The Big House - The Allman Brothers Band Museum

Here’s where you’ll find, beginning in summer 2009, all the posters, photos and memorabilia, both rare and familiar and a vast archive of audio recordings and film footage. All of it will be right here at the Big House Museum, and just like the music and the band it birthed, all of it is meant to be experienced. Not just read about. Not even just listened to. Experienced.

You’ll be able to sit on the front porch where Duane Allman and Berry Oakley whiled away all those hot Southern afternoons, making music, making friends and making history. You can walk up the steps to that porch and almost hear the footsteps of Jaimoe or Butch Trucks or Chuck Leavell walking up beside you. Those bells you hear in the distance on a Sunday morning? They’ll ring forever in Dickey Betts’ “Blue Sky.” You’ll find out what it was about the place that made it magic, that made it special, that made it home—so much so that when Gregg Allman wrote, “Please Call Home,” this is the home he was writing about. This is where the journey began and the Big House Foundation is now making this one little stretch of Vineville Avenue in Macon, Georgia the road that goes on forever.

Why don't you come along for the ride? Everybody's welcome at the Big House.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Jan. 31, 2009
Big House Revival
3rd Annual Fundraiser
6 p.m., Armory Ballroom.
Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Revue will headline this fundraiser to help complete the Allman Brothers Band Museum opening fall 2009. Scott Baston and the News Architects open. Wide variety of food provided by the Macon Independent Restaurant Association.
Silent and live auctions of unique items and a raffle.
Individual tickets $75.

Reserved tables for 4-8 persons range from $500 to $5,000 & include sponsorship recognition & various benefits such as an invitation to The Big House museum grand opening gala & a granite brick engraved with your name in the Big House walkway. Call Kirsten West, 742-5005 for reservations.

Big House Youth Jam Education Program

The Big House – The Allman Brothers Band Museum is starting an education program to help steer our kids in a better direction.

We will provide exceptional musicians to teach free music lessons to at-risk children to expand their horizons. . .engage them in worthwhile activities. . .improve academic achievement. . .and develop the self esteem, self discipline, cooperation and self motivation necessary for success.

Our first program – ethnic percussion classes – will start Jan. 14, 2009 in the after-school program at Brookdale Elementary School in Macon where 97 percent of the students are at risk. Students will work toward the goal of performances at the end of each semester for the school and community. Our program is designed to be expanded to other local schools in the future.