11th Annual Grant Park Summer Shade Festival

For the eleventh year, the Grant Park Summer Shade

Festival welcomes art, music and outdoor fun to one of the city’s most

beautiful historic neighborhoods. Presented by the Grant Park Conservancy, the

Summer Shade Festival offers the perfect way to close out summer with a juried and

a non-juried Artist Market, two stages of live music, an amazing Sunday Farmers

Market, plenty to eat and drink and special activities for kids.

The weekend of events in

historic Grant Park begins with the Adams

Realtors 5K Run for the Park on Saturday

morning, allowing runners and walkers to enjoy the historic neighborhood on

foot. The festival officially opens at 10 a.m. with tons of art, the Carla Smith Kids Zone, live music and

food and beverage booths galore.

Sunday morning

festivities start at 9:30 a.m. when the Grant

Park Farmers Market opens, followed by festival hours beginning at 11 a.m.

The al fresco party doesn’t stop until 7:30 p.m.

Throughout the weekend, visitors can head to Go Grant Park at the Pavilion to be

introduced to neighborhood and nearby organizations, businesses and attractions

through demos and activities. This year, the Atlanta Bicycle Coalition will host an onsite Bike Valet to encourage attendees to arrive at the festival on two

wheels. Anyone needing a ride home from the festival will receive a $20 Summer

Shade discount from Uber.  

Live music on the Festival Stage and Meadow

Stage will include recognized bands like Michelle

Malone, Cigar Store Indians, Blair Crimmins & The Hookers and Lee Bains III

& The Glory Fires.

From families looking for the next great puppet

show to adults hoping to whoop it up one last time before fall begins, the

Grant Park Summer Shade Festival offers an ideal way to spend an entire weekend

in the great outdoors. Proceeds from the festival benefit the Grant Park

Conservancy, the organization responsible for maintaining Atlanta’s oldest city

park.    

http://www.summershadefestival.org/