Weekender: Dolly Parton Day, Beltline lanterns and salsa dancing
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You deserve a weekend to-do list that features plenty of fun events. Here are a few.
👱♀️ Celebrate Dolly Parton with drag performances, a look-alike costume contest and more on Sept. 25 — 9 to 5, get it? — at Jolene Jolene in Kirkwood. (Fri.)
- A portion of the proceeds will benefit Friends of the Library in Kirkwood.
🎮 Tickets are scarce: A 25-piece orchestra performs the score from Toby Fox's UNDERTALE video game under a screen of game footage. Check ticket resellers or the Fox Theatre for limited-view seats. (Fri.)
🎸 Nicotine Dolls and Allen Stone headline Friday and Saturday, respectively, at Blue Stone Arts and Music Festival. (Fri.-Sat.)
- The free city gathering in Sandy Springs features an artist market, kids' zone and Squonk's "immersive outdoor music spectacle" Joy Machine.
🏮 You can't keep a good Atlanta Beltline Lantern Parade down. The rescheduled community march along the Southwest Trail kicks off at 8pm. (Sat.)
🤠 Celebrate pioneering ginger marionette Howdy Doody with the opening of a special museum installation at the Center for Puppetry Arts. (Sat.)
🎤 Grammy-winning country quartet Little Big Town brings its For The Art Of It Tour to the Fox Theatre. Meg McRee opens. (Sat.)
💃 Dance the salsa at the Azúcar Music Festival in Wolf Creek Amphitheater with Tito Puente Jr., Luis Alas, Jessy Diaz and others. (Sat.)
- 💡 Pro tip: The free festival is offering free salsa lessons before the performances.
🎨 Up to 150 painters, photographers, sculptors, jewelers, glass artists and other makers fill Historic Fourth Ward Park for the free event. (Sat.-Sun.)
🪄 A live puppetry production of The Wizard of Oz holds the final weekend of its run at Center for Puppetry Arts. (Sat.-Sun.)
🎶 The Sweet Auburn Music Fest returns with live music, food, vendors and a car show. (Sat.-Sun.)
🃏 Browse more than 900 vendor tables of trading cards, comics, anime and other niche nerdery at Collect-A-Con at the Georgia World Congress Center. (Sat.-Sun.)
- Special guests include SpongeBob voice actor Tom Kenny, anime voice actors and Soulja Boy (!).
🐐 Come for Gwinnett's largest parade and stay for the two music stages, kids' activities, a petting zoo and a Georgia-Oklahoma watch party. (Sat.-Sun.)