Discover and Celebrate the Bliss of Asheville's Cover and Tribute Bands, Performance Only Bands and Vocalists ... with Sounds Ranging from Contemporary to Traditional, with Everything In-Between.

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Asheville has become a true mecca for musicians ... and those who love to listent to live music. Here is just a small sampling of the kind of live music that is available every night of the week... at clubs and events throughout Asheville and Western North Carolina.

'Music for Hire' Musicians and Cover Bands for Your Next Event, Party or Wedding

Moving Parts
"... a live, musical entertainment powerhouse in Asheville N.C. since 1999 is on mission to get butts out of their seats and on to the dance floor. We are a party motivated dance band that plays rock, funk, disco, country, Motown, pop, soul, and r&b hits from the 70's, 80's, 90's as well as what's on the radio right now! Our motto:'Give the people what they want and Bring on the FUN!'..."

Orange Krush
"... Asheville North Carolina's finest party band. This talented 5 piece band is composed of a female lead vocalist and four dynamic musician/vocalists. Having both male and female singers plus bass, drums, keys, and guitar allows Orange Krush to put on a high energy performance covering every musical style. Orange Krush creates a highly engaging and interactive experience. We pride our selves on our ability to read an audience in order to keep every one dancing and having fun. From Cocktail Jazz to Dinner Swing, Motown to Disco, 80’s to Today, Orange Krush can enhance every part of your event and entertain every guest in the room...."

Simple Folk and Tuxedo Junction
"... When you hire Tuxedo Junction, you also get "a group within a group!" Simple Folk is our salute to vintage and contemporary folk and folk-rock. Following is a sampler of the selections available to you. As with the styles offered in the Tuxedo Junction sampler, the Simple Folk material is available to add an even greater variety of music to your event!..."

The High Windy Band
"... named for the sweeping ridgeline that runs from Swannanoa to Black Mountain in Western North Carolina, the High Windy Band is one of the area’s fastest-rising groups. High Windy offers an original journey based in tradition, all the while breaking ground in the genre. The group draws from a combination of contemporary and traditional bluegrass styles while adding old-time themes and an original approach. In an area where great roots music is the norm, the High Windy Band rises to the top, merging sophisticated arrangements and a style that is all their own. In addition to being the First Place Winners of the 2005 North Carolina State Bluegrass Competition, High Windy has shared the stage with nationally-recognized acts such as Mountain Heart, the Lonesome River Band, Special Consensus, Valerie Smith and Liberty Pike, Open Road and Hayseed Dixie...."

Databases of Cover Bands and Tribute Bands

Gigmaster's List of Tribute Bands Willing to Travel to the Asheville Area
"... Here are the online press kits of 102 professional Asheville tribute bands and tribute bands who will travel to Asheville to perform at your event...."

Click on each of the dozens of categories to the left to uncover what makes the Asheville area so vital, so intriguing and so, well, UTTERLY BLISSFUL!

From Rolf Potts' Vagabonding blog:

I've never been one of those uptight literary types who thinks that you have to have actually read a book in order to recommend it to others. So I feel no trepidation in suggesting Eric Weiner's new travelogue-slash-memoir The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World The premise of the book is simple but intriguing-- here is Amazon's description:

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Singapore benefit psychologically by having their options limited by the government? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? With engaging wit and surprising insights, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

In the imaginary Netflix queue of books-that-I'm-planning-to-read, this one has just jumped to the top. By the way, why has no one started a Netflix for books? This question, and many more, I'll leave for another day.

Disc Jockeys and DJ's

Mountain Top Entertainment
"... Music For All Occasions: Weddings - Dances - Parties - Proms - Bar/Batmitzvahs - Corporate Functions - Top 40 - Dance - Beach - Oldies - Country - Jazz - Disco - Classic Rock ..."