{"id":9325,"date":"2024-09-26T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=9325"},"modified":"2025-09-24T10:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:58:36","slug":"the-weekend-ahead-sept-27-29-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=9325","title":{"rendered":"The Weekend Ahead Sept. 27-29, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4227\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/The-Weekend-Ahead.jpg\" alt=\"the-weekend-ahead\" width=\"734\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/The-Weekend-Ahead.jpg 734w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/The-Weekend-Ahead-300x123.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a curated list of some of the major Madison, WI events happening this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Concerts, Musicals and Other Performances<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.overture.org\/tickets-events\/2024-25-season\/madison-ballet-rhapsody-in-blue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madison Ballet<\/a>: Friday, Sept. 27 through Sunday, Sept. 29 at Overture Center<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madisoncomedy.com\/event\/dlhughley24\/2024-09-27\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DL Hughley<\/a>: Friday, Sept. 27 through Sunday, Sept. 29 at Comedy Club<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Festivals, Expos, Community Events<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5666\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/World-Dairy-Expo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"World Dairy Expo\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/World-Dairy-Expo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/World-Dairy-Expo-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/World-Dairy-Expo.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcfarlandcommunityfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McFarland Community Festival<\/a>: Friday, Sept. 27 through Sunday, Sept. 29 at McFarland Municipal Center<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackwomenswellnessday.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Women&#8217;s Wellness Day<\/a>: 9 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 28 at Monona Terrace<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/madisonveganfest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madison Vegan Fest<\/a>: 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 28 at Lake Farm Park<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yourhempfest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Great Midwest Hemp Fest<\/a>: Saturday, Sept. 28 and Sunday, Sept. 29 at James Madison Park<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veronawi.com\/verona-fall-fest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Verona Fall Fest<\/a>: 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28 at Hometown USA Park<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worlddairyexpo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Dairy Expo<\/a>: Sunday, Sept. 29 through Friday, Oct. 4 at Alliant Energy Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Parties, Galas, Food-Related Events<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/921320283092995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheese Fair Off the Square<\/a>: 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 28 on Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.overture.org\/tickets-events\/2024-25-season\/big-2-oh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Overture Big 2-Oh! Birthday Party<\/a>: 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28 at Overture Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sports, Races<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madcapshockey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madison Capitols vs. Youngstown<\/a>: 7:05 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27 at Capitol Ice Arena<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.madcapshockey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madison Capitols vs. Muskego<\/a>: 7:05 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28 at Capitol Ice Arena<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryvilaszoo.gov\/event\/run-wild-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Run Wild<\/a>: 8 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 29 at Henry Vilas Zoo<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waisman.wisc.edu\/event\/run2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waisman Whirl Run, Walk &amp; Roll<\/a>: 9 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 29 at Wasiman Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a curated list of some of the major Madison, WI events happening this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[16,287,4,34,206],"class_list":["post-9325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-to-do","tag-downtown","tag-mcfarland","tag-middleton","tag-near-west","tag-verona"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9325"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9329,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9325\/revisions\/9329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}