FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 2012

THE COX CAPITOL THEATRE presents…

A BENEFIT FOR “NICK MALLOY”
Featuring Shane Bridges and Back City Woods
along with Deep Well

Doors at 7 p.m. / Show at 8 p.m.

Admission is:
$20 General Admission Standing Room Floor
$15 General Admission Balcony

Nick Malloy is a bright young singer songwriter who was critically injured in a car accident recently. His friends are throwing this benefit to help Nick and his family during this challenging time. The benefit stars the Shane Bridges Band and Back City Woods. Please come out for a great night of music and to help our friend Nick.

THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012

THE COX CAPITOL THEATRE & FOUNDRY ENTERTAINMENT presents…

THE PRODUCERS
with Special Guests The Shut-Ups

Doors at 7 p.m. / Show at 8 p.m.

Admission is:
$15 General Admission Advance
$20 General Admission Day of Show

The Producers formed in 1979 in Atlanta, Georgia as Cartoon (less Kyle). They jammed with Kyle on New Year’s Eve 1979/80 and the 4 formed The Producers in January. After three months playing together, they went to New York, auditioned with CBS, and got their first recording contract. They signed with Epic/Portrait in August of 1980 (Interestingly, the debut album cover says CBS/Portrait). By November they had an LP’s worth of new music and went into the studio to record the debut album. Two months later it was released (in January 1981)!

They did 340 shows in 14 months during 1981/82. (No wonder you were able to see them so many times!)

FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2012

THE COX CAPITOL THEATRE and HESSION ENTERTAINMENT GROUP presents…

HOMELESS HILL
with Featured Guests Ledfoot Messiah and JK and The Lost Boys

Doors at 7 p.m. / Show at 8 p.m.

Admission is:
$10 General Admission/Standing Room Floor (Advance)
$12 General Admission/Standing Room Floor (Day of Show)

The Cox Capitol Theatre and Hession Entertainment Group presents Homeless Hill – celebrating their newest album release “Invincible.” Born in the blazing heat of a Deep South summer in 2009, the award-winning band Homeless Hill quickly developed a rabid local following that outstripped their expectations. While performing to live audiences with hook-driven originals and innovative covers that off-set their tight rock riffs – front man and songwriter Darin Curtis, drummer Danny Savage, and bassist Adam Crump collaborated to create “Set It On Fire,” their first full-length album, which has reached the ears of thousands of fans through airplay, iTunes, and live shows throughout the Southeastern U.S. “Set It On Fire” has been described by newspapers as “11 tracks of gut-check rock n roll!”

Now with added member Travis Denning on lead guitar, Homeless Hill is evolving and are set to release their long-awaited sophomore release “Invincible.” Influenced by rock-n-roll greats such as Foo Fighters, Shinedown, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Incubus, this hard hitting quartet plan to burn it down, one song at a time.

Anyone who has had the experience of seeing Homeless Hill perform live will be sure to tell you about their amazing show, dynamic stage presence, and as Chris Horne of the Macon Telegraph writes, “relying on their powerful hooks, and vocal harmonies, if you catch one of their live shows you may just become one of the Homeless ‘homies’…” Rachel Helie, writer and contributor for the 11th Hour HoCo states, “There is more to rock and roll than sex and drugs. Its takes hard work, focus, and sheer force of will. If anyone is going to prove that, it’s going to be Homeless Hill.”

Homeless Hill has shared the stage with Southern rock/blues artists Doc Holliday and Wet Willie. With their whole career ahead of them “The Hill” is aiming high, as they set out to become a regional and national force. So in the immortal words of Homeless Homies and Hotties everywhere – can we get a big “Hill Yeah!”

THE COX CAPITOL THEATRE PROUDLY presents…

The following “Official” CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL events

Friday, March 16
Livingston Taylor

Saturday, March 17
Andy Gross – Mind Boggling Magic Comedy Show

Sunday, March 18
Laughing Pizza

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012

THE COX CAPITOL THEATRE presents…

AN EVENING WITH KELLER WILLIAMS

Doors at 7 p.m. / Show at 8 p.m.

Admission is $18 Advance/$23 Day of Show

Most artists would bristle at the term self-indulgent, but Keller Williams often invokes it in describing his own approach to music. To Williams, being self-indulgent means creating music that satisfies him – if he likes what he’s produced, he figures, then, his audience is more likely to.

“I’m a music lover first, a musician second and a songwriter third,” Williams says. I love writing songs and I love performing my songs – almost all of them. But I go out and do about 120 shows a year, and I just can’t write enough to play new songs all the time. There are always different cover songs to learn though; just flipping around on the radio, next thing you know you’ve got a song stuck in your head. If you change it around and play it completely differently, it sounds like a whole new song.”

Since he first appeared on the scene in the early ’90s, Keller Williams has defined the independent artist. Most of his career has been spent performing as a one-man band – his stage shows are built around Keller singing his compositions and choice covers while accompanying himself with an acoustic guitar connected to a Gibson Echoplex delay system that allows him to simulate a full band. That approach, Williams explains, was derived from “hours of playing solo with just a guitar and a microphone, and then wanting to go down different avenues musically. I couldn’t afford humans and didn’t want to step into the cheesy world of automated sequencers where you hit a button and the whole band starts to play, then you’ve got to solo along or sing on top of it. I wanted something more organic yet with a dance groove that I could create myself.”

Keller Williams

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012

THE COX CAPITOL THEATRE presents…

“FRIED GREEN TOMATOES”
Dinner and a Classic

Doors and Dinner Service begins at 5:30 p.m. / Movie at 7:00 p.m.

Admission is $10
Includes Dinner (provided by Saralyn Harvey and “Good to Go”)

Reservations are encouraged by purchasing your tickets, and confirming your seats by clicking on “THE BUY BUTTON” below.

In this adaptation of Fanny Flagg’s novel, flashbacks reveal the remarkable and mysterious story of soul mates Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) and Ruth (Mary-Louise Parker), whose antics cause an uproar in their rural Southern town during the 1920s.

THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012

THE COX CAPITOL THEATRE presents…

GREENSKY BLUEGRASS
Opening is Back City Woods

Doors at 7 p.m. / Show at 8 p.m.

Admission is:
$12 General Admission Advance / $15 Day of Show

If you’re familiar with bluegrass music, then you’re tuned in to some of what Greensky Bluegrass does. They’re also known to throw a great party, rock n roll, and (if the critics are to be believed) they have great songs. They are unquestionably a team of friends that traverse the country making music they enjoy. What makes Greensky different than Bluegrass? Poignant rural ballads about real people? Dobro tone that Jerry (Douglas or Garcia) would love? Distortion Pedals? Grit and attitude from a whiskey soaked card game? Indeed, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

This quintet from Michigan has been staying up late at all the coolest festivals and stopping to play your favorite clubs and theaters across America for 11 years now. Nearly 175 shows per year have prepared them for the rigorous task of continuity. Greensky Bluegrass isn’t slowing down. “They’re coming to your town to help you party down.” Yeah! Really! Like you never thought possible!

At the start of the millennium, some of these guys met, and then they met more guys. They thought Greensky was a clever name for a bluegrass band. Fast forward to 2011 when they recorded their fourth studio record, called Handguns. Among them, words like, “proud,” “killer,” and “damn right!” have been spoken in regards to the music of Handguns.

While they all may be accurate, we hope you’ll find far more than you expected, hell – even more than we expected contained in this piece work that may well come to define one of 21st Century America’s hardest working musical ensembles.

GREENSKY BLUEGRASS
BACK CITY WOODS

FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012

THE COX CAPITOL THEATRE presents…

COLBY DEE

Doors at 7 p.m. / Show at 8 p.m.

Admission is $5 General Admission

Country music has found its new Georgia Peach in talented up-and-coming artist, Colby Dee. On Friday, April 20 she will perform live for her hometown crowd at the Cox Capitol Theatre in Macon, GA. The show begins at 8:00pm and tickets can be purchased at the door for $5.00. Fans in attendance will be able to participate in the making of Colby Dee’s new music video and will also receive exclusive giveaways.

“I’m thrilled to be playing this important show and especially proud to be doing it in my hometown,” says Colby Dee. “I am grateful to all my friends and family for the support they’ve shown to help make my dreams a reality and this feels like the perfect way to celebrate some recent career milestones.”

Billboard.com’s, Chuck Dauphin has quickly become a fan of Colby Dee saying, “Colby Dee has such an undeniable energy that definitely flows over from her recordings to her live performance. You will no doubt be entertained by Colby Dee’s talent, and wowed by her professionalism. She will leave you wanting more, as the old show business saying goes.”

The inspirational and powerful single from country music talent Colby Dee, “I Will Fight On,” is available for purchase now on iTunes. “I Will Fight On” has been described by fans as a ‘cancer fighter’s battle cry’ and provides a message of strength and empowerment over the disease. Written specifically for her friend battling breast cancer, Joni Moore Kanazawa, the song is extremely personal for Colby Dee, the 20-year-old Georgia newcomer.

Colby Dee is a young, talented country singer/songwriter who made the bold move to Nashville in April of 2011 in full time pursuit of her music dreams. Her sound has been described as “youthful, powerful and vibrant” and that she “has a smile that opens hearts and a soul that can fill them.” Colby Dee has developed strong songwriting skills and has enjoyed collaborating with some top-notch songwriters in Nashville in the few months she’s been there. She is in the studio currently putting the finishing touches on her first official EP, which is scheduled for a summer 2012 release. Colby Dee has been wowing audiences since she was 7 years old with the talent and attitude that “any stage is home.”

FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012

FOUNDRY ENTERTAINMENT & THE COX CAPITOL THEATRE presents…

ATHENS GEORGIA NIGHT
Dead Confederate
Packway Handle Band
Saint Francis

Doors at 8 p.m. / Show at 9 p.m.

Admission is $10 Advance/$13 Day of Show

DEAD CONFEDERATE

Challenges and changes do nothing, if not inspire.

After a few years of touring hard in the States and overseas, recent times have been seemingly low-key and quiet for a loud band like Dead Confederate; they’ve more or less remained off the radar for the last
Year. In this short time, the band adapted to their drummer leaving to start a family, learning to work with a handful of new drummers, and half of the remaining members getting married (not to each other). 2011 saw its fair share of music from them, although not the typical side of Dead Confederate: There were many solo performances from members, an expanded incarnation of the band that ventured out on mini-tours playing Neil Young’s Tonight’s The Night in its entirety and, most recently, the formation of
Diamond Rugs (a “super group” featuring Dead Confederate’s Hardy Morris, Deer Tick’s John McCauley
& Robbie Crowell, Black Lips’ Ian St Pe, Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin and Brian Dufresne of Six Finger
Satellite).

It is in times like these that some bands discover what success really means to them. As the band began mixing their third, currently-untitled LP (this time in their home of Athens, GA with producer David Barbe), singer/guitarist Hardy Morris had this to say about Dead Confederate’s success – “I don’t think any of us have a desire for any kind of quote-unquote fame. All we want is to be able to make records. No one’s ever been looking to own Bentleys and swimming pools. We are happy calling ‘making records and playing shows our job. If you would have told me when I was a kid that I would have seen half the world and done a fraction of the stuff we’ve done, I would have called you crazy.”

On their new album – “I think these songs are kind of a culmination of all the stuff we’ve done. I know for me, I wanted to approach this album like it was the last thing I was going to do; the last album I’d make. I knew that wasn’t the case, but that’s the mindset I held going in because I think, in some ways, that’s what people want to hear. I know that’s what I want to hear… Songs that feel like it might be someone’s last breath; some desperation, some finality. Not to say it’s going to be an exceptionally bleak album or anything, but most of the songs we’ve recorded for this album hold onto that darker, quasi-southern vibe we do. I think it has some similarities to both of our previous records, but in the end it will certainly be its own thing.”

For Dead Confederate, 2012 is shaping up to be an interesting year – “We are label free at the moment, so it’s kind of like starting anew in a way. It’s all a bit fresher and there is excitement for sure. I think, for musicians, it’s healthy when things are a bit up-in-the-air. Not just, ‘we gotta make a record by some labels deadline.’ We are just glad to be doing our own thing in the studio and able to take our time and get into it; it’s great being on our own timeline. We are planning to go have some fun at SXSW for sure, and find the right home for the record at some point. After the record is released we will tour. My side project, Diamond Rugs will be out at SXSW, so I’m sure we will do some sets with both bands out there and tour all of it later in the year.”

Along with writing for and recording the new album, Dead Confederate used the last year to dig into a huge collection of old material. Over the second half of 2011, the band used Facebook as a platform to release 18 unreleased home recordings and B-sides in their first installment of their Sunday Archive series. These releases are something they plan to continue going forward, consisting of never-before heard tunes released free and direct to the fans followed by limited edition cassette tapes released in volumes. With a new album on the way and a huge collection of older tunes just waiting for release, 2012 will be anything but “quiet” for Dead Confederate.

PACKWAY HANDLE BAND

SAINT FRANCIS

Macon GA’s Scott Baston, former front man of nationally touring rock band Moonshine Still, has returned to the music scene he left over three years ago- but this time with some apparently divine guidance. After a decade in the bus, and a handful of successful albums to his credit, Baston decided the rigors of the road and the state of the touring scene had taken its toll on everything important to him. Now, retooled and reinvigorated, Baston is on a mission. And his new project, Saint Francis, is raising eyebrows from New England to Nashville.

Baston has recruited a potent mix of new talent, creating a new rock-country crossover that has industry pros buzzing. Mark Van Allen, pedal steel master of Grammy award winning Sugarland, joins Rackley Davis of The Incredible Sandwich (drums/vocals), Jeremy Johnson (lead guitar/vocals), Carlos Enamorado (bass guitar), and Scott “Boss” Hogg (keyboards/vocals) to complete an impressive musical collaborative from which Baston can launch. And launch he does, with a solid fuel booster of soaring vocals inside hauntingly beautiful melodies, a recipe that has placed Baston atop the singer/songwriter heap for over a decade.

Now with the fire and spirit of a down home Georgia gospel church on revival Sunday, Baston and Saint Francis are transporting audiences to higher musical planes- baptized in a wave of musical influences on tides that run from blues to bluegrass, rock to reggae, world beats to soulful treats. Through this incredible musical brotherhood; Baston, Saint Francis, and their fans both old and new, are happily floating inside The Bubble again- always reminded by the band’s mantra, “We Are Here To Be As One!”

Scott Baston (lead vocal/rhythm guitar): Born and raised in Middle Georgia, Scott was raised on “greens and gospel”. For over a decade, Scott spent his time traveling, writing and performing with nationally touring rock band Moonshine Still. Scott is a trained vocalist who really moves people. His singing and songwriting is a match made in heaven. He is able to express himself using his own voice, through his own music and in his own unique way. As a credit to his voice, the current line-up consists of friends and fans of his previous projects.

Mark Van Allen (pedal steel/lap steel/dobro): As a touring and session musician, Mark has appeared with a wide variety of artists, covering many musical genres, including Shawn Mullins, Buddy Miles, Hank Thompson, Indigo Girls, Blueground Undergrass, Warren Haynes, Sugarland, Jimmy Herring, Leftover Salmon, Vassar Clements, and many more. His colorful chordal waves and thoughtful soloing inspire and invite you to listen deeper.

Jeremy Johnson (lead guitar/vocals): The “other” front man so to speak. Having been friends for years, Scott and Jeremy started playing music together in 2006. A recent graduate of the Georgia College music program, Jeremy spends his down time performing regularly as a solo artist in and around Macon. Jeremy’s guitar playing with fantastic flying leads, tasty riffs and a touch of “chicken picken” is a great compliment to Scott’s rhythmic intensity. Jeremy leads the Georgia Music Summer School of Rock and is active with Leadership Macon.

Rackley Davis (drums/vocals): After graduating from Berry College with a music degree in percussion, Rackley made his way to Athens, Georgia and its vibrant music scene. It is there where he became the driving force of Athens jam rockers “The Incredible Sandwich”- winners of the 2010 Flagpole Magazine Music Award for Best Jam Band. He has spent over a decade perfecting his craft, utilizing solo instruction from some of the best drummers and percussionists in the business. This, in conjunction with a 200 night a year performance schedule, has been the foundation of Rackley’s electrifying rhythms and unique tribal beats. His skills have been lauded by some of the biggest producers and promoters in America.

Carlos Enamorado (bass guitar): A student of the music program at Georgia State, Carlos is a player who can express himself well beyond his living years. Holding down the groove or putting on the icing, Carlos is the flour that holds this cake together. Carlos loves the theory of music and is in a constant state of study. When he does make room for some down time, he spends it playing with his jazz side project – Flamingo Royale. Carlos is a fantastic player with the whole world in front of him and the desire to explore.

Scott “Boss” Hogg (keyboards/vocals): As master of the keys, Scott is a wonderful player. Underneath the long dreads are big ears, which he uses to “fit right in” to that Saint Francis sound. Organ swells and piano leads just when you want them, he’s as tasty as they come. Scott has entertained audiences on radio and television for nearly two decades, and is best known for his on-air persona, Boss Hogg. He has owned and operated commercial radio stations for the last 15 years and his pipes are heard around the country in some of America’s top snow-sports competitions, auto races, and stadium motor-cross events.

SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2012

LAUGH HARDER ENTERTAINMENT presents…

OPEN AUDITIONS for
APOLLO LIVE AT THE COX CAPITOL THEATRE

Doors at 10:00 a.m. / Auditions at 11:00 a.m.

The iconic Apollo Theatre in Harlem has held amateur nights where the audience picks the winners who then advanced to the next show. This is a wonderful concept that Laugh Harder is now presenting at the historic Cox Capitol Theatre. Whether you want to pick the winners or be one of them come and join the party and the fun.

GOT TALENT?

REQUIREMENTS:

1. All musicians should bring their own instruments.
2. Singers & Dancers must bring their CDs in order to perform.
3. Each contestant will have up to 3-5 minutes to audition.
4. No Profanity!
5. Contestants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

AMATEUR APOLLO LIVE NIGHT WILL BE HELD EVERY FIRST SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH (MAY 5, JUNE 2, JULY 7, AUG 4 AND SEPT 1) AT THE COX CAPITOL THEATRE

For More Information call 770.670.3215