Decatur Arts Festival
Decatur, Georgia, USA.
4 May 2024.
A jewelry artist was using a street mural as a backdrop for her product photos when she glanced my way. I captured the moment, unposed. Her clothing complemented the mural's pastel tones. Her hat bore the phrase, "Live. Laugh. Love." The image isn't askew; it's the slant of the city street that creates the illusion of tilt.
Catch a beat! Drummer in action during a performance by Atlanta-area musician Mandi Strachota and the Major 7s.
Oakhurst Porchfest: Decatur, Georgia, USA, 11 October 2025.
— Wikipedia.Porchfests are annual music events held across the United States and in Canada on front porches. Started in Ithaca, New York, in 2007, porchfest events bring local musicians and neighborhoods together to celebrate and create a sense of community.
Since 2015, Oakhurst Porchfest [in the eponymous neighborhood of the city of Decatur] has been a grassroots community music festival where front porches become stages, yards become venues, and radical generosity and goodwill rule the day.
— Oakhurst Porchfest.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in the wilds of Wisconsin, Mandi Strachota is the product of southern roots and Midwest know-how, a potent mix of practicality and soulful dreaming. Mandi has become a fixture on the Atlanta scene, taking her music nationwide in 2019. She is known for her soulful vocals, but is a multi-instrumentalist who is quickly becoming known for her songwriting [...] embracing R&B, gospel, and soul, [...and] dabbling in jazz and blues, with a touch of grit and country sway.
Mandi Strachota: Daredevil.
Album: Pictures
Label: CD Baby, 2020.
Dance (drink!) to the music.
Inman Park Festival: City of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 26 April 2025.
Taking place on the last full weekend in April, the Inman Park Festival & Tour of Homes is Atlanta’s largest all-volunteer festival. Organized by the Inman Park Neighborhood Association since the 1970s, the festival has grown to become a full weekend jam-packed with events, including music, kids' activities, a Tour of Homes, a marvelous street parade, an artists’ market, and some of the city’s best people-watching.
Bassist Teja Veal prepares for Rhonda Thomas' Red Dragonfly concert.
Inman Park Festival: City of Atlanta (Inman Park), Georgia, USA. 26 April 2025.
Soul/jazz vocalist Rhonda Thomas incorporates jazz, soul, gospel, house, and funk in her music. From 1997-2008, Ms. Thomas was a background singer and soloist for soul music legend, the late Isaac Hayes. She has also performed with Roy Ayers, Roberta Flack, Eric Roberson, Avery Sunshine, Frank McComb, Stephanie Mills, The String Cheese Incident, and others. She performs internationally, in her own right.
Black Sheep Ensemble performed during the WigWag Art & Music Festival — "a hyperlocal art and music festival, celebrating local artists and musicians" — in Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA. 31 May 2025.
Black Sheep Ensemble is a modern brass and percussion band from Atlanta, Georgia. Our performances are rooted in Second Line traditions but with a repertoire that blends Prohibition-era Swing, Jazz, Balkan, Latin, Ska, Punk, and more into one danceable sound. We bring a crowd to its feet and keep them there. Low brass belts out the bass line while drums drive the rhythm.
At rest: street tableau as a festival abounds.
Decatur Arts Festival: City of Decatur, Georgia, USA. 4 May 2025.
The Decatur Arts Festival brings the community together through a multi-day offering of live music, dance, comedy, theatrical performances, children's book festival, exhibitions, and an expansive and diverse artists’ market.
Pens down! In a 'sketch-off,' participants had only a short time to draw a portrait of the person sitting across from them.
Atlanta Dogwood Festival in Piedmont Park: Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 13 April 2025.
Overhead, a vaping deejay spins as, below, a climbing muralist paints.
As seen during the East Atlanta Strut, a street festival in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. 28 September 2024.
East Atlanta Strut: Atlanta (East Atlanta Village), Georgia, USA. 28 September 2024.
The East Atlanta Strut, always on the fourth Saturday in September, combines a parade, a street festival with live music, artists' markets, and a 'porchfest' to show off the entire neighborhood. East Atlanta also has a thriving business district, with restaurants, bars, and shops showing off more local music and art.
Since its inception in 1988, the East Atlanta Strut has been completely run by volunteers. That allows the Strut to return 100% of its profits to the community. More than $100,000 has been donated in just the last few years — for programs that assist the unhoused, groups that feed people, organizations that help keep our longtime neighbors in their homes, and to support our local fire station and library, pet rescue groups, child mentoring groups, local schools, arts organizations, and neighborhood beautification projects.
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