THE MUSIC
The soundtrack of the Macon Christmas Light Extravaganza is distinctly Macon. All the music you hear is arranged, recorded, and produced in Macon by your Macon Pops - an innovative, high energy, and world class orchestra that performs with orchestral musicians from around the southeast and across the country.
2023 Song Lists by Show
(Each song features a local artist from Macon, GA.)
Show 1 (6pm)
Joy to the World
Jingle Bell Rock
Winter Wonderland
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Away in a Manger
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Christmas Waltz
Silent Night
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
All I Want for Christmas
The Man with the Bag
Sleigh Ride
Show 2 (7pm)
Happy Holidays
Jingle Bells
Let It Snow
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
O Little Town of Bethlehem
O Holy Night
Angels We Have Heard on High
The Christmas Song
The Little Swingin’ Drummer Boy
This Christmas
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Feliz Navidad
What Child is This
Show 3 (8pm)
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
The Man with the Bag
I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Away in a Manger
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Christmas Love Song
Silent Night
All I Want for Christmas
Baby, It’s Cold Outside
Winter Wonderland
Christmas Waltz
Joy to the World
Show 4 (9pm)
Jingle Bells
Heading South for the Winter
This Christmas
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Angels We Have Heard on High
O Holy Night
O Little Town of Bethlehem
The Christmas Song
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Let It Snow
Feliz Navidad
The Little Swingin’ Drummer Boy
What Child is This
ABOUT MACON POPS: AN INNOVATIVE CONCEPT
The mission of Macon Pops is to bring the highest quality production and performance of popular music to a broader audience than found at traditional symphonic concerts. With the energy of a rock concert and the finesse of an orchestra, this concert series blends classical instruments with pop culture music. We showcase an orchestra of accomplished studio and symphonic musicians that encourages an interest in the musical arts for people of diverse ages and backgrounds. Macon Pops is not just a concert, it’s an event!
MACON POPS: THE BACK STORY
Multi Grammy-nominated drummer and percussionist, Steve Moretti, and renowned pops conductor and Grammy-award winning arranger, Matt Catingub, go way back. In February of 2013, Moretti and Catingub were a part of a show at The Capitol Theatre in Macon, Georgia, with the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings, and the concert was so well-received by the Macon community that an idea was planted in their minds.
After the show, Moretti and Catingub decided Macon needed musical entertainment that was not just for the sophisticated, rich, or musically educated but one that was truly fun for everyone! Thus, Macon Pops was born. Macon Pops is not just a concert, but it’s an event!
As the Macon Pops board was formed, NewTown Macon and the Community Foundation of Central Georgia became the fiscal agents for the orchestral events, giving Macon Pops the dynamism it needed to get off the ground. As of October 2015, Macon Pops is an independent 501(c)3.