No matter if your beverage of choice is craft beer or English tea or if you spend your time jamming to folksy guitars or percussion beats, there’s a little something for every taste on this last weekend of January. That means plenty of ways to conveniently forget you still haven’t started tackling your list of New Year’s resolutions. (Don’t worry, there’s always February, right?)
Honda Battle of the Bands
After outranking thirty-two others, eight marching bands from historically black colleges and universities will take the field at the Georgia Dome to show off their mastery of choreography. If you prefer hip-hop to brass horns, rapper Big Sean will perform at halftime. Saturday 3 p.m. hondabattleofthebands.com
Atlanta Winter Beerfest
The event at Masquerade Music Park has been expanded from one day to two and now will feature beers from east of the Mississippi on Saturday and brews from west of the river on Sunday. It all adds up to more than 300 specialty beers, sipped alongside local music performed on five stages. Saturday and Sunday 1-6 p.m. atlantawinterbeerfest.com
Callanwolde Arts Festival
The first annual festival “for artists, by artists” will feature 150 painters, photographers, sculptors, and more. It also includes artist demonstrations and live performances. Plus, it’s indoors at the spectacular historic mansion in Druid Hills that’s now a community arts center. Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. callanwolde.org
Amy Ray
The Indigo Girl plays a solo concert at Variety Playhouse in support of her new foray into country. (Check out what Ray has to say about her new album here.) Sunday 8 p.m. variety-playhouse.com
Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea
Can’t get enough of Season 4? You don’t have to wait until Sundays for a Downton fix. Unleash your inner Dowager Countess by indulging in deserts named after the PBS hit’s characters (Lady Edith’s Chocolate Devil’s Food Cake and so on), sandwiches, scones, and of course, English tea. Daily through January 31. stregisatlanta.com
The Bunnen Collection of Photography
An exhibition drawn from the 650 photographs donated to the High Museum by Lucinda Bunnen, one of the South’s most influential arts advocates, includes works by William Eggleston, Sally Mann, Chuck Close, and Ansel Adams. Through Feb. 2. high.org
Atlanta Community Choral Festival
Local choirs join their voices at an event hosted at Emory University’s Schwartz Center. Saturday 8 p.m. atlantamasterchorale.org
Big Head Todd and the Monsters
Flash back to the 1990s as the Colorado band plays at the Buckhead Theatre in anticipation of its album Black Beehive, which will be released in February. Saturday 8:30 p.m. thebuckheadtheatre.com
