Creative Check-in: “Holding Ourselves Accountable”, 4 Tuesdays in Feb.
Weekly, In-Person, Time-Limited Series (4 Tuesdays - 2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24), 7-9pm (sometimes runs long). The group meets in a centrally-located secret place in Asheville with cozy chairs. Address will be emailed to confirmed participants just before the first meeting.
21+, facilitated by Stephanie Morgan.
Corduroy’s cornerstone meetup!
No matter how you spend your time, you want to spend it well, carve a deep path, work out the kinks, and keep your creative trajectory in focus (whatever that is).
This small group goes deep. It meets weekly, for about 2 hours. It’s designed for people who are willing to sit and share about blocks, fears, triumphs, and experiments in the process of creative living, and bring in some accountability to their creative process. Maybe you want the connection of meeting up with others, in a real-life setting. Maybe you want to make a few new creative friends. Maybe you have a project you want to see through, but your childhood sibling issues are rearing up as you try to collaborate with others. Or maybe you just want to meditate a little, and feel seen and heard in the discussion to follow. Any of these are reasons to join us. In February, we’ll be talking about ways to gently hold ourselves accountable to our dreams.
This is a moment to stash your phone, sit, meditate (15 min at the beginning), listen to some curated wisdom aimed at helping you stay mindful, receive support from others, and put some intention into how you live your life.
Introverts welcome. There is a lot of group discussion, but Corduroy will not pressure you to be in the spotlight. That said, we believe you’re coming for a reason, so we hope you’ll join in when you’re ready.
Stephanie Morgan, founder of Corduroy, has a B.A. in Psychology, and a Masters in Social Work/Mental Health. She’s also a certified Mindfulness Meditation Instructor (studied with David Nichtern at Samarasa in Los Angeles). She’s constantly devouring thoughtfully-written self-help and spiritual wisdom, playing music in Pink Mercury, voice acting, and gardening.
Depolarizing Ourselves (w/Bill Doherty - FREE ZOOM livestream)
ONLINE event. Open to anyone, anywhere.
8:00-9:30pm Eastern / 5:00-6:30pm Pacific. You must SIGN UP HERE to reserve your spot and receive the Zoom link.
This workshop (which, to my knowledge, is not participatory - you just get to view it) is a free event brought to you by Braver Angels as part of their mission to depolarize America. (For more on the organization, check out this nervous-system-relaxing video.)
Braver Angels National Co-Founder, Bill Doherty will be presenting this event in person, and it will be streamed live for those who attend via Zoom. Please note that Zoom attendees will move into breakout groups for the activities, and Bill will be interacting with the in-person attendees only.
Polarization is fueled by how we talk about those on the other side of an issue. Too often, we ridicule, dismiss, or stereotype our fellow citizens. When Braver Angels addresses “polarization,” we are not referring to healthy disagreements over issues or philosophy. We are addressing how we regard and talk about large groups of people — people who happen to be on the other side of the political aisle.
Goals:
In this 1.5-hour session, participants will learn:
1) How to be more aware of their own “inner polarizer”
2) How to be critical without demonizing, dismissing, or stereotyping large swaths of the population
Who Can Attend?
Anyone interested in examining their own inner polarization and learning strategies to disagree without condemning or ridiculing others.
Braver Angels is a 501(c)(3) national non-profit. All donations are tax deductible. Your support will allow them to offer more workshops and debates with the ultimate goal of uniting America. Click here to donate.
SIGN UP HERE to reserve your spot and receive Zoom link. These can fill up.
*Tickets are Free, Donations Help
As a spam prevention measure, you must use promo code BRAVER during registration to secure your spot in the workshop. Donations beyond the free ticket support Braver Angels, 501(c)3.
Skills for Disagreeing Better (FREE ZOOM Workshop)
ONLINE event. 90 minutes, open to anyone, anywhere.
2:30pm Easterm / 11:30am Pacific. You must SIGN UP HERE to reserve your spot. These do fill up.
This workshop (which seems participatory… it’s a little unclear) is a free event brought to you by Braver Angels as part of their mission to depolarize America. (Check out this nervous-system-relaxing Braver Angels video.)
In this polarized time, we lack basic understanding of why people on the other political side hold their beliefs. We don’t see them as they see themselves–their core values and central concerns–but instead as we choose to see them.
We are tempted to regard our own side as principled and the other side as self-interested. When we try to communicate across this gap, we often lack the skills for listening carefully, looking for common ground, and sharing our perspectives in ways that connect rather than create more misunderstanding.
We can learn to disagree better in polarized times, which means accurately seeing where we differ and where we share common ground.
Goals of the session:
1) More understanding of the values and concerns of people who differ from you politically
2) Better skills for listening in a way so that the other person feels heard
3) Better skills for sharing viewpoints in a way the other person might hear — even if they disagree
Braver Angels is a 501(c)(3) national non-profit. All donations are tax deductible. Your support will allow them to offer more workshops and debates with the ultimate goal of uniting America. Click here to donate.
SIGN UP HERE to receive Zoom link.
Steph's Bday Show (Pink Mercury) at Eda's
Join Steph and her stellar bandmates in fully improvisational pop experiment, Pink Mercury. Help Steph celebrate her birthday at this welcoming, funky secret of a venue in Weaverville. (This is a more traditional electrified venue show than many Corduroy shows - same sweet people.)
"Get There" City Council Candidate Forum (Steph Emcees)
FREE.
Join Steph, Corduroy founder, as she bumbles thru a couple of dumb jokes and facilitates a City Council candidate forum at one of Asheville’s beloved music venues, The Grey Eagle. Meet the candidates and learn how each plan to represent your dreams for how to live in our community.
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Get There Asheville is a city council candidate forum presented in partnership by Asheville on Bikes, Mountain True, and Strong Towns Asheville, focused on the interconnected issues that shape how Asheville grows and how residents experience our city—housing, mobility, resilience, and land use.
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The format is organized by three components where candidates and constituents have the opportunity to be seen and heard by one another:
The Stump: Each candidate has two minutes to introduce themselves and their platform, with remarks addressing housing, mobility, resilience, and land use.
The Breakout: Candidates host individual tables while attendees rotate for small-group, one-on-one conversations. This portion lasts approximately 20 minutes.
The Closing: Candidates return to the stump for a one-minute reflection on what they heard from voters, followed by a closing statement.
Pink Mercury (Before-Dinner show) @ One World West
Pink Mercury, Steph’s all-improvisational band, plays a special before-dinner, all-ages show from 4-7pm at the friendly and welcoming One World West. If you’ve seen the band play in the intimate Corduroy context, you probably experienced a quiet and minimal show. This one’s likely to rawk a little. Interpretive dance encouraged. <3
This one’s pay-at-the-door, $10. Bring friends!
Speed Relating! At Eda's Hideaway
Skip the small talk. Meet new people or deepen existing relationships by playing Corduroy’s fast circle game! It looks a lot like the love child of a speed date and a hip version of musical chairs, but isn’t quite either. Speed Relating doesn’t try to play cupid… but it does encourage authentic connection, challenging you to answer carefully crafted personal questions thru rapid one-on-one encounters with people of different genders, orientations, and relationship statuses. The rewards are ridiculous prizes, and better relating.
Come solo or bring a friend! Just be on time.
Eda’s Hideaway is just 10 min north of Asheville, in Weaverville. If you haven’t been, you’re missing out on some cuteness.
Secure your spot by booking here, or there may be spots available day-of, and you can pay at the event.
SOLD OUT Nov 13 - SECRET SHOW Johanna Warren + Lavender Blue
Address will be emailed to attendees morning-of-show. Sliding Scale $10-25.
Johanna Warren
As heard in Netflix’s Midnight Gospel… Singer/songwriter and multidisciplinary artist Johanna Warren’s work delves into the human experience with a forensic curiosity and a mystical wink. Johanna lives in rural Wales, where she spends much of her time foraging for medicinal and edible plants. She also makes short films, drawings, durational performance art pieces, and poetry zines. Her latest EP, The Night of the Wind, is a concept album based on a book she wrote and illustrated at age three: it is an ode to the inner child, the importance of creativity as play, and the wisdom we are born with but often lose along the way.
"Heartbreaking and stirring" - Pitchfork
"A minutely examined and revelatory emotional upheaval, a view of a failed romance sung with meditative grace" - The New York Times
"The spirit that animates much of Warren's music and philosophy [is] an enduring belief that we can be better, despite the hurt and despair we put each other and ourselves through." - NPR
A “Singer-Songwriter You Need to Know" - Rolling Stone Magazine
IG: @johahahanna
Lavender Blue
Lavender Blue is the vessel for the songwriting and guitar playing of Kayla Zuskin.
Their music is best described as slowcore and alternative indie with a dash of Americana.
Located in Asheville, NC, Lavender Blue is also a music teacher, engineer/producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
Videos:
Oct 11 - What’s with all the Hate? Cayla Calhoun
FREE event, contributions welcome.
Address will be revealed morning-of-event to attendees. This is a special indoor, in-depth, balanced-as-possible intimate conversation and performance, on couches and pillows.
Let’s talk about hate… salon-style. With some attempt at humor and entertainment… on a Saturday night in central Asheville. (Introverts welcome… no pressure to speak.)
How does hate “spread”? What makes it attractive as a stance, even to some of the people in our own families? What is it that causes such disconnection from those Robert Fulghum-esque lessons we were taught “there in the sand pile at Sunday school”?
Music and poetry will accompany a visit by Washington DC poet, sommelier, and trans woman Cayla Calhoun, formerly of Asheville and raised in Birmingham, who comes to us for an Oprah-style interview after a brutal, life-changing event. She’ll tell her story, and read her writing. You’ll like Cayla. She’s smart and funny, and an expansive conversationalist with a surprisingly grounded take on her experience. It’ll be a wide-ranging talk, definitely not always serious. We’ll sit around on couches and pillows and touch on current events, to look under the hood for human meaning. Charlie Kirk. Talk-show-host-ousting. Hillary Clinton referring to a group as “Deplorables”. I’ll (ahem, Oprah will) ask your take on some podcast excerpts.
Exact address will be emailed to attendees day-of-event. Please join us, and bring a friend. All political persuasions and beliefs welcome (seriously). Adults 18+ only, but please bring your kindergarten manners.
All contributions go to Cayla (she doesn’t need them, but you’re welcome to do this, here or at the event).
9/20 Secret Show: Resort Realism w/guest Stephanie Morgan
resort realism is the lofi-downtempo project of Robert Wason (bass) and Crawford King (keyboards). Their sound has been described as if "Air wrote a film score for a a tiki-resort adaptation of The Shining". They are frequently joined by collaborators and are releasing their second LP in late 2025.
Stephanie Morgan, frontwoman for Pink Mercury and founder of Corduroy, guest sings on songs she co-wrote with the band.
Exact location will be emailed to attendees day-of-show, and will be in central-ish Asheville.
9/19 Secret Show: Lyle de Vitry, Chris Lippincott, Trippers & Askers
Show moved inside to cozy living room die to rain! Text a band member for address (it’s the same address as outdoor stage)
Lyle de Vitry plays soft and sensitive folk music heavily inspired by nature, love, and the cycle of life.
Much like life itself, his music comes in cycles. With his intricate, ambient fingerpicking guitar style and suede-soft baritone voice, de Vitry mesmerizes audiences into meditative serenity. Immersed in rich and nuanced harmonic composition, listeners are gently drawn into the here and now. Effortlessly moving between unity and dissonance, voice and instrumentation, rhythm and melody, de Vitry seamlessly integrates the comfort of folk music with the spine-shivering emotional release and intentionality of classical compositions. In so doing, he manages to create a sound as dynamic and honest as the ocean’s eternally flowing tides or the planet’s ever-changing seasons.
Video: My Love
Bandcamp
Chris Lippincott’s poignant melodies narrate stories of ascent, hope, and the human struggle amidst an evocative sonic landscape. His compositions invite the audience on an immersive, genre-blurring journey of emotion by uniting synthetic textures, organic instrumentation, and the human voice. Chris is a multi-instrumental Nashville composer, producer, and touring artist originally from Tupelo, Mississippi, claiming New Orleans as a second home.
Trippers & Askers is the folk / spiritual jazz project of musician, sound artist, educator and researcher Jay Hammond. The group's latest album Acorn takes inspiration from Octavia Butler's immersive and frighteningly prescient novel Parable of the Sower. As an intertextual work, Acorn brings together a wide array of collaborators that include members of Wye Oak, Califone, former Sun Ra member Ken Moshesh and comic artist John Jennings to explore the book's narrative as it pertains to the very real political and emotional challenges of the present. The album was called "a shimmering homage to nature" by The Guardian.
Day Trip with Pink Mercury Outdoor Show + Supper
Includes supper!
Our friend Jim invited Pink Mercury to play at his house concert series in Horse Shoe, NC, a beautiful 50-min drive from Asheville.
NOTE EARLY TIME... 5:30-8pm, rain or shine (there’s an outdoor stage, or we might move indoors).
Jim says, "I live on a rough dirt road so be careful coming up. Signs will be out directing to the house." So that gives you a sense of the vibe.
Address and any other info will be emailed to attendees day-of-show. Deadline to purchase tix and receive info is 2pm… otherwise if you know a band member or Jim, feel free to reach out for info and you can settle up at the door.
Secret Outdoor Show! Pink Mercury + Slow Packer duo
The show was a lovely success! Rain ran us off right at the end, before we could announce, but if you didn’t pay for a ticket and still need to, you can use the cart here. Thank you, on behalf of Corduroy, Pink Mercury, Slow Packer, and Jamie Linder (host). <3
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7-10pm.
Bring a blanket, chair, maybe a picnic dinner? (Inside if rain!)
Pink Mercury plays our first roving pop-up event since we left brick & mortar location. This one’s in a sweet sweet backyard setting.
Steph’s making songs again… so in addition to Pink Mercury’s all-improvisational set, the band will debut 2 of them.
Slow Packer duo opens, rounding out a night of pretty sweet indie music, played by some great musicians and inspired by some thoughtful music lovers, under a tree.
***NOTE: You will receive an email day-of-show with location info (location will be in Central Asheville).
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Magnum Opus: A Creative Consciousness Workshop
Ages 18+.
Created and led by Gordon Smith (Counselor) and Laura Hope Gill (NC Arts Council Fellow).
The Magnum Opus is a creative consciousness exercise centered on imaginational and poetic reasoning. Comprised of seven states, the Opus will symbolically move you. You will create seven poems in one hour.
This process will surprise you. Magnum Opus invites us to develop skills of surrender and allowance for discovery… to open ourselves to discovering that there parts of us that we have not explored… to recognize that the potential for growth is, so far as we know, limitless… to discover, listen to, engage, and integrate this vast, mysterious, frightening, impossible-to-ignore landscape that is at once inside and separate from our “real lives.”
Creative consciousness renews us. This exercise is a door to growth.
FREE Mindfulness Exercise
Drop into the present moment with a 30-minute mindfulness exercise. Exercises may rotate from week to week, but this time is intended to give the brain practice at calming and balancing, as a basis for greater access to nonjudgmental creative flow. Please dress comfortably.
Registration: you’ll go thru the checkout, but your price will be $0 :)
Location will be central to Asheville, and will be sent to you the day before the event.
Live Music Salon: Ambient/Experimental with Visuals
Ages 18+.. Tickets available at the door or here in advance.
Just ahead of Big Ears Fest in Knoxville… a feast for your expansive appetite, here in Asheville (also Corduroy’s LAST musical event in this space!). 2 Experimental/Ambient artists will present their work in our beautiful lounge, paired with visuals by Stephanie Morgan and Wesley Davis.
8-9pm Mark Jumper of Bob Dey’s Tank Engine
Mark Jumper found himself stuck in a Desert while trying to return to his work on the Bob Dey's Tank Engine Man (BDTEM) Project, when a mysterious trickle of colorful water appeared to show him the way forward. At this event you will hear how it all went down in a 28 minute album of soundscapes, songs, and narration. It's a bit ambient, a bit sound-designy, and a bit musical. In the end, all you need to do is listen.
9-10pm bios+a+ic
bios+a+ic performs live ambient soundscapes with local field recordings of nature along with custom video projections. He uses trumpet with heavy effects processing, looped, and manipulated, along with lush atmospheric synthesizer for a unique exploration of immersive sounds and textures. Hear his new album ‘my heart is floating down the river’ inspired by Hurricane Helene floods on your favorite streaming platform.
Lounge Yoga & Sound Bath Extravaganza
Corduroy Lounge has teamed with 2 skilled healers to present its first yoga/sound bath event, adapted for our room! Bring a yoga mat or not. Here's how it'll go down:
1. Kick off your shoes and leave them outside the Corduroy curtain.
2. Get comfy on a couch, or on your yoga mat.
3. Hour 1, Allie Mandikos will play large, amazing, otherworldly singing bowls and lead you thru a restorative yoga session.
4. Hour 2, Madelyn Ilana will play skilled, beautiful and interesting guitar and violin improvisations with a looper, while you continue to relax and restore on your own.
Hot tea will be available.
Reserve your spot in advance… you won’t want to miss this!
Note: doors will close 10 minutes after start time, and briefly re-open at 7:30 for those interested in attending the last hour only.
About your leaders/performers:
Allie Mandikos is a Registered Nurse who made her way to Asheville in 2019, searching for adventure and a place to call home. She has cultivated a passion for self love, continued growth and healing through self work, relationship and yoga.
Allie started teaching her shared practice of yoga and sound healing in December 2021 after completing a yoga teacher training at Asheville community yoga. Her passion lies in helping others find a balance in their own practice through incorporating spiritual work and self growth. Her goal is to share breath work, mindfulness, self love, body positivity and healing into her shared practice.
Madelyn Ilana is a songwriter, composer, and violinist with over 25 years of experience. Blending her deep musical expertise with her work as a healing artist, she creates immersive soundscapes that invite listeners into a space of healing, self-reflection, contemplation, and truth. Her music weaves skilled improvisation with looping textures, offering an experience that is both meditative and dynamic. Whether through original compositions or spontaneous creations, Madelyn’s artistry invites you to slow down, listen deeply, and connect with the moment.
Insta: @madelynilanamusicandhealing
Movie Music: Pink Mercury improvises to The Red Balloon
1958 Academy Award-winning film The Red Balloon is a French tale of innocence, following a boy and a sentient balloon around the streets of Paris.
Pink Mercury will be replacing the movie's sound for the evening, interpreting its emotional themes. Join us from 8-10pm for light h'ors d'ouvres and this first-of-its kind improvisatory audio-visual event at Corduroy!
Live Music Salon: Laney Barnett + Quinn Bee
LANEY BARNETT
A native of Asheville, NC, Laney is a violinist and a music teacher. With influences of Appalachia, she remains true to her innermost voice. She’ll bring her 5-pc band to Corduroy.
She is fond of her dog, Oliver Brown, SHREDDING the whitewater, her incredible community of friends and family, and you.
Laney also plays fiddle for the Asheville-based band Mt. Kili, with friends Rick Sitcha, Matt Shepard, and Liiiana Hudgens.
QUINN BEE
Quinn Brodsky is a folk and alternative musician from Texas. She is one half of the duo SIBLINGS.
Growing up on the mean streets of Texas, Quinn survived by participating in numerous petty scams and by smuggling roadkill and twinkies across the border into Oklahoma. One fateful night, after evading the sheriff by disguising herself as a tumbleweed, Quinn rolled into a bar and experienced live music for the first time. She knew immediately that it was time to change her ways and devote her life to music (with physics as a side-hustle just in case). Time for some fun facts! Few people know that when Quinn sings, the sound is actually coming out of her eyeballs. Because this is occasionally seen as disconcerting by the audience, Quinn has trained extensively in the art of lip-syncing to hide this, going so far as to study the art under the legendary performer RuPaul.
Live Music Salon: Virtuous + Miss Dazey
Virtuous
The music of Kia Rice, who performs under the moniker Virtuous, began with singing in the church youth choir, writing plays and musicals, putting on private concerts for her parents, and dreaming of traveling around the country to sing and act. All grown up, she draws from a love of all musical sounds — Hip Hop to R&B, Soul, Pop, Alternative and Gospel. Her hope is to make music that you can dance to, music you can feel, music you can relate to, and music that uplifts and heals the soul.
Miss Dazey
Miss Dazey is a multi-genre artist hailing from the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina. She has been compared to those of Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, Rhapsody, Mac Miller, and more, tho she prides herself on her unique sound and thought. She loves to get the crowd thinking, dancing, and smiling the evening away.
Saturday: Live Music Salon: Slow Packer
Slow Packer is a collaborative music project between two brothers, Jack Victor and Mike Henry Johnson, who work as a songwriter and producer duo.
Doors 7:30, Show 8-10.
(also Steph’s Birthday Party!)
Live Music Salon: Moon Bride w/ Arielita
MOON BRIDE
Indie-pop artist Moon Bride (formerly Carly Taich), writes about doubt, faith, fear and love in a way that’s anything but cliche. Framing her self-aware lyrics with cinematic orchestration and unusual melodies that take us to another dimension, there is a storybook mysticism to all Moon Bride touches, with one foot planted in this reality. Join her for an intimate, solo performance that might get a little experimental.
ARIELITA
(they/she)
…is a singer-songwriter currently based in Asheville, NC. Their music is quiet, reflective, and bittersweet, reminiscent of artists like Mitski, Haley Heynderickx, Squirrel Flower, and Flatsound. Growing up in NJ/NYC, arielita still holds the grit and edge of the city in her bones, but the mountains of Asheville have softened her heart and mind in a way she is extremely grateful for, and she finds this balance is present in the music she is making now.
Let’s Play: Valentine’s Day Speed Relating!
18+
Singles, couples, or anyone in any relationship config…. meet new people or deepen relationships by playing Corduroy’s fast circle game that looks a lot like the love child of a speed date and a 70’s game show, but isn’t either. Speed Relating doesn’t try to play cupid (though who’s to say?)…. Instead, it invites you to relate, via rapid-encounter conversations (with people of any gender/relationship status), and then morphs into a Newlywed Game-style test of your comprehension skills. The rewards are ridiculous prizes (oh, and better relating)! If you’re looking for an alternative to the traditional Valentine’s outing, book your spot at Corduroy. There will be chocolate. <3
Live Music Salon: Pink Mercury Sessions
In these salon-style sessions, Pink Mercury (band of 5+) intersperses spatially amongst listeners in the lounge, tunes in to each other, and pulls from zero to sculpt genre-spanning musical improvisations. The all-songwriter group is led by vocalist Stephanie Morgan (stephaniesǐd) and featuring Jack Victor and Mike Johnson (Slow Packer), Merrick Noyes, and Zack Kardon (Southern Pine), and sometimes special guests. The members are adept at listening and responding, finding presence to be a key ingredient.
Insta: @pinkishmercury
Creative Business Salon: Working with Clients
For graphic designers, voiceover talent, mix/master engineers, music lesson teachers, or anyone who produces creative work for multiple clients.
Have you ever been asked to do another revision on a project you considered finished? Do you feel confident in your pricing, even for contingencies like revisions? Do you have policies in place that you feel confident about? Ever wonder if you’re over-extending yourself for your client, or struggle to find the line?
In this 2-hour workshop, we’ll aim toward building a clear and happy working relationship designed to build trust, allow you to relax, and keep clients coming back for years.
Register à la carte, or consider an All-Access or Morning Pass!
Listening Loungeabout: Cocteau Twins
Steph curates her favorite band’s music, and invites all of Asheville to join her in lounging around to it.
Name That Tune! 70's, 80’s, & 90’s Hits
Play (or just come and watch) the game that swept the nation back in the day! Guess songs from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s (before we all got ipods and stopped being able to name “hits”). Kitschy prizes!
Let’s Play: Speed Philosophy!
25+
Do you have a hot take on societal and philosophical topics? Meet new people and race the clock to make your case… as you play (or watch) Corduroy’s rapid-fire sparring game you might want to wear a toga for.
This is argument for fun! Speed Philosophy invites you to turn up, and turn it up. Kitschy prizes for the most outlandish-yet-coherent philosophy.
You’ll be asked a deep, human, perennial question such as “What are the ethics of time travel?” “Are we really in bodies on a planet, or have we just convinced ourselves we are?” “Would anarchy work?” “Does wearing a toga fall into morally grey territory? How about Crocs?”
You’ll be given way too little time to explain your answer. Get it all out before the baton passes to the next philosopher!
If you don’t solve the universe, you’ll surely come away with a friend, or a cadre of followers. Book your spot (to play or watch), and spread the word to your buddies blessed with the gift of gab.
Songs in the Key of Life: Listening Loungeabout
18+
We’ve been through a lot, Asheville. Let’s lay around on pillows and listen to the album Stevie Wonder is most proud of… one of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Songs in the Key of LIfe. We’ll listen to this 70-ish minute double-album on vinyl, thru a vintage receiver and speakers. The album opens with the admonition “Love's in Need of Love Today”, and somehow still reminds us that life can be awesome too. BYOB. Toast, tea, and sparkling water available.
Hem Your Pants!
16+
Thrift shoppers, repurposers, recipients of hand-me-downs …learn how to hem pants using an easy-to-learn trick called a blind stitch! All you need is a needle and thread. (We’ll have supplies on hand, or bring your own.) This trick can also be used on a skirt, or to close up those last stitches on a throw pillow (recovering a Goodwill pillow, anyone?) or to apply letters to a cool banner, like the one in Corduroy.
Register à la carte, or consider a Morning Pass!
FREE Live Music Loungeabout: Pink Mercury
First live music event! The band will be sitting down, doing our best to connect vs ‘perform’, and you are all invited. It’s free. Lest you find this booking nepotistic… we need to work out the flow in how the live music thing goes down, so Steph thought we shouldn’t practice on another artist. Haaa! Also, she kind of created this venue around the way Pink Mercury likes to play, so there’s that. Bring slippers and a blankie.
(Thanks for “RSVP’ing” here. You’ll go thru the cart process, but your price will be $0. You can also make a Corduroy Contribution, but there is no pressure to do so.)