The Sponsors of the event are Musicians Organizing Activist Committee and Indivisible Asheville:

Musicians Organizing Activist Committee (MOAC) organizes events and peaceful protests thru music to support justice and freedoms for all. MOAC was created in Asheville and hopes to become a model for other musicians world-wide to use their music to better the people and world around them.
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Indivisible Asheville: We make calls. We show up. We organize. And we’ve built lasting collective power across the country, in our home towns. We’re Indivisible.

Council woman Kim Roney and Indivisible Leader Robin Lively Summers will speak between bands.

The bands:

Rock While Rome Burns:

Rock While Rome Burns is an Asheville, NC based rock band that blends diverse musical styles including hard rock, acoustic rock, country, blues, jam rock and even bossa nova. Founded in 2023 by singer songwriters Alan Graf and George Gelish, the band aims to take audiences on a captivating musical journey with their adventurous and dynamic sound. Their original material is thought provoking as well as designed to inspire the listener to take action to improve the world as we know it.
www.rockwhileromeburns.com

Sal Landers Party RX:

Multi-award winning Sal Landers brings her inimitable brand of groovy, Laurel Canyon-esque rock ’n roll to the stage with an infectious energy and passion that swaggers and captivates. Sal has shared the stage with Joan Jett, The Tubes, Will Smith, Eddie Money, Roy Clark, Alabama, Holly Near, Linda Perry and many more. Possessing showmanship in spades, she has continued to make her mark as a fiery, impassioned performer who deftly takes command of the stage with her band Party Rx!, dishing up epic grooves, crunchy guitar riffs, and robust vocals. Sal has an easy, natural rapport with the audience and offers crowd-rousing performances that lean into raw, potent, organic sound featuring originals and the Woodstock era’s iconic artist’s hits!
www.SalLandersMusic.com

Ovadya:

O•VAD•YA is an original, neo-psychedelic band with intense, nuanced transcendent acoustic/electric and world (mid-east) music textures… We play from delicate nuanced “psychedelic” acoustic to crunchy, addictive, unusual rock. We’ve all had our 16 minutes of fame, haha.

The band has been playing before extremely diverse audiences for over 15 years… From opening for Eric Burdon & the Animals, to Piamenta (the “Israeli Jimi Hendrix”) & benefits, to clubs to live radio, from festivals to intimate coffee houses. Our music has been featured on radio nationally & locally in both Chicago & Asheville (WXRT, WNUR, WBEZ, WNUR, WLUP, WPVM, Asheville FM, & many more), charting in CMJ & grabbing major (Polygram) label interest & indie label offers. Individually, the members have been written up from the Winston-Salem Journal to Guitar World Magazine and much more. The Asheville incarnation of the band boasts a group of sought-after local & nationally known musicians.
https://ovadya.net/

$10 Cover