February 27th, 8pm, Free Event
NEW series every fourth Monday of each month
Featuring the Standards Ensemble, the ECM Ensemble, the Funk/Fusion Ensemble and a UNCA faculty ensemble
The Altamont Theatre is proud to be working with the UNCA Music Department offering students an opportunity to exercise their performance skills in a professional arena.
Brian Felix, host, is an internationally recognized keyboardist best known for his work with the electric jazz-rock outfit OM Trio. Between 1999-2004, the group released five albums; the last two, Live and Globalpositioningrecord, received substantial critical acclaim from The
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Original Music Series featuring Byron Hedgepeth
EVERY Tuesday Night, 8:00pm
...it's FREEEEE!!!
February 28th
Asheville's own Mike Holstein and Justin Watt bring Original Music on the scene in Asheville. This is a Musician's Heaven. The Altamont Theatre is proud to support the craft of music compostion.
-this series is a place where composers can share new material and musicians can hone their reading skills by seeing the latest in modern repertoire. the first set will feature a special guest composer, and the 2nd set will be an open jam for other musicians to join in as well.
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California Guitar Trio
Friday, March 2nd
The Altamont is Strumming along with More Guitar Masters Live in the Listening Room!
Doors Open 7pm, Show at 8pm
Tickets $15 in advance $18 at the door
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California Guitar Trio
Andromeda
Do you enjoy New Age or ambient instrumental music, but find most of it to be boring, bland and way too repetitive? If so, the California Guitar Trio has what you really want! CGT is Paul Richards of Salt Lake City, Utah; Bert Lams of Affligem, Belgium; and Hideyo Moriya of Chiba, Japan.
To classify Andromeda as ambient instrumental music really doesn't do the album justice. It might have an ambient feel for the first few seconds (and at other times over the course of the album, such as on the track “Turn of the Tide”). But the music generally evolves quickly into something different, and continues to surprise the listener throughout.
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Black Lillies
Saturday, March 3rd
Doors open 7pm, Show starts 8pm
Tickets $20
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Why?
Why, given the rich baritone that can range from languid to intense, from reverently hushed to brashly bombastic, did it take so long?
Obviously, he’s no stranger to music. He is the man who loaned out his initials to Robinella and the CCstringband, which flirted with national fame a few years ago with a hit (“Man Over”) on Country Music Television and an appearance on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” in 2003. Maybe it took a while for him to find his voice – not the literal one, the one that makes you think of Randy Travis or Dan Tyminski or even the great Ralph
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Sunday Jazz with Michael Jefry Stevens and Eliot Wadopien
March 4th
Tkts $10 cash at the door
Check out their websites www.MichaelJefryStevens.com and www.EliotWadopien.com
Having begun his studies at the Berklee College of Music, Multiple Grammy Award winning bassist Eliot Wadopian has been a professional musician for more than thirty years. He has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia with many professional ensembles, among them the Howard Hanger Jazz Fantasy and the Paul Winter Consort.
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Three Ring Circle
Friday March 9, 8:00PM
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Acclaimed instrumentalists Rob Ickes, Andy Leftwich, and Dave Pomeroy have joined together to pursue a common goal - creating innovative and memorable music with the unique combination of dobro, mandolin, and electric upright bass. They are individually known as world class players who are expanding the vocabulary and boundaries of their chosen instruments, and the trio format allows them unprecedented creative freedom and stylistic versatility. They have just completed their debut album "Three Ring Circle", which includes originals written by all three members and creative reworkings of classic tunes.
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Mary Gauthier with guest Tania Elizabeth
March 10th
Show 8pm, doors open 7pm
Tkts $15
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“There’s freedom in knowing that you don’t have to know it all,” she says, “which is why to me, a song should end with a question, not an answer.” It might seem that after six groundbreaking albums of original songs, more than a dozen years of recording and touring around the world, a harvest of music industry awards, and covers of her songs by a roster of great artists
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