ATLANTA — There’s some bad news for those who were looking forward to attending the long-running Atlanta music festival Music Midtown this year: It’s not happening.

A Wednesday Instagram post announced that the festival is going on hiatus in 2024.

“After producing legendary festivals over the past three decades that drew music fans from across the globe, we want to share that Music Midtown is going on hiatus this year,” the post read. “We encourage you to continue supporting live music in Atlanta and stay tuned here for future updates.”

Peter Conlon, who runs Live Nation Atlanta and created the festival 30 years ago, did not respond to a text and phone call for comment.

The festival, which typically happens in September, has drawn a wide range of acts over the years such as Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Eminem, Van Halen, Post Malone, Bruno Mars and Miley Cyrus. Last year’s lineup featured Billie Eilish, Lil Baby and the 1975.

Music Midtown began in 1994 in an open space that is now where the Federal Reserve Bank building resides with acts like Joan Baez, Al Green and James Brown. After the 1999 festival took over parts of downtown Atlanta, Music Midtown moved to Central Park from 2000 to 2005.

That also happens to be the home of rival three-day rock-oriented music festival Shaky Knees, which took place May 3-5 this year and featured acts like Noah Kahan, Weezer, Foo Fighters and Billy Idol.

Since 2011, when Conlon revived the festival, Music Midtown has planted itself at Piedmont Park.

“Southside” Steve Rickman, a longtime morning host in town on stations such as 96 Rock, Rock 100.5 and currently FoxFM, has attended almost every Music Midtown going back to 1994.

Rickman talks to Conlon regularly on his FoxFM show and plans to ask him about Music Midtown on Friday morning.

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