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The outdoor energy in downtown Athens will begin buzzing once again next month, as Athens Main Street returns a pair of crowd-pleasing music events to the city\u2019s downtown as part of this year\u2019s Fridays After Five and Merchants Alley Happy Hour music series.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Beginning in April and extending through July, Fridays After Five will convert the downtown Square around the Limestone County Courthouse into a pedestrian-friendly street party, complete with street vendors, food trucks, kids\u2019 activities, and a monthly slate of musical entertainment that never charges guests an admission fee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Held on the final Friday of each month, Fridays After Five runs from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n The 2026 Fridays After Five concert lineup includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n Notably, April 24, May 29, and June 26 offer a full evening of live music downtown, with the Merchants Alley Happy Hour Music Series starting the night in Merchant\u2019s Alley before Fridays After Five takes the stage at the Courthouse.<\/p>\n The Merchants Alley Happy Hour music series will run from April through June, with each weekly musical event scheduled from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Presented by Alabama House Rep. Danny Crawford, the Spring 2026 series features an impressive roster of local and regional musical talent in one of downtown Athens\u2019 most distinctive outdoor settings.<\/p>\n The Spring 2026 Merchants Alley Happy Hour musical lineup includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n Athens Main Street also will bring the Merchants Alley Happy Hour Music Series back later this fall, with that series presented by Alabama State Senator Arthur Orr. Details on the fall lineup will be announced at a later time.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a really special year for Athens Main Street, and these two series reflect everything we\u2019ve been building toward for two decades,\u201d said , Athens Main Street executive director Tere Richardson. \u201cDowntown Athens has always had a great sense of community, and there is nothing quite like live music to bring people together. We want everyone to come out, explore our shops and restaurants, and feel what makes this place so special.<\/p>\n \u201cTwenty years ago, Athens Main Street was just getting started, and now we have two incredible live music series that fill our streets and alleyways all spring and summer long,\u201d Richardson added. \u201cWe are so grateful to our sponsors, our performers, and most of all our community for making downtown Athens the kind of place people want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n Fridays After Five is made possible through the support of presenting sponsor The Orthopaedic Center \u2013 Athens, along with DJ sponsor Open Door Logistics, Dining Area sponsor First Metro Bank, and Sound sponsor GROWL. Additional support comes from Take Flight sponsor Huntsville International Airport, Kids Zone sponsor Taylor\u2019s Cool Treats, and supporting sponsors North Alabama Airfest\/Pryor Field Regional Airport, LaunchBox at Athens State University, Ramona J\u2019s, Ming Commercial Real Estate Group, and Morell Engineering.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source enewscourier.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Athens Main Street tunes up for 2026 with new music lineup for Fridays After Five & Merchants Alley Published 7:05 am Wednesday, March 25, 2026 The outdoor energy in downtown Athens will begin buzzing once again next month, as Athens Main Street returns a pair of crowd-pleasing music events to the city\u2019s downtown as part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2345291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2345290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Athens-Main-Street-tunes-up-for-2026-with-new-music.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345292,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345290\/revisions\/2345292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2345291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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