The 11th Hour: March 2-16, 2018

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March 2-16, 2018 • Vol 17, Issue #381

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A MOTHER’S

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In her new book, Julie Bragg opens up about the unbearable sorrow of losing her sons Tate and Brax only to discover a startling message of hope from the other side with the help of a Macon medium.

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DINING OUT IN CENTRAL GEORGIA

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MACON MUSIC LIVE: THE PIONEERS OCMULGEE DUCK DASH FORSYTHIA FESTIVAL

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LILLY HIATT

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LARKIN POE RUBY VELLE & THE SOUL PHONICS MATISYAHU

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CULTURE CLUB HAPPENINGS, LOCALS & REGIONAL INSIGHTS

PUB NOTES

And... March begins.

It’s my favorite time of year in Macon, and it’s damn sure my busiest. Next Friday a musical put together by Jessica Walden, Jim Crisp and myself debuts to a sold out crowd, and I’m not even sure I’ll be able to attend. Two of the busiest days of the year are lined up at the Society Garden. Ruby Velle and the Soul Phonics (which are way too big for our space) are helping kick off spring, and then the next day we are celebrating a book release by one of my favorite people in the world, Julie Bragg, which is featured on the Cover of this issue. I recently went out to take some photos of Julie and her husband Jim for the story and was reminded of what a powerful place that woman inhabits. Their property is one of my favorite in Macon. You can just feel something there. I don’t know what it is. Maybe the fact that thousands of children have found courage for the first time at her swim school, and that can still be felt in the air. Or maybe it’s the labyrinth she built with her own hands that brings all that energy to a boil. I love that we are getting to host such a special day for her at the Garden next week. The book is amazing.

But back to being busy...

This book signing is a couple of days after Lilly Hiatt will play the Creek Stage, and don’t forget Saturday is also Zeshan B ( a Muslim American soul singer), Larkin Poe, and The Bones of JR Jones at the Hargray Capitol Theatre.

So, maybe I get to go the sold out musical on Sunday to see all the hard work the local actors and musicians put into making this thing real. That night I’ll have the chance to see Caroline Rose back at the Creek stage then a couple of weeks later, The Drive-By Truckers at the Hargray, the Greyhounds, and then we’ll be right in the midst of Cherry Blossom. Chaka Kahn. Booker T Jones. Give me a break.

We haven’t seen a run of goodness in Macon, Georgia this epic in decades. There is no doubt about that. And the road don’t end there. It goes on forever, apparently.

And I haven’t mentioned the big changes you’ll see in our pages on the March 16 issue of the 11th Hour, because you are going to notice on your own. It’s going to be hard to miss, and I can’t wait for you to see it. March 16 will be 17 years we’ve been serving this community. I can’t wait to show you what we have in store.

BRAD EVANS

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A MOTHER’S REQUIUM

In her new book, Julie Bragg opens up about the unbearable sorrow of losing her sons Tate and Brax only to discover a startling message of hope from the other side with the help of a Macon medium.

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READERS’ RESPONSE ON “SCHOOL DAZED” I read both stories on the 11th Hour website recently about education in Bibb County. As a teacher, I came to the realization that Private was the only way forward (at least in our current circumstance). The brokenness of our public school system is multi-dimensional and expanding. As I have worked to understand this brokenness most of my experiences guide my thoughts back to discipline.

How can we fix behavior in students without improving discipline? It is a question that haunts me. It is a problem that torments my every decision in how to interact with the young men and women who struggle with the concept of how to truly behave properly in a school, community, and society. How many opportunities to improve the lives of students are we going to let slip away because of a refusal to discipline young minds who need the structure. Harsh forms of discipline work. High forms of moral structure work. We have an obligation to instill these values at a young age every time a child walks into the school, ball field, music hall, or drama stage. It is not how to make them experience positive emotion all the time. If so, we will immediately let them down the instant life deals them an unfortunate development, or in the case of so many students in public school thier lives are already a series of unfortunate developments. We focus so much on how to make children safe when we should be equally concerned with how to make them strong. Discipline allows for this strength to take hold.

We have to re-learn discipline from the bottom up, because we have decided it to be a good idea to side-line a moral authority that drove the humanity to our current understanding of moral framework. Sure you can look back and pick millions of examples where it did not work, but that’s not the point. Because there are more examples of the positive nature of high moral value that lead to an ability to enter civil society.

Humans learn, both behaviorally and academically from experience. When those experiences are grounded with a central moral compass, learning takes place at a higher level. The lack of the moral compass makes taking in information that much more difficult to process, because there is not an engagement with what is “good or bad”. It is like every experience a child encounters is an application of the scientific method, without analyzing the results. Students then become stuck in their habitual patterns, without updating them.

It is my opinion that these ideas push past race and socio-economics. I also know that I sound like a self-righteous blow hard. Thank you again for your publication and what you do for our city. Those two articles are so important to the conversations that lead to better solutions. They really spoke to me.

- Anonymous via 11thHourOnline.com

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CITY PICKS YOUR GET-OUT-AND-DO LIST THIS WEEK MARCH 2 - 16, 2018

THE INTERVIEW

VERDINE WHITE of EARTH, WIND & FIRE SUNDAY, MARCH 11 AT MACON CITY AUDITORIUM Verdine White is one of the most energetic and dynamic musicians in history. From founding one of the greatest R&B and soul groups Earth, Wind & Fire, to inspiring some of the industry’s hottest new acts, Verdine took some time to talk about his brother, the current state of the music industry, and some of his favorite artists. By Charles Davis.

For those who do not know, let me give a quick rundown of what you have done.

With this group Earth, Wind & Fire-- they have eight #1 singles, eight double platinum albums, 50 gold and platinum albums, over a hundred million albums sold, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, and nine Grammys. Verdene, what does it feel like to know that the music that you and your brother, Maurice, and Philip Bailey created has lasted this long?

It is great. You know what I mean? What he did was great. The things he taught us... Just really great.

And now we have five generations of fans and every one of those generations, they know who you are.

So, that’s a great thing. I’m really happy about that. And that’s quite an accomplishment.

Most definitely is. You’ve got artists like Beyonce, and Kanye West, and Chance The Rapper that idolize you guys. And it’s a beautiful thing because the music has standed the test of time. I want to go back to the very beginning-- the first instrument you played was a standup bass. What was the deal with that upright bass that attracted you to it?

When I started playing as a kid, my late father insisted that we took lessons and study. So, I studied the standup bass a lot. Then, of course, I switched to bass guitar because the late Louis Satterfield who ended up with my teacher, was also one of the Phenix Horns.He was a wonderful teacher and taught me everything I know on bass guitar. So, I had a great upbringing that had a lot of love.

Now, once you left Chicago, you ended up moving out to Los Angeles with Maurice, and that’s when you two and Philip started Earth, Wind & Fire. What is the difference in the music game from when you got started to a different era now with streaming being the main source for listeners, and fans, and things like that. What has been the main thing that has kept the band structured, and centered, and moving towards everything that you all have done with this big change in the music industry. It’s the music. It’s progress. And the good thing about it is that Earth, Wind & Fire has been part of the change. From albums to cassettes to CD’s, and now streaming-- you know, that’s just progress. It’s the evolution and it is going to continue to evolve.

With the incredible influence that you have on current music, who are some of the artists that you are currently listening to?

It’s a lot going on out there. I’m still listening to Solange’s record because I played on her record. And I’m loving what Chance The Rapper is doing. And, you know, I love all of those great artists today-but Bruno Mars, man... He writes great songs. So, music’s in good hands, man. It’s in really good hands.

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Presented by Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Heart of GA at Amerson River Park. One Lucky Duck will win $1000! 5,000 ducks will race in the Ocmulgee River at Amerson River Park at 11:30 am. The winners will be announced by noon! Adopt your ducks from any board or staff of Big Brothers Big Sisters, or online at www.ocmulgeeduckdash. org. You may adopt ducks the morning of the event, from 10 am to 11am at the park. You do not need to be present to win. Adopt One Lucky Duck for $5, Adopt a Bunch of Lucky Ducks (7) for $30. Call 478-745-3984 x 262 or visit www.ocmulgeeduckdash.org. Viewing the duck race is free – bring your friends and family!

COMMUNITY/MUSICAL

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MACON MUSIC LIVE: THE PIONEERS MARCH 9-11

The first musical on Macon’s music history will debut this spring.

“Macon Music Live: the Pioneers” will take place March 9, 10 and 11, 2018 in the upstairs of the Tic Toc Room restaurant, honoring the location’s historic ties to Little Richard. The musical was created through a partnership with Theatre Macon, Rock Candy Tours and the 11th Hour and funded with a grant from the Downtown Challenge fund of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia.

The musical features a local cast of musicians and actors set to portray the “Pioneers” of Macon music history. Those pioneers include Lucille Hegamin, Charles Douglass, Little Richard, Hamp Swain, Otis Redding, James Brown, brothers Phil and Alan Walden and the Allman Brothers Band.

With scenes portrayed from the Douglass Theatre, Ann’s TickTock Lounge and Capricorn Records studio, the musical covers almost 50 years of Macon music history in three acts.

“Macon Music Live: The Pioneers” was written by Rock Candy Tours co-owner Jessica Walden, who was inspired by the folklife play “Swamp Gravy” in Colquitt, Ga. It is produced by 11th Hour co-owner Brad Evans and directed by Theatre Macon’s Jim Crisp. Local musician Dwayne Boswell will serve as music director.

“Music history tells our community’s story. There’s no better way to honor that legacy with today’s local talent, against the backdrop of Downtown Macon and with a new community tradition made possible by the Downtown Challenge,” said Walden. “It is our hope that this musical evolves and continues to share the stories of Macon music year after year.”

There will be a limited number of general admission tickets available. Tickets are $20 each at maconmusic.eventbrite.com.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 16

Macon Pops presents “Latin Revolution” at Mercer’s Hawkins Arena.

CULTURE CLUB T H E N E X T T W O W E E K S | C O M P I L E D B Y M E A G A N E VA N S

FRIDAY 2ND

SUNDAY 4TH

COMMUNITY

MUSIC

Presenting the new Alley Gallery, 6-8pm. 2nd St Lane.

This First Friday, come experience the new meaning of Street Art! Local artist, Heidi Clinite, will be hosting a one night only pop-up gallery in the alley with live music by Nathan Garrett of Widow Pills! The streets of Downtown Macon are alive with music, art, food, and fun every First Friday of the month. There are activities for everyone from children, families, students and adults. Downtown merchants keep their doors open later each First Friday with art exhibits, dinner specials, family events and more. Art stroll from Macon Arts to Travis Jean!

The Monroe County Fine Arts Center will bring a Blues Festival to Forsyth for its second annual Forsythia Festival Kick-Off Concert. Forsythia Blues: A Night of Blues Legends, Music, and Tales from the Road, will be held Sunday, March 4. Big Bill Morganfield, the son of Chicago Blues Legend Muddy Waters, will headline a night of traditional blues performed by a host of Georgia Music Legends and is intermingled with tales of Georgia Music History shared by Alan Walden and Newton Collier. Tickets $20. MonroeFineArts.org

FIRST FRIDAY EVENTS IN DOWNTOWN MACON

FORSYTHIA BLUES FESTIVAL PRESENTED BY THE MONROE COUNTY FINE ARTS CENTER

MONDAY 5TH

ART/COMMUNITY

OPEN HOUSE: MILL HILL, EAST MACON ARTS VILLAGE

5 p.m. Official ribbon cutting and open house of the Mill Hill Community Arts Center. The public celebration will include live blues by Robert Lee Coleman Band, brews and bbq. The Cultural Plan for Mill Hill will also be released. We hope you can join us. Free and open to the public.

THURSDAY 8TH THEATRE

THEATRE MACON’S YOUTH ACTOR’S COMPANY PRESENTS “HAIRSPRAY” THRU MARCH 11 The 1950s are out, and change is in the air! Hairspray, winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, is a family-friendly musical, piled bouffant-high with laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs. This 2003 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical features 1960s-style music and is based on the 1988 John Waters film. Tickets $12-18. Theatremacon.com

ART

A NIGHT WITH THE ARTISTS OF MAS’S “EMERGING ARTISTS” EXHIBITION

7-10 p.m. A special Cocktail Reception to benefit the Museum of Arts and Sciences will include gallery talks with the Emerging Artists, an opportunity to purchase the exhibited works, open bar, and catering by Fountain of Juice, plus artisanal bourbon tasting. Tickets $50 and available at masmacon.com

FRIDAY 9TH

COMMUNITY

ARTS/CULTURE

The 2018 sale will be March 1-4 at Central City Park, with a Preview Party for members on February 28th.

Hours of the sale are Thursday and Friday, 10am – 7pm, Saturday, 10am – 5pm and Sunday, Noon – 5pm.

There will be over 100,000 books in 75 categories, with free admission and parking – cash, checks, and credit cards accepted for book purchases.

The Heart of Georgia Quilt Guild, located in Macon, Georgia, is a non-profit organization established in 1985 to promote the art of quilting. The guild will present the 17th Biennial Quilt Show, “Everything Old Is New Again” March 9-10. 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. at The Methodist Home, 304 Pierce Avenue, Macon.

Admission - $7. Included in the show will be a raffle quilt, raffle baskets, vendors and demonstrations.

FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OLD BOOK SALE

SATURDAY 3RD ART/WORKSHOP

CORKS AND CANVAS AT THE 567 CENTER

Bring a bottle of your favorite wine or other beverage to sip on, bring a friend, and learn to create an 11 x 14 painting. No painting experience required. An artist will guide you through the steps. $28 includes all materials for the class (except the wine), and the class lasts 2 and 1/2 hours. Space is limited. To register, call (478) 238-6051 or you can pay online at http://www. the567center.org/art-classes/.

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SATURDAY 10TH COMMUNITY/BOOK SIGNING

BOOK RELEASE PARTY & SIGNING - JULIE BRAGG’S “THE BROTHERS OF BRAGG JAM” AT THE SOCIETY GARDEN

A full day to celebrate Julie Bragg and family. Sofrito Fusion Food Truck on site all day! Kids craft, live music and Book signing and sale 1-3 and 5-7 p.m. Kids crafts from 1-3, a whale rock party! Paint a whale rock in honor of Julie Bragg’s Swim School! Open Jam from 4-6, live music on stage with Chad Evans 6-7, Shane Bridges 7-8 and a very special reunion concert with The Buckleys at 8! 2389 Ingleside Avenue, free event!

COMMUNITY/BENEFIT

OCMULGEE DUCK DASH

Presented by Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Heart of GA at Amerson River Park. One Lucky Duck will win $1000! 5,000 ducks will race in the Ocmulgee River at Amerson River Park on Saturday, March 10. This is a pre-event for the Cherry Blossom Festival, and promises to be fun and exciting as the ducks race madly towards the finish line! Adopt your ducks from any board or staff of Big Brothers Big Sisters, or online at www.ocmulgeeduckdash.org. You may adopt ducks the morning of the event, from 10 am to 11am at the park. You do not need to be present to win.

COMMUNITY

31ST ANNUAL FORSYTHIA FESTIVAL

Kick off spring with the Forsythia Festival, held annually the second weekend in March, at downtown Forsyth, Georgia. This free, family-fun event features a two-day arts-and-crafts show, children’s fair, a 5K run, sporting tournaments, live entertainment. Enjoy mouth-watering foods, fine arts and crafts, and activities the whole family can enjoy! The pinnacle event of the Forsythia Festival is set in the streets of Downtown Forsyth.

Join us March 10-11, 2018 as we welcome roughly 20,000 people, and more than 100 vendors, to Forsyth. Shop for arts and crafts, enjoy the tasty festival treats, and spend some time with your children at the Kids Corner. Hours are Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

is onetime movie glamour girl (and Oscar winner) Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening). Despite their age difference, the two become a couple through a couple of stormy years before her death at age 57. Showing at 2, 4 and 7:30 p.m. Historic Douglass Theatre.

THURSDAY 15TH MOVIE

GOD IS MY CO-PILOT (1945) AT GRAND OPERA HOUSE

7:30 p.m. 70 years after its world premier at The Grand, come see the movie in all it’s original glory!

Col. Robert L. Scott is an adept fighter pilot who unfortunately finds himself too old to fly fighter planes in World War II. General admission is just $5, with a full bar and light concession available. Doors open 30 minutes before showtime.

FRIDAY 16TH CONCERT

MACON POPS PRESENTS “LATIN POP REVOLUTION”

7:30 p.m. Featuring the music of Tito Puente, and Sergio Mendes, to Miami Sound Machine, JLo, Christina Aguilera, and more! Come dance the night away at this high energy event. Macon Pops promises to bring innovative, high energy, and world class programming to middle Georgia. Macon Pops isn’t just a concert, it’s an event! Mercer University’s Hawkins Arena.

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CHILDREN’S THEATRE

SATURDAY 17TH

Toss on your favorite feather boa and get ready to enjoy the most elegant children’s musical of the year.

Fancy Nancy the Musical follows Nancy and her friends as they prepare for their very first school recital. Nancy is positive — that’s “fancy” for “100 percent sure” — that she’ll be selected to be a mermaid. But when another girl wins the coveted role, leaving Nancy stuck playing a dreary tree, she’s determined to bring flair to the mundane role. Based on the best-selling children’s picture books by Jane O’Connor. Experience the fanciness by Synchronicity Theatre of Atlanta.

Reserved seating $10.00 for kids 16 and under; $12.50 for adults. To purchase tickets, visit TheGrandMacon.com or call our Box office at (478) 301-5470.

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FANCY NANCY, THE MUSICAL AT THE GRAND OPERA HOUSE Showing at 10:30am and 2:30pm.

FAMILY FUN

KIDS’ CRAFT AT THE OCMULGEE NATIONAL MONDUMENT Free 3 p.m. Kids can make a butterfly feeder to take home. Learn about butterflies and what they like eat.

Learn what the best flowers are to plant in your own yard. 1207 Emery Highway, Macon

SUNDAY 11TH MOVIE

MACON FILM GUILD PRESENTS “FILM STARS DON’T DIE IN LIVERPOOL”

(UL, biography/drama/romance, 105 min., rated R for language, some sexual content and brief nudity) In 1979, a young actor working in London (Jamie Bell) discovers that his neighbor in his apartment house

COMMUNITY

Bikes. Burgers. Beer?! That’s what we call a “triathlon”!

Grab your gaudiest green gear and get ready to burn rubber and stuff your belly this Saint Patrick’s Day with Bike Walk Macon. It is our pleasure, nay, it is our HONOR to present the first annual ShamRock ‘n’ Ride Burger Tri. If you love bikes, this event is for you! If you love burgers, this event is for you!

The challenge will kick off at Tattnall Square Park, and if you’re not already shaking with excitement, then the coffee shots from Jittery Joe’s will take care of that. After the coffee challenge, you’re on your own and headed to the Ocmulgee Heritage Trail to fuel up with a mouthwatering burger from Ocmulgee Brewpub.

Then you’re barreling downtown for the Cupcake Crucible challenge with Bike Tech. Now don’t look back, because you are on the final stretch to the last stop at Just Tap’d, where the only thing standing between you, the party, and that glorious finish line is a cold green beer (or soda).

Your registration fee covers your food and drink, a water bottle (because hydration is cool), an entry pass into all the fun at the Cherry Blossom Festival at Central City Park, and one of the most stylish shirts you’ll ever own. Ever.

There will be music and an awards ceremony for our top competitors and best dressed at Just Tap’d.

The online registration fee is $35 until March 9th for riders ages 18+ of all skill levels. Registration will be limited to the first 100 people, so act fast.

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DAY TRIPPER

WEEKEND ADVENTURES WITH ASHLEY & TONY DOOLIN

ALBANY, GEORGIA

PRETORIA FIELDS BREWERY Farmers with a love & passion for the craft

We are new to all parts of Georgia.So, when we were asked to visit Albany, my first question was how DO you pronounce it? All-Ben-Knee? AL-Benny? All-ba-Nee? The truth is, even after visiting,I still don’t have that answer.

Something else I can’t answer-- why others aren’t flocking to Albany? Albany has to be one of the best hidden gems Georgia has to offer. It’s a sleepy little Southern town located on the beautiful Flint River with more than just one day’s worth of activities to offer!

The drive down is the classic and stereotypical answer to “What is Georgia?”: Cotton fields, watermelon farms, peach orchards, peanuts, Primitive Baptist churches... Dotted along the way, you spot billboards planting the idea into your mind that you MUST stop at Salt Lick (SL Sausage Company) or Stripling’s. Both boast the best sausages, beef jerky, and Southern hospitality.

Unlike most visitors, we were lucky enough to have a personal Albany guide for the day in Billy Mann, the General Manager of Pretoria Fields Brewery. We arrived and met Billy for an incredible lunch at Harvest Moon. Harvest Moon is THE place to eat in Albany and has been for the past 15 years. Billy knew everyone there, and everyone knew Billy. Old men in ball caps, kids in little league uniforms, the waitress...I almost expected him to start kissing babies and posing for pictures! The Harvest Moon menu is a vast expanse of creativity: Pizzas(aka-moon pies), calzones, stromboli... And Rojos-- thinly sliced potatoes, fried and served like coins with a dipping sauce (that you don’t really need).

These aren’t home fries or chips-- they’re rojos and they’re fantastic! Tony had the homemade (& house favorite) flaky chicken pot pie, and I had a Purple Pie (sliced grilled eggplant, goat cheese, tomatoes, & caramelized onion). We left Harvest Moon feeling like local celebrities and very full.

Next, we ventured to Historic Downtown to explore the Flint River Aquarium-- a one of a kind adventure found ONLY in Albany. The aquarium features a unique blue hole spring exhibit with more than 120 native aquatic creatures.

Catch a dive show or an alligator feeding. There’s a touch tank for the kids and more! See land tortoises, a rattlesnake,

The brewery is an extension of the farmers fields in Albany-hops, barley, organic strawberries, blueberries, and black berries.

an octopus, piranha, an albino alligator... The Flint River Aquarium was breathtaking, educational, and hands on!

Within walking distance, we found ourselves in a park on the Flint River bank-- just a few blocks from the Ray Charles Memorial. The walkwas short and worth it to find a revolving, illuminated, bronze statue of Ray Charles seated at a baby grand piano. Sculpted by Andy Davis, water flows down the sides of the iconic blues singer’s memorial while his legendary music plays. The statue is flanked by two sidewalks designed as keyboards with raised sharps and flats that form benches. It was stunning.

All that walking left us parched. Finally, the part of our trip that my husband had been waiting for: BEER! Pretoria Fields Brewery was my husband’s version of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, and he was Augustus Gloop, greedily gulping down a pint of everything Pretoria Fields had lovingly created. Pretoria Fields is Albany’s first ever handcrafted brewery and has been a wonderful addition to the

Downtown revitalization and lifestyle. The brewery is an extension of the farmers fields in Albany-- hops, barley, organic strawberries, blueberries, and black berries. The results are beers that are as natural as possible. These brewers are also farmers with a love and passion for their craft. Pretoria Fields maintained the same level of quality throughout the building as well. Salvaged wood tables, exposed brick and giant beams, a polished and gleaming concrete floor beneath the glow of gorgeous stainless steel tanks... There’s a tasting room, a phenomenal outdoor patio, and you never know what might be going on other than brewing... Games, concerts, disc golf? The possibilities are endless. On tap, we sampled their IPA-Shoalie, a golden ale named Skywater, PF Stout, PF Gose, and their PF Berry Gose. Nothing we tasted let us down. Each brew was perfect.

This will not be my last trip to Albany or Pretoria Fields Brewery. They’ve got “it” going on in Albany in more ways than one, and I highly recommend you find out for yourself.

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WHAT WE’RE LISTENING TO

PODCAST S-TOWN

John B. McLemore is a rare book collector, watchmaker, a bit of a conspiracy theorist and, he HATES his hometown. S-Town* (I’ll let you decided what the “S” stands for), as he calls it, is actually Woodstock, Alabama. John claims, “S-Town has more police corruption, bad education, child molestation cases, etc. than almost any place in the state”. He also claims that there has been a murder that the city has covered up. So, in 2012, he sent an email to the staff of This American Life asking them to investigate. After a year of corresponding with producer Brian Reed, Reed realizes John is a highly intelligent man and decides to travel to Woodstock and investigate. Reed eventually strikes up a friendship with McLemore during his investigation despite there being loopholes in the story. Released in March 2017 S-Town was downloaded a record breaking 10 million times in 4 days. I don’t want to ruin any surprises so listen in to S-Town and find out for yourself. *S-Town is explicit

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By Russell Walker of Gypsy Train

Asking me about my favorite record is like asking about my favorite star.

I could gaze into the night sky and identify the most beautiful celestial body ever flung out into the universe. And it would be the most beautiful. Then the earth would turn ever so slightly, a breeze would whisper past, and my mood would shift. I would look up again, only to be captivated by a different, even more beautiful star. Fifty years ago, Van Morrison recorded Astral Weeks. I discovered it over twenty-five years ago. It’s now imbedded in my consciousness. It’s part of who I have become. It still mesmerizes. Largely an acoustic jazz album, with blues and classical elements, Astral Weeks is driven by upright bass coupled with Morrison’s powerful vocals. The rest of the music seems to meander loosely alongside. The songs are unrefined because Morrison allowed the musicians to play what they felt. He may have been too shy to give feedback. Most of the tracks were recorded as a live ensemble with horns and strings added later. Spontaneity and live chemistry contribute greatly to the record’s appeal. Like a long, colorful piece of fabric, the music is at times tightly woven. Then at other times it begins to fray and almost come apart. Morrison’s guitar strumming sometimes falls out of sync. After all, he kept himself sequestered in another booth and had little interaction with the session musicians.

But the delicate unravelling draws me in. And before I can wrap my mind around it, they’ve tightened up, moved on, and taken me with them. The songs push rhythmically forward toward an anticipated crescendo, much like an airplane gathering speed down the runway, preparing to lift off the ground. But then they do something extraordinary. They never quite take off. Instead, they hold you in suspense, in a place of musical magic. As life rolls on, I will come back to this record again and again, expecting each time to finally take that flight. On a clear night, Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks could shine as the most beautiful star in the sky.

WHAT’S HAPPENING

THE BLACK PANTHER PHENOMENON

There is a myth in Hollywood, amongst movie companies, that films directed

by African American directors and cast with predominantly African American actors do not do well with moviegoers, especially overseas. Well, this film is a game changer. Let’s talk numbers shall we? Within the first week of its release, Marvel’s Black Panther has grossed over $500 million dollars worldwide, $200 million overseas alone with the release in Russia coming soon. Black Panther: The Album, an album inspired by the film cultivated by one of Hip Hop’s shining stars Grammy Award winner Kendrick Lamar, has been the #1 album on the Billboard 200 since its release and has 8 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. Now, that sounds really cool, but when you look a little deeper, you realize the cultural ramifications of this. Black Panther proves that you can write a screenplay that is intelligent and

relevant in the community. It proves that you can place that script in the hands of an African American director, and he can deliver a visually stunning piece of work. It proves that you can have a cast where 98% of the actors are African American, and they give some of the most powerful, thought-provoking, honest, and poignant performances that anyone has seen in decades. It proves that you can have a film where the smartest, most powerful people, and the backbone of the movie are women. It proves that you can entrust the soundtrack to Kendrick Lamar, whose controversial voice is as relevant today as Tupac Shakur’s was two decades ago. It also proves that we are not as divided as some would claim. In five years, we will look back at this moment, will know that this event forever changed how movies and soundtracks are crafted and promoted.

It’s been a long time coming.

CHARLES DAVIS

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

A FUTILE AND STUPIDE GESTURE / DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD: THE STORY OF NATIONAL LAMPOON

When you research the family tree of modern comedy, whether you’re talking about Saturday Night Live, Judd Apatow movies or web content such as Funny Or Die, it’s easy to trace the lineage. The roots of everything that makes you laugh today can be traced back to 1969, when three Harvard grads founded a revolutionary anti-establishment comedy magazine called National Lampoon.

Netflix honors this legacy with two offerings in their lineup. You may have seen some buzz about “A Futile And Stupid Gesture”,the new biopic starring SNL alum Will Forte as National Lampoon founder Doug Kenney. If you know nothing about the history of NL, start here. It’s a well done flick with a nice little twist ending. But before the biopic’s release, Netflix already had a great documentary called “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of National Lampoon”. Spoiler alert… the dead part refers to the twist ending I mentioned earlier.

Watch them both. Why? I’m going to throw some names at you: John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Harold Ramis, Ivan Reitman, Garrett Morris, Caddyshack, Animal House and Saturday Night Live… they all owe a debt of gratitude to Doug Kenney and his vision of the National Lampoon as a mirror for the best and worst of society in the 1970s. Also, there was a lot of cocaine.

A. Lot. Of. Cocaine.

TONY DOOLIN

WHAT WE’RE COOKING

LORETTA LYNN’S PEACH COBBLER

Known as the First Lady of Country Music, Miss Loretta Lynn, is also known to cook with Crisco and has her own cookbook titled “You’re Cookin’ it Country.”

Trust me, if you’re using any of her prized recipes, you are most definitely cooking it country, and your meal will be fabulous!

In a nod to both Georgia and Loretta, today I will be sharing a simple but delicious recipe for her peach cobbler!

ASHLEY DOOLIN

LORETTA LYNN’S GEORGIA PEACH COBBLER *1 stick (real) butter/salted *1 C. sugar *1 C. whole milk *1 C. self-rising flour *2 C. fresh (or frozen), sliced GEORGIA peached Melt butter in a 2 qt. casserole dish. Mix together flour, sugar, & milk. Pour these combines ingredients over your melted butter. DO NOT STIR. Place your sliced peaches all over the top of your batter. Bake this at 375 degrees for approximately 40-45 minutes or until golden brown and bubbly. Serve this over homemade vanilla ice cream, with a big glass of milk, or by itself. Throw a little Loretta Lynn on your turn table, and you’ve got yourself a Country Queen’s dessert!

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FOOD & DRINK Between Friends Coffeeshop & Cafe 1080 GA-96 Suite 100, Warner Robins

WHY: Few things will improve your day like the award-winning cinnamon roll at Between Friends Coffeeshop. “It’s the icing,” claim co-owners Jamie Miller and Victoria Hawkins. “It’s rich and comforting-- and they’re huge!” The sweet, soft quilt of cream cheese icing is Hawkins’ secret recipe and pairs exceptionally well with any of the cafe’s author-inspired coffee drinks.

The first specialty coffee created by Hawkins and Miller was the “Pablo Neruda”, a brown sugar & caramel latte that’s as beautiful as it is delicious! “Don’t go on without seeing, relishing, understanding all these hearts of sugar.”

Pictured: “Don’t be afraid of sweetness.” Co-owner Victoria Hawkins with her signature cinnamon roll, and the latte that started it all: the Pablo Neruda.

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Chef Rosas is back in the kitchen and cooking up his yummy creations at The Backburner. Dinner specials include his Traditional Spanish Seafood Paella, Garlic-Roasted Double-Cut Beef Short Ribs, Wild Georgia Shrimp & Grits Appetizer, among other favorites.

And don't forget Thursday night is Lobster Night (buttery Maine Lobster stuffed with our rich Avocado and Crab Meat Salad)!

Treat yourself to... The Backburner

The Backburner 2242 Ingleside Ave Macon 478-746-3336 backburnermacon.com Elegant dining featuring steaks, chops, seafood, and more! Thursday is Lobster Night (call ahead to reserve), Saturday Brunch. Outdoor seating available.

Reservations encouraged. L/D/Bar $$-$$$.

Fincher’s Bar-B-Q 3947 Houston Ave Macon 478-787-4648 5627 Houston Rd Macon 478-7876947 891 Gray Hwy East Macon 478-787-4649 finchersbbqga.net So fine, it went to the moon in ‘69! Delicious Southern barbecue at four locations in Macon and Warner Robins featuring pulled pork, chicken, ribs, burgers, and more. Family owned & operated since 1935! L/D $

Barberitos 4123 Forsyth Rd Suite G Macon 478-621-4883 4921 Riverside Dr Macon 478-254-5802 barberitos.com Burritos, tacos, salads, quesadillas, nachos, and more using locally sourced, farm-fresh ingredients. L/D $-$$

Greek Corner Deli 587 Cherry St Macon 478-254-3059 Greek Corner Pizza 3267 Vineville Ave Macon 478-254-7060 Old world favorites and new world classics. Hummus, Gyros, Souvlaki, Baklava and Loukoumades, Salads & Subs and more! L/D/Bar $

Circa 4420 Forsyth Rd Macon 478-621-4140 maconcirca.com American brasserie, featuring classic and contemporary French and European cuisine, salads, seafood, steaks, sushi. Saturday Brunch starts 2/24! Reservations encouraged. L/D/Bar $$-$$$

H & H Soul Food 807 Forsyth St Macon 478-621-7044 handhsoulfood.com “The H” is an institution woven into the fabric of Macon’s history. Since 1959, H&H has kept Macon’s most diverse clientele well-fed with delicious, stickto-ya-ribs soul food while gaining global fame from the unique friendship between founder Mama Louise Hudson and the Allman Brothers Band. B/L $

Dovetail 543 Cherry St (above the Rookery) Macon 478-238-4693 dovetailmacon.com Farm-to-table casual fine dining. Southern crafted small plates and a cultivated bourbon selection. Reservations encouraged. Complimentary valet located on Mulberry St Lane for dinner only. Saturday & Sunday Brunch. D/Bar $$-$$$ Downtown Grill 562 Mulberry St. Lane Macon 478-742-5999 macondowntowngrill.com English-style steak and chop house with nightly features, extensive wine list, and amazing bourbon and whiskey selection. Cigar bar and private humidor.

Complimentary Valet. Reservations encouraged. D/ Bar $$-$$$ Edgar’s Bistro 5171 Eisenhower Pkwy Macon 478-471-4250 edgarshospitality.com City Chic and a foodie’s dream! Edgar’s Bistro presents a dining experience that nourishes the body and soul. Open for lunch & dinner Monday-Friday, Edgar’s serves as a hands-on training facility for the Culinary students at Helms College’s Polly Long Denton School of Hospitality. Reservations encouraged. L/D $$-$$$ El Camino 382 2nd Street Macon 478-257-6393 elcaminomacon.com Simple and refined taqueria-- tacos, tortas and tequilas with daily features. L/D/Bar $-$$

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Fatty’s Pizza 344 2nd St Macon 478-744-9880 fattyspizzamacon.com Pizza, calzone, wings, & salads. Gluten Free options and delivery to Downtown Macon. L/D $

Harp & Bowl La Bistro 520 Mulberry Street 478-743-8682 Healthy and delicious acai bowls, hormone-free sandwiches, quinoa bowls, fresh seasonal salads, desserts, a massive juice bar and more! B/L $ Ingleside Village Pizza 2396 Ingleside Ave Macon inglesidevillagepizza.com It doesn’t get any better than IVP! Hand-tossed, homemade dough and fresh toppings, salads, sandwiches, and the sloppiest breadsticks! Voted the best pizza in Central Georgia by readers of the 11th Hour and the Macon Telegraph! 80+ cold, craft beers! L/D /Bar $ Just Tap’d 488 1st St Macon 478-599-9951 justtapd.com Gastropub serving tap brews over the counter & bottles from the shelves, plus hearty bar grub. L/D/Bar $ Kudzu Seafood Co. 470 3rd St Macon 478-292-2085 kudzuseafood.com From the Panhandle of Florida to the coast of Louisiana, Kudzu Seafood Company brings the best of Southern coastal seafood to Downtown Macon!

Offering a menu of fried and grilled seafood along with non seafood items prepared fresh to order in an open kitchen. Welcome to the Coast of Middle Georgia! L/D/Bar $

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Nu-Way Weiners 5572 Bloomfield Rd Macon 478/781-1305 1602 Montpelier Ave Suite 105 Macon 478-812-8200 921 Hillcrest Blvd Macon 478-743-1047 148 Emery Highway Macon 478-743-7976 3990 Northside Dr Macon 478-477-0533 6016 Zebulon Rd Macon 478-474-5933 nu-wayweiners.com An iconic Macon Restaurant featuring the famous red hotdog! Established in 1916 by Greek American James Mallis, Nu-Way is one of the oldest hot dog restaurants in the United States. The New York Times declared Nu-Way the “king of the slaw dog “hill”. B/L/D $

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Ocmulgee Brewpub 484 2nd St Macon 478-254-2848 ocmulgeebrewpub.com Ocmulgee Brewpub offers the best curated brews using the finest grains, hops, and yeast. Delicious gourmet burgers, super food salads, and hand-cut fries. L/D/Bar $ Parish on Cherry 580 Cherry St Macon 478-257-7255 parishoncherry.com Cozy Cajun eatery in a rustic-chic setting dishing up classic Creole fare, such as ‘po boys & gumbo.

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Warner Robins Barberitos 3123 Watson Blvd Suite 100 Warner Robins barberitos.com Burritos, tacos, salads, quesadillas, nachos, and more using locally sourced, farm-fresh ingredients. L/D $-$$ Between Friends 1080 GA-96 Suite 100 Warner Robins 478-287-6439 betweenfriendscoffee.com Homemade bagels, donuts, muffins, pastries, pies and more. Breakfast served all day featuring french toast, pancakes, quiche, and yogurt. Lunch sandwiches, full coffee bar. B/L $ Fincher’s Bar-B-Q 519 N. Davis Dr Warner Robins 478-787-4651 finchersbbqga.net So fine, it went to the moon in ‘69! Delicious Southern barbecue at four locations in Macon and Warner Robins featuring pulled pork, chicken, ribs, burgers, and more. Family owned & operated since 1935 L/D $

Nu-Way Weiners 1762 Watson Blvd Warner Robins 478-929-4941 215 Russell Parkway Warner Robins 478-923-5335 nu-wayweiners.com An iconic Macon Restaurant featuring the famous red hotdog! Established in 1916 by Greek American James Mallis, Nu-Way is one of the oldest hot dog restaurants in the United States. The New York Wild Wing Cafe Times&declared theFROM “king of5-9 the P.M. slaw dog 5080 Riverside Dr MONDAY #100 Macon- FRIDAY (Shoppes at OPEN 7 River’s A.M. - 2:30 P.M. FIRST Nu-Way FRIDAY’S B/L/D $ FRIDAY’S FROM 5-9 P.M. Crossing) 478-477-9453 OPEN MONDAY - FRIDAY 7 A.M. - 2:30 “hill”.

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HAPPENINGS, LOCALS & REGIONAL INSIGHTS

Meet Lesli

The Maconites tell our story, one by one.

Macon has a story to tell. One by one,

The Maconites tell their own piece of that

story. See and read the ongoing story. The

documented stories and photos personify our Urban Core and the heart of Macon.

This project is funded by The Down-

town Challenge Fund of the Community Foundation of Central Georgia, created to implement the Macon Action Plan through a series of grants to local

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The Maconites compiled by Susannah Maddox | Photographer Maryann Bates

“Well, I would have to say my kids are my greatest accomplishment. I’m really proud of them as human beings. I’m proud that they still seem to like us, and they like each other. It goes too quick. …when we first knew we were coming to Macon, of course, was the phrase “Deep South.” And, not quite clear what that meant, because coming from Texas, you’re only Texas. You know and people north think that south is anything…Texas and Georgia…would be very similar…not true.

So that was, that was quite a change for us to come to Georgia. Plus we’d been in Texas for 17 years, in Waco. So, but when we came here we were just amazed at how beautiful it was.

And, in particular, you know you did hear people going, ‘Why would you move to Macon?’ And, we found Macon charming and beautiful from the very beginning. We were amazed at how many nice neighborhoods there were. As it turned out, we live on campus. But, we didn’t have to live there.

But we were really excited that we could be on campus, be close to downtown, be in this area. Now, we’ve seen a lot of changes for the good since we’ve been here.

And, one of the biggest changes is this park, Tattnall. And we have never felt…we love being here, and it’s hard to imagine being anywhere else. I’m glad to be here, and I’m glad that people are understanding and figuring out what a fun place Macon is.

31st Annual

Forsythia Festival Forsyth-Monroe Chamber of Commerce 10 West Chambers Street Forsyth, Georgia 31029

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Casino Royale

Food Truck Frenzy

Monroe County Conference Center

E. Johnston Street - Across from Robins

March 3rd | 7 pm

March 9th | 4pm - 8pm

Put on your favorite 20’s casino wear and prepare to enjoy a night of fun and games. Compete in a Costume Contest and gamble the night away! Tickets are $20 per person, which comes with $100 worth gambling money to get your luck started. Must be 21 to enter. Cash bar and light snacks.

Tickets are available at the Chamber Office and online.

That’s right, food trucks are coming to Forsyth! Pick and choose your favorite dishes.

Inflatables will be available for the kids. Bring the whole family and your appetite!

SPONSORED BY

Forsythia 5K Race FitCo Health Club - 833 Patrol Rd Forsyth March 10th | 7 am

The 5K returns to festival weekend!

Runners gather at FitCo Health Club to begin the day with our annual 5K. Register at www.forsythiafestival.com or call the Chamber

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FaithFest

Tailgate Toss

Persons Banking Company

First Baptist Church

March 10th | 12 pm - 4 pm

March 10th | 7 pm

The Forsythia Tailgate Toss returns this year with new boards, new bags and fun prizes!

Get ready for a friendly cornhole competition awarding CASH PRIZES! Register at the Chamber or online.

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Celebrate music, faith, and our community with FaithFest, a faith-based singing competition.

Apply at the Chamber and online. Admission is FREE. A goodwill offering will be accepted.

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Arts & Crafts Festival Downtown Forsyth - March 10th & 11th Saturday 10 am—6 pm | Sunday 11 am—5 pm FESTIVAL PARTNER

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Kids Corner Wristbands available for $15/day

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FEATURE |

By Stacey Norwood

A Mother’s Requiem

In her new book, Julie Bragg opens up about the unbearable sorrow of losing her sons Tate and Brax only to discover a startling message of hope from the other side with the help of a Macon medium.

I met Death in a black trench coat, Saw him leer and fling it wide, (I won’t describe what was inside) His fatal fingers gripped my side And while I stood there petrified All that Death would do was gloat …

Brax Bragg, I Met Death Before you ever even crack the spine on The Brothers of Bragg Jam: A Mother’s Memoir, you need to know going in that first chapter is a doozy.

From the very first word of the very first page, tears are never more than a breath away. And like the watery sweet sap of a sugar maple, once tapped they are difficult to stop.

The poem that serves as the prologue is one author Julie Bragg wrote herself nearly 20 years ago, just a few months after both of her sons, Tate and Brax, were killed in a car accident. Titled simply July 3, 1999, the opening line delivers the first tickle of foreboding, and of the pain to come: “That innocent Saturday brings cotton clouds to the bluest sky of the Georgia summer.”

If you’ve ever lost someone you love without warning, whose passing takes a chunk of you with them, you needn’t read the next 13 lines to know where the rest of the poem is headed. Because you feel it right then-- what’s coming next-- in the pit of your stomach.

Later, just like Julie Bragg, you’ll remember the day your whole world cracked wide open as starting out like any other. You’ll recall looking up at the blue sky above, perhaps seeing the familiar fluff of clouds drifting by, but never comprehending you’re not on the ground at all. You are at the tippy-tippy top of a terrible roller coaster, still suspended, breathing in the stillness and calm of the air around you. And just as you look up to admire the pristine expanse once more, you go careening over the first big drop - and you know, in that heart-stopping second, there will no going back after this, no crawling out of your seat.

“We are missing you both, hoping you see the same sky still three days west of home. They’re under it somewhere I think … Picturing you spin along, listening to CDs, brother content with brother to join New Orleans friends for the Fourth … Cheery goodbyes set it in motion ten days earlier scarcely weighing how much we can lose.”

Like I said, that first part is a doozy.

The Silver Tongued Devil and I The first thing I take in about Julie Bragg is her earrings, modest little droplets of gold that dangle just below her earlobes. I can’t swear they are the same tiny gold hoops she writes of buying for herself in 1999, but I wonder just the same.

It was a Saturday when Julie had bought them, on the 3rd of July. She and her oldest daughter Susie were shopping at Sam’s Wholesale Club in Macon, gathering supplies for Julie’s home-based swim school, and both getting ready for the holiday and fireworks to come.

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elry for myself but could think of them as a traveler’s gift from my sons, Taylor and his older brother, Brax. They were on the home stretch of a cross-country road trip, and in case they’d been too busy to shop for a gift, these would do just fine as a back-up,” Julie writes on page 1 of the book she calls her memoir.

If you’ve lived in Macon for more than half a minute, you know what comes next. You’re already familiar with at least the basic details of how burgeoning musician and the poet laureate of Cherry Street, Brax Bragg, then 27, and his 17-year-old brother Tate never made it home in July of 1999. And if you know that much, you know also how mourners, friends, and fellow musicians banded together to hold a memorial gig at The Rookery not long after, a show Brax himself had been booked to perform. That gig became an all-out event, and that event beget one of Macon’s most beloved and successful annual musical traditions, Bragg Jam. Just the night before, I had cried and cried reading the first chapter of the book, I tell Julie, as we make ourselves comfortable in the roomy cottage that sits adjacent to the tarp-covered swimming pool outside.

Affectionately known as the “Parent Cage,” this comfortably appointed pool house will soon be cleared of its furniture and filled with utilitarian tables and chairs for this season’s set of anxious parents bringing their children to Julie, who will teach them to swim. Or, as she calls it, to save their own lives.

Since 1999 alone, Julie has schooled more than 10,000 little fish on how to hang on should the undertow ever sneak up on them. “No one leaves here without learning how to swim,” she tells me, and I want to cry all over again.

What a dreadful, unfair irony most foul that this lovely lady with the sturdy body, soft but direct gaze, and inviting smile should have been so far away from her own babies when they went under 19 summers ago, both killed on a lonely Texas highway after their SUV flipped four times.

“There are not enough words to say for the sorrow we all felt, not only the fire department or the EMS, but the whole town,” says Lacey Romanelie, of Ozona, Texas.

Her words appeared in a letter to the editor in The Macon Telegraph soon after the accident. “Tears filled our eyes as the people here who had access to a computer found the Macon newspaper to see if there was any write-up, and what we all saw was overwhelming. We all learned about the boys’ lives from your cover story online.”

Everyone, it seems – even complete strangers – loved Tate and Brax. It’s a good thing I never met Brax, I tell Julie, because I would have fallen in love with him too – truly, madly, deeply – I can just tell. I’d spent the better part of the last few days reading bits and pieces of Bullet Proof Bible: The Lyrics, Poems, and Essays of Brax Bragg, and staring off and on at his picture on the cover.

“I’m a sucker for a pretty man face,” I tell her. “Oh, he was a handsome devil,” she shoots back, holding aloft a framed photo of him and the younger Tate. “A silver-tongued devil too, I’ll bet,” I respond, thinking of the Kris Kristofferson song I love so much. I haven’t had the chance to hear Brax’s music, but his lyrics in Bullet Proof

Bible had reminded me of Kristofferson – a Rhodes scholar on a Harley. I’ve always been a sucker for those too.

With that same appalling sense of irony, I hadn’t been able to shake off mental images of the car wreck scene from A Star is Born for a couple of days now, since beginning Julie’s book. I was also haunted by the scene just after it, where Barbra Streisand’s character hears John Norman’s voice singing on a cassette tape and runs through the house crying for him. I had made it to a similar passage in Julie’s book – hearing Brax’s recorded voice for the first time after his death– and had to put down the book and weep more than once.

“It’s just too raw and it reminds me too much of my mom and dad,” I tell her, sharing a little of my own family loss by way of explanation. I’d thought I’d finally gotten past it, but her prose, so beautifully written, had uncapped some deep well of grief I hadn’t known was there. “How far have you gotten?” she asks. I confess (truthfully) the first chapter alone had driven me to scotch – twice – and I’d just made it to the chapter about writing the thank-you notes.

“Then you don’t even know about the psychic yet,” she says. “Oh– but that’s really so much of the story.”

Welly, well, well. A Mother’s Memoir just took a turn for the interesting.

We Don’t Die I’m not from Macon, but you don’t exactly have to be a native to have heard about Bragg Jam and its origins. That’s what I had expected the book to be about long before I ever started reading it or sat down with Julie. I hadn’t dismissed the assignment to write about it in any way, but I surely hadn’t seen this one coming. “What do you think the angle should be?” I’d asked at an editorial meeting.

“You’ll know the story the minute you meet her,” Brad Evans had told me.

Cochise called that one, but still … the story of The Brothers of Bragg Jam isn’t just about grief and its aftermath or the story of Macon’s favorite annual rockathon.

Nor is it even really the story of Julie Bragg, a remarkable wife, mother, and woman who teaches the youngest of whelps a critical survival skill, famously tossing them into the pool if they refuse to enter the water out of fear or obstinance. “I don’t ‘toss them,’ I help them jump,” she tells me laughing.

Regardless of how those kids go into the water, they come out of it a swimmer, every single time. That, to me, is what really sums up the heart of Julie’s book – getting chunked into the deep end and discovering that a loving, learned guide is there to see you through it and help send you safely on your way.

In Julie’s and her family’s case, that guide came in the form of a woman named Olivia, and whose real name is revealed at the end of the book. Olivia was self-described medium (who most people would call a psychic, a term she didn’t care for), and much of Julie’s book is devoted to her work with the Bragg family channeling the spirits of the departed – including those of Brax and Tate. Olivia died last fall – 14 years after Julie first began writing

“...what really sums up the heart of Julie’s book – getting chunked into the deep end and discovering that a loving, learned guide is there to see you through it and help send you safely on your way.” the book to share what she’d learned after losing her sons.

“What was that?” I ask her.

“We don’t die,” she says.

In Memoria Aeterna As a devout, lifelong Catholic, believing in life after death was one thing for Julie – and an ideal she clung to after July 3, 1999 when “the lifeguard was drowning” and clinging to her faith to survive. Longing to believe her sons were with God was one thing-- but receiving palpable, positive signs of an afterlife was another altogether.

“They asked God to send helpers if they were meant to survive this tragedy. Within the hour, as family gathered, baffling events occurred. A young stranger, clothed in white, visible only to Julie, walked slow circles in the yard. A new vase of lilies was on the piano, though no one had placed it there. Three weeks later, friends presented a memorial concert, calling it Bragg Jam, and the brothers’

legacy was born,” reads the book description for Brothers of Bragg Jam. “Soon afterward, their sister Anne phoned her mother to say she was with a client who claimed to hear her brothers’ voices repeating, “Talk to my mama!” Caution melted with Julie’s first compelling exchange with this woman, who later visited the Bragg home to channel spirits - not only of sons, but of ancestors who spoke of gifts and solutions to earlier mysteries. Olivia’s readings required decoding, but each hopeful message proved that spirits carry loving, surprising memories into the afterlife with them - this was profoundly comforting.”

Julie is deeply aware that more than one set of eyebrows will be raised that she views a “psychic-medium” as one of “helpers” God steered in her direction – and not only to commune with Brax and Tate, but other departed loved ones as well, including a grandfather and an aunt. The rest I’ll let you discover when you read the book, which Julie

L-R: Jim and Julie Bragg, today. A Bragg Family photo. Ms. Julie and Bragg Swim School.

insists is a memoir, but which feels more like a requiem mass to me. Like any great requiem, there a great deal of sadness to sit with, and details too heartbreaking to share here - but it’s a healing experience. And you have to hang on until the end. In the end, there is hope.

“We all have a mission — I trust that our boys accomplished theirs. I like to think that they remained as our sons and brothers in their afterlife and that their first mission there was to join a band of angels who could calm our horrified spirits. Passing on, more than a graceful euphemism, is a lovely way to describe how our spirits travel. Our sons and loved ones have passed on. We were astounded that a window could be opened into their afterlife, allowing them to pass briefly through our lives again,” Julie writes.

“Eternity is not to be feared, nor is there a chance we will miss it — we have always been part of that world, where there are no beginnings or endings.”

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more of an anxious “I’m-ready-to-go-on-and-go” kind of way. So, I don’t know where the stage fright fell off. I think it’s a combo of doing this literally for years, and I really feel that just in the past 6 or 7 months that I have really gotten more confident at owning it a little more-because you have to.

At one time when you weren’t on tour, you worked as a barista-- do you still do that? What was your least favorite drink to make? We have a hook up on fair trade, organic, locally roasted Mexican Oxaca coffee we will give you when you come to Macon!

Yes! I have done this for 10+ years at various places! I mean, I haven’t been back for months because I have been so busy. I actually got a text the other day about picking up a shift, and I was going to respond to do it but someone else beat me to it! I was thinking how nice it would be to go in for a day...This is an adorable little place with really cool people. It’s very chill, and I do really like making coffee! My band is a coffee band. We love coffee! It’s really funny because one of the guys in my band is a really fancy coffee guy, and the rest of us love all kinds. We drink it from the gas station, cheap McDonald’s coffee when we are on the road. So, when you have that really good cup, your like, “Oh my gosh, this was worth the price!” There’s a lot to it. I can make a really tasty coffee! I am astounded by the science of coffee.

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Read the full interview at 11thhouronline.com My husband (I have to give him credit for this, or I will never hear the end of it!) has described you, Margo Price, Aaron Lee Tasjan, and Derek Hoke, among others, as the new “East Nashville Sound.” How do you feel about that-- and do you feel that there is a new style coming out of East Nashville that is a more rocking Americana?

LH: Ummm, you know-- I definitely think it’s been more celebrated the last few years, and I think someone like Margo coming to light the way she did illuminated that, which is a very cool thing and very exciting thing. I think that stuff has always been there. Going back to the 70’s when Steve Earle was here and that kind of sound-it’s always been in Nashville, but it’s always been a little harder to come by. It’s been overlooked and it just always kind of has. So, it’s a very exciting time. I live in East Nashville, but I grew up in Nashville. I have lived all over Nashville, so I don’t really identify with just East Nashville. But with that being said-- East Nashville does have a very special energy to it. It has it’s own thing, and I’m a part of that, and I do think it’s unique.

Do you have any favorite East Nashville hang outs or go-to spots?

Oh yeah! Let’s see-- I mean, there are so many cute spots. I love seeing shows! The 5 Spot is where I spend a lot of time. The American Legion is a very cool spot-- I spend a lot of time there. And the little local Aldi-- that is my hub! You run into people! I’ve been out of town, so I am just excited to be back in town.

I’ve gotten to see and hear you perform on stage at Third Man last year at Americana Fest. You were awesome. You looked right at home and really played to your audience, making it a very intimate feeling show.

I’ve read that you had a crippling fear of the stage at one time. What have you done to get past that?

Yes. Um, it’s so interesting, I was thinking about that the other night, you know? We’ve been on the road playing these big rooms with the Truckers. I mean, I really have to step up and perform in those bigger rooms-- you’ve got to be bigger. I still get kind of nervous, but it’s a good thing. I mean, you want to feel that nervous energy! It’s

I follow you on Facebook and saw your ramble a few weeks ago regarding comments like, “Men make better music,” and “I don’t usually like female singers.” You’ve said, and I agree, that men don’t know what it’s like to be a woman. As a female musician, what is your biggest struggle in a predominately male business? What do you hope to see change?

They don’t know what it’s like! What I hope to see change... I was fortunate enough to grow up with a Dad that believes in me and empowers me as a woman, and I have a band full of guys that are very respectful. So, I have had a lot of positive encounters with men on the road. But also, to be a woman on stage means putting on makeup and peeing on a lot of toilets that aren’t your own in various gas stations-- sh*t that men don’t have to do or think about. And for a guy to stand there and... You know I wrote that post before I had even heard that dude had said women need to step it up. I was pissed because personally, I see there’s a line with all of it, and I don’t want to look like I am coming from the angle of “man hating”.

That loses power, you know? I don’t hate men, but just the fact that men get recognized much quicker-- and it’s just true. I have female friends that are KICKING ASS, and I’m sorry-- but WHY wasn’t Margo nominated for a Grammy? What the hell?? That’s honestly what spurred that in me. I got really mad because I have watched her work SO hard. I’ve watched her put out albums that deeply impacted people. And nobody’s owed anything, but if that’s going to get a Grammy... Why wouldn’t she be nominated? That says a lot to me. So, that made me mad, and that’s kind of what began that... Just thinking about all of that crap. I would like women to be taken seriously and respected, and I would like our work to be considered “work” rather than “female work”. It should be. It should be a record, not a woman’s record. I mean femininity is beautiful, that is a beautiful and powerful thing and shouldn’t be lost-- and it won’t be. I think you go out on the road, and you’re in a room with guys 95% of the time, and for a man to say you need to step it up?

No. I’m around 30 men a day when I’m on the road. I deal with them in a sense of communication, and I stand tall.

I’m a boss at my job and tell them what I want and need, and it takes a lot of strength to get to that place considering women’s struggles through the years. Luckily, I have a great crew that respects women. I know what women go through, and I know that when a guy is strong and barks out orders, they’re a tough guy-- but when a woman does that, it’s “she’s a bitch.” That needs to change. We have to root for each other.

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It was 1936 in Philadelphia, and a Hawaiian named Jack was playing something called a lap steel guitar on the radio. It was mercurial and melodic, the sonic equivalent of sunshine across water or the soul rising like rain. Troman Eason heard the steel, found the man, and convinced Jack to teach him the ways of the holy Hawaiian lap steel guitar. Willie Eason was 16 and marveled at the machine his brother brought home. As Troman's skill with the steel grew, he began to teach Willie.

They purchased amplifiers, plugged in at church. The Eason's belonged to the Pentecostal House of God, Keith Dominion.

They began to use the lap steel to lift sermons, singers, and testimonies. Willie Eason used the strings on his steel to mimic the gospel singers, their phrasing and inflection. By 1940, Little Willie & His Talking Guitar had developed a unique style of praise and worship that would replace the traditional organ and become synonymous with the House of God. He toured with Bishop J.R. Lockley's Gospel Feast Party, made a number of records including at least two with the Soul Stirrers. Willie married Alyce Nelson, settled in Florida. It was there that Alyce's younger brother, Henry, heard the steel. The Sacred Steel style certainly started with Willie Eason, but it was his brother-in-law, Henry Nelson who solidified the lap steel guitar as the primary instrument of the Keith Dominion. The steel rhythm over a straight beat, no chord change became a staple of processions and services and was, in fact, a primordial precursor to rock n' roll. Henry's son Aubrey Ghent also felt the pull of the steel. He used a No. 16 nail to raise the strings of his Kay Truetone, laid it across his knees, found a steel bar to slide and testify through his tiny amp. Once his commitment was plain, Aubrey's grandfathers' made gifts of a Red Supro lap steel and a tweed-covered Fender Deluxe amplifier. Aubrey was a steel guitar virtuoso and full fledged preacher at 20-years-old.

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Institute. Aubrey Ghent's Sacred Steel has influenced artists like Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Robert Randolph, and of course, his son AJ. AJ Ghent, like the masters before him, felt the power of the Sacred Steel. It was his birthright, after all, and the records of his forbears instructed him. He felt the spirit in the music, but he also felt the electricity of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Prince and James Brown. AJ took to the bars and clubs, applied the lap steel to popular music. He was writing songs, experimenting-- but he needed more freedom. AJ developed a standing, overhand technique that allowed for greater independence on stage. He could move now, interact with his band and the audience in a dynamic and fresh capacity. In 2012, AJ Ghent moved his family to Atlanta, GA and found a new kind of guru in Colonel Bruce Hampton.

Col. Bruce and Pharoah's Kitchen encouraged AJ to push the boundaries of what the steel could do. From there, the AJ Ghent Band was invited to play with the Allman Brothers Band, the Tedeschi-Trucks Band, Zac Brown, Luther Dickinson... New audiences, songwriting, and studio work-- AJ was amassing pieces of a large musical puzzle. A corner of funk here, a center piece of gospel there, rock n' roll edges... AJ Ghent heard how it all fit together. He calls it Neo Blues, and it's the next innovation in the litany of the Sacred Steel. Those who find it, master it-- they all leave a bit of themselves in the art that endures. It's what Troman Eason heard and shared with his brother, Willie.

It's the thing that Henry Nelson elevated and Aubrey Ghent perpetuated. In that spirit, AJ Ghent's Neo Blues Project is more than an album-- it's a legacy.

AJ Ghent will be performing on the Creek Stage at the Rookery Presented by The Macon Beer Company on Thursday, March 15.

On her Sophomore effort Loner, Rose departs from the rootsy textures of her debut album (I Will Not Be Afraid) and brings us an incredibly smart indie-rock record.

Rockabilly and folk sounds give way to a more modern rock sound punctuated with ethereal synth sounds and faster tempos. Rose claims the album owes as much to Brittney Spears and Justin Timberlake as it does to late 70’s punk.

Opening track “More of the Same” highlights Rose’s increased ability to create radio-ready pop-inspired melodies. “Cry” pulsates at a pretty quick pace and feels more like a Strokes or Cars song than anything coming out of the Americana scene she sprung from in 2014. And “Money” has a phrenetic punk-rock energy reminiscent of the Beasties’ “Sabotage.”

However, much like her debut, which opens with “Blood on Your Bootheels,” a song inspired by the Trayvon Martin case, social commentary remains at the forefront in Loner.

Standout “Bikini” is fun yet poignant commentary on the objectification of women.

The absurdities of a materialistic society and identity politics in modern day America weave a common thread throughout the album. In “Soul No. 5,” Rose plays with the space between sex appeal and objectification. NPR describes the album as an exploration of “this disorientating and destabilizing moment in American history” Rose co-produced the album with Paul Butler (Michael Kiwanuka, St. Paul and the Broken Bones). She also handles the bulk of the keyboards on the album, which is, undoubtedly, front and center on Loner.

Rose will be in Macon at The Rookery’s Creek Stage on March 11 with special guest Becca Mancari. Expect big things from Rose in the near future as advance copies of Loner landed her lineup appearances at some of spring and summer’s most renowned music festivals.

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Talking with LONER’s singer and guitarist, Joshua Loner, is like taking an intergalactic trip. Not one of those face bending, I’m going to puke all over my spacesuit kind of trips, but more of a fun exploration into the transformation of the band from a solo project to a six piece. Chris Gravely (drums), Carolyn Reis (flutist), Shane Perryman (trombone), Nadav Flax (bass), and Ellen Meadows (keys) complete LONER’s crew. Sometimes dark, sometimes personal, but definitely compelling, the band explores an abundance of music genres without compromising artistic integrity. I spoke with Loner about their new album, expanding the band, and the hypothetical notion of being trapped on a deserted island.

Why did you want to expand the band? How has this impacted your music aside from just bringing a bigger sound to the music?

While we have travelled to distant solar systems, the music of Earth holds a special place in our space hearts. We have always had a love for music that blends jazz tonality with classical wind or string arrangements. However, due to the economic realities that face artists today, larger orchestral bands have fallen out of vogue for the sheer fact that they are impractical. Impracticality has never stopped us, for better or for worse.

We want the music to be as cinematic and transportive as possible. The presence of orchestral instruments in our sound adds timbres that are otherwise impossible, and evokes the realm of theatre/film.

Did you have a certain goal you wanted to obtain while recording In the Tides of Time?

Well, there was a sense of urgency behind this album.

Loner had been a solo musician for a long time, and felt their own mortality pursuing them. So we needed to get that bad boy laid down and cut.

The album was intended to be an exploration of the interplay between order and chaos. Songs with pop structures and melodies were given elaborate wind arrangements and allotted extended sections of improvisation, sometimes with no meter at all. We wanted to create islands of composition floating in a gulf of improvisation.

But the songs came from disparate periods in my life and they were not necessarily all written to function as a collection. “Storm Front” and “Bioluminescent” were previously released (with different arrangements) on my 2015 solo EP Diamond in the Data Mine. Say was just a sketch that the band fleshed out together. “D Minor” was a song I wrote grieving from a friend’s heroin overdose back in 2014. “Commodity Fetish” was a song I played with my old band, whose name will not grace this fine interview, but was updated with lyrical changes and a new chanting section that was meant to elevate it from a punk song to a protest song. During the recording of the record, we were marching in Atlanta against police brutality, and we wanted to capture the spirit of that revolt.

Order can be healing, but it can also become fascism.

Chaos can be a destructive, but it can also be freedom.

Tell me about writing one of your songs. What is it about and/or what part of the song do you love and why? The early stages are often me, in isolation. It starts with the chords and a hummed melody. Then, hopefully a hook. I will write way too many lyrics for the verses and begin chopping them down as the song takes a clearer form. Once a general structure is developed, we bring the chords and lyrics to the band and give the songs time to develop organically, to grow like plants. Songs are living things, they are not meant to be caged in. Sometimes, the song needs something counterintuitive to me, and I have had to learn to let go off my own attachments to certain pieces of material in order to allow them to become their best selves. We nurture the track and play it over a long period of time before trying to set it in stone.

Describe your music to a new listener. Like laying in a glade in the sunshine with a bunch of butterflies.

What albums or musicians are you really into right now. Aphex Twin, Motohiko Hamase, David Naegele, Tank and the Bangaz, Moses Sumney.

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LARKIN POE W/ZESHAN B AND THE BONES OF JR JONES

THE CREEK STAGE AT THE ROOKERY, 8PM

Rebecca & Megan Lovell of Larkin Poe are singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist sisters creating their own brand of Roots Rock ‘n’ Roll: gritty, soulful, and flavored by their southern heritage. Originally from Atlanta and currently living in Nashville, they are descendants of tortured artist Edgar Allan Poe. Virtuoso vocalist Zeshan B is widely being recognized as one of the most unique singers to come out of Chicago. Blending the hard-driving rhythms and horn heavy sounds of 60s and 70s soul with the angsty scats and vocal stylings of early Indo-Pakistani film/folk music, he has created an entirely new genre that is his very own-- Brown Skinned Soul.

The Bones of J.R. Jones- Americana,one-man, roots music/blues project from Brooklyn, New York-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jonathon Linaberry.

Karaoke 9pm

LIVE MUSIC 3/2: Half Seas Over 3/3: Southern Outlaws 3/9: Trey Teem Trio 3/10: Swain & the Highway Souls 3/16: AJ Gaither O.M.B.

EXCLUSIVE NIGHTLIFE CALENDAR FRIDAY 3/2 A.P.’s Hidden Hideaway Karaoke w/ Chris 8pm-Midnight Billy’s Club House Half Seas Over (Classic Rock & Country) 10pm/ No Cover

Reboot Retrocade Sound Off Silent Disco 8pm Wild Wing Cafe Ethan Payne 9:30pm/No Cover

SATURDAY 3/3

Crazy Bull Jamie Davis (Country) 9pm $5

A.P.’s Hidden Hideaway The Skeeterz (Classic & Southern Rock) 8:30pm/ No Cover

Hargray Capitol Theatre Sister Hazel (Alternative Rock) 8pm/ $25-$30 w/ Eric Dodd (Country, Southern Americana)

Billy’s Club House Southern Outlaws (Country and Southern Rock) 10pm no cover

Hummingbird Voodoo Fix (Rock, Funk, Soul)10pm/ $5 w/ The Young Step (Indie) Kudzu Seafood Chance Moorman, 6pm Pub 96 (Bonaire) Josh Courson (Country) 9pm Society Garden Mel Washington (Frontman for All Get Out, Soul, Blues & Rock) 8pm/ $5

The Society Garden Open Jam 4pm-6pm (free, magical musical experience!)

Scott Baston (Americana, formerly of Moonshine Still / Saint Francis) 8pm/ No Cover Wild Wing Cafe NSP Band (70s, 80s, 90s Rock) 9:30pm/ No Cover

SUNDAY 3/4 A.P.’s Hidden Hideaway Big Mike 3pm/ No Cover

Crazy Bull Carter Winter (Country) 9pm/$5

Billy’s Clubhouse Karaoke 9pm/ No Cover

Creek Stage @ The Rookery Jazz Soul Brunch w/ Greg Black Trio 11am-3pm

Creek Stage @ The Rookery Cris Jacobs (Roots, Soul) 8pm/ $12

The Hummingbird Groove Fetish (Jam)10pm/ $5

Reboot Retrocade & Bar Sunday Funday 1pm

Pub 96 A2Z Band (Variety) 9pm

The Society Garden Reggae Sunday with Dean Brown 4-7 pm/Free

Reboot Retrocade & Bar Big Kids Brunch 1pm

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SUNDAY 3/11

CAROLINE ROSE

THE CREEK STAGE AT THE ROOKERY, 8PM

Caroline Rose- An obsession with money, an unfaithful lover, a friend’s accidental pregnancy, misogyny, loneliness, death… This is just some of the lighthearted subject matter that make up LONER––the darkly comedic second album from songwriter/producer Caroline Rose. Armed with an arsenal of new instruments and equipment, an ever-growing sense of “ahhh f**k it,” two years of exploration, and a wicked sense of humor, Rose delivers a set of serious songs wrapped in a sprightly, angsty pop burrito. Because, as Rose puts it, “Sometimes sad songs just need a cocktail.”

EXCLUSIVE NIGHTLIFE CALENDAR MONDAY 3/5

FRIDAY MARCH 2

FIRST FRIDAY

Voodoo Fix SATURDAY MARCH 3

GROOVE FETISH THURSDAY 8TH

BELLA'S BARTOK FRIDAY 9TH

ROSHAMBEAUX & IDES OF JUNE SATURDAY 10TH

NASHVILLE INVASION FEATURING BOO RAY, MATT WOODS, KASHENA SAMPSON, WESTON HARRIS HILL

36 MARCH 2 - 16, 2018

The Hummingbird Darts Tournament 7pm Piedmont Brewery & Kitchen Comedy Bingo 6pm Pub 96 Trivia 7pm / Free Pool

TUESDAY 3/6 Billy’s Club House Karaoke 9pm Hargray Capitol Theatre George Winston 8pm/ $30 The Hummingbird Open Jam Night 9pm Pub 96 Texas Hold ‘Em Poker 8pm

WEDNESDAY 3/7

Hummingbird Darts Tournament 7pm-9pm Bella’s Bartok (Circus Punk) 10pm Piedmont Brewery & Kitchen Taps & Tunes; DJ B3 7pm/Free

Creek Stage @ The Rookery Jazz Soul Brunch w/ Greg Black Trio 11am-2pm

Pub 96 Karaoke & Dance Party 9pm

Fresh Produce Juna w/ Choir of Babble & One Horse Parade, 9pm/ $5

Reboot Retrocade & Bar Cards Against Humanity 8pm Society Garden Trivia w/Ben Potter 7-9pm Every round wins 4 drink tickets!

Wild Wing Cafe Matt Rogers 9:30pm/No Cover

FRIDAY 3/9 A.P.’s Hidden Hideaway Karaoke w/ Chris 8pm-Midnight

Billy’s Club House Trivia w/ Woody 7:30

Billy’s Club House Trey Teem Trio (Country & Southern Rock)10pm/ No Cover

Hummingbird Trivia @ 7pm, Karaoke 9pm

Crazy Bull JB Crockett (Country) 9pm $5

Pub 96 Dart League 8pm Karaoke w/ Jim Jam 9pm

The Hummingbird Roshambeaux (Rock/Electronic/ Motown) w/ Ides of June (Alternative Rock) 10pm/ $5

Reboot Retrocade & Bar Question Quest Trivia 7:30pm Society Garden Wine Down Yoga $15 Yoga + Wine, 6pm Come try a saké Flight!

THURSDAY 3/8 Billy’s Club House Open Jam Night 9pm Creek Stage @ The Rookery Lilly Hiatt (Americana rock n’ roll) 8pm/ $15 w/ Jimmy Lumpkin (Soul, R&B) Hargray Capitol Theatre Matisyahu (Reggae, Hip-Hop, Rock) 8pm $25-$40 w/ Eminence Ensemble (Progressive Rock/Fusion)

The Crazy Bull Kasey Tindell (Country) 9pm $5

Pub 96 The Wall (Classic Rock, Blues, and Jazz) 9pm Society Garden Ruby Velle & The Soul Phonics (Southern Soul) 8pm/ $5

Hargray Capitol Theatre Larkin Poe w/ Zeshan B & Bones of J.R. Jones 8pm/ $15-$20 The Hummingbird Nashville Invasion w/ Boo Ray, Matt Woods, Kashena Sampson, and Weston Harris Hill 9pm/ $5 Pub 96 Some Kids (Alternative Rock) 9pm Reboot Retrocade & Bar Big Kids Brunch 1pm The Society Garden A full day celebrating “The Brothers of Bragg Jam” Free event!

Open Jam 4pm-6pm Chad Evans 6pm-7pm Shane Bridges 7pm-8pm The Buckleys 8pm Wild Wing Cafe Josh Courson Band 9:30pm/ No Cover

SUNDAY 3/11

MONDAY 3/12 The Hummingbird Darts Tournament 7pm-9pm Piedmont Brewery & Kitchen Comedy Bingo 6pm Pub 96 Trivia 7pm / Free Pool

TUESDAY 3/13 Billy’s Club House Karaoke 9pm Hummingbird Open Jam Night 9pm Pub 96 Texas Hold ‘Em Poker 8pm

WEDNESDAY 3/14 Billy’s Club House Trivia w/ Woody 7:30 Hummingbird Trivia @ 7pm, Karaoke 9pm Pub 96 Dart League 8pm Karaoke w/ Jim Jam 9pm Reboot Retrocade & Bar Question Quest Trivia 7:30pm Society Garden Wine Down Yoga $15 6pm

THURSDAY 3/15

A.P.’s Hidden Hideaway Big Mike 3pm/ No Cover

Piedmont Brewery & Kitchen Taps ‘n Tunes: Sammy Coulter (Americana, Roots & Blues) 7pm

Wild Wing Cafe Southbound Mojo (Variety)

Billy’s Club House Karaoke 9pm

The Society Garden Trivia with Ben Potter 7-9pm

SATURDAY 3/10

Creek Stage @ The Rookery Caroline Rose w/ Becca Mancari 8pm/ $15

Hummingbird Darts Tournament 7pm-9pm

A.P.’s Hidden Hideaway Brian Whitehead & Friends (Country) 8:30pm No Cover Billy’s Club House Swain & The Highway Souls (Blues, Funk, Soul, & Rock) 10pm No Cover

The Society Garden Reggae Sunday with Dean Brown 4-7 pm/Free Reboot Retrocade & Bar Sunday Funday 1pm

Pub 96 Dart League 8pm Karaoke & Dance Party 9pm Wild Wing Cafe Matt Moncrief 9:30pm/ No Cover

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Shop at Goodwill

When you shop Goodwill, you’re giving local people the opportunity, through job training and placement, to break the cycle of poverty.

You get a dress shirt, they get direction.

Everybody’s happy.

www.GoodwillWorks.org #ShopGoodwill

Now Through March 30, 2018

WITH THIS COUPON RECEIVE A

FREE SHIRT With minimum purchase of $10 or more. Valid on Women, Men, or Children’s shirts. Not valid on special-priced shirts.

Edward Timley

Custodial Supervisor, Macon GOODWILL SUCCESS STORY