Contributed Photo by The Harper Agency / Dove Award winners Brian Free & Assurance will headline the New Year’s Gospel Jubilee at the Colonnade in Ringgold, Ga., on Thursday.New Year’s Eve is likely top of mind as you plan your weekend. Parties around town will feature cabaret, comedy and multiple genres of music to dance your way into the new year.
If you’re a fan of gospel music, you can begin the celebration a day early at Thursday concerts in Ringgold, Georgia, and Fort Payne, Alabama.
Be advised that Thursday’s Cheer in the New Year at Creative Discovery Museum is sold out, as is the New Year’s Eve dinner train at Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum.
The Flaming Lips’ two-night New Year’s Underground Celebration at The Caverns in Pelham, Tennessee, has been postponed until February. Caverns marketing director Jeff Meltesen said the recent surge in COVID-19 cases from the omicron variant led to the decision, but fans will be rewarded by the delay. Frontman Wayne Coyne, he said, plans “to ring in the new year in February like it’s never been rung in before.”
Here’s what else is happening: