FRIDAY
Festival: The Yellow Daisy Festival, one of Atlanta’s most popular festivals, is celebrating its 43rd year with arts and crafts from more than 400 artists from 38 states and two countries. There will also be live entertainment, a Children’s Corner and demonstrations throughout the four-day event. The fest5 takes place in Stone Mountain Park Sept. 8-11, and though the festival is free, vehicle entry to the park is $10 for a one-day permit or $35 for an annual permit.
Music, festival: The Heroes Music Festival pays tribute to those who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001, with a musical lineup that includes Rodney Atkins, Darryl Worley, Mark Wills, the Grascals, Jonny Lang, Delbert Mcclinton, Wet Willie, Skillet, Drowning Pool, Saving Abel, Lee Roy Parnell and many more. The fest is at the Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton Sept. 8-11.
Kids, family: Sesame Street Live returns to Philips Arena Sept. 8-11 with “Elmo’s Super Heroes,” in which Elmo (as Captain Fuzzy) helps his pal Super Grover recover his “superness.”
Arts: Get a taste of the 2011-2012 Arts at Emory season with the Creativity & Arts Soiree, which offers free performances and activities presented by the arts departments, the Michael C. Carlos Museum and Emory Woodruff Libraries. The event begins at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 9 at Emory University’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.
Stage: The Tennessee Williams classic “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” is the latest production from the Norcross-based Lionheart Theatre Company. The show opens Sept. 9 and continues through Sept. 25.
Stage: In Atlanta playwright Topher Payne’s “Lakebottom Proper,” social climbing plans go terribly wrong. Presented by Process Theatre Co., the show opens Sept. 9 and runs through Oct. 1 at OnStage Atlanta in Decatur.
Stage: The Capitol City Opera Company presents “Cinderella,” the sole Rodgers and Hammerstein musical written for television, at 8 p.m. Sept. 9-10 and 3 p.m. Sept. 11 at Oglethorpe University’s Conant Performing Arts Center.
Stage: Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods” is a musical take on the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. It continues at Alliance Theatre through Oct. 2.
Stage: The Georgia Ensemble Theatre presents “Panhandle Slim and the Oklahoma Kid,” a comedy set in the old West written by film and Broadway star Jeff Daniels. The show runs through Sept. 18 at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center.
SATURDAY
Festival, food: Chill out at the Atlanta Ice Cream Festival, which happens at the Charles Allen Gate at Piedmont Park noon-6 p.m. Sept. 10.
History, visual art: This weekend, be among the first to see the new Michael C. Carlos Museum exhibition “Life and Death in the Pyramid Age: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy.” Acquired from excavations at the site of Abydos in Middle Egypt in 1920, this is the oldest Egyptian mummy in the Western Hemisphere and one of no more than half a dozen known to exist in the world. It opens Sept. 10 and will be on view through Dec. 11 at the Emory University-based museum.
Festival: Take a trip back to an earlier time at the Atlanta History Center’s annual Fall Folklife Festival. The fest begins at 11 a.m. Sept. 10.
SUNDAY
History, lecture: Learn about Atlanta old movie palaces and the organs that provided their music with “Pipes on Peachtree – Atlanta’s Theatre Organs.” This educational look at an often overlooked part of Atlanta’s history happens at 3 p.m. Sept. 11 at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center.
Music: “Bach Live!” is part of the Emory University Organist Recital Series and will include Emory University organist Timothy Albrecht performing his own take on the Bach chorale “O Eternity” as a 10th anniversary memorial tribute to the victims of 9/11. 4 p.m. Sept. 11 at Emory’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.