Ongoing Events:
- Mondays – An excellent opportunity to get up close and personal with some amazing local talents: 2nd and 4th of every month, Singer Songwriter Showcase 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. and always FREE
- Tuesdays- QUIZZO- Trivia Fun! 7-9 p.m. Free *Prizes*
- Thursdays- Old Time Jam- 7 p.m. to close- Free – Come join in the session!
Scheduled Events:
Wednesday, May 8th, 7pm, free
Big Nasty Jazz Band
Dixieland and Gypsy Jazz
Friday, May 10th, 9pm, free
The Get Right Band
The Get Right Band – An Ass Shaking Good Time
We come together to dance, we come together to smile,
we come together to shake our bodies loose, to get wild.
From our voices, our skins, our wood, and our strings,
we bring vibrations to play and songs to sing.
The party is coming and it’s coming for you…
we’ll bring the boogie, you bring the crew.
The Get Right Band is a force to be reckoned with. Combining catchy, clever songwriting with musical expertise and fearless improvisation, the live show promises to make you shake everything you’ve got. From funk to rock n’ roll to reggae, this is a dance party. This is an ass shaking good time.
Saturday, May 11th, 9pm, free
The Wilhelm Brothers
The Wilhelm Brothers – Indie Folk Rock which is insightful and infectious. The professional and full-time Asheville NC-based group combines the singer/songwriter talents of Chris Wilhelm with the sonic beauty and 
skill of cellist Cristof Ensslin. Their sound emphasizes love of a good story delivered in song and employs folk, roots and indie influences. The music is infectious and insightful.
Sunday, May 12th,Mother’s Day, 1pm, free
The Carpenter Ants
The group’s trademark sound — rich, soulful harmonies, stinging solos and a rock-solid rhythm section — captures that rare, loose-but-tight feel, and has won the band international as well as regional fans. The Ants have twice traveled to Moscow. The trips found the group performing at a variety of venues including the 3,500-seat Russia Concert Hall, the city’s most prestigious room, a Letterman-styled TV show with a national audience of 100 million (!!), funky clubs and gaudy casinos. The band has also opened show for the Blind Boys of Alabama, the Holmes Brothers, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Gov’t Mule, Delbert McClinton, Paul Thorn and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, and, in 2008, was asked to perform on the NPR show “Whad’Ya Know?” The Ants have performed twice on “Mountain Stage.”
With an arsenal of classic and forgotten American music, the Ants wail through classic R&B, country-swamp and gospel-soul with equal conviction.
Monday, May 13th, 6:30 pm, free
Singer Songwriter Showcase
Noah Stockdale
Alex Krug
Dave Turner
Friday, May 17th, 9pm, free
If Birds Could Fly
Three kids from the mountains of Southwest Virginia that love to make music. And it’s pretty damn good too! Folk / Americana / Indie
Saturday, May 18th, 9pm, free
Rory Kelly’s Triple Threat
Blame it on the heady highs in the air that permeates the Black Mountains of North Carolina, but the state has produced an artist in Rory Kelly that will surely bring new dimension to the tour de force that is America’s beloved Southern Rock. Possessing a playing ability in league with prodigies, Kelly is a self-taught musician that picked up the guitar as a boy and cut his chops in the rural town of Marion. While his mother slung drinks behind the bar, Rory strummed alongside his father, drummer Mike Kelly, in a family dominated house band in a local music dive.
Sunday, May 19th, 1pm, free
Sherri Lynn & the Mountain Friends Band
Bluegrass, pop, country, & comedy!
Monday, May 20th, 8:30pm, free
Rigel Pawlek’s Stand-up Upstarts Comedy Competition
Wednesday, May 22nd, 7pm, free
Hot Point Trio
Hot Point Trio is an Asheville based gypsy jazz group.
Formed in early 2012, Hot Point Trio’s members
include Steve Karla on guitar, Lyndsay Pruett on violin,
and Trevor Stoia on upright bass. Gypsy Jazz is a
unique style that blends American swing jazz and
French gypsy influences, pioneered in 1930′s France
by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli.
The trio is a regular act at the Inn at Biltmore,
as well as at Jack of Hearts in Weaverville. Hot Point provides distinctive music that caters to the specific needs of the venue. From sentimental ballads and waltz, to foot tapping swing and hot jazz tempos, Hot Point Trio will be sure to entertain your guests and provide a memorable
experience.
Saturday, May 25th, 9pm, free
Pawtooth
Penelope Zing has been compared to a mixture of Karen O from Yeah Yeah Yeah’s , Amanda Palmer from Dresden Dolls, PJ Harvey meets Grace Slick inspired melodies with vocal styles reminiscent of early Siouxsie & The Banshees; Big, pronounced and unique.
The band’s first EP, “Your Bullets Be Damned”, avavilable only on Band Camp at the moment, gives us the post punk ,80′s influenced ear candy of such straight ahead, hard hitting and energertic songs like the political “Unit 22″ (named after a concentration camp in North Korea), “the Ride” an anti-ruphenol date rape song, and the rock gothic “Pariah”. The first EP has primarily been a post punk, power pop affair, with some forays into raw garage rock stylings.
Along with the “Your Bullets Be Damned”, Pawtooth plans to release a full length album this spring on the usual commercial outlets . This next release will have more groove heavy, danceable songs, still with an early 80′s influence, but generally not quite as aggressive as their first cuts on the EP. Expect more orchestration, samples, backing vocals and keyboards, along with their usual power trio arrangement.
Sunday, May 26th, 2pm, $10 advance, $12 day of
Mac Arnold’s Plate Full o’ Blues
Mac Arnold must have known at an early age that his music career would read like a “Who’s who” of Blues/R&B Legends. His high school band “J Floyd & The Shamrocks” were often joined by none other than Macon, Georgia native, James Brown on piano. After deciding to pursue a professional music career, he joined the Charles Miller group until 1965 when he made the move to Chicago to work with recording artist/saxophonist A. C. Reed.
In late 1966, at age 24, came the opportunity of a lifetime to join the Muddy Waters Band and help shape the electric blues sound that inspired the rock and roll movement of the late 60’s and early 70’s. Regular guests of the band included Eric Clapton, Paul Butterfield, Mike Bloomfield, and Elvin Bishop. The Muddy Waters Band (as a unit) shared the stage with the likes of Howlin’ Wolfe, Elmore James, Jimmy Reed, Junior Wells, Big Joe Williams, and Big Mama Thornton just to name a few. During this time, Mac played on John Lee Hooker’s “live “album, Live at the Café Au Go-Go, as well as Otis Spann’s classic recording “The Blues is Where It’s At”.
After more than a year with Muddy Waters, Mac formed the Soul Invaders which backed up many artists, including The Temptations and B. B. King. In the early 70’s, he moved Los Angeles to work at ABC Television and LAFF RECORDS (Redd Foxx). This led to working on the set of Soul Train from 1971 to 1975 and then working with Bill Withers (“Lean On Me”) before moving back to South Carolina in the 80”s.
Monday, May 27th, 6:30pm, free
Singer Songwriter Showcase
Allijah Motika
Kira Velella
Scott Barkan
Tuesday, May 28th, 5-9pm, $60
Asheville Beer Week
4 course Tasting Dinner paired with 8 Smuttynose Brewery beers
Chef Bill Klein will prepare a 4 course tasting menu to be paired with some classic Smuttynose brews as well as some special surprises that only Jack of Hearts will have for Asheville Beer Week. For reservations to this limited seating event, please email manager@jackofheartspub.com
Friday, May 31st, 9pm, free
Lyric
Pop / Funk / Soul
With a sound and style that is so unique, they’re sure to please any crowd. Playing covers such as “Fast Car and Give me One Reason,” by Tracy Chapman, to their compelling version of Tear the Roof Off/ We Want the Funk,” by George Clinton, it would be hard not to get in the groove with them. Not to mention their well known catchy originals such as “Blue Skies,” and “So High,” which are loved by their many fans.
Saturday, June 1st, 9pm, free
The Zealots: Open Season
CD Realease Party
Currently, The Zealots are George Terry, Aaron Price, and Caleb Beissert. Many friends have contributed and are continuing to offer their craftsmanship to the new songs either in the studio or live. By late summer of 2012, a new record will be available with guests, Mike Rhodes of Blue Rags fame-drums, Pete James of The Honeycutters-guitar, Shane Pruitt-guitar, Matthew Smith-pedal steel, helping out at Collapseable Studios, along with others.
Sunday, June 2nd, 1pm, free
Hot Point Trio
Gypsy Jazz and swing
You do not have a wine beer list on the site????
Hi Sharon,
Thanks for your input. I will work to get our beverage offerings posted to the website as soon as possible.
Best,
Jen Gordon
Marketing Manager
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Good Day…I was just looking over the events for June and see the Chuck Beattie Blues Band will be playing Saturday June 30th at 9pm. These guys are great and this should be a great night at the Jack of Hearts!!! Thanks for having the Band back at night.
Steve, Nice to see you back! I checked out your blog Looks great! Now that you’ve done your first comp, when is the next?I used iPhoto to group the poohts, then iMovie HD to bring them into a template and add the Ken Burns effect and music to it. Then I just exported as a movie. It took me a few minutes just to learn the software, but only about 10 minutes to put it all together. The move to mac is pretty easy so far!
Advance tickets available on line?
Hi Scott, Currently we do not have capability to sell tickets online, we are working on providing this feature soon… check back with us
umm, Flock of Seagulls called. They want their hsiratyle back Ouch! the scary thing is they planned that. Like, they actually rehearsed those songs and purposely chose those songs to play with modified lyrics. I understand the whole, being all things to all people to reach all people deal but where is there a group of people like that anymore?
I would love to have the opportunity to play Jack of Hearts. Please check out my stuff, and let me know what you think. Below is the website of my record label. Please reference that as well as my reverbnation site.
http://www.solotechne.com/Records/CarolinaBound.html
Thanks so much for thinking of us! All of our Music Booking goes through Richard McSherry, he can be reached at: rmcsherry@yahoo.com
Wish your Kelley McCrae appearance, originally scheduled for tonight, had not gotten cancelled. She’s amazing. If you ever get a chance to get her back, jump on it!
I’ll have Music Booking look into it! Thanks for the support!
Thanks so much for bringing Junior Brown to town. I have seen him twice before and cannot wait for the show. Special thanks to Jerry for being so helpful and saving tickets for me.
We love Junior Brown! So glad you enjoyed the show!
The band Gas House Mouse would be a welcome addition to your Blues Brunch line-up. They have performed at Jack of the Wood. Contact number is 864-237-1873
Richard McSherry handles our Music Booking, he can be reached at: rmcsherry@yahoo.com thanks for thinking of us !
do you have jazz brunch every sunday??????
We have a rotating blues brunch most every Sunday!
Hi, I’m scheduled to play songwriters in the round on Monday May 14th. I have many friends and family coming, some from out of town. Do they need to reserve seats? Also, could you send me a sample menu? Thanks!! Matthew
Hi Matthew, that’s great! We look forward to having you play. Monday night you probably won’t need a reservation, but if you have a large party and would all like to sit together please call the restaurant at 828 645 2700 and we can arrange that for you. You can see our menus on the top bar of our website- a new Spring menu coming soon
I heard Junior Brown is playing at Jack of Hearts — if this is true, what is the date?
Thanks!
Wednesday, April 11th!
Nita B & The Swingin’ Soiree would LOVE to be considered for your on going blues line-up. Our sound is jazzy blues, meaning me play Delta, Chicago & Funk Blues, mixed with some of your Jazz favorites and some Swingin’ Swing! I could go on about awards, press, festivals we played, yadda-yadda…but you can just as well learn more about us at the website link provided. FYI–any songs marked LIVE are the current full band. Many Thanks!! Nita B
John Stickley with Lindsay Pruett were absolutely fantastic. The audience was mesmerized. I was visiting from NJ and will drop by anytime I’m in town.
Thanks for showin’ us the love from the garden state!
Hello,
My name is Joe Grace and I am the president of the Blue Ridge Mustang Club of Asheville.
I also work for Carepartners Hospice. I would like to talk to someone at your location about potential sponsorship/involvement with the upcoming 2nd Annual Blues Festival which will benefit Hospice. This year, we will host it at the Orange Peel and have two national/international Blues performers as our head liners and two local opening bands.
My goal is simple; I wish to have a national annual Blues festival here in Asheville, similar to what they do in Henderson, KY ( a 3 day festival). This area is missing a Blues event and I am hoping that this year with us being indoors, we can have a larger crowd than last year (we held it at the outdoor venue at Pisgah Brewery and it rained very hard one hour before the first band went on stage…we did however, have 300 attend).
If someone would like to call and discuss this with me, please contact me at 407-3976 or via my email address. Thanks!
Joe Grace
For the past couple of Sundays you had the Chcuk Beatttie band for a Blues Brunch…This band was great and we can several times to see then and enjoy the brunch. Can we look forward to seeing Chuck’s Blues band back anythime soon? Thanks
So glad you enjoyed them! Yes, Chuck Beattie is back for 3 more shows in February starting this weekend Feb 12th!
What time do you open for the Sunday Beattie shows?
what time do Daniel & Paula start tomorrow (Fri. Dec. 23rd)?
They will go on at 8pm! & It may last as late as 11pm
What exactly were you looking for, perhaps we can help.