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After a successful launch at Austin’s South By Southwest,FlyJBA, is back home for its Asheville release at HATCH. To kick off the their local debut, the online event network will be sponsoring a HATCH party following Music Video Asheville on Wednesday, April 13. Starting at 10pm, the party will take place at Lexington Avenue Brewery, located at 39 North Lexington Avenue in downtown Asheville.
Headlining the event is HATCH Groundbreaker Andy Frasco. The blues musician from Southern California, who also performed at SXSW, will be returning from a European tour and an appearance at the European Film Festival.
Also sharing the stage that night, local bands Jaspers and Wages are set to start the evening. Wages recently performed at SXSW, and their song “You” was prominently featured on an episode of The CW’s Gossip Girl.
In addition to hosting this party, FlyJBA is a Silver sponsor of HATCH, and is providing the FlyCal software that showcases the schedule of events. The company is also providing email marketing services for HATCH through their sister company, MyNewsletterBuilder.
FlyJBA is a free event network that makes it easy to find and share local events, while simplifying event management and promotion for the event organizers. FlyCal, the exportable, multimedia-rich calendar widget available to all users, is the centerpiece of theFly experience. Each event on the calendar can be enhanced with video, audio and image slideshows – all playable through the widget from anywhere on the internet. Users can quickly export FlyCal to their website and social media sites to attract attendees to upcoming events, or to simply let friends know what’s going on.
