Arts Festival yields to Music Midtown at Piedmont Park
ATLANTA -- The conflict between two festivals over Piedmont Park is over – and the smaller festival, the Atlanta Arts Festival, has stepped aside to let Music Midtown have the date it wanted. Music Midtown will take place the weekend of September 19, 2015. The Arts Festival takes place the following weekend of September 26.
Music Midtown is the big money, high profile and high decibel music festival that sought a permit in January for Piedmont Park. But when it applied, it found that the Atlanta Arts Festival had applied in November for the same weekend – and a city ordinance suggested that the first applicant got first preference.