Name: Rock n Soul with Pleasure Chest
Start: 2026-11-12T20:00:00.000-05:00
End: 2026-11-12T20:00:00.000-05:00
Location: 5 Walnut Wine Bar

Rock n Soul with Pleasure Chest plays 5 Walnut Wine Bar on Thursday, November 12 at 8:00 PM. Easy one to plan a night around.

This downtown Asheville spot on Walnut keeps it low-key for a wine bar, no pretense, just good pours and whoever's playing that night. The 75-cap room stays relaxed whether you snag a window seat or post up with a cheese board from the connected shop next door, and with live music most nights without a cover charge, it's the kind of place where you can just show up and see what happens.

5 Walnut Wine Bar is a wine and cheese bar at 5 Walnut Street in downtown Asheville, with live music every night and doors open at 2 pm daily. It opened in 2010 and puts local bands first, so one week might bring hot jazz from The John Henrys, traditional bluegrass, jump blues and rock and soul, mostly at 8 pm in a small room.

The room is built by locals, too: maple bar tops from Spruce Pine by woodworker Peter White, barstools by chair-maker Brian Boggs, salvaged-wood tables by Thomas Taggard and a long mural by Ben Betsalel. The wine list and the cheese lean local, same as the room.

This is where locals end up after dinner downtown. You grab a glass, squeeze into a table near the band, and an hour turns into three. The bartenders are friendly, the pours are generous, and the music stays at a level where you can still talk.

5 Walnut Wine Bar

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