It’s a role Mekenzie Thrift unknowingly started preparing for in childhood.
“(When) I was 7, I would turn on the radio, put on a shawl and pretend to be Stevie Nicks,” said Thrift, who channels Nicks in Rumours ATL: A Live Fleetwood Mac Experience, which will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 7 at the Miller Theater.
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When she was a teen, Thrift performed with her uncle who had a band. After they performed, it wasn’t uncommon for people to tell her how much she sounded like Nicks, even though Thrift was only about 14.
More than a decade later, the comparisons hadn’t let up, so she called Alex Thrift and asked if he wanted to sing some Fleetwood Mac with her.
His response, she said, was to agree on the condition that the band become a full-on Fleetwood Mac tribute both musically and aesthetically.
That was seven years ago, and the performers haven’t looked back.
“It just blew up from there,” Mekenzie Thrift said.
Since then, the Atlanta-based group has traveled the world. The band also played the Miller Theater in October 2019, and Thrift said she’s excited to make the two hour-ish drive down I-20 to perform again. As of Tuesday, the band was 300 tickets away from making the Miller show a sell-out.
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Saturday’s Rumours’ concert focuses on music over a 12-year period in Fleetwood Mac’s history, highlighting the years of 1975 to 1987 when the members of the group were Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie and Christine McVie.
Thrift said the group performs the more well-known songs from the band during that era, often adding some deep cuts that hard-core Fleetwood Mac fans appreciate.
“It’s mostly their radio hits and a couple of deep cuts,” she said.
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But it’s more than the music, Thrift said. Band members provide an experience. Fans have sent messages saying they’d always wanted to hear Fleetwood Mac in concert, but this was the next best thing.
Tickets for Rumours ATL: A Live Fleetwood Mac Experience are $29-$39 and are available at millertheateraugusta.com.
Charmain Z. Brackett is the Features Editor for The Augusta Press. Reach her at charmain@theaugustapress.com.
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