A renovated 1920s appliance store is home to Barley's Taproom in Asheville, North Carolina. This is the original Barley's that opened in 1994. Located at 42 Biltmore Avenue, the 8,000 square foot space is in the heart of the arts and entertainment district. The main floor houses the restaurant and stage.

At Barley's in Asheville, fresh sourdough pizza, lasagna, and sandwiches are served up daily. The stage showcases live bluegrass, jazz, and Americana music 3-4 nights a week with no cover charge. The downstairs bar has 24 taps featuring the South's best selection of American craft brewed beers.

Upstairs is the Billiard Room with four regulation slate billiard tables that are available by the hour. Five regulation dart lanes are available for private and tournament play also. An additional 19 taps are highlighted at the upstairs bar.


http://www.barleystaproom.com/asheville/

A renovated 1920s appliance store is home to Barley's Taproom in Asheville, North Carolina. This is the original Barley's that opened in 1994. Located at 42 Biltmore Avenue, the 8,000 square foot space is in the heart of the arts and entertainment district. The main floor houses the restaurant and stage.


http://www.barleystaproom.com/asheville/index.php

About Bharati Corinna Glanert

I have been interested in Spirituality since I was a child. Over the years, I have devoted my life more and more to finding out about the cosmic laws of healing and awakening. My journey first brought me to Reiki, where I became a certified teacher and practitioner.

Next, I studied with Dr. Edward Bach and learned his practice of Flowertherapy.

After that, I learned different healing techniques from the Phillipines - which are connected deeply to angels and divine knowledge.

Now and since 2001, I have studied and continue to study with Sri Kaleshwar Swami in South India. Sri Kaleshwar is a powerful master healer on this planet.

Most of the year, I study, meditate, and live in India. During the other part of the year, I travel around the world to teach and share the powerful healing techniques and knowledge that I have learned from Sri Kaleshwar.

In my workshops and seminars, I guide the participants to profound meditation experiences -- for self-healing and healing others -- and I demonstrate many practical spiritual principles, like de-charging negativity back into the Nature, and the knowledge of the Five Elements, the building blocks of creation. The Five Elements process involves charging yourself with the vibrations of earth, water, fire, sky and air -- and then commanding on those elements to restore health, vitality, balance, emotional well-being and spiritual awakening. The Five Elements purification process is the beginning of a deep adventure into healing channels, profound meditations, and an enlivened soul relationship with Nature.

For more information on Sri Kalshwar and his teachings, you can go to his webpage www.kaleshwar.org


http://www.spiritbalance.net

TIBETAN BOWL VIBRATIONAL SOUND HEALING



Author, educator, Certified Tibetan Bowls Practitioner/Instructor and recording artist. I offer an integrated body/mind practice that includes focused dialog, chakra balancing Polarity energy work and Tibetan Bowl Sound Healing. Trained in an ancient form of Tibetan Medicine my unique system is effective in the healing process for cancer, fibromyalgia, stress disorders and more. My Website offers:

- Information on Sound and Vibrational Healing,

- MultiMedia Sound Healing Home Study Course

- Concert Video Clip and CD Audio Clips,

- FREE Newsletter,

- Events & Presentations

- Quality Tibetan bowl sales, spiritual gifts and Products for Well Being.


http://www.soundenergyhealing.com

Trying to decide whether to begin, continue or end a relationship? Stressed over finances and looking for solutions? Contemplating a change of career? Trying to sort out family or health issues? Making choices about a spiritual path?

Do you want to try some different ways of looking at your present and your future? Do you want to feel more energized and creative?

Types of Services:

Intuitive Guidance: Tapping into spiritual connections, I offer readings to help a person gain insight into matters of Love, Money, Life Purpose, Business, Health, Relationships, and other questions.

Past Life Recall: Discover how past lives and karma affect your present life and relationships.

Dream Work: Learn how to interpret your dreams to mine them for pertinent information that you can use. Learn shamanic dream work techniques to bring change, insight and healing.

Sound Healing: Using the voice, drums, rattles and bells to move energy and break up blockages

Reiki: Traditional energy healing which can be used silently or in combination with other modalities.

House Blessings: Cleanse your space of negative energy and invite in harmonious new energy.

Handfastings: Create your own special commitment or wedding ceremony.

Personal Rituals: Created upon request for other life transitions.

Life Coaching: Intuitive guidance for life decisions.

Writing: Helping you express your self and find direction through writing, which could include journaling and rewriting your own life story. Perhaps you would like feedback and editing suggestions on books, stories or articles that you are writing.

Your Future Today Home Parties! Ladies, invite a few of your friends over and have an experienced, professional intuitive counselor do readings for you and your friends.Get answers about Love, Relationships, Money, Career, Health and more. The organizer of the party receives an additional session of her choice (Past Life Session, Reiki, Life Coaching, Dream Work, Sound Healing or any of my other services)

East Coast Chant is a Cosmic Cabaret of performance, participation and world service. It is a divinely-inspired contemporary tapestry of chants, songs, ecstatic dance, sound healing, visual imagery, personal healing and planetary service woven with threads of light by everyone present. It’s an uplifting, healing, expressive and meditative experience for everyone and an opportunity for world service. As a group we use the awareness of our oneness in the Source of All There Is to create a powerful energy field that we consciously use to send out waves of intentional energy and Light to heal ourselves, our loved ones, and the planet.

Audience comments: "I really enjoyed the spontaneity, the spirit and the openness of it all." "I felt a release from sadness, anger and fear and I observed various forms of release, healing, and transformation in others."

Visit the East Coast Chant website for dates and locations.
http://www.eastcoastchant.com

Hannah Flanagan's Irish Pub opened its doors in 1993. The pub became Hendersonville, North Carolina's favorite place for live entertainment, great food & spirits, and social gatherings. Matt and Drew Johnes bought Hannah's in August 2000. They Expanded the Menu & Beer selections, plus they are open daily from 11am till 2am. Now with over 100 different domestic and imported beers, 16 beers on tap, all the ABC permits, Fabulous Traditional Irish and Classic American dishes, and weekly Live Entertainment. Hannah's has truely become a staple in Hendersonville, NC amongst the local patrons as well as visitors from outstate. All across the Western North Carolina you will find that everyone has either heard about Hannah Flanagan's or experienced it.
http://www.hannahflanagans.net/index.html

Welcome to Jack of the Wood, a cozy, Celtic style pub located in downtown Asheville, North Carolina. Handcrafted English style ales are brewed at our nearby brewing facility and served fresh daily. On a typical evening at Jack's you will find many of the patrons gathered around the black walnut bar or at long tavern tables, engaged in conversation through which the taboo subjects of art, religion and politics are heavily woven. Others play darts or scan the papers while sipping pints of ale or munching on a plate of fish and chips.

When the local musicians are fiddling away on Irish reels or picking some olde time mountain music in the corner with the wooden shutters closed against the night, you can blink your eyes and imagine yourself in the Celtic Isles or Colonial America. The small but varied menu will keep your hunger pangs at bay with its simple traditional favorites and daily special. A wonderful bunch of locals consider Jack their local pub, but are not opposed to sharing. Oh, by the way, we have a very nice selection of single malts. So drop by and say "hi", and remember, bring plenty of conversation
http://www.jackofthewood.com/

The Joli Rouge nightclub and lounge offers pool tables, pinball, a library, and signature cocktails found nowhere else in Asheville.

In order to conform with NC state liquor law, we are a 21+ private club open to members and their guests. Membership is $5 and are available at the Joli Rouge. Any member can sign in as many guests as they'd like. For more information on Membership, please see our this blog entry.

Who I'd like to meet: Miscreants, ne'er do wells, conversationalists, free thinkers, non-conformists, talented musicians and artists, and people that make good pie.
http://www.myspace.com/jolirouge

Mizilca offers "Transformational Bellydance" experiences: performances, classes, workshops, ceremonies & rituals, poetic dance journeys, articles, and dance costuming. She draws upon Goddess mythos of ancient cultures, yogic practices and energy work to evoke sacred and scintilating sensations for all watching or participating! Her approach to dancing is as an entertaining and inspiring dance priestess, employing the power of movement as a catalyst for internal change, and utilizing the isolated muscle groups as supportive excercises to physically support development, nurturance and rebalancing of the chakras. For more information, see her full site at www.transformationalbellydance.com

(Photo by Chris Stack, www.stackdigital.com)
http://www.transformationalbellydance.com

The live music offered at downtown Asheville's Stella Blue ranges from blues and jazz to reggae, techno and hip-hop.
http://myspace.com/stellabluelive

The Grey Eagle is a listening room-style concert venue, not a bar or nightclub. While many artists who regularly perform here have dedicated followings, we cannot offer potential performers a built-in crowd. Likewise, while we love to discover new music and help artists begin their careers, we cannot host performers who are unknown to Asheville audiences. Like many listening rooms around the US, The Grey Eagle is a destination location: an artist must already have some “marquee value” in the Asheville area in order to perform here. If you are (or represent) an artist who is relatively unknown in Western North Carolina there are many other options for you, and a quick search on the web should give you a host of possibilities.
http://www.thegreyeagle.com

Since opening in September 1994, The Handlebar: A Listening Room has become the premier concert venue in The Upstate — some would say in the entire Southeast — for entertainers and music lovers alike, people seeking excellent artistry, musical diversity, renowned acoustics and intimacy.

The Handlebar, at 304 East Stone Avenue — three blocks off Main Street near Downtown Greenville between Main Street and Interstate 385 — has presented more than 2,000 concerts featuring a vast array of musicians, from the legendary to the unknown. Many performers have been Grammy Award winners, others have been popular local and regional favorites. The Handlebar specializes in presenting a wide variety of musical genres — from rock ‘n’ roll to blues; from Cajun to reggae; from folk to bluegrass; from jazz to world beat; from alternative to hip hop; from metal to pop. Many musicians featured at The Handlebar had never performed in Greenville before.
http://www.handlebar-online.com/

The Lobster Trap is a locally owned restaurant dedicated to offering fresh seafood to residents and visitors of Asheville, NC. Captain Tom sends us lobsters in the morning right off his boat in Portland, ME. Our trout comes fresh from the Shining Rock Wilderness area of Pisgah National Forest.

My name is Amy Beard and I am the founder of The Lobster Trap. I grew up working on the docks of Portland, Maine with Captain Tom. In the morning I would steam and shuck lobsters for the local restaurants. In the afternoon I hauled in the daily catch from the lobster fishermen.

I developed a passion for the sweet taste of Maine lobster and respect for the locally regulated industry.
http://thelobstertrap.biz/

The History of The Orange Peel

The building on the corner of Biltmore and Hilliard Avenue holds many fond memories for the people of Asheville. From 1950 to 1962, Skateland Rollerdome was the place to be on Saturday night and hosted many birthday parties for children of Asheville. The downtown skating rink proved to be the perfect place for kids to have fun while moms and dads shopped in the department stores that once dominated the downtown landscape. Later, the building housed a series of R & B and soul clubs. Coincidentally, most of those clubs had colors in their names: jade, emerald, and orange. The Orange Peel was the best known of these establishments and had a reputation throughout Western North Carolina as the hottest nightclub around. Artists such as The Commodores and The Bar-Kays appeared on the carpeted, three-tiered stage, and when live music was not available, recorded disco and funk blared from the elevated DJ booth, which featured DJs from one of the few black owned radio stations in the country, WBMU-FM. The Orange Peel was the last club to occupy the location before it became vacant for many years. After a stint as an auto parts warehouse, The Orange Peel was reborn, thanks to Julian Price’s downtown redevelopment company, Public Interest Projects.

Over the last three years, The Orange Peel Social Aid and Pleasure Club has become recognized as one of the best live music venues in the nation. Featured and highlighted in USA Today, Travel and Leisure Magazine, Southern Living Magazine, Turner South Cable Network, Rolling Stones Magazine, and in a number of regional and national newspapers and magazines, the club is known for presenting up and coming new talent as well as showcasing legendary performers. Everyone from Bob Dylan to Ziggy Marley and from Ween to Wilco have performed to sold-out houses at The Orange Peel.

In New Orleans, “Social Aid and Pleasure Club” describes organizations that provide care, comfort, entertainment and support to its membership. The Orange Peel has a mission to do all of that and more for the community of Western North Carolina. By hosting a number of benefits, galas, birthday parties, weddings, and even memorial services, 101 Biltmore Avenue has once again become a well-known address in Asheville. Ironically, The Orange Peel of the 1970’s billed itself as “The Original Orange Peel,” perhaps imagining a future for “The New and Improved Orange Peel".
http://www.theorangepeel.net/contact.php

We provide the best in Live Entertainment with music ranging from the 50's and 60's to today's hits. We specialize in wedding's, receptions,corporate and many special events.We also offer Audio sound systems for events small and large.Our Recording Studio has state of the art Digital Recorders and more.We also specialize in VCR to DVD transfer,LP's to CD,8Tracks to CD and cassette to CD.Our Experienced staff of Producers are available to create and perfect the Industries' most successful sound.We also have Promo packages and project packages available.

Great Food. Great beer and wine. Great music. Great customers. Great staff. But located in the middle of historic West Asheville?

That’s just embarrassingly good, really.

So check out our website. See who’s playing, what's for dinner, and plan your next visit.
http://www.westvillepub.com/index.htm