AVL Sounds Fest operates in Asheville, North Carolina, with capacity and age details worth confirming before a date is announced. AVLfest's spirit lives on in AVL Sounds Fest, the Southeast's premier venue-based music festival. The festival takes place in early August. Musically, AVL Sounds Fest accommodates All Genres. AVL Sounds Fest accepts booking inquiries by email. Artists need to confirm AVL Sounds Fest’s sound system, monitoring, available backline, and technical staffing. Artists should confirm AVL Sounds Fest’s final schedule and show-specific deal before publishing the date. AVL Sounds Fest’s stated song policy is all song types. Show inquiries for AVL Sounds Fest are handled by its talent buyer function.
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The Odd is a 75-capacity Asheville oddities bar, restaurant, and venue where live music and other events can run up to seven nights a week. The listed policy is 18-plus, though all-ages shows are possible when arranged, so verify the actual door rule before putting the date in ink. All genres are accepted, and booking goes by email with a music link; the venue asks artists to plan roughly six weeks ahead, remain patient with inquiries, and bring local acts onto an out-of-town bill when possible. It provides a sound system, but the specifications are unknown, so confirm inputs, monitoring, backline, stage size, and house-tech expectations before you meet the carpeted mystery of soundcheck. Feedback consistently describes a small, personal room, compatible local support, attentive music-minded crowds, staff help, door money, and drinks, while one account says the sound can be uneven. Reviews reinforce the oddities-bar, dive-bar, food-and-drinks character. Confirm the deal, lineup, production plan, load-in, set time, and hospitality in writing. At 75 capacity, good fit beats brute force every time.
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- Capacity
- 75
- Age policy
- 18+
- Genres
- All Genres
- Sound & production
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- Address
- 1045 Haywood Road, 28806, United States
- Venue phone
- (828) 575-9299
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