Join us for an evening of music, poetry, and storytelling — with this month’s AVL Revue shining the spotlight on some the beloved recurring events at Story Parlor, all while offering a glimpse into the year ahead.
We invite the group, and they invite the participating artist!
ARTIST LINE-UP
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The Asheville Classical Guitar Society (ACGS) was formed in Asheville, NC to provide a forum for local guitar students, enthusiasts and professionals, to encourage and promote performance and study of the classical guitar, to produce public concerts by outstanding professionals, and, where possible, master classes, and advance public awareness of classical guitar music.
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Guitarist, arranger, and educator Andy Jurik actively explores the intersection of classical and popular music. His research in classical/jazz fusion has been presented as lectures and performances at the Guitar Foundation of America Convention, Dublin Guitar Symposium, Radford University International Guitar Festival, Clemson Guitar Festival, Southern Guitar Festival, and Carnegie Mellon University.His debut album, strive, featuring solo guitar arrangements of works by Ernesto Nazareth, Radiohead, the Beatles, and others, has received acclaim from Acoustic Guitar magazine, Soundboard, and Classical Guitar magazine.
Andy teaches at Western Carolina University and the University of North Carolina Asheville, and directs the Asheville Classical Guitar Society.
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Rachel Hansbury is a vocal artist and educator based in Asheville, NC. She has performed as a soloist with chamber music groups including the Asheville Choral Society, Gateway Chamber Orchestra, and Music City Baroque, with whom Nashville Arts Now described her performance as "The highlight of the night…angelic, yet full of human emotion.”
Always curious about the human voice, Rachel has completed studies and masterclasses with artists such as Judy Collins, the King's Singers, and Meredith Monk, and educators such as Clifton Ware, Jeannie LoVetri, and Sharon Mabry.
Currently she performs as half of the guitar and voice ensemble Demeler as they perform their blend of French café music and global art song throughout the Southeast.
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A storytelling show about you—the audience—The Campfireball is created spontaneously out of whatever stories and lives happen to be gathered together inside Story Parlor at that moment in time. There’s nothing to prepare and nothing to fear—participation is never required, and the show is just as much fun to sit back and watch unfold as it is to play along. Come on out for a night of storytelling you will literally never be able to experience again. Never possible to know what’s coming next, each Campfireball slowly begins to reveal surprises, connections, and communitas as the space transforms from a room of strangers to a room of neighbors.
Workshopped and developed over two years in the master's program for storytelling at East Tennessee State University and showcased at the 2023 Asheville Fringe Festival, host/storyteller Cory Howard (National Storytelling Festival, Moth Grand Slam winner) blends intimacy and absurdity in an effort to shepherd the audience through ridiculous yet reverent ways of drawing out their life experiences.
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Jazz Hybrid Presents, programmed quarterly at Story Parlor by Sebastian Matthews, offers an evening of Poetry & Music that serves as a showcase for regional and national poets and musicians, encouraging collaboration and hybrid forms and the relationships that sustain and nurture creative communities.
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Marie Harris, NH Poet Laureate 1999-2004, is a writer, teacher, and editor. In 2003, she co-produced the first-ever gathering of state poets laureate. She has served as writer-in-residence at elementary and secondary schools throughout New England and is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent of which is DESIRE LINES, the Hobblebush Books Granite State Poetry Series. Her books for children include G is for GRANITE: A New Hampshire Alphabet, PRIMARY NUMBERS: A New Hampshire Number Book, and a picture book, THE GIRL WHO HEARD COLORS. She now lives in Asheville, NC. -
A monthly storytelling series in the vein of “This American Life,” Listen to This is an evening of stories and songs from some of Asheville’s most interesting writers, performers, and citizens. Each month is hosted by local comedian Tom Chalmers and features a central theme.
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Lindsay Lee is a collector of experiences, skills, and stories living in Asheville, NC. Lindsay grew up in the Midwest but found herself traversing the world with a desire to figure out what the heck was going on around here. She is a trained improvisor, tried stand-up once, acted in a local stage production, and used to be in a backpacker, dumpster diving hip hop group. Lindsay's story telling style is intimate and unbearably authentic.