The 49th annual Mountain Laurel Festival returns to Clarkesville on Saturday. The festival was recently named in the Top 20 events in the Southeast by the Southeast Tourism Society, and is the oldest festival of its type in North Georgia. City manager Barbara Kesler is very excited about this weekend's festivities. "I hope that we're going to have a great year. We have so many people in the community who have worked so hard to ...
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The Humane Society of Northeast Georgia is getting creative on behalf of lots of homeless pets. Friday night the organization will play host to Art with Heart, an art showing and silent auction from 7-10 p.m.
ATHENS - America's most famous trumpet player, Doc Severinsen, is coming to Athens for one night only in Hodgson Concert Hall at the University of Georgia.
Hope is on the way this weekend. And it is taking the form of food, fun and fine wine. The fifth annual Gateway to Hope is set for 7 p.m. Friday at Brenau University.
For the second year in a row, Lula residents are honoring the memory of their hometown hero with the Some Gave All 5K Road Race.
The Steve Cunningham Trio will close out The Arts Council's Evenings of Intimate Jazz series with a performance Friday.
Get ready for a night of music and fun under the stars as local musicians rock out for a good cause.
Corks will be popping and the beer will be flowing in North Georgia this weekend.
Mark your calendars and bring the family to spend a "Sunday in the Park."
Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent, who will perform May 20 at the Georgia Mountains Center, each had deep roots in bluegrass music before their first duo album hit shelves in 2008.
It's hard to listen to "Where've You Been," the 1989 hit by country singer Kathy Mattea, without shedding a tear.
Although it may seem like the school year just started, in reality students have little more than two weeks left in the year.
Elachee Nature Science Center's 10th annual spring benefit event, "Flights of Fancy," is set for 6-9 p.m. Friday, offering craft beer and a menu of grilled dishes.
Renowned Georgia author Janisse Ray will highlight the 2011 Georgia ForestWatch Wild & Woolly Forest Festival & Native Plant Sale on Saturday at the Sautee Nacoochee Center.
Braselton's popular "Movies Under the Stars'" series begins anew Saturday night with the animated adventure "Escape from Planet Earth."
Question: After more than 38 years as a band, how have you managed to stay together and produce more songs?
The third annual "An Evening With Dailey & Vincent" will be at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 8, at the University of North Georgia campus gym in Dahlonega. Auditorium doors open at 6 p.m. at 130 Georgia Circle in Dahlonega.
John Ford Coley and Alex Harvey will kick off the Summer Songwriter Series at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 8, at the Brenau Downtown Center.
The T. W. Holeman Gospel Music Group will pay tribute to retired U.S. Army veteran Master Sgt. Wayne Cantrell and the Veterans Alliance Group with a concert at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, June 9, at The International Apostolic Church of Northeast Georgia, 1029 W. Ridge Road, in Gainesville.
Blending an Alfred Hitchcock thriller with the hilarity of the Monty Python produces Habersham Community Theatre's next play "The 39 Steps."
More than 50 children will sing, dance and act in a musical rendition of Hans Christian Andersen's classic "The Ugly Duckling," as part of the 2013 Pam Ware Summer Community Theatre Children's Musical Theatre Workshop production HONK! Jr.
The inaugural Sheriff's Summer Sprint 5K benefiting the Georgia Sheriff's Youth Homes will be Saturday, June 8, at Allen Creek Soccer Complex, before the Hall County Sheriff's Office training center on Allen Creek Road.
Volunteers with the Yahoola Trails Conservancy have helped the Dahlonega-Lumpkin County Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Center launch a complete and accurate new guide to "Hiking Trails in the Dahlonega Area: 22 Trails in the North Georgia Mountains within 32 miles of Dahlonega."
The Bowen Center for the Arts in Dawsonville is displaying the work of artists Ruth I. Money and Ann Goble until July 19.
Dancers ranging in age from high school and college students to adults of all ages will tap their feet to the sounds of fiddle and guitar, banjo and keyboard during Contra Dancing at the Sautee-Nacoochee Community Association Center in Sautee.
Food trucks will return to Suwanee's Town Center Park on Friday, June 7, following a successful event in May.
The city of Helen's 100th birthday is Aug. 18, and the Helen Arts & Heritage Center is asking visitors and residents to thumb through picture albums and search attics for old photos dating back as far as 1913.
The 3 Rings Circus will set up camp Sunday, June 9, in Dahlonega to raise money for five local charities.
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