Musical blitz including Bloc Party, Huey Lewis, The Kills, Jane's Addiction, and My Morning Jacket proves again that this city can handle large-scale urban festivals
The fourth annual Shaky Knees Festival made its downtown debut this year, and — if it hadn't already — should have solidified itself among America's big-league, multi-day musical blowouts.
With five stages scattered from the rising Atlanta Falcons stadium to the doorstep of the Georgia Aquarium, the festival seemed to ace crowd-dispersement, with the exception of occasional bottlenecks over a makeshift Marietta Street bridge. Pristinely cool weather and cloudless skies didn't hurt, either.
Conversations with out-of-town attendees (half of North Carolina was there, coincidentally or not) indicated that Shaky Knees was a fine showcase for Atlanta at large and downtown in particular.
Have a gander at some of the weekend's highlight below.
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