January 2015

Wine Swirl Tickets Now Available

Get your tickets for the 3rd Annual Wine Swirl starting New Year's Eve! 200 tickets will be available at Liquor Mart at 3 p.m. December 31st. The remaining 400 tickets will go on sale Friday, January 2nd at 11 a.m. at the Liberty Bell. Tickets are $40 and include an event wine glass and customized Swirl plate. The Annual Wine Swirl is scheduled for February 21st 6-10 p.m. in downtown Nacogdoches and will feature samples from 16 Texas wineries, food pairings, live entertainment and shopping. For more information, please click here. If you live out of town and cannot purchase your tickets in person, please send an email to [email protected].

Downtown Nacogdoches

SFA Lumberjack Basketball

Come cheer on the SFA Lumberjack Basketball team as they try to secure a spot in the Final Four again this year. Below is their home game schedule for January:

1/5 vs. Southeastern Louisiana

1/19 vs. New Orleans

1/31 vs. A&M Corpus Christi

For tickets, please click here.

William R. Johnson Coliseum

January 5-31

Old-Fashioned Sweet Tooth Sugarcane Event

Join in an age old East Texas tradition at the annual Old-Fashioned Sweet Tooth Sugarcane Event Saturday, January 10th 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Watch as locally grown sugarcane is pressed through a 200 year old cane mill and made into ribbon cane syrup. Enjoy live string music, pioneer crafts, blacksmithing, tours of the Durst-Taylor house and more. Admission is free. For more information, please call 936-560-4443.

Durst-Taylor Historic House & Gardens

January 10

15th Annual Girlfriend's Weekend Author Extravaganza

The Pulpwood Queens, the world's largest meet and greet book club, will host its annual Girlfriend's Weekend celebration January 15-18. Co-hosting the event will be New York Times Bestselling Author, Jamie Ford. The event will feature 50+ authors, an Author Dinner where the authors wait your tables, two days of panels, and two nights of activities and entertainment including the Grand Finale, THE GREAT BIG BALL OF HAIR BALL. For more information, please click here.

Downtown Nacogdoches

January 15-18

Nacogdoches Winter Classic CrossFit Competition

CrossFit Nac will be hosting a partner competition on Saturday, January 17th 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Nacogdoches County Exposition & Civic Center. Teams consisting of two males or two females will compete in either an Rx or Scaled division. There will be 3 wods and a final for the top 6 teams in each division. Entry fee is $170 per team. For more information or to register, please click here.

Nacogdoches County Exposition & Civic Center

January 17

Big Nac Music Festival Tickets

In March 2015, approximately 40 bands across multiple genres including country, bluegrass, rock, blues and indie will descend on Nacogdoches for the inaugural Big Nac music festival. Some of the artists featured at this year's event include Jack Ingram, Joe Ely, Reckless Kelly, Whiskey Shivers, Wood and Wire, Soultrack Mind and more. For a complete line-up and to purchase your tickets, please visit www.bignac.com.

Downtown Nacogdoches

March 5-8

Live Music

1/2 Mix n Matches - The Liberty Bell

1/3 The Mellows - The Liberty Bell

1/7 Marshall Hance - Maklemore's Ale House

1/9 Dustin Becker - The Liberty Bell

1/10 Joe Cuellar - The Liberty Bell

1/14 Marshall Hance - Maklemore's Ale House

1/16 Moot Davis - The Liberty Bell

1/17 Kevin Fowler - Banita Creek Hall

1/17 The Bellfuries - The Liberty Bell

1/17 The Mellows - Maklemore's Ale House

1/21 Marshall Hance - Maklemore's Ale House

1/23 MilkDrive - The Liberty Bell

1/23 Out of the Question - Maklemore's Ale House

1/24 Cody Johnson Band w/ Josh Ward - Banita Creek Hall

1/24 Michael O'Connor & Jack Saunders - The Liberty Bell

1/28 Marshall Hance - Maklemore's Ale House

1/29 Turtle Island Quartet w/ Nellie McKay - W.M. Turner Auditorium

1/30 Pat Reedy & the Longtime Goners - The Liberty Bell

1/31 Charlie Robison - Banita Creek Hall

1/31 Mix n Matches - The Liberty Bell

1/31 Schmidbauer Young Artist Competition - Cole Concert Hall

1/31 Uncommon Objects - Maklemore's Ale House

For a complete list of events, check out our calendar.