Plenty of Statesboro talent will be on display for tonight’s F1RST Friday event downtown. Three musical acts will highlight the May F1RST Friday event hosted by the Downtown Statesboro Development Authority on the Bulloch County Courthouse lawn.The free event, which begins at 5:30 p.m., will include performances by Statesboro First Baptist Church’s Starlights Big Band Orchestra, BRAVA! Total Praise Performance’s drum line, and the Statesboro High School musical theater class, said Allen Muldrew, the authority’s director.The Starlights Orchestra will be the headliner and play throughout most of the evening. The band will play “a mixture of big band, oldies and standards such as ‘Georgia on my Mind’ and ‘What a Wonderful World,’” according to a release issued to preview the show.
Music in the air downtown
F1RST Friday event features three local acts