For one night next week, the power tools can take a rest and the sound of a hopeful “ruckus” will be heard in Asheville’s River Arts District.

A “Hope Springs Eternal” performance by Mama and the Ruckus, Peggy Ratusz, Isaac Hadden, While Rome Burns and O-VAD-YA will raise funds for Beloved Asheville and awareness about its BeLoved Village of deeply-affordable homes taking shape in East Asheville.

“We’re really going to come together, listen to some great music and encourage each other to be the hope,” BeLoved Asheville co-director Amy Cantrell told 828newsNOW on Wednesday.

The fundraising event is 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23, at The River Arts District Brewing Company, also known as RAD Brewing Co., 13 Mystery St., Asheville. Tickets cost $22.50, available online HERE.

It’s a critical and exciting time for the organization, which has drawn an outpouring of donations locally and from around the country in its project to complete a village of 12 small homes on donated land for low-income families who’ve faced housing insecurity amid the Asheville area’s costly real estate boom.

The colorful BeLoved Village taking shape is meant as an affordable refuge for families earning less than 30 percent of the median area income, giving residents a chance to acrue equity on a schedule similar to that of a traditional mortgage.

Although the land will be held in trust, residents will form a village council to write governing rules with the help of expert facilitators and they will make decisions on such things as improving a designated community space.

“Typically, somebody signs a lease and (landlords) say, ‘Here’s the rules. We’re going to enforce them,'” Cantrell said. “We’re going to do community-building circles… We want to intentionally bring people together to create their own guidelines… (for) how they’re going to be good neighbors. We want everybody to have a leadership role.”

As the village makes progress day-by-day, it also has captured the imagination of low-income housing advocates, private businesses and others from around the country who’ve been inspired to use BeLoved Village as a model for projects in their own communities.

It already has drawn backing from local donors big and small, including the Dogwood Health Trust, Pisgah Health Foundation and The Cathedral of All Souls, and many local residents and businesses. As the homes near the home stretch, the latest major donation was flooring materials from a company in Oregon.

Co-director Ponkho Bermejo said they’ve learned so much on this first development effort that they’re already looking for land to quickly replicate the project across Buncombe County.

“Right now we are building 12 (houses). Twelve is not going to be enough,” Bermejo said. He’s thinking they soon could be building hundreds of homes.

At the start of planning, the pure cost of the individual homes was estimated to be around $94,700, Cantrell said. Thanks to donated materials and labor, “We know we’ve shaved tens of thousands of dollars off that cost,” she said. “This was part of our model, to see how we could maximize community support.”

That support could be on full display at next week’s concert. Cantrell said she was happy to hear that organizers gave it the “Hope Springs Eternal” title.

“We are living in a time that’s really painful, where a lot of people are losing their hope,” Cantrell said. “We can be the hope.”