Asheville Civic Center Tickets

Asheville Civic Center
The multi-purpose arena, Asheville Civic Center, is situated in downtown Asheville at 87 Haywood Street, North Carolina. It comprises of 7,654 seats.

The Asheville Civic Center is a convenient plus elegant venue for great local and national concerts and shows, everything from Broadway shows to Asheville Symphony Orchestra concerts.

It is basically a regional destination for spectacular entertainment, trade shows and events. It offers Western North Carolina a wide and diverse range of events and entertainment from rock concerts and sporting events to family shows and performing arts.

The Asheville Civic Center was home to the Asheville Altitude basketball team in the NBDL before the franchise moved to Tulsa in 2005 and the United Hockey League's Asheville Smoke and also the SPHL's Asheville Aces.

The venue has also hosted WCW SuperBrawl in 1993, "WCW Monday Nitro", Fall Brawl in 1995 and also the 1999 and 2000 Big South Conference men"s basketball tournament. The commencement exercises for the University of North Carolina were also held here at this venue in the year 1999.

Despite all this, the city of Asheville and State of North Carolina have been pressured by many in the community to replace or renovate the aging Civic Center with more modern facilities, and this debate has been going on for years now with no apparent results.

Asheville city council recently passed a measure funding basic maintenance, and has earmarked $1.5 million for the implementation of a "living roof" to replace the aging conventional roof. However, a complete renovation is still an option and the ultimate path for the Civic Center is still unclear.

The most popular proposals from the community is to rebuild the building in the same location or in an area south of city hall, at the Biltmore Square Mall site or some where near the Western North Carolina Agriculture Center.

The facility is the heart of downtown Asheville"s arts and entertainment scene as it offers its people diverse entertainment. Just like every season, this season too, Asheville Civic Center is planning to provide is people with a lot of entertainment and fun with its upcoming events.

Recently, in November, Widespread Panic played a special Thanksgiving weekend, which was a two-night run at the Civic Center. Fans had gathered from all around the places to be a part of this outstanding event.

The most recent event is that the Ashville Civic Center will begin offering public ice-skating sessions as soon as the problem gets resolved with the ice making machine at the facility.

The ice skating sessions were to start this Monday, i.e. 22nd December. 08, however, due to some technical problem with the ice-making machine, the program has gotten postponed.

The Civic Center staff members are currently working on repairs and now it is expected to open on the 26th of December, 08. After this, there"s going to be National Cheer Stars in the arena in the coming January, starting from 9th of Jan. to 11th of Jan.