Broadway Does Punk
2023-04-28 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
Broadway Does Punk is an upbeat cabaret-style performance blending Broadway-inspired vocal stylings with the eclectic atmosphere of an intimate lounge show in downtown Macon. We want to embrace the raw energy that is punk music, combining rock with the imaginative power of musical theatre. Imagine musicals that have created this mashup in the past, like Hedwig and the Angry Itch, Spring Awakening or American Idiot, as well as imaginative renderings of punk favorites like Blink 182 or the Dead Kennedys. $10 BUY NOW

Mercer Singers Farewell Concert 2023
2023-04-29 19:30 - 21:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Under the direction of Arthur Lowndes Rich Professor of Choral Conducting Dr. Stanley Roberts and graduate conductor Mrs. Kirstine Buchanan, this end of academic year concert features a varied repertoire performed by Mercer Singers, accompanied by pianists Mrs. Anne Armstrong and Mrs. Cynthia Wilson Smith. This event is free and open to the public.

Choral Society of Middle Georgia and Mercer University Choir Present "Something Old ... Something New"
2023-04-30 16:00 - 18:00 | Mulberry Street United Methodist Church, 719 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
A celebration of what we’ve known and our brighter path toward tomorrow, conducted by Dr. Stanley Roberts, Arthur Lowndes Rich Director of Choral Conducting, with featured conductor Dr. Gary Gerber, Townsend School of Music Dean. Tickets are $10.00, please email the Choral Society at admin@csmga.org to purchase tickets.

Artrageous: An Art and Music Circus
2023-05-05 19:30 - 21:30 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
Blue Man Group Meets Picasso. Witness the creativity of an artist creating a masterpiece before your eyes in mere moments. These feats will defy your imagination. Artrageous is a troupe of misfits artists, singers, dancers and musicians who started as friends doing street theatre in Vancouver that has now grown into world wide entertainment. With the Artrageous electrifying art and music circus, you can be fully immersed into the world of theater, music, art and dance with YOU in the center of it all. The Artrageous Troupe pays tribute to a variety of art forms, icons and musical genres, keeping you on the edge of your seat throughout the night. Use code PICASSO for a special discount! $30 Adult/$15 Kids BUY NOW

Turquoise Quartet Chamber Music Recital
2023-05-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
The Turquoise Quartet, silver medalists at the 2023 Saint Paul String Quartet Competition, will present a recital on Monday, May 8 at 7:00 pm in the McCorkle Music Building’s Neva Langley Fickling Hall. The recital is part of the quartet’s preparation for the 2023 Fischoff Competition, the largest chamber music competition in the world. The group is comprised of students from the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer: senior violinist Hayoung Choi, sophomore violinist Katrina Stroud, junior violist Carlos Walker, and senior cellist Juliana Moroz. The recital is free and open to the public.

Movie Screening: "Steel Magnolias"
2023-05-19 19:30 - 21:30 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
In Truvy’s beauty salon in Chinquapin parish, Louisiana, six Southern women of three generations tell it like it is. Through joy and sadness, from laughter to tears, this star-studded ensemble cast represents the raw power of feminine strength. A heartwarming slice of life film led by names like Julia Roberts and Dolly Parton. $5 BUY NOW

"PROOF: From the Archive of ABSOLUTE COLOR" Opening Reception
2023-08-04 19:00 - 20:00 | McEachern Art Center, 332 2nd Street, Macon, 31201
Opening Reception: August 4 at 7pm (Free Admission)
(Meet the artist, view the show, and enjoy light bites hosted by the MAC)
The show will be on display at the McEachern Art Center, Thursday – Saturday, August 4-October 21
PROOF is an archive documenting Gretchen Wagner’s ongoing research, process, and exploration of color as both form and content.
The monoprints in the show address the contemporary commercialization of color and craft synthesized through printmaking and embroidery. Each varied edition is designed to manipulate the material attributes of color and demonstrate the limitations in understanding color identity. These experiments are calculated to adjust hue, saturation, and value within the confines of a specific form that evolves throughout the exhibition.
Motivated by her fascination with the inability to fully comprehend color, she utilizes the language of color to bridge theory and application; art and design; hand and machine. In attempting to study absolute color, Wagner observes the historical and contemporary distinctions of reproducible, immediate, mass-produced, situational, and paradoxical color.
Artist Website/Portfolio:
www.gretchen-wagner.com

Townsend School of Music Faculty Gala
2023-08-31 19:30 - 21:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Join us for a dazzling display of music of all genres and instruments from our faculty talent here at Townsend School of Music to kick off a new school year. The Townsend concert season opens with a showcase of performances by the distinguished faculty artists in a festival gala concert event. Please join us for a reception honoring the performers and the start of the concert year. This event is free and open to the public

Labor Day Festival
2023-09-04 15:00 - 17:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
After three days of intense solo and chamber study with Robert McDuffie Center for Strings faculty, eight high school seniors have a chance to showcase their talents in this free afternoon concert. Help celebrate Labor Day in a concert that features Center faculty and students. Fickling Hall seating is first-come, first served.

Guest Artist Recital
2023-09-05 19:30 - 20:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Díana Thompson-Brewer, soprano
Christopher Cooley, piano
Lyric coloratura soprano, Díana Thompson-Brewer returns to the Mercer University School of Music to perform at first sight, a song cycle that chronicles the life of a woman through the lens of what it means to love a black man in America. The song cycle will be paired with Robert Schumann’s Frauenliebe und Leben. Thompson-Brewer is joined by pianist Christopher Cooley, composer of at first sight.

Townsend Symposia on Music, Philosophy and the Arts Series: Scott Sheehan
2023-09-11 14:30 - 15:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
A nationally recognized advocate and leader for the advancement of music education, Scott Sheehan is the Director of Bands and Music Department Chairperson at the Hollidaysburg Area Senior High School in Pennsylvania. The town has been named one of the Best Communities for Music Education in the United States by the NAMM Foundation for the past eight years under Scott’s leadership. In addition to his duties at the school, Mr. Sheehan was a finalist for the 2019 GRAMMY Music Educator Award and is an Educational Clinician for Conn-Selmer.

From Ocmulgee to Okmulgee: Part of Firestarters Indigenous Festival
2023-09-14 16:00 - 20:00 | McEachern Art Center, 332 2nd Street, Macon, 31201
September 14-November 18
From Ocmulgee to Okmulgee: Part of Firestarters Indigenous Festival
McEachern Art Center, open 4-8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday

A look behind the lands, stories, and peoples that come from the flowing waters of the Ocmulgee to today’s Muscogee traditions, towns, and governments. Randy Kemp is a multidisciplinary artist whose body of work includes painting, printmaking, mixed media, installation, music, and performance. His work includes both traditional tribal life and contemporary works concerning American Indian issues, themes, and views. Bobby C. Martin is an artist/educator/facilitator who works out of his Martin Mountain Studio near West Siloam Springs, Oklahoma. His work began with family photographs, which have turned into countless re-imaginings as monumental paintings or tiny etchings, as drawings or installations and video projects.

Firestarters Film Festival
2023-09-14 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-09-15 19:30 - 21:30 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
A mini-film festival featuring Indigenous-made films to complement Macon’s Ocmulgee Indigenous Celebration.
Thursday, Sept. 14 at 7:30 p.m. – Bad Press, a documentary film about press freedom in the Muscogee Nation.
Friday, Sept. 15 at 12 p.m. – A lunch hour shorts block featuring a narrative love story Dead Bird Hearts and a sports documentary about women’s stickball, The Journey of Tiak Hikiya Ohoyo.
Friday, Sept. 15 at 7:30 p.m. – Fancy Dance, a narrative feature about a hustler trying to find her sister missing from the Seneca-Cayuga Reservation.
Saturday, Sept. 16 at 10:30 a.m. – This May Be the Last Time, a documentary story where star filmmaker Sterlin Harjo (Reservation Dogs) explores his own family’s history through hymns.
$10 single screening pass, $30 film pass of all four films, $150 VIP Pass featuring special receptions with food and drink and a ticket to Indigo Girls BUY NOW

Alumni Guest Artist Recital: Bobby Hall, Guitar
2023-09-15 19:30 - 20:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Bobby Hall has been playing the guitar for over 30 years and teaches in Macon. As a Townsend alumnus trained in classical guitar, Hall has over two decades of experience. His compositions have been performed by groups such as the Karkov Guitar Quartet from Ukraine and the Macon Guitar Quartet. He performs several genres of music, including classical, jazz, rock, blues, country, and more.

Ignite the Night – Indigo Girls ft. Jontavious Willis, part of Firestarters Indigenous Festival
2023-09-16 20:00 - 22:00 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
Support America’s next national park with a concert of the Indigo Girls featuring Jontavious Willis for the benefit of Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative. Over a 35 year career that began in clubs around their native Atlanta, Georgia, the Grammy-winning folk duo of Emily Saliers and Amy Ray have built a dedicated following across the globe. They’ve recorded 16 studio albums and sold over 15 million records as one of the most successful folk acts in history. New generations are discovering one of their greatest hits with “Closer to Fine” featured prominently in the mega blockbuster Barbie movie. Grammy-nominated blues musician Jontavious Willis will open for the group. Learn more about the park and join the movement: https://www.ocmulgeepark.org $59-99 tickets BUY NOW

McDuffie Young Artist Concerts
2023-09-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Bell House Jennings Salon, 315 College Street, Macon, 31201
Recitals are held in the Bell House Jennings Salon, 315 College St., at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served. Doors open 30 minutes beforehand.

Mercer Theatre Presents "Alice in Wonderland"
2023-09-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Tattnall Square Park, 1155 College St, Macon, GA, 31201
Alice In Wonderland, adapted by Scot Mann
Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland reimagined, adapted and directed by Mercer Theatre’s Scot Mann, the familiar plot is set in a steampunk world where the Victorian era meets science fiction in design and through special effects. Presented for free in Tattnall Square Park!

Faculty Artist Recital: Perfect Pairings in Song
2023-09-21 19:30 - 20:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Martha Malone, soprano
Katherine Trotter, soprano
Samantha Friedman, mezzo-soprano
Timothy McReynolds, collaborative piano
An evening of passionate lyricism in art songs from the 19th to the 21st centuries, in solo and chamber settings. The program explores the union of music and poetry, of voice and piano, and of the unique colors of solo voices.

GABBAFest 2023: Rolling Down Highway 41
2023-09-22 19:00 - 21:00 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
GABBAFest celebrates the Georgia Allman Brothers Band Association with a two-day show at The Grand and a weekend of events. BUY NOW

Fabian Concert Series
2023-09-25 19:30 - 21:30, 2023-09-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Robert McDuffie, violin
Margery McDuffie Whatley, piano
McDuffie Young Artists
Glass “The American Four Seasons”
Mendelssohn Double Concerto BUY TICKETS

Faculty Jazz Combo: Seven Steps to Heaven
2023-09-29 19:30 - 21:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Monty Cole and Marcus Reddick team up with Ken Trimmins (trumpet), Kevin Bales (piano), Neal Starkey (bass), and Mercer alumnus Jeremy Roberts (guitar) for an evening of classic jazz and original compositions.

Mercer Singers Family Day Concert
2023-09-30 11:00 - 13:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
A gala concert featuring students of the School of Music, hosted by the Mercer Singers.

Jubilee Artist Series: Chanticleer (Sold Out)
2023-10-03 19:30 - 21:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
The GRAMMY® Award-winning ensemble Chanticleer is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for its wide-ranging repertoire and dazzling virtuosity. Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer quickly took its place as one of the most prolific recording and touring ensembles in the world, selling over a million recordings and performing thousands of live concerts. $5 Advance Reservation – SOLD OUT

Mercer Wind Ensemble Presents Fall Side-by-Side
2023-10-04 19:30 - 21:30 | The Academy for Classical Education, 5665 New Forsyth Road, Macon, GA, 31210, United States
The Academy of Classical Education Senior High Band and the Mercer University Wind Ensemble will join forces to present a celebratory fall concert. Highlights include a performance on ACE’s brand new concert stage and a combined premiere of a piece composed by Ralph Ford for the 10th anniversary of ACE. Free and open to the public

Plunkett Lecture Series: Wini McQueen’s Technicolor Dreams, The Canopy
2023-10-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Macon Mall, 3661 Eisenhower Parkway, Macon, GA, 3120731206, United States
Plunkett Lecture Series: Artist Talk: Wini McQueen
Technicolor Dreams, The Canopy
Artist talk will take place and show is on display at the Macon Mall (3661 Eisenhower Parkway, Macon, GA 31206)
Plunkett Lecuture Series is made possible in part by an endowment from the Plunkett family, in memory of Frances Sewell Plunkett.

Mercer Opera Presents "The Trial of Goldilocks"
2023-10-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
October 19-22
Mercer Opera Presents The Trial of Goldilocks
Fickling Hall, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday
The whole family will have fun with this charming, witty show in which Goldilocks is prosecuted for breaking and entering the home of the Three Bears! In the courtroom, we watch as Goldilocks and the Bears enact the traditional tale. Next, the prosecutor and the defense attorney present their hilarious versions of the same events. Our jury of animals makes some surprising decisions and doles out appropriately funny sentences, so everybody goes home happy–and a little wiser! General admission $10, free for children grades Pre-K-12. BUY TICKETS

Chi-Town Transit Authority
2023-10-20 19:30 - 21:30 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
Chi-Town Transit Authority is an 8-piece Chicago Tribute band based out of Atlanta, Ga. established in 2017 and dedicated in reproducing the “Chicago” Concert experience. $19.99 BUY NOW

'Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes:' Georgia Blues Panel
2023-10-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Presidents Dining Room, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Georgia Blues Music Influence on the American South regarding Georgia blues music tradition with Jontavious Willis, Piedmont Bluz artists Valerie and Bendict Turner and Georgia Folklorist Fred Fussell
Free and open to the public
