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AyurPrana Listening Room Asheville‘s premier listening room celebrating the human spirit, through music, dance & healing arts.

APLR Presents: WHY? - Friday, December 18th. WHY? is touring in support of his new album Oh Golly / Yes Lord. Tickets ar...
08/07/2026

APLR Presents: WHY? - Friday, December 18th.
WHY? is touring in support of his new album Oh Golly / Yes Lord. Tickets are on sale now! 

Yoni Wolf was at war with himself. As he reached middle age, he was beset by questions that had plagued him for years. Why was life so difficult and lonely? When would the happy part of him take the steering wheel? Far from wallowing, he leaned into the dark and the light, asking how and when real change was possible. Of course, transformation wasn’t a foreign concept to WHY?, the mercurial project that’s housed much of Wolf’s neuroses and restless creativity since the late ‘90s. This time, the two sides of a man became the basis for a new album split in half, at times diametrically opposed. WHY?’s ninth album, Oh Golly / Yes Lord, airs all of Wolf’s baggage while asking how a person resolves their different selves. “The album is not a flattering look at my life, but that’s not the point,” Wolf asserts. “This is warts-and-all stuff. I’m always striving for honesty in WHY?, but Oh Golly / Yes Lord is particularly revealing.” 

WHY?

APLR is pleased to announce Old Sap on Friday, October 16th - celebrating 10 years of his album The Swan. Old Sap’s firs...
08/04/2026

APLR is pleased to announce Old Sap on Friday, October 16th - celebrating 10 years of his album The Swan.

Old Sap’s first album, The Swan, was written and recorded 10 years ago in Montana along the river that is its namesake. For the first time since its release, Old Sap will be joined by a stellar lineup of Asheville’s best to relive the comfort, color, grief, and grandeur of those panoramic days in the land of the Big Sky.

Poet from Chicago, rambled out to Montana, cut a banjo from a tamarack, strings across the country, foot like a freight train, voice rushing down over lush Appalachia, sings a thrush tune through the rush hour and into your long-forgotten prairie dreams.

Old Sap

08/04/2026

APLR welcomes Soumya Chakraverty and Mallar Goswami on Saturday, August 22nd, with support from Blake Hornsby.

Join us for an unforgettable evening of Indian classical music featuring the sarod artistry of Soumya Chakraverty. Tickets are available now!

Soumya Chakraverty
Blake Hornsby Music

APLR Presents: The Harmonic Body - A 6 Week Journey of Movement and Sound with Rosie Milford & Sarah Louise! Join us Wed...
08/03/2026

APLR Presents: The Harmonic Body - A 6 Week Journey of Movement and Sound with Rosie Milford & Sarah Louise!

Join us Wednesdays Weekly from October 21st - November 25th. Attend one session, or all 6. There is a 6 week bundle available, which offers a price break as well! Doors 5:30PM || Class 6PM-7PM

This sequence blends highly accessible, gentle asanas led by Rosie Mulford with the immersive vocal and instrumental soundscapes of sound healer, Sarah Louise, to deepen relaxation and balance energy centers. Register at AyurPranaListeningRoom.com.

Rosie Greene Mulford

07/31/2026

APLR Presents: An Evening of Ceremonial Music with Kendall Way on Friday, September 11th. Tickets are available now.

We invite you all to join us September 11th for a ceremonial concert with Kendall Way and community. Celebrating her album release, Desire to Be, these songs of reverence and devotion offer a serenade for these times of transformation. Sound that touches the spirit and creates conditions in which we can soften into presence and the gift of being embodied.
Kendall weaves with Brittany Marie, Aditi Sethi, harmonium and vocals flowing over the grounded rhythms of River Guerguerian, Chris Rosser and Jay Brown.

Come immerse within a contemplative evening of soulful music centering beauty, heart and harmony.

Kendall Way


APLR is thrilled to welcome back Jon Mueller, Adam Lion, and Bryce Franich on Monday, October 5th. Join us for an evenin...
07/30/2026

APLR is thrilled to welcome back Jon Mueller, Adam Lion, and Bryce Franich on Monday, October 5th. Join us for an evening at the outer edges of sound, featuring the debut of Mueller’s FRIEND LESS, Lion’s return to Asheville, and Franich’s album release. Tickets are available now!

FRIEND LESS is a project by Jon Mueller. Its two recent EPs, Energy Rippers and Logic of Relics (with Bundy K. Brown and James Plotkin) aim to provoke the heart, mind and body through an unorthodox approach to rhythmic patterns. In performance, the pieces from Energy Rippers lean on a system of AIR (Acoustic Improvised Rhythm) using drums and voice to achieve a similar effect.

Adam Lion - “When a Line Bends” is a vibraphone composition/improvisation performed by Adam Lion. This solo is an ever changing study of sound, material, performer, and space. As these subjects enmesh, relationships emerge dictating form and process, pushing the music with a sense of immediacy. Lion navigates these constraints through techniques developed during the spontaneity of live performance, an approach which openly embraces contingency as a powerful compositional tool.

Bryce Franich is an Asheville-based musician whose work focuses on feedback, timbre, and texture.

His latest project, Trekchö Ensemble, is an improvisational group made up of musicians working in experimental, improvised, and jazz music. This performance features Shane McCord, Clay White, Landon George, Ashley Paul, and Tony Rolando, combining harmonium, strings, winds, guitar, gong, and modular synthesis. Trekchö Ensemble focuses on working with the physical properties of sound: overtone, resonance, and the shifting textures that emerge as those elements interact.

Adam Lion The Colonel

07/30/2026

APLR Presents: Magic Tuber Stringband THIS Friday July 31st with support from Shane Justice McCord & Friends!

https://link.dice.fm/L779479f91f0

Magic Tuber Stringband, hailing from North Carolina, probes the undercurrents of the landscapes around them. Highly skilled players and writers, the trio leads the burgeoning avant composition world utilizing folk instrumentation. Their music appears to weave in and out of the fabric of their surroundings, reflecting their time spent living across the Southeast and studying its regional folk traditions and natural histories. Having performed recently at Big Ears, Hopscotch, Sound & Gravity (and many other places along the way) the group’s music resonates well beyond their regional roots. Their newest record, Heavy Water, will be out May 22 on the venerable Thrill Jockey Records. The ensemble continues to stretch the parameters of acoustic instrumental expression with masterful flourishes of dense, textural arrangements, subtle minimalist gestures and deft improvisation.

Join us for a beautiful night of live music. Tickets are available now.





APLR is pleased to announce Slow Accordion - with Oliver Wood, Ted Pecchio, Mark Raudabaugh, and Matt Glassmeyer on Tues...
07/30/2026

APLR is pleased to announce Slow Accordion - with Oliver Wood, Ted Pecchio, Mark Raudabaugh, and Matt Glassmeyer on Tuesday, November 3rd!

Slow Accordion is a brand-new instrumental, improvised quartet from Nashville featuring acclaimed guitarist Oliver Wood (The Wood Brothers), groove-driven bassist Ted Pecchio (Colonel Bruce Hampton, Doyle Bramhall), versatile drummer Mark Raudabaugh (Sierra Hull, Jim Lauderdale, Fred Wesley), and Matt Glassmeyer, a fixture of the New York and Nashville improvised music scenes, performing on his own wonderfully strange Wurlitzer (Meadownoise, Lambchop, Billy Martin, Aqua Teen Hunger Force).

Their debut album, due out July 16 on Royal Potato Family Records, is a seven-track collection that was completely improvised and recorded entirely in analog—from the first note to the tape literally running out halfway through the closing track. The four longtime friends came together with no preconceived ideas or compositions, simply trusting the moment to conjure music out of thin air. One final note: despite the band’s name, there are, regrettably, no accordions to be heard.

Oliver Wood
Matt Glassmeyer
Ted Pecchio
Mark Raudabaugh
Royal Potato Family

APLR Presents: Free Plannet Radio - 25th Anniversary & Album Release on Saturday, October 10th, 2026.Join us to celebrat...
07/29/2026

APLR Presents: Free Plannet Radio - 25th Anniversary & Album Release on Saturday, October 10th, 2026.

Join us to celebrate the release of the sixth album from Free Planet Radio, while also marking the band’s 25th anniversary. Originally begun in 2021 as a trio with beloved bassist Eliot Wadopian, the recordings took on new meaning after Eliot’s passing later that year. After several years, founding members River Guerguerian and Chris Rosser completed the project as a duo, weaving together new recordings with a handful of the original trio performances to create a moving tribute to both their musical journey and their longtime friend.

The new album features eight original compositions filled with intricate rhythms, adventurous odd-meter grooves, and a rich tapestry of global instrumentation. Throughout the evening, audiences will hear sounds from sarod, oud, dotar, ragmakamtar, hand pans, frame drums, doumbek, kanjira, melodica, piano, shakers, and more - showcasing the band’s signature blend of world traditions and contemporary improvisation.

To honor 25 years of music-making, Free Planet Radio will also welcome a number of special guests who have shared the stage with them throughout their remarkable career.

Tickets are on sale now!

Free Planet Radio River Guerguerian Chris Rosser

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