Colby Dee headlines Georgia Peaches show

A group of Georgia grown musicians will play a special show at the Cox Capitol Theatre on Saturday.

“Georgia Peaches Night” will feature four women who are up-and-coming musicians with country music bents. The event will be headlined by Colby Dee, who mostly grew up in Warner Robins but now lives in Nashville.

“Any time I get to come to Macon it’s almost like home,” she said. “It’s like a little tease because it’s so close. ... I will be having a few special guests to perform with me during my set. It’s going to be a magical night.”

The show starts at 7 p.m. Saturday and tickets are $10.

“I think it’s going to be such a fun show to promote all of the females that come from Georgia and who have been working their butts off and have some amazing music to share,” Dee said.

She plays a mix of country and pop and has a single out now, “He Don’t Know,” that is getting national play.

“I love the aspect of the original country songs where you tell a story,” Dee said. “I definitely love the beats of some pop influences that I grew up with. I like a good beat behind all of my songs, but definitely the country roots for sure growing up in the South and just listening to those kind of songs growing up.”

Dee will be joined for the show by Lauren Ashley, who is from Griffin and fronts the band the Trainwreckers. She has described her sound as country with a rock edge and counts Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn as some of her influences.

There also will be a performance by Megan Fowler, who is from Taylor County and was named Country Female Artist of the Year in 2014 and 2015 in the Georgia Music Awards.

Macon native Maggie Renfroe will round out the performers. She is a 16-year-old, singer-songwriter with an alternative Americana sound.

“Some of my stuff sounds country because I naturally have a little country in my voice,” Renfroe said. “I play with a loop pedal board. I do it all by myself.”

She started playing guitar when she was 8 and writing her own songs a year ago. This past year she opened for Chuck Leavell and played at a Jason Aldean meet-and-greet event.

“I’ll be playing some of my original stuff, but I also like to cover stuff that people know,” Renfroe said.

Dee said she’d run across some of the show’s performers and felt like it was a good time to pull them together for a show.

“I just think doing a ‘Georgia Peaches Night’ is so necessary in this time of day where the pendulum is finally swinging back for women in country music,” she said.

This story was originally published May 19, 2016 at 9:00 PM with the headline "Colby Dee headlines Georgia Peaches show."