Cornelia, GA – This Friday, May 29th, the Cornelia Main Street/Downtown Development Authority officially kicks off Summer with the first concert in the Cornelia Summer Concert Series. The concerts make a move this year to the Cornelia City Park Amphitheater. The old amphitheater at the big city park had not been used in years, so the city completed work to the area surrounding the amphitheater to make it easier to use for activities. The level ground in front of the amphitheater is now an inviting location for summer concerts with plenty of shade from the wooded area surrounding the stage. Bring your blankets and chairs to Cornelia City Park this Friday and enjoy the free concert.
Headlining the June show is Gina Gailey. Gina’s most recent accomplishments include being a finalist for the 2014 GA Music Awards Country Female Artist of the Year and a finalist for the 2014 and 2013 Georgia-Country Awards for Female Artist of the Year. Gina hit #1 with her single “Is It You” in the local country charts on www.reverbnation.com. She and her band recently opened for Jamey Johnson at the Georgia Theatre and she released a new single earlier this spring, “I Know You Won’t”. She was also the 2007 winner of the Northeast Georgia Colgate Country Showdown, a Loretta Lynn talent search finalist, Nashville’s Studio 23 talent search runner-up and Capitol Records ‘Road to Nashville’ Alternate. Gina is an accomplished country music singer/songwriter who has performed all over Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and the Carolina’s. She has opened for Ricky Skaggs, Bo Bice, and many others. She has performed at Lanier National Speedway and Gresham Motorsports Park. Gina was broadcast live overseas to the troops and worldwide on American Broadcast Radio.
Thanks to generous partnerships with local businesses, these concerts are free to the public and all are encouraged to attend. Bringing your own chairs, blankets, and tables is permitted but you also have the option of reserving a table and chairs for just $25. Small umbrellas are allowed if room permits but must not block the view of others. Event staff will be on hand to direct tent/umbrella users to proper locations. Parking is available all through the park and can be found to the right of the driveway entrance, the gravel lot to the left just past the picnic area at the entrance, along the side of the park road near the tennis and basketball courts and in the old swimming pool area just below the community house. The Community House parking lot is not open for concert attendees this Friday, but additional parking can be found in the Cornelia dog park.
Attendees are encouraged to visit one of our local restaurants for dinner prior to the event or get a to-go box and have a picnic at the concert. The show will start at 8:30PM. A beverage tent will be open selling beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages starting at 7PM. No outside alcoholic beverages are permitted at the concert but non-alcoholic ones are allowed. All coolers brought into concert area are subject to search.
The second concert of the summer will take place on Friday, June 26th with the return of The Regulars Band. The finale for the Summer Concert Series will be a full weekend festival, Haber-Jam: Art & Music in the Park taking place July 17th-19th all through the park. All the concerts are free and open to everyone with limited reserved seating. For more info on the series or the festival, contact Heather Sinyard with the City of Cornelia at 706-778-8585 x 280 or email at [email protected].
