Melanie Ida Chopko / Juan Holladay / Madelyn Ilana
8:00 PM
8:45 PM
Melanie Ida Chopko is an internationally touring artist living in Asheville, NC. Her latest album, Never Had a Love Like This, is a dispatch from the interior of modern adulthood—a sweeping indie folk record shaped by pandemic-era dating and tech-fractured intimacy. Across these ten tracks, Chopko charts a return to the body, to human connection, and to the natural world.At once delicate, funny, and boldly roaring, the album offers a deeply personal response to some of our most pressing collective questions: living admist the loneliness of modern life and a destabilized climate.
Juan Holladay has been singing, writing songs, and playing in bands since he was twelve years old. In 2006, he relocated from Tucson to Asheville and formed an alternative R&B band called the Secret B-Sides. Since then, he has come into a more lo-fi, down-tempo, sample-based sound with the release of solo material and video content. The nature of Juan’s art is candid and personal, reflecting heavy collaboration with Asheville’s creative community.
Madelyn Ilana is a singer-songwriter, violinist, healing artist, and community leader based in Asheville, NC. Her music lives at the intersection of dream-folk, art-pop, sacred sound, and poetic storytelling. Weaving original songs, improvised violin soundscapes, and spoken word, she creates performances that are both emotionally raw and soulfully spacious—inviting presence, reflection, and transformation.