Wed 4/15/26 – 7- 9 PM – WNC Songwriter Sessions host an evening of original songs in the natural acoustics and listening room atmosphere of the beautiful and historic Brandy Bar. So hidyho Neighbors! Welcome another trio of wonder-filled songwriters will be sharing their lyrical and musical offerings for our April session at the co
olest bar in all Hendo. Elizabeth McCorvey, Songs of the Folk, and Annie Wenz will bring the razzle-dazzle. Delicious cocktails + handcrafted songs + friendly folks = time well spent. Join us! Elizabeth McCorvey is a part-time psychotherapist, full-time musician and full-time delight. She writes original folk/americana music about people and places that didn’t ask for her feedback.
A.T. and Lauren Cason {Songs of the Folk} are lifelong musicians who perform original American folk and blues songs that harken back to the root’s music of the American South as well as the 1960s Folk Revival artists of NYC’s Greenwich Village. All that is served up alongside a helping of true Piedmont blues fingerstyle guitar from North Carolina.
Annie Wenz has stomped her dusty boots through 25 countries around the world, cracking open hearts all along the way. After years of touring around the US & abroad, she wandered into Hendersonville, kissed the ground & popped the cork!
With hosts Todd Hoke and Annie Wenz. For more info contact: WNCSongwriterSessions@gmail.com
Thurs 4/16/26 – 4-9 PM – When life gives you lemons, just add salt and brandy….We usually think of salt as that white granular seasoning found in saltshakers on everyone’s dining table. But the history of salt (NaCl NaCl) is the history of human civilization. It has been used for over 8,000 years and is essential in the diet not only of humans but of animals, and even some plants. It is one of the most effective and most widely used of all food preservatives. Salt has shaped trade routes, sparked wars, enabled empires, and influenced language. It has earned the reputation of being “worth its weight in gold.” Some historic facts: 1. By circa 6000 BC, evidence shows salt production in Romania and China. 2. The Egyptians used the naturally occurring salt mixture called natron to mummify their dead since it dehydrated the body perfectly. 3. The origin of the word “salary” comes from the Roman “salarium,” an allowance to pay Roman soldiers to purchase salt. 4. In West Africa, where salt was scarce, it was traded for equal weight in gold. 5. Venetian greatness was largely built on their salt monopoly, and the salt mines in Salzburg, Austria made the region wealthy, thus naming the city (Salt = Salt, Burg = City/Fortress). 6. During the American Revolution, the British targeted the American salt supplies to starve the troops. 7. New York’s Erie Canal was called the “ditch that salt built” since it was built to transport salt. 8. Mahatma Gandhi in 1930, led the 200-mile walk to the sea called the “Salt March” giving India power for its independence. 9. Salt is mentioned 30+ times in the Bible, symbolizing a “covenant of salt” or “an everlasting pact.” 10 Spilling salt was considered a sign of bad luck from the belief that it attracted the devil, so throwing it over your left shoulder was thought to blind him. 11. Then there is, of course, the Bible story of Lot’s wife who turned to look back and was turned into salt. Today, salt is inexpensive and found everywhere, and we now have a substitute. So, let’s lift our saltshakers and make a toast to another wonderful dash of salt! Salty Cocktails: Dirty Martini – CB Frost, gin, vermouth, olive juice; Gibson – CB Frost, gin, pickled onions; Paloma – Calvados, fresh squeezed lime, grapefruit soda, salt; Pickle Shot – Pisco, dill pickle juice, dill pickles; Salty Dog – CB Frost, Douglas Fir, grapefruit juice, salt; 1/2 price fruit/infused flight