Couple travels from Finland annually for Macon’s GABBA Festival People from all over the world spent the weekend remembering the Allman Brothers Band at Macon’s annual GABBA Festival. Source: www.13wmaz.com/news/local/couple-travels-from-finland-annually-for-macons-gabba-festival/478298000 Share the joy
Allman Brothers fans gather for first Macon festival after Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks deaths Allman Brothers Band fans gathered in Macon, Ga. this weekend for the Georgia Allman Brothers Band Association’s GABBAfest 2017, many for the first time since the 2017 deaths of Gregg Allman and Butch Trucks. Source: www.macon.com/news/local/article175058066.html Share the joy
GABBAfest features classic blues and Southern rock performers as well as up-and-coming blues stars and a jam session. The Georgia Allman Brothers Band Association, or GABBA, formed in 1992 and has been hosting a version of the festival since its founding.
The Historic Macon Music Registry, highlighting contributions of legends such as Otis Redding, Little Richard and the Allman Brothers, will be unveiled Sept. 21 with a news conference at The Creek and a free Rock Candy Tour, ending at Grant’s Lounge.
The Georgia Allman Brothers Band Association wrapped-up its annual music festival in Macon, GA recently after three days of perfectly peachy music, and brotherhood. Fans traveled from as far as Finland to hear five outstanding bands, participate in jams, plant trees, and generally bask in the brotherly shadow of the Allman Brothers Band. GABBAfest holds something for everyone and this year was no exception.
GABBA (Georgia Allman Bros. Band Association) 2009 Convention was a big
success opening on Friday June 19th at Macon’s Cox Capitol Theatre with premier of The BIG HOUSE documentary film “Please Call Home” followed by Chicago House of Blues star Lefty Collins Band with the Vancura Brother’s keeping an audience on their toes and feet throughout the rest of the evening.
Kevan “Luke” Green has vivid memories of his epic hitchhiking trip, at age 14, from from Tampa, Fla., to visit the spiritual home of the Allman Brothers Band. He came to see the restaurant where they ate, a venue where they played, and especially the graves where two are buried. He especially remembers walking up the hill to get to those graves in Rose Hill Cemetery, a path he followed Sunday with his Florida truck to mark another Allman Brothers homage.
