AVL Sounds Fest
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE FOR THE FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE SCHEDULE 250 ACTS. 17 STAGES. AVL Sounds Fest is a venue-based music festival returning to the Blue Ridge mountains August 6-9, 2026. Presented by Asheville-based Wicked Weed Brewing and Worthwhile Sounds, AVL Sounds Fest will fill more than 15 area concert halls, clubs, and outdoor venues alike with a multi-genre lineup of local, regional, and national talent. Performances are set to take place throughout the 4-day festival, with wristbands granting pass holders access to more than 200 shows throughout the Asheville area. Committed to supporting local community causes, AVL Sounds Fest is partnering with the WNC Long Haul – Recovery and Resilience Fund. This donor-advised fund through the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina was created locally to support recovery from Hurricane Helene through strategic focus areas in Culture & Arts, Local Business, and Long-Term Support for individuals impacted or displaced. The fund meets the evolving needs of the community at critical marks post-storm, ensuring resources for ongoing needs at each phase of recovery. In addition to raising awareness for long-term needs throughout the region, the fund will also receive a portion of the proceeds from ticket sales.
AVL Sounds Fest
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE FOR THE FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE SCHEDULE 250 ACTS. 17 STAGES. AVL Sounds Fest is a venue-based music festival returning to the Blue Ridge mountains August 6-9, 2026. Presented by Asheville-based Wicked Weed Brewing and Worthwhile Sounds, AVL Sounds Fest will fill more than 15 area concert halls, clubs, and outdoor venues alike with a multi-genre lineup of local, regional, and national talent. Performances are set to take place throughout the 4-day festival, with wristbands granting pass holders access to more than 200 shows throughout the Asheville area. Committed to supporting local community causes, AVL Sounds Fest is partnering with the WNC Long Haul – Recovery and Resilience Fund. This donor-advised fund through the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina was created locally to support recovery from Hurricane Helene through strategic focus areas in Culture & Arts, Local Business, and Long-Term Support for individuals impacted or displaced. The fund meets the evolving needs of the community at critical marks post-storm, ensuring resources for ongoing needs at each phase of recovery. In addition to raising awareness for long-term needs throughout the region, the fund will also receive a portion of the proceeds from ticket sales.
AVL Sounds Fest
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE FOR THE FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE SCHEDULE 250 ACTS. 17 STAGES. AVL Sounds Fest is a venue-based music festival returning to the Blue Ridge mountains August 6-9, 2026. Presented by Asheville-based Wicked Weed Brewing and Worthwhile Sounds, AVL Sounds Fest will fill more than 15 area concert halls, clubs, and outdoor venues alike with a multi-genre lineup of local, regional, and national talent. Performances are set to take place throughout the 4-day festival, with wristbands granting pass holders access to more than 200 shows throughout the Asheville area. Committed to supporting local community causes, AVL Sounds Fest is partnering with the WNC Long Haul – Recovery and Resilience Fund. This donor-advised fund through the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina was created locally to support recovery from Hurricane Helene through strategic focus areas in Culture & Arts, Local Business, and Long-Term Support for individuals impacted or displaced. The fund meets the evolving needs of the community at critical marks post-storm, ensuring resources for ongoing needs at each phase of recovery. In addition to raising awareness for long-term needs throughout the region, the fund will also receive a portion of the proceeds from ticket sales.
AVL Sounds Fest
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE FOR THE FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE SCHEDULE 250 ACTS. 17 STAGES. AVL Sounds Fest is a venue-based music festival returning to the Blue Ridge mountains August 6-9, 2026. Presented by Asheville-based Wicked Weed Brewing and Worthwhile Sounds, AVL Sounds Fest will fill more than 15 area concert halls, clubs, and outdoor venues alike with a multi-genre lineup of local, regional, and national talent. Performances are set to take place throughout the 4-day festival, with wristbands granting pass holders access to more than 200 shows throughout the Asheville area. Committed to supporting local community causes, AVL Sounds Fest is partnering with the WNC Long Haul – Recovery and Resilience Fund. This donor-advised fund through the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina was created locally to support recovery from Hurricane Helene through strategic focus areas in Culture & Arts, Local Business, and Long-Term Support for individuals impacted or displaced. The fund meets the evolving needs of the community at critical marks post-storm, ensuring resources for ongoing needs at each phase of recovery. In addition to raising awareness for long-term needs throughout the region, the fund will also receive a portion of the proceeds from ticket sales.
Eddie 9V
ALL AGESSTANDING ROOM ONLY EDDIE 9V Eddie 9V has an endless stockpile of cool stories – and you’ll find twelve of them on his most recent studio album Saratoga, released in November 2024 on the fabled Ruf Records label. A thrilling mix of Southern soul, blues, rock, and funk, Saratoga proved to be a gamechanger: a road trip-ready record filled with razor-sharp observations, vintage textures, and raw humanity. It also marked a major career milestone: Eddie 9V’s soulful sound began reaching hundreds of thousands of new fans across the globe. Now signed to Easy Eye Sound — the Nashville-based label founded by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys — Eddie 9V is preparing to release a brand-new album in 2026. And the momentum keeps growing. Since Saratoga dropped, Eddie’s monthly listeners on Spotify have exploded from 8,000 to peaking at over 800,000.. Songs like “Halo,” “Saratoga” and “Love Moves Slow” have become SiriusXM Spectrum-certified tracks, gaining steady spins and major audience love. But this rise is years in the making. From the day he first slung a guitar on a local Georgia stage, Eddie 9V (born Brooks Mason) has been an artist to watch. First cutting his teeth in cover bands and regional blues circuits, he made the leap to full-time frontman with a name that couldn’t be ignored. “I wanted to start from scratch – and I ain’t never heard of no bluesman named Eddie 9V.” That leap paid off. His early albums Left My Soul In Memphis (2019) and Little Black Flies (2021) turned heads for their wild energy and vintage flair. 2022’s Capricorn was a breakout moment, earning rave reviews from Classic Rock, The Guardian, and more. It debuted at #1 on the blues charts before being dethroned by Bonnie Raitt — “a cool story to be able to say,” Eddie laughs. By the time Saratoga arrived, Eddie 9V had evolved into a full-spectrum songwriter, tapping into deep wells of soul and storytelling alongside his brother and longtime collaborator Lane Kelly. Much of the album was recorded at their Echo Deco Studio in Atlanta, with some sessions at Denver’s Crown Lanes Studio. From the disco-tinged horns of the title track to the fuzzed-out dreamscape of “Delta,” it’s a record that widened the lens without losing the grit. Now with a major label partner, national tours, SiriusXM airplay, and streaming growth that shows no signs of slowing, Eddie 9V is poised for the next chapter. A new album is on the horizon. The band is sharper than ever. And if Saratoga was the ignition, what’s coming next is the open highway. “I’m already writing new songs,” he says. “You never stop.”
Jake Blount w/ Clover Lynn
ALL AGES FULLY SEATED SHOW LIMITED NUMBER OF PREMIUM SEATING TICKETS AVAILABLE JAKE BLOUNT Jake Blount is a performer and scholar of Black folk music based in Providence, RI. Initially recognized for his skill as a string band musician, Blount has synthesized his scholarly and artistic pursuits into a diverse performance practice that has taken him to Carnegie Hall, Newport Folk Festival, NPR’s Tiny Desk, and beyond. His albums, released on Free Dirt Records and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, have been featured in best-of lists from NPR, The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone. His scholarly publications include “Jail the Zombie: Black Banjoists, Biopolitics, and Archives,” published in Modern American History. He also served as a music consultant for the movie Sinners, and performed on the soundtrack of Ken Burns’s The American Revolution. Blount holds an A.M. in Musicology and Ethnomusicology from Brown University, where he is working toward a Ph.D. in the same and a second master’s degree in Anthropology. A new string band record is forthcoming in September 2026. CLOVER LYNN Clover-lynn and the Hellfires is a project borned from ashes of olde; of olde memories, olde melodies and an even older spirit. With her roots dug deep into the mountain sides of the Virginia Clover-Lynn pulls at those roots of her heritage in search of both uncanny and hearth. Conjuring the sounds of an old country dance hall, the smell of mold in an old church on Sunday morning, and the warmth of a story passed down from tongues that came before. With the help of her band of Hellfires, Clover-Lynn is able to create a show that reminds those away from home they can always go back and gives others a feeling of yearning for a home they’ve never known.
PATIO SHOW: Morgan Geer
ALL AGES – LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVEMorgan Geer of Drunken Prayer Drunken Prayer transcends the bounds of Americana music. Morgan Geer writes songs that could emerge from a highly blissed-out biker bar or a swampy ashram. The new Drunken Prayer record, Thy Burdens, is an homage to the fiery music of the church. Partnering with Drive-By Truckers’ Bobby Matt Patton, the pair recorded this album in North Mississippi with some of their friends from Appalachia and the Delta including members of MJ Lenderman’s band, Band of Heathens, Jimbo Mathis’ group, and Wednesday. In 2026 The Deslondes from New Orleans included Geer’s “Cordelia” on their covers album of influential songs. Alongside like minded artists as Johnny Cash, Swamp Dogg, and Clifton Chenier, Glide Magazine says ”That song alone justifies this album’s existence.” Morgan Geer’s poignant and wickedly funny music is revered across the fringe of Americana. Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family said “Morgan Geer is the real thing – a songwriter with a heart as deep as the Marianas Trench and sensitive as the wet hands of a raccoon.” Geer also plays guitar in the pioneering alt-country band Freakwater and collaborates with members of Butthole Surfers, Melvins and Ween. He started using the moniker “Drunken Prayer” after a chance conversation about rats with Tom Waits. Drunken Prayer is now a stalwart of the burgeoning scene in Asheville, NC. Morgan Geer has recorded and toured with some of the cornerstones of what we call modern Americana music.
COUNTRY BRUNCH w/ Jackson Grimm
ALL AGES – LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVEJackson Grimm Asheville songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, Holler Choir + Susto Stringband
PATIO SHOW: Future Aaron
– ALL AGES- LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVEFuture Aaron is an American singer-songwriter andsinger for The Spiritual Machines. As a solo artist, Aaroncreates modern songs rooted in the golden age ofsongwriting. Drawing inspiration from artists like PeterGabriel, Crowded House, Sunny Day Real Estate, JohnDenver, and Nick Drake, his music blends rich vocals,percussive acoustic guitar, infectious melodies andthoughtful lyrics into a sound that feels both old andnew. After honing his craft on the West Coast and inAustin, Texas, Aaron is happy now to call Ashevillehome, where the musical spirit resonates with hisformative folk roots.
PATIO SHOW: The Log Noggins
– ALL AGES- LIMITED PATIO SEATING IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVE The Log Noggins are a 3 piece progressive southern rock band based in Asheville, NC. Embedded in their southern roots are strains of fusion, blues, progressive rock, and much more. Their take on composition, melody, and chord structure contains hints of everything from The Allman Brothers to John Scofield. The Log Noggins’ dynamic, high-energy performances spotlight each players strengths; chicken pickin’ electric guitar, melodic bass, thunderous drums, soulful keys, and screaming harmonica bring audiences to their feet! The band released their debut, self-titled EP on all streaming platforms in June 2017. They are now recording new material at Sedgwick Studios in Flat Rock, NC; expected to be released in the first quarter of 2019. Vocals, Guitar /Adrian BrinkleyBass / Cole LaughterVocals, Drums / Wayne Redden