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Events

Music Midtown Festival

In the past decade Atlanta’s Music Midtown Festival has kept its pledge of providing an annual affordable and varied musical experience for the masses; close to 300,000 people now pack into the huge festival grounds in central Atlanta over the three-day festival period to hear noted performers like Joe Cocker and Bob Dylan do their thing on one of the ten performance stages. Along with plenty of food and drink, the event is the city’s biggest party.

Venue: Ralph McGill and Pine streets (from Piedmont Avenue to Bedford Place); Date: 30 April - 2 May 2004; Website: www.musicmidtown.com

2005 winner Tiger Woods

The US Masters

The US Masters Tournament (referred to simply as The Masters) is one of golf's four major championships. Unlike the other three 'majors,' the Open, The US Open and the PGA Championship, this tournament is held at the same venue each year, the Augusta National Golf Club. The Masters was begun in 1934 by Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts, two amateur golfers who wanted to provide a service to the sport by creating the Augusta National Invitation Tournament. It was only in 1939 that the tournament became referred to as The Masters Tournament. Augusta National Golf Cub is equidistant from Atlanta and Savannah.

Venue: Augusta National Golf Club, Augusta; Date: 7-13 April 2008; Website: www.masters.org

Inman Park parade

Inman Park Spring Festival

Spring is certainly sprung with great gusto in historic Inman Park each year. The neighbourhood, located just to the east of downtown Atlanta, was one of America's first garden suburbs and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Every year the locals enthusiastically put on a festival during the last weekend in April, delighting spectators with a colourful parade of floats, marching bands, entertainers and all manner of quirky participants. The festival also includes a huge street market and the 'Tour of Homes', when locals open up their homes ranging from Victorian bungalows to modern lofts, to the public. There is also live entertainment in many guises, from ballet to rock, and a host of activities like pony rides and rock climbing. The festival hotline is (770) 242 4895.

Venue: Inman Park, Euclid Avenue; Date: 26-27 April 2008; Time: 11am to 6pm; Website: www.inmanpark.org

Louis Armstrong

Atlanta Jazz Festival

The annual Jazz Festival is a 31-day series of events featuring internationally celebrated jazz artists, which has included the likes of Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Hugh Masekela and Dr John. It claims to be the nation's largest free jazz festival, with jazz playing throughout the city at restaurants, clubs, museums, parks, churches and department stores, with a special focus on the three-day festival of performances in Piedmont Park at the end of the month over the Memorial Day weekend.

Venue: Piedmont Park and venues around the city; Date: 23-26 May 2008; Website: www.atlantafestivals.com

Southeastern Flower Show

The south is renowned for its gardens, and the Southeastern Flower Show has become a five day floral extravaganza, eagerly awaited by gardeners, both professional and amateur. The show provides many activities and experiences, from talks by experts to acres of magnificent landscaped gardens, unique plant exhibits and a bookstore and flower shop.

Venue: Georgia World Congress Center, International Boulevard; Date: 28 January to 1 February 2009; Website: www.flowershow.org