The Athens Music and Arts Festival is a highly acclaimed event held annually in historic downtown Athens, GA, a town long renowned for its thriving music scene. For the past 15 years, AthFest has used the festival to showcase the best in regionally and nationally recognized Athens-based talent. This year, around 200 bands and artists will perform on three outdoor stages and in over a dozen of the town’s best music venues. The outdoor stages are all ages and free of charge.
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Besides the musical offerings there is also a free Artists Market that has around 50 local and regional sculptors, painters, weavers, and other visual artists. There is also a kid and family friendly area called KidsFest that has free hands-on arts activities for children and free performances by local adult musicians playing specifically for kids as well as bands made up of very your local bands. To round things out there are also local filmmaker showcases at Cine’organized by Film:Athens and the Flagpole Magazine Athens Music Awards at the historic Morton Theater.
