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Asheville Guitar Bar Presents: Singer Songwriter Showcase featuring Ben Balmer, Sarah Kohrs and Peter Tart Wednesday, March 19 Show: 7:30pm | Doors: 7pm Asheville-based troubadour Ben Balmer is a singer, songwriter, harmonica player, and guitarist originally from Ypsilanti, Michigan He’s played in all 48 of the contiguous United States, throughout Canada, and has done months-long stints in Japan and the UK. Balmer’s music is colored not only by his musical influences (everything from Bela Barton to the J. Geils Band), but also by novelists such as C.S. Lewis and Cormac McCarthy. His rootsy, lyric-driven Americana is the rare kind that is meticulously crafted yet has undeniable mass appeal. Balmer’s third and latest album Honky-Tonk Macbeth (2021) was hailed as “...one of those pleasant oddities