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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:04:00

Atlanta's oldest outdoor music venue was a wartime afterthought - a county commissioner squeezed a bandshell into a park plan, and eighty years of summer nights followed. The amphitheater at 4469 Stella Drive in Chastain Park opened on 20 June 1944 as the North Fulton Park Amphitheatre, modelled on Richmond's Byrd Park bowl after commissioner Troy Green Chastain sent scouts to five cities. Chastain died in 1946 and the park and venue took his name - the identity that stuck through every subsequ...