Good Music, Good Friends, Great Cause: Historic Macon
Support Historic Macon at TheBlueIndian.com and Moonhanger Group’s Annual Benefit Concert featuring Roadkill Ghost Choir on 12/27
The holidays are full of festive occasions to see family and friends. Between going to parties, parades, and family gatherings, sometimes you just need a break. Once Uncle Bob’s stories are no longer entertaining and after all the carols start to sound the same, you can hear a new sound at the Historic Macon Benefit Concert featuring Roadkill Ghost Choir at the Cox Capitol Theatre on Saturday, December 27. For a mere $10, you and your friends who are all back in town for the holidays can catch up while listening to some great music and supporting a good cause.
This concert is an annual tradition started by TheBlueIndian.com and is an opportunity for the indie music blog to give back to the community and bring indie artists to Middle Georgia. This year, TheBlueIndian.com partnered with the Moonhanger Group to make the concert even bigger and better than ever before. Historic Macon is honored to be the recipient of the proceeds from this year’s concert. “Music plays such an important role in Macon’s rich history so a benefit concert at the historic Cox Capitol Theatre is a perfect event for Historic Macon Foundation,” says HMF Executive Director, Ethiel Garlington.
This is will be the first year the concert is hosted at Cox Capitol Theatre, a much larger venue than where the concert has been held in previous years. The historic theatre is the ideal location for a concert to benefit Historic Macon because it shows Historic Macon’s mission of historic preservation in action. The theatre originally opened in 1916 as The Capitol Theatre complete with leather furnishings and a screen made of gold fiber. The Capitol Theatre operated until 1976 after which time it fell into disrepair. In 2006, the theatre was renovated and reopened in 2006 as The Cox Capitol Theatre and has been Middle Georgia’s premier concert venue ever since. The historic setting and the incredible line-up of bands will be the perfect way to end the holiday season.
About the Bands
Florida’s Roadkill Ghost Choir released Quiet Light in 2013 and then toured the country with Band of Horses and played festival slots at New York’s Governor’s Ball, Austin City Limits and Shaky Knees in Atlanta. This year, Roadkill Ghost Choir performed on the “Late Show with David Letterman” and released a full-length record, In Tongues, as well as touring Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza. The band has been garnering praise far and wide, with acclaim from Rolling Stone, SPIN and Relix, and “Consequence of Sound” claiming the band is “combining the experimental edge of Radiohead and the dusty roots-rock of Tom Petty, tailor-made for arena-sized, prog-rock festivals and grassy, pastoral stages alike.”
Dead Confederate and Diamond Rugs’ T. Hardy Morris returns to the road with his band the Hardknocks. They will be kicking off Hardy’s special brand of psychedelic grunge all across the country. After a summer of touring alongside Deer Tick, T. Hardy Morris and the Hardknocks will open for Deer Tick again on New Year’s Eve at the Brooklyn Bowl.
Macon’s own sunDollars will start off the night with some new tunes that the city has been eagerly awaiting from the jangly indie pop group.
All profits will benefit Historic Macon Foundation and will support Historic Macon’s mission of revitalizing our community by preserving architecture and sharing history. Doors open at 7PM at the Cox Capitol Theatre on Saturday, December 27 and the show starts at 8PM. Tickets are $10 in advance and $14 the day of show, and go on sale November 14 at CoxCapitolTheatre.com or by calling 877.987.6487, or pay no fees when you buy at The Rookery. You can also purchase tickets from Historic Macon by calling 478-742-5084 or stopping by the Sidney Lanier Cottage with no fees or tax.
