Asheville Music School is back at The Mule for its annual silent auction, and every bid helps a local kid get lessons or an instrument. Money raised goes to the Paul Thorpe Music Education Fund, which pays for need-based scholarships and community music outreach.

Bid on regional getaways, wine tastings, fine art, concert tickets, spa packages and gift cards from local restaurants. AMS students play live sets through the night, there's food from local chefs, and the cash bar has local beer, wine, cocktails and NA drinks.

Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the door. Grab yours, bring your bidding hand and support music education in Asheville.

Devil's Foot is the Asheville crew making non-alcoholic ginger beer, craft sodas and sparkling lemonade with real organic ginger, fruit from local farms and no corn syrup. The Mule is their taproom, set right inside the production facility on Sweeten Creek Road just outside Biltmore Village.

Full bar, but the draft sodas are the point. Cocktails and mocktails run on Devil's Foot sodas, backed by a deep wall of North Carolina spirits, plus local beer, NA beer and wine. A food truck or pop-up is parked out front most days.

The calendar stays stacked for a taproom. Live music, Wednesday night jazz, Latin dance socials, burlesque shows, vintage markets and NFL Sundays on the big screen all land here. Leashed dogs are cool inside.

Regulars will tell you the ginger beer is the real deal, and the Fuego crowd is loyal. The room gets love too, open and bright with a lot of reclaimed wood, and the bartenders know their way around a mocktail. Easy call when half the crew is skipping alcohol and the other half isn't.

Devils Foot Beverage & The Mule

Looking for live music in Asheville tonight? Find venues and show schedules downtown, on the South Slope, in West Asheville and the River Arts District. Almost all post shows as Scoops on Dig Local, so check a profile before you go. Downtown, The Orange Peel on Biltmore Avenue and Asheville Music Hall on Patton Avenue book touring bands, Jack of the Wood has hosted Celtic and bluegrass nights since 1997, and Hotel Eve does live jazz on Lexington Avenue. The South Slope has Eulogy on Buxton Avenue, Revival on Asheland Avenue and outdoor concerts at Asheville Yards on Coxe Avenue. Along Haywood Road in West Asheville, catch a set at The Odd, Fleetwood's or The Double Crown, or a quieter show at AyurPrana Listening Room and Story Parlor. The River Arts District has The Grey Eagle on Clingman Avenue and full album sides on vinyl at Joyful Noise. Hellbender by The Orange Peel puts outdoor shows on the Swannanoa River. Head east to Black Mountain for White Horse, Town Pump Tavern and Pisgah Brewing's outdoor stage, or north to JuneBug Retro Resort in Weaverville. For theater and orchestra, see the Wortham Center, the Asheville Symphony and free Shakespeare from Montford Park Players. For weekly jams, venue sizes and answers to common questions, see our Dig Deeper guides to Asheville live music venues and weekly bluegrass jams.

Live Music in Asheville, NC: Venues, Shows and Events

Asheville Made is your guide to products made right here in the mountains, from hot sauce and craft sodas to farm-raised meat, handmade crafts and small-batch spirits. FIREWALKER Hot Sauce Company has made small-batch, vegan sauces with locally grown produce since 2012. Devil's Foot Beverage brews ginger beer and craft sodas with organic ginger and fruit from local farms, and pours them at The Mule, its taproom on Sweeten Creek Road near Biltmore Village. Hickory Nut Gap Farm in Fairview has been farmed by the same family since 1916 and sells its grassfed beef and pasture-raised pork and chicken at the farm store. The Southern Highland Craft Guild shows the work of hundreds of juried Appalachian craftspeople in pottery, fiber, glass, wood and jewelry. For local spirits, visit Eda Rhyne Distilling in Biltmore Village, Oak and Grist in Black Mountain and Two Trees in Fletcher. These are good stops for gifts and souvenirs that are actually made in Asheville. Every listing below has hours, photos and directions.

AMS Silent Auction at The Mule

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