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From ‘Fringe’ to the Mainstage, BLINDSIDE leaves audiences in both awe and side-splitting laughter, Friday, November 2 at 8pm at Diana Wortham Theatre On Friday, November 2 at 8pm, the Diana Wortham Theatre proudly presents Stéphanie Morin-Robert’s BLINDSIDE, a multimedia production that’s both inspiring and hilarious — delighting audiences at festivalsContinue Reading

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Diana Wortham Theatre presents the award-winning Vital Theatre Company in Pinkalicious The Musical, Wednesday, October 11, with a matinee performance 10 am and an early evening show at 6 pm. In Pinkalicious The Musical, Pinkalicious can’t stop eating pink cupcakes despite warnings from her parents. Her pink indulgence lands herContinue Reading

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  Named by USA Today as one of the Top 20 Festivals in NC, Folkmoot is a ten-day event, held across the mountains of WNC in Waynesville, Clyde, Lake Junaluska, Maggie Valley, Canton, Cherokee, Franklin, Hickory, Asheville, and Hendersonville, plus a first performance in Greenville, South Carolina. The 2017 festivalContinue Reading

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  WORLD MUSIC INNOVATORS FREE PLANET RADIO BRING UNIQUE JAZZ-CLASSICAL-WORLD BLEND IN BENEFIT PERFORMANCE FOR AREA CHILDREN THROUGH DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE’S YOUTH EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP (Y.E.S.) FUND, FRIDAY, MAY 5 AT 8PM For more than a decade, Free Planet Radio has been bringing its innovative world-jazz-classical music blend to festivals, concertContinue Reading

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The Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Asheville, North Carolina announces the 2017 Y.E.S. Emerging Artists Fund, a program to support young performers by providing scholarships for graduating high school seniors pursuing a career in the performing arts. A limited number of Emerging Artists Fund scholarships beginning at $1,000 each willContinue Reading

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4th Annual World Masterwork Series Benefit concert on Saturday, September 3, 7pm This is a Benefit Concert for Mission Foundation’s Ladies Night Out Program. The Ladies Night Out program and Mission Foundation is pleased to partner with the 4th World Masterworks Series Concert raising funds and awareness for breast cancer.  Since 2006, Ladies Night Out has provided life-saving mammogramsContinue Reading

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FEATURING INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED ARTISTS Asheville, NC (June 23, 2016) – The Asheville Chamber Music Series (ACMS) will be presenting a distinguished roster of internationally acclaimed ensembles for its 2016-’17 season, including the Ying String Quartet, Aspen String Trio, Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, Jerusalem String Quartet and the Weiss-Kaplan-Stumpf Piano Trio.Continue Reading

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89th Annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival. The nation’s longest running folk festival. The 89th annual edition of this three-day event showcases the best of the region’s traditional and old-time musicians, ballad singers, mountain dance groups and cloggers. Thursday through Saturday, August 4, 5 & 6, 2016, with a different show eachContinue Reading