From Five Points to Farmland
- Athens, GA “The Classic City” — Education, Music and Southern Charm »
- Barrow, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, and Oglethorpe Counties »
- Dawgs, Dawgs and Nuth'n But the Dawgs »
- Once a Music Scene, Now a Music Industry »
Athens, GA “The Classic City”
Athens is the shining city on a hill, several hundred years in the making and always a step ahead of the times.
Where heritage and centuries old traditions collide with “the most Zen place on earth.”
Music and football are just the tip of the piedmont. With offerings to satisfy wants from the sublime to the grotesque , Athens verdant landscapes and antebellum architecture set the scene for your adventure in the Classic City.
Barrow, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, and Oglethorpe Counties are all next door.
Outside the Classic City find The Real Country, or if you prefer The Real Country Club.
Athens is situated in the smallest county in Georgia, so getting away from it all, was never so close in.
In just minutes from Athens can live the past or farm the future. Covered bridges, classic court houses and a complete lack of cement. If you're sick of being stuck in city traffic, we have sunshine on green pastures for you.
Barrow, Jackson, Madison, Oconee, and Oglethorpe Counties
Outside the Classic City find The Real Country, or if you prefer The Real Country Club.
Athens is situated in the smallest county in Georgia, so getting away from it all, was never so close in. In just minutes from Athens can live the past or farm the future. Covered bridges, classic court houses and a complete lack of cement.
If you're sick of being stuck in city traffic, we have sunshine on green pastures for you.
Dawgs, Dawgs and Nuth'n But the Dawgs
UGA Football borders on a religious calling for many and is the core lifestyle of more than a few. Sports fan or not you cannot live in Athens and escape the electric atmosphere of a winning season.
SEC Football is a dynasty so tightly woven into the fabric of Athens that Sanford Stadium is the focal point of the campus. Every fall the fans return with pageantry that adds a whole lot of Red and Black to our local color.
If you are on line, reading this in some far corner of the world and you have never experienced American Football... brace yourself. You may want to start with an NFL game before you see how serious football fans behave.
Once a Music Scene, Now a Music Industry
If you want to know how it all started find a copy of Rodger Brown's history of the Athens music scene.
You'll find every flavor of rock music The World Famous 40 watt Club., But to call Athens a rock music town doesn't do justice to the talent that performs here night and day. The University brings in performers from around the globe. The University Chapel is the first stage for high brow taste. The more recent UGA Performing Arts Center is the big stage for cosmopolitan Opera and Symphony.
You will find national acts at the Classic Center with it's massive two balcony auditorium and also at the newly renovated Morton Theater and the famed Georgia Theater. Experience something new on all three floors of the Tasty World.
With close to a hundred liquor licenses downtown you can find live Country, Jazz, Reggae, Salsa, Bluegrass, Experimental, Atmospheric, Grunge, Metal, Acoustic, Pop, Big Band, Choir, Cabaret, Psychedelic, Gospel, Chamber, Folk, Funk, Mow-town, Hip-hop, Trance, Rap tap dancing, Afro-Caribbean, Forro, Descarga, Dirty Boogie, Ya'll-ternative,Punk, A Capella, Belly Dance, Agri-core, Ambient, Surf, Spiritual, Percussion, New Wave , Disco...almost every kind of music EXCEPT barber shop... we have zero tolerance for that noise.





