A rodeo is coming to Macon with over $30,000 at stake. Time to cowboy up

Saddle up, Macon – a rootin’ tootin’ rodeo is coming to town.

Rodeo Macon will feature some of the top professional rodeo competitors in the United States. They’ll ride, race, wrestle and lasso livestock for more than $30,000 in prize money, according to Dustin Murray, the owner of Hi Lo ProRodeo, which runs the event.

“We’re coming in big,” Murray said. “We want to entertain you... These are the best cowboys in the country coming to compete in Macon, Georgia.”

It’ll be the third-largest rodeo by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association in Georgia, and the league’s first rodeo in Macon. The PRCA sanctions the event.

The rodeos include bareback bronc riding and bull riding, both of which are guaranteed crowd-pleasers.

“They’re by far the most dangerous events of the rodeo,” Murray said. “That’s a cowboy trying to ride an animal that’s bucking, that doesn’t want a person to ride them.”

Competitors will also be timed for how long it takes to pin down a steer or cattle.

“Steer wrestling is, say a big, strong guy jumping off of a horse and then trying to wrestle a 500-pound steer to the ground,” Murray said.

The rodeo will also feature roping challenges and women’s barrel racing, where a rider and her horse speed around barrels.

Besides the competition, there will be performance horses and rodeo clowns.

The event is scheduled for 7:30-9:30 p.m. on Jan. 10, at the Macon Coliseum. Tickets will range from around $17 to $75, and go on sale in a few weeks.

The inside of the Coliseum will get an “intricate” transformation covered in dirt, Murray told The Telegraph.

A behind-the-chutes tour is available where “you get to actually go on the dirt and see the buck, horses and bull, and meet the cowboys and contestants,” Murray said.

A VIP package includes up close floor seating “right next to the rodeo,” he said.

“We try to cater to all age ranges, and if you’ve never been to a rodeo, you’re actually the consumer that we cater to,” Murray said.

This story was originally published October 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM.