In search of one thing enjoyable to do that weekend? A number of beloved occasions are returning, like a cease on the Dancing with the Stars: Stay! Tour bringing the hit TV present’s energizing dance strikes to Augusta; the Augusta Residence and Backyard Present with all of its presents and decorator inspirations and the Battle of Aiken, which brings a momentous Civil Battle-era occasion again to life. Listed below are some extra particulars on these and different upcoming Augusta-area festivities:
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Dancing with the Stars: Stay
The glitz and glamor of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” is on tour, and is stopping at the Bell Auditorium on Telfair Road at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 25. Friends will see ballroom dancing from particular friends like nation musician Jimmie Allen, “The Speak” co-host Amanda Kloots and mirror ball champions like “The Bachelorette” of season 11 Kaitlyn Bristowe and NBA participant Iman Shumpert.
Tickets can be found on the James Brown Area field workplace and on-line at aectix.com.
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Augusta Residence and Backyard Present
The seventeenth annual Residence and Backyard Present can be on the Augusta Conference Heart on Reynolds Road from 2 to six p.m. Friday, from 10 a.m. to six p.m. Saturday and from 11 a.m. to five p.m. Sunday. A number of distributors can be in attendance, providing merchandise, suggestions and inspiration for dwelling enchancment and outside dwelling along with giveaways and family-fun actions. Admission is free for all friends. For extra data, go to showtechnology.com.
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Black Historical past Month occasions
Augusta’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. parade, which was postponed in January out of COVID-19 considerations is rescheduled for Saturday from 1 to 2:30 p.m. This yr’s theme is “When We Battle, We Win.” The parade begins on the Dyess Park Group Heart, 902 James Brown Blvd. The route proceeds south on James Brown Boulevard to Wrightsboro Street, north on Augusta Avenue, east on Laney-Walker Boulevard then north on eleventh Road earlier than concluding on D’Antignac Road.
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Shea Butter Empowerment is organizing a competition at midday Sunday at Pendleton King Park on Troupe Road in Augusta. A number of the actions embody character meet-and-greets, reside leisure, distributors and a bounce home.
The Voices of the Previous sequence is constant on the Augusta Museum of Historical past on Reynolds Road on Saturdays from 12:30 to three p.m. This weekend, friends will be taught from a historic re-enactment that tells a narrative loosely based mostly on the lifetime of Cornelia Winfield who was born in Oglethorpe County and finally married and settled in Augusta together with her husband after emancipation. Admission is free with a museum ticket.
Aiken’s twelfth annual Black Historical past Jazz Live performance can be held on the Lessie B. Value Aiken Senior & Youth Heart on Edgefield Ave North West on Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. Stay music, dancing, refreshments and door prizes can be obtainable. Tickets price $20 upfront and $25 on the door; they are often purchased on the Odell Weeks Actions Heart, Smith-Hazel Recreation Heart and the Lessie B. Value heart.
Battle of Aiken
The twenty eighth annual “Battle of Aiken” is again Saturday from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to five p.m. at 1210 Powell Pond Street in Aiken. Friends will go to the park that has been transformed to a group of properties and campsites paying homage to the 1860s and study Civil Battle-era historical past and tradition from reenactors portraying characters of the time.
The point of interest of the occasion are battle re-enactments that characteristic squaddies, cavalrymen, weapons and cannon fireplace. Friends may take pleasure in meals, reside music and dancing. Admission tickets are solely obtainable on the door. Youngsters ages 5 and youthful get in free. For extra data, go to battleofaiken.com.
Live shows
“Money Unchained: The Final Johnny Money Expertise” can be onstage on the Miller Theater on Broad Road at 7:30 p.m. Friday. The nationwide touring band can be performing and celebrating beloved American musician Johnny Money. Tickets might be purchased on the field workplace or on-line at millertheateraugusta.com.
Parker McCollum can be enjoying his Americana music on the Bell Auditorium on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Tickets might be purchased on the James Brown Area field workplace and on-line at aectix.com. Availability was very restricted, as of Tuesday.
Onstage
The Augusta Gamers will take the Imperial Theatre stage for 3 performances of the musical farce “One thing Rotten,” which the troupe says is “the funniest musical comedy in 400 years.” See it at 8 p.m. Friday or Saturday or a matinee at 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets can be found at imperialtheatre.com.