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Join in the celebration this weekend as the Candler Park Fall Festival rings in its 100th year anniversary!

The annual festival, produced by the Candler Park Neighborhood Organization, offers artist and food booths, Sweetwater beer and Coppola wine, a 5K road race, entertainment for the kids, a tour of some of Atlanta’s most beautiful homes, and performances by local bands including Kingsized, Col. Bruce Hampton and the Swimming Pool Q’s.

The festival will be held in Candler Park on Sat., Oct. 10, from 11 a.m.–8 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 11, from noon–8 p.m. The park’s entrance is on McClendon Avenue between Little Five Points and Clifton Road.

(Image courtesy Candler Park Fall Fest website)

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In the early 1980s, the music world was beating a path to Athens, where bands such as the B-52’s, REM and Pylon were helping redefine underground pop. Although Atlanta produced no break-through acts like those during this same period, it was home to a rich assortment of local sounds and a tightly knit community of local bands and music fans.

Nowhere was that sense of community stronger than in the city’s active punk scene, which centered around two of Atlanta’s most celebrated music venues, 688 and the Metroplex. The two clubs offered an asylum for a generation of awkward, alienated teenagers wearing black eyeliner and studded collars who came to escape the drab reality of their suburban lives.

“The message of the music was, ‘We don’t care what people think about us,’ and that appealed to us,” recalls Jill Griffin, who haunted the clubs during the ’80s.

This Saturday, Oct. 4, the former owners of 688 and the Metroplex will throw a reunion party and concert aimed at bringing together some of the bands and fans from an era viewed now with fond nostalgia: Atlanta – the punk years.

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(Photo by Clark Brown)

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