Music Midtown Festival arises again at Piedmont Park in Atlanta. After a five year leave of absence, one the most popular Atlanta music festivals returns on September 24, 2011 thanks to the efforts by former co-founder and president of Live Nation Atlanta, Peter Conlon and Mayor Kasim Reed.
This years Music Midtown Line-up features alternative bands Coldplay and The Black Keys. Local music fans can look forward to home grown Atlanta acts Manchester Orchestra and The Constellations. Other bands scheduled include Cage the Elephant, Young The Giant, Band of Skulls, Joy Formidable, Mona and The Postelles.
Music Midtown 2011 will be taking place on two stages in the Meadow at Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta. Attendance will be capped out around a comfortable 55,000. This is being done to keep the crowd at a manageable size in what is undoubtedly the finest city park in the southeast.
General admission tickets cost $55.00 and include the artists market and VIP areas. At $55, tickets for the Atlanta festival seem reasonably priced. The headline act Cold Play could easily charge that to play in concert solo.
For those with a few more bucks to spend, the VIP tickets cost $250.00 and include general admission, a private VIP entrance, private air conditioned restrooms and a private outdoor hospitality area with complimentary food and beverage. In addition to the above, the $1,000.00 Super VIP tickets feature a special backstage viewing area for both stages, valet parking, souvenir laminate, a Music Midtown Festival T-Shirt along with a private indoor hospitality area with complimentary food and beverage.
Tickets for the event go on sale Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 10 a.m. Tickets are available at www.livenation.com, www.musicmidtown.com or by charging on phone at 1-800-745-3000.
Coldplay – Life In Technicolor ii You Tube Video:
http://youtu.be/fXSovfzyx28
A portion of the proceeds from Music Midtown 2011 will go toward financing recreation centers
and after-school activities throughout the city of Atlanta. Due to budget cuts many of the city’s recreation centers and pools were closed. Thanks to the efforts of Mayor Reed, the city has reopened every recreation center in the city and began the process of transforming them into centers where young people can
bolster their academic skills, engage in robust physical activities and develop character-building traits.
Although it may not be the major music event that attracted hundreds of thousands in Atlanta, Georgia from 1994 to 2005, local music-lovers are delighted to have the Music Midtown Festival return!
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