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5 Mayo Festival


Members of the local avant-garde pop and rock underground convene once again on Cinco de Mayo for an all-day mini-festival featuring some of the most charmingly skewed sounds Athens has to offer. Performers include fearless world-psych appropriators Cult of Riggonia, shambolic synth outfit Wet Garden, ethereal songstress Elysia Empyre, must-see new rock duo Crunchy, experimental noise-hop act Cottonmouth, DJ Yung Yang and plenty more. The host location for all this barely controlled mayhem? Why, it’s Tlaloc El Mexicano, of course, the humble and beloved local Chase Street taco joint and celeb-chef favorite known for its delicious pupusas, if not necessarily its punk rock pedigree.

2 p.m. FREE! 706-613-9301

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