From Ocmulgee to Okmulgee 2024
2024-08-15 16:00 - 20:00, 2024-08-30 16:00 - 20:00, 2024-08-31 16:00 - 20:00, 2024-09-05 16:00 - 20:00, 2024-09-06 16:00 - 20:00, 2024-09-07 16:00 - 20:00, 2024-09-12 16:00 - 20:00, 2024-09-13 16:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) and 4 more dates | McEachern Art Center, 332 2nd Street, Macon, 31201
August 15-September 21
“From Ocmulgee to Okmulgee 2024”
McEachern Art Center
The McEachern Art Center is proud to host the second edition of the annual “From Ocmulgee to Okmulgee” series this fall. This year’s exhibition features three distinguished indigenous artists showcasing their works in painting, jewelry, and wearable art. Each piece offers a unique lens into Muscogee (Creek) identity, culture, history, and artistic techniques.

Townsend All-Faculty Gala
2024-08-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Monday, August 26
Townsend All-Faculty Gala
Fickling Hall, 7:30 p.m.
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. Free and open to the public.

Labor Day Festival
2024-09-02 15:00 - 17:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Monday, September 2
The Labor Day Festival
Fickling Hall, 3 p.m.
After three days of intensive solo and chamber study with McDuffie Center for Strings faculty, eight high school seniors join McDuffie faculty and current students to celebrate the Labor Day holiday in a free concert in Fickling Hall. Seating is first come, first served.

Faculty Jazz Quintet Presents "Both Sides Now"
2024-09-20 19:30 - 21:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Mercer faculty artists delve into compositions by Bob Berg, Joni Mitchell, Roy Hargrove, and Jaco Pastorius. Featured artists include Monty Cole, saxophone; Kevin Bales, piano; Jeremy Roberts, guitar; Andy Eulau, bass; and Marcus Reddick, percussion.

Mercer Singers 2024 Family Weekend Concert
2024-09-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
A gala concert featuring Mercer Singers, Townsend School of Music students.

Broadway Does Pride
2024-09-25 19:30 - 21:30 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
Broadway Does Pride is an upbeat cabaret-style performance blending Broadway-inspired vocal stylings with the eclectic atmosphere of an intimate lounge show in downtown Macon. From Rent reminding us to “measure your life in love” to songs like “I’m Coming Out” from Diana Ross and “Vogue” from Madonna, we will spotlight music important to the LGBTQ+ community. These will be performed by Macon’s very own talent with a fresh and campy twist, making it a night of fun, freedom and love.
$10 General Admission
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Premier Performances
2024-09-26 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-09-27 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-09-28 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-09-29 14:30 - 16:30 | Tattnall Square Center for the Arts, 1096 College Street, Macon, 31207
We are starting our student-centered season in the best way – an evening of works written, directed, performed, designed, and managed by Mercer University students! If you want to see what the students taking classes with the Mercer theatre department can do, this is an evening of performances you won’t want to miss.

Jubilee Artist Series Presents: Imani Winds
2024-09-27 19:30 - 22:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Imani Winds is the 2024 GRAMMY® winner in the Classical Compendium category for Jeff Scott’s “Passion for Bach and Coltrane” released on their recently formed record label, Imani Winds Media.
Celebrating over a quarter century of music making, the three-time GRAMMY® nominated group (Brandon Patrick George, flute; Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe; Mark Dover, clarinet; Kevin Newton, french horn; Monica Ellis, bassoon) has led both a revolution and evolution of the wind quintet through their dynamic playing, adventurous programming, imaginative collaborations, and outreach endeavors that have inspired audiences of all ages and backgrounds. The ensemble’s playlist embraces traditional chamber music repertoire and newly commissioned works from voices that reflect historical events and the times in which we currently live.

McDuffie Young Artist Concert
2024-09-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Bell House Jennings Salon, 315 College Street, Macon, 31201
McDuffie Young Artist Solo and Chamber Ensemble Concerts are free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served. Seats open 30 minutes beforehand.

Mercer Wind Ensemble Presents "Fall Side by Side" at Perry High School
2024-09-30 19:30 - 21:00 | Perry High School, 1307 North Avenue #2614, Perry, 31069
The Mercer University Wind Ensemble joins forces with Perry High School to present a celebratory fall concert to kick off the season.

Jason Aldean: Concert for the Kids
2024-10-03 19:30 - 21:30 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
3X ACM Entertainer of the Year and ACM Artist of the Decade Jason Aldean has bolstered 28 No. 1 hits, over 18 billion streams, and more than 20 million albums sold with “his own recipe…one that has vaulted him to the pinnacle of Country music success” (Atlanta Journal Constitution). This show is a benefit for Navicent Health Foundation. $99-350 BUY TICKETS

"FOODFACE" Opening Reception
2024-10-04 18:00 - 19:00 | McEachern Art Center, 332 2nd Street, Macon, 31201
McEachern Art Center (the MAC) will present a series of diptych photographs by Stephanie Sutton that aims to tell a story about the artist’s food choices in “FOODFACE.” The show will have an opening reception on Oct. 4 at 6 p.m. and will run through Nov. 16.
Featuring 99 photos and video installations, “FOODFACE” records the last thing Sutton ate and her face each day. Sutton is currently an assistant professor in photography and expanded media at Winthrop University in South Carolina.

Dusty Slay: The Night Shift Tour
2024-10-04 19:00 - 21:00 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
Long hair, tobacco, over-sized glasses and a trucker hat, Dusty Slay is the self-effacing bourbon-voiced Southern comedian next door with a knack for observational, blue-collar humor and the nerve to say what everyone else is thinking. He grew up the son of a single mom in an Alabama trailer park and evokes laughs about everything from Cracker Barrel to his aversion to soap. The 40-year-old Nashville native is a mainstay on the country music scene, making his Grand Ole Opry debut in 2019 – the youngest at the time, and adding dozens of appearances in the historic Circle ever since. He has also appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Live, has a Comedy Central special to his credit and just released his first hour-long Netflix special “Workin’ Man” that he filmed about three hours from home, at the Bijou theater in Knoxville, Tennessee. With almost 20 years of eliciting guffaws through his laidback observations, comedic cadence and conversational style, Dusty is just getting started bringing his brand of relatable working-class comedy to audiences coast to coast. Slay recently announced his 35-show “The Night Shift Tour” in support of the new special. $35-75 BUY TICKETS

"FOODFACE"
2024-10-05 16:00 - 20:00, 2024-10-10 16:00 - 20:00 | McEachern Art Center, 332 2nd Street, Macon, 31201
McEachern Art Center (the MAC) presents a series of diptych photographs by Stephanie Sutton that aims to tell a story about the artist’s food choices in “FOODFACE.” The show will run through Nov. 16.
Featuring 99 photos and video installations, “FOODFACE” records the last thing Sutton ate and her face each day. Sutton is currently an assistant professor in photography and expanded media at Winthrop University in South Carolina.
The MAC is located at 332 2nd Street, Macon and has regular operating hours Thursday-Saturday from 4-8 p.m. Admission is always free and open to the public. Media and educators may access the gallery outside of normal hours by appointment by emailing cohen_j@mercer.edu. Find out more at macmacon.com

Fabian Concert Series: Ehnes Quartet
2024-10-08 19:30 - 20:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
James Ehnes, violin
Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin
Che-Yen Chen, viola
Edward Arron, cello
Tickets $20; Mercer ID/Student ID free. BUY TICKETS
