When: Friday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.Where: Coorner of North Washington Street and Pine Avenue.Food trucks with a variety of offerings will be set up for a lunchtime feast in downtown Albany. Staff Photo: Alan Mauldin
When: Saturday, gates open at 2 p.m., music cranks up at 3 p.m.Where:At the iconic agricultural mural in Colquitt.The 2024 edition of the annual festival will feature Revival, Dirty Bird & the Flu, Evan Barber & the Dead Gamblers, Red Hoss Suckas, Loose Change, and Jeb & Friends, with Lou Wamp as “artist at large.” There will be food trucks and an on-site bar, with parking behind the Cotton Hall Theater. Blankets and chairs are recommended. No coolers will be allowed.Admission: $20.For more information or tickets, go to https://swampgravy.com/briar-patch-music-festival/.
When: Friday and Saturday shows start at 7 p.m.Where: Main Street Dinner Theatre and Cultural Arts Center, 152 N. Main St., Dawson.It’s time to boogie down memory lane as Dawson’s Main Street Dinner Theatre and Cultural Arts Center transports you back to the far-out vibes of 1978 with the comedy play, “Disco Inferno!” Picture this: a groovy tale of town legends hustlin’ and bustlin’ to open up southwest Georgia’s hottest disco joint, all to put Georgia on the map! Can you dig it?Admission: $35 for dinner and show.For more information, go to https://allevents.in/dawson/disco-infero-at-the-dawson-main-street-dinner-theatre/200026475515251.
When: Saturday, sale starts at 9 a.m., with the flower show from 2 p.m.-4 p.m.Where: Albany American Legion Post 30, 2916 Gillionville Road.
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When: Saturday, starts at 8 a.m.Where: Hasan Temple, 1822 Palmyra Road.The 22nd annual Hasan Temple BB!Q Cook Off this year includes a pizza cook off, pop-up market and car show all in one place.For more information, go to https://allevents.in/albany/22nd-annual-hasan-bbq-cook-off-pop-up-market-and-car-show/200026358000349.
Alan has been a reporter for 30 years, including at The Moultrie Observer, Thomasville Times-Enterprise and The Albany Herald. His favorite book is “Catch-22,” and he has an Australian shepherd/American bulldog mix named Maxwell.
