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Peachtree Music Festival 2011

Many Atlantans look forward to fall every year for the cool temperatures and amazing concert lineups that tend to come through our city. This October will be no exception. Rocktober is kicking off in exciting fashion with the inaugural Peachtree Music Festival taking place on October 1 in Midtown at 8th Street NW and Spring Street. With popular hip-hop and indie-rockers dominating the lineup, there is something in this music festival for everyone. Tickets are now on sale and if you act fast, you can save $10 using the promo code “mixtape”. Stay tuned to Mixtape Atlanta for artists updates and more information regarding Peachtree Music Festival 2011!

Confirmed Artist Lineup

MAIN STAGE
12:15 p.m. Under the Flood
1:15 p.m. Tesla Rossa
2:15 p.m. Ocean is Theory
3:15 p.m. Levi Lowrey
4:15 p.m. Stokeswood
5:45 p.m. The Dirty Guv’nahs
7:15 p.m. Civil Twilight
8:45 p.m. Shiny Toy Guns
10:15 p.m. DGAF: Dallas Austin & Corey Enemy

BMI STAGE
12:45 p.m. Aunt Martha
1:45 p.m. The Young Rapscallions
2:45 p.m. Ben Deignan
3:45 p.m. The Kingston Springs
5:00 p.m. Modern Skirts
6:30 p.m. Open Air Stereo
8:00 p.m. Freesol
9:30 p.m. DJ Khaled

Night 6- Hot Stuff

Night 6 of 500 Songs for Kids 2011 had both levels of Smith's Olde Bar rocking. Southern Ground Artists Levi Lowrey, Sonia Leigh, and Nic Cowan played to an intimate sold-out crowd in the Atlanta Room, while the countdown of 500 Greatest Feel Good Songs of All Time continued upstairs. Both Cowan and Lowrey played songs off the countdown after their Atlanta Room set, including one of the night's highlights- Lowrey's version of Otis Redding's "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay." See video below.

Ziggy The RockStar & The Branches started the night off to a great start with the youngsters spot on note-for-note rendition of The Jackson 5's "ABC. Several members of Please Rock played throughout the night from Yacht Rock Schooner, Alyssa Olson, and Alyssa and Peter Olson's charming duet of "Anyone Else But You" from Juno. The Falcon Lords turned M.I.A.'s "money stealing" "Paper Planes" into a "money saving" jingle. Songs for Kids Foundation members (Kendra Gurkin, Josh Rifkind, Sanjay Kothair, and Justin Kerenyi)- performing as Lady and The Tramps- delivered some holiday cheer with their festive take on SNL's Christmas song, originally made famous by Jimmy Fallon, Chris Kattan, and Horatio Sanz. The Orkids also added some sporty flair to The Knife's "Heartbeats." Check out Night 6's photos!

View performances below by Levi Lowrey, Nic Cowan, Lady and The Tramps, Yacht Rock Schooner, Yacht Rock Schooner with Alyssa Olson, Alyssa and Peter Olson, The Falcon Lords, Matthew Chenoweth, Bruce Butkovich, and Friends, The Orkids, Ziggy The RockStar & The Branches, J.G. Spence, and Universal Kingdom.