows along the way. Tour stops spanned the United States and Canada.

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The band is bluegrass to the core but continues to evolve with a fresh sound and identity all its own. And, with a passionate and energetic on-stage style, they sure know how to put on a show.

The Steep Canyon Rangers feature Woody Platt (acoustic guitar), Graham Sharp (banjo), Mike Guggino (mandolin), Nicky Sanders (fiddle), Mike Ashworth (box kit/cajon) and Barrett Smith (upright bass).

In early 2018, the band launched its album, Out in the Open, with a major performance in Asheville, the band's home base. Out in the Open, debuted at #1 on the Bluegrass Billboard Charts. The Steep Canyon Rangers played a song off of the new album during a performance on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on May 3, 2018 -- the band's debut solo late night performance. 

The Steep Canyon Rangers have been pickin’ and strummin’ on tour for audiences for years but the band traces its humble beginnings back to North Carolina.

Nearly all of the band’s six members are originally from North Carolina. Three of them grew up in Brevard, just 30 miles south of Asheville. They grew up with the musical influences of the area, which are steeped in the traditions of bluegrass and old time mountain music. Those traditions trace back to the Anglo-Celtic settlers of western North Carolina who had mastered the craft of telling stories through song.

Upright Bassist of Steep Canyon RangersAs a band, The Steep Canyon Rangers took shape in 2000 when Woody Platt, Graham Sharp and Charles R. Humphrey III (original bassist) were students at the University of North Carolina playing together in area bars. By 2006, the group had gained momentum and was named the International Bluegrass Music Association Emerging Artist of the Year. It was in 2013 the Steep Canyon Rangers reached a pinnacle in their career, earning the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.

The Steep Canyon Rangers now have recorded a total of 10 studio albums. Two of those albums were recorded at Asheville’s nationally-recognized Echo Mountain Recording Studios. The albums have included many local references including a song titled “Looking Glass,” an ode to a favorite waterfall in the nearby community of Brevard. 

"We have a couple of world-class recording studios where Nashville artists are now coming here to record, instead of making their music on Music Row," Graham Sharp told Axs. "Big bands from all over the country are making records in Asheville now, which is great." 

Echo Mountain Recording Studios is also where the band collaborated with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra (ASO) for the Asheville Symphony Sessions album, which brings music from Western North Carolina’s most-beloved musicians together with the orchestra ensemble.  

“We have had the opportunity to share the stage with several orchestras around the country, so being invited to work with the ASO right here at home was fantastic,” band member Woody Platt said.

The band says it's been exciting to watch Asheville develop into a top music destination and to be a part of growth.

"Asheville has some of the best places in the country to see live music," Graham Sharp told Axs. "It's really grown to where big national acts come through Asheville and love playing here."

As they continue to tour, they seek to bring the Western North Carolina bluegrass sound to audiences all over the country.

“I’d like to think that Asheville is our home voice,” Platt told the Hendersonville Times-News. “(Concert-goers) can expect to hear a lot of youthful, fiery bluegrass that has our own style attached to it: gospel, a capella, instrumental. All around (it’s) pretty entertaining.”

Steep Canyon Rangers photos by David Simchock.

 

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