Ben Scales, Festival Director
The first Montford Arts Festival was held on March 21, 2004, inside Pyper’s Place, which is now Nine Mile Restaurant, and Sweet Heaven Ice Cream Shop, which is now a real estate office. Ira Bernstein [... click heading to read more]
The Montford Walk-In Bakery
Jennifer Drake Thomas, Owner/Baker
Did you know there’s an artisan bakery right here in our neighborhood?
It’s a close-to-home business featuring hand-crafted breads. Locally grown, stone-ground grains—thanks to Carolina Ground Mill—make up the bulk of [... click heading to read more]
Chicken Coop, Bee Hives Attract Attention
E.V. vonSeldeneck
Spring is here in full force, and we are pleased to be in our fifth season of growing in the Hamilton Community Garden beside the Chestnut Street Bridge.
We began our [... click heading to read more]
LaZoom Tour Will Benefit Music and Arts Festival
Daphne Young, Fundraising Coordinator
For the third year in a row, you’ll get an opportunity to laugh your Asheville off for a good cause. Come join us on the funniest tour [... click heading to read more]
Montford Park Players Open the Outdoor Season, May 9-26
Travis V. Lowe
Can three guys really cover 37 Shakespeare works in under two hours?
This fast-firing comedy parodies all of the Shakespeare plays (plus the sonnets!) with only three [... click heading to read more]
Here’s Our Second Festival Challenge!
Daphne Young and David Baker, Fundraising Coordinators
Montford resident and longtime festival supporter Brian May has issued a second festival challenge. Brian has generously offered to match up to $600 in donations from neighbors [... click heading to read more]
Ben Scales, Festival Director
Montford’s Tenth Annual Music and Arts Festival is coming together for Saturday, May 18. The festival committee has made plans for two stages of entertainment and two streets lined with one-hundred vendors of arts, crafts, [... click heading to read more]
Wilde’s Earnest Opens April 11 at the Masonic Temple
Travis V. Lowe
The Montford Park Players are presenting Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest in April. This most enduringly popular of Wilde’s plays is the writer at [... click heading to read more]
Apply to Extension Master Gardener Volunteers of Buncombe County
Mary Koppenheffer
The Extension Master Gardener Volunteers (EMGs) have small grants available for the upcoming 2013-2014 school year for schools in Asheville/Buncombe County to create Learning Gardens for students. Grant [... click heading to read more]
Daphne Young and David Baker, Fundraising Coordinators
We are so very excited to be fundraising for the Tenth Montford Music and Arts Festival.
Many past sponsors have once again taken the opportunity to be a part of this wonderful [... click heading to read more]
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Historic photos on Montford.org courtesy of North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville
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