Genre: Concerts

RESCHEDULED: Dolly’s 80th Birthday Bash

– ALL AGES  – LIMITED SEATS, FIRST COME FIRST SERVE & STANDING ROOM   DOLLY’S 80TH BIRTHDAY BASHWe will always love Dolly and we’re back at the Grey Eagle Jan. 31 to celebrate her 80th birthday! Hosted once again by CyndiLou & the Want To with special guests including Kate Bryant (Cactus Kate & the Pricks), Meaghan Collins (Sparkle Mountain), Liliana Hudgens, Erin Kinard (Rooster), Gracie Lane, Sadie Lettrich, Alissa Nordmoe (Nordmoe & the Rodeo), Tricia Tripp (Hearts Gone South) and more! Our all-star band includes Phil Alley (Heavenly Vipers) and Marty Lewis (Sons of Ralph) on guitars, Morgan Geer (Drunken Prayer) on bass, and John McKinney on keyboards. 3 sets of live music, a look-alike contest, and a portion of proceeds benefitting Buncombe County Partnership for Children, the local chapter of Dolly’s Imagination Library!

Heartbeats Dance Party w/ DJ Marley

21+ EVENT STANDING ROOM ONLY  FESTIVE OUTFITS ENCOURAGED!   HEARTBEATS DANCE PARTY WITH DJ MARLEY 💘A Valentine’s late night dance party. Come single, bring a date, or just come with your crew – but come dressed to impress. This one’s for anyone who wants to dance it out. Flirty energy, great tunes and a packed dance floor! 

Fat Tuesday Celebration w/ Tuesday Night Funk Jam House Band & Firecracker Jazz Band

ALL AGES  STANDING ROOM ONLY  CAJUN FOOD SPECIALS   Get ready to throw down, Mardi Gras–style. 🎭🎷   Join us for a Fat Tuesday Celebration packed with deep grooves, New Orleans spirit, and late-night funk at its finest. The legendary Tuesday Night Funk Jam House Band takes the stage alongside powerhouse vocalist Meschiya Lake, bringing soul-drenched vocals, swagger, and vintage flair that channels the heart of the Crescent City.   Starting this NOLA party out proper is the Firecracker Jazz Band, serving up high-energy brass, infectious rhythms, and full-on carnival vibes. Expect a room full of color, beads, brass, and bodies moving—this is not a sit-down kind of night.   Come early for Cajun food specials from the Grey Eagle Taqueria, grab a drink, and settle in for an unforgettable Fat Tuesday blowout. Costumes encouraged. Funk guaranteed. Laissez les bons temps rouler.

2026 Paddling Film Festival World Tour benefiting MountainTrue

ALL AGES SEATED (FIRST COME FIRST SERVE) W/ ADDITIONAL STANDING ROOM DISCOUNTED TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 12 PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT MOUNTAINTRUE   MountainTrue Presents the Paddling Film Festival World Tour It’s back!! MountainTrue is excited to bring the Paddling Film Festival World Tour back to Asheville, North Carolina on Thursday, April 23rd in honor of Earth Day. All proceeds benefit the work of MountainTrue.  What better way to celebrate than by watching the best paddling films and being in community with other clean water supporters?! You’ll be inspired to explore rivers, lakes, and oceans, push extremes, embrace the paddling lifestyle, and appreciate the wild places. Doors to the Grey Eagle will open at 6 PM, and the show will begin at 7. Seats are general admission so come early to snag a good seat and grab some food from the Grey Eagle Taqueria. (If you require subtitles for any reason we highly encourage you to come early to get front seating.) Tickets are being sold by The Grey Eagle and are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Kids under the age of 12 are $5. (*Venue convenience fees not included in ticket pricing).  We’ll have several short films before an intermission, which will feature a short presentation about the work of MountainTrue’s French Broad Riverkeeper Program and a RAFFLE featuring a kayak from feelfree kayaks. What are you waiting for? Grab a raffle ticket now!  Check back soon for the film line-up! This event would not be possible without the support of our generous sponsors: Presenting Sponsor: Caley Bowman and Mosaic Realty Supporting Sponsors: Nantahala Outdoor Center (NOC), Second Gear RAFFLE: There will be a raffle announce at this event, there are two raffle packages featuring a variety of outdoor swag. Please follow this link to enter! https://secure.everyaction.com/Ip8on2Y6T0yOcOEv1AR3DQ2

Mason Jennings

ALL AGES SEATED SHOW LIMITED NUMBER OF PREMIUM SEATING TICKETS AVAILABLE   MASON JENNINGS Minneapolis songwriter Mason Jennings shares his new video for the single, “Only Lovers Welcome” from his brand new album, Underneath The Roses out now via Loosegroove Records. Underneath The Roses is available on limited-edition colored vinyl and is available here.  Watch and share the video for “Only Lovers Welcome” here.   Jennings writes that the songs from Underneath The Roses were, “Written in an unprecedented burst,” following the birth of his son, Western, in March 2022. Jennings explains, “I hadn’t written any songs in about a year. I had been dealing with the psychological after effects of the pandemic as well as the loss of my dad. So, when Western was born I didn’t expect to be writing much. But immediately he was responding to music in a very intense way. For this album, between May and November 2022, I wrote 48 songs! They certainly uplifted me and connected me with the creative spirit, and spirit in general, again. They cover all kinds of ground but, when I listen back, I think the central theme is overcoming fear with love.” Jennings also released a video for, “No Ordinary Friend,” which he explains, “Depicts two of the most important decisions a person can make. One, whether or not they believe in a loving higher power and two, who they decide to choose as a life long romantic partner. This song is referring to both of those and the choices I’ve made.” “Stone Gossard and Regan Hagar from Loosegroove Records helped me edit the 48 down to 11. I then enlisted the help of my Painted Shield bandmates to record the songs.”  Jennings and Gossard are ongoing collaborators in the band Painted Shield, who released their 2021 debut album on Loosegroove, the influential indie label that Gossard founded back in 1994 issued records from acts such as Critters Buggin, Malfunkshun, Weapon of Choice and Devilhead, and was the launching point for Queens of the Stone Age’s debut album in 1998.  Jennings adds “I called it Underneath The Roses because I feel like these songs are musical roses and when I look below them there are many thorns and so much dirt and soil. All of it was needed for them to come into existence and bloom. It’s been a long hard road of self-discovery and discernment for me the last few years and the roses wouldn’t be here without what lies underneath. Hope you enjoy the music!” 

An Evening with Tanasi – Album Release Celebration ft. Billy Cardine, Mary Lucey & Anya Hinkle

ALL AGES  SEATED SHOW   AN EVENING WITH TANASI Tanasi, from Asheville, NC, crafts a rich, world-inspired mountain sound, refracting global sounds through their Appalachian lens.

Cass McCombs + Band: Interior Live Oak Live

ALL AGESSTANDING ROOM ONLY   CASS McCOMBS Over the past twenty plus years, Cass McCombs has journeyed a singular path as an uncompromising song-carver, guitarist and singer.   Along with the finest squadron of collaborators and bandmates, his music travels gracefully over seemingly contradictory terrain, from infectious guitar riffage to intensely personal lyricism. In August 2025, Cass released his newest album “Interior Live Oak” to rave reviews including 5 stars from the Guardian, an 8.1 from Pitchfork who said “16 songs and not a throwaway among them…,” a 9/10 from Uncut Magazine, and a rave from Mojo magazine who said “…this is the kind of record it’s impossible to be casual about.”   Interior Live Oak is his most personal album to date, and, more than any previous record, shows his vast range as a lyricist and musician. It draws from everything Cass has created over two decades of experimentation to cut through with a direct and clarifying light.   Cass McCombs will embark on his “Interior Live Oak Live” tour over 2026. He lives in New York City.

John Cowan Trio featuring Luke Bulla and Ethan Ballinger

ALL AGES SEATED SHOW LIMITED NUMBER OF PREMIUM SEATING TICKETS AVAILABLE   JOHN COWAN AND LUKE BULLA  When John Cowan and Luke Bulla perform together, their shows reflect 25 years of shared history, musical trust, and genuine friendship. Blending New Grass Revival (and more) favorites with old and new originals, they pair masterful picking, rich harmony, and stories that are heartfelt, funny, and hard-earned. Cowan calls Bulla “one of the most beautiful gifts” of his long musical life, while Bulla, inspired by Cowan since his youth, considers sharing the stage a “dream come true” and a source of “immense gratitude and honor”. Together, they deliver music rooted in gratitude, joy, and deep mutual respect.   “I, unbelievably, have entered my 72nd year as a human and 58th as a professional musician. There is much to say, songs to sing that brought me here, and much musical merriment to look forward to. Unlike the proverbial rolling stone I have gathered many musical partnerships (moss?) that continue to inspire me. Luke Bulla is surely one of these. The level of his musicianship is only exceeded by the size of his heart and humility. I consider him to be one of the most beautiful gifts I’ve been given in my lifetime.” – John Cowan   “A large portion of my core formative musical inspirations involve the music of John Cowan. I listened to New Grass Revival on a daily basis for years and would sing harmony and play fiddle with those records never imagining how blessed I would be to get to play and sing with John quite a lot over these last 25 years. My first gig in Nashville was touring, recording, and playing the Grand Ol’ Opry with Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder. I was 19. I was overjoyed to be hired by The John Cowan Band in 2001 and we proceeded to have a good handful of years playing the most fun, creative, wild, beautiful music I could imagine. I have since gone on to record several of my own projects that John is featured on and I’m so proud of the fact that John has recorded several of my original songs over the years. Playing and singing with John is a dream come true and I am immensely grateful and honored to share the stage with him and to bring our music to you all.” – Luke Bulla

Anna Tivel w/ Alexa Rose

ALL AGES SEATED SHOW LIMITED NUMBER OF PREMIUM SEATING TICKETS AVAILABLE   ANNA TIVEL Anna Tivel is a Portland, Oregon-based, internationally touring songwriter who is forever drawn to the quiet stories of ordinary life. The characters and imagery that populate her writing are full of breath and vivid color. With six full-length albums out and a seventh on the way, Anna has been likened to a short story writer and praised by NPR, Rolling Stone, Billboard, and others for her keen observations of the human condition. In fact, Ann Powers of NPR Music had this to say, “Anna Tivel is just one of my absolute favorite living songwriters. Her writing on [Outsiders] is at the same level as Paul Simon when he wrote ‘The Boxer’ and ‘American Tune.'”   ALEXA ROSE “An enchanting new Appalachian voice wraps her rambling mind around a dream; it sounds like the soul child of Bob Dylan and Dolly Parton.” – NPR Music Alexa Rose was born in the Alleghany Highlands of western Virginia, raised in the tiny railroad town of Clifton Forge. Though no one in her immediate family played or sang, she inherited a deep musical legacy.  “Growing up I would hear stories of my great-grandfather Alvie who, for a time, lived and played with [bluegrass great] Lester Flatt when they were both young men,” says Rose. “Apparently, Lester tried to get him to move to Nashville and pursue a career. But my great-grandfather decided to stay in the mountains with his wife on their farm.”  That sense of place and storytelling spirit became woven into Rose’s voice and songwriting. In 2019, she released her debut album Medicine For Living, the title track of which won Merlefest’s revered Chris Austin Songwriting Contest. Her 2021 follow up Headwaters garnered national attention from American Songwriter and Rolling Stone, among others. Rose wrote most of the album in the early stages of the pandemic, which she astutely characterizes as having “that weird lucid feeling of not-time.” “Headwaters are the source of a river. The furthest point from where water merges with something else. They are not mighty. Just a network of small tributaries, like a creek, not necessarily picturesque, but they’re the most important part of the river. Water is fluid and inconsistent and sacred and indifferent. You can be miles down a river, but you’re still at the origin. And in that way, water feels like it has transcended time. That’s how these songs found me—the same way memories do, in that slivering, elusive water. As quickly as you come across them, you bend in another direction.” Perhaps following in the steps of her great grandfather, Rose’s songs feel like oil paint landscapes of her own life in the mountains, often wringing out the beauty in mundanity and exploring timeless topics. Her earnest, well crafted stylings are a multi-layered merger of old country music and traditional folk songs, colored by rock and roll and mountain soul.

One More Saturday Night: A Tribute to Bob Weir

ALL AGES STANDING ROOM ONLY    BOB WEIR TRIBUTE SHOW An evening of music celebrating in tribute to the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir.  Beloved by so many and essentially part of the music that makes Asheville so special, Bob Weir’s influence and inspiration will be in the spirit of the evening as folks from the community’s music scene come together to share the music we love dearly.  Spiro Nicolopoulos (the Paper Crowns, Very Jerry Band), David Mulder and JD Smith and James Collins & Bill Evans (Phuncle Sam) and Lee Kram (Jerry’s Dead) come together to share the groove and the spirit of the music at The Grey Eagle.