From
Atlanta Magazine
Tim Sweetwood, organizer of the event debuting at
Historic Fourth Ward Park this week, talks about what makes
"Shaky Knees" different.
By Richard L. Eldredge
On May 4 and 5, Westminster Schools grad and the Masquerade music hall promoter Tim Sweetwood will bring twenty-eight bands—including the Lumineers, Band of Horses, and Drive-By Truckers—to three stages in the Historic Fourth Ward Park for the city’s inaugural Shaky Knees Music Festival. Before soundcheck, we talked with Sweetwood about why the city needs another music festival and what he hopes will make his different.
How did you arrive at Shaky Knees as the name for the festival? It’s from a My Morning Jacket song. I wanted something that wasn’t “The Old Fourth Ward Music Festival.” It was just a cool lyric from my favorite band that was inspirational.
From your job at the Masquerade, you watched as that old parking lot on North Avenue transformed into a city park. Did observing that revitalization help inspire this new festival? Definitely. It’s the right place, right time—not only for me and where I am in my career as a booker, but where this neighborhood is right now. It’s all come to fruition over here. Everybody wants to throw an event in that park right now, but since we’re the neighbor that sits right on top of it, it made logical sense that we would partner with the park space.
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Shaky Knees‘ inaugural lineup will feature headliners The Lumineers and
Band of Horses as well as Jim James, Drive By Truckers, Gary Clark Jr.,
Lucero, Dr. Dog, Delta Spirit, The Antlers, Kurt Vile & The
Violators, The Black Angels, The Joy Formidable, Heartless Bastards,
Oberhofer, Frontier Ruckus, Murder By Death, Shovels & Rope, Moon
Taxi, GOAT, Hanni El Khatib, The Orwells, J. Roddy Walston & The
Business, Vintage Trouble, Robert Ellis, You Me & Apollo, Roadkill
Ghost Choir, T. Hardy Morris and Death On Two Wheels.
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