ATHENS BUSINESS ROCKS 2026
✨ PARTY OUT OF BOUNDS ✨
🎸 Thank you to everyone who made Athens Business Rocks 2026: PARTY OUT OF BOUNDS a success! 🤘
This year, we held a new community music festival and event on Saturday, April 4, 2026. Local businesses across town hosted bands throughout the day, leading up to the official After Party at the iconic 40 Watt Club!
ABR: Party Out Of Bounds brought together Athens’ artists, businesses and neighbors for a day of celebration, creativity, and connection — all in support of Nuçi’s Space’s mission to care for the mental and emotional well-being of local musicians and creatives. 🎶
Since its inception, Athens Business Rocks has been a mainstay of the music and business scenes in Athens, highlighting the talent and creativity of the many of us who wear two hats — business person by day, musician by night. Now we've expanded ABR "out of bounds" into a true community event! Rather than battling it out onstage, bands perform at individual businesses in the heart of Athens in a series of unique shows, inviting the community to join in on the fun! This all-day event ended at the 40 Watt for an after-hours award ceremony and celebration! It's a celebration of music, business and fundraising for our mission — and most importantly, of community. It's a Giving Back Day!
Congratulations, Full On Monet!
Huge thanks to local band, Full On Monet, for their fundraising efforts at this year’s ABR Party Out Of Bounds!
Thank you to all the businesses, musicians, bands, volunteers, interns and attendees who made Athens Business Rock: Party Out Of Bounds 2026 a great success! Thanks to your support, we raised almost $9,000 for our mission of suicide prevention. We couldn’t do it without you.
Special thanks to all of our amazing local businesses for hosting!
The Grill
Nowhere Bar
The Bell Hotel
Union Faire
Paloma Park
Athens Area Chamber of Commerce
Rook & Pawn
Hotel Indigo/Rialto Room
TRR Cobb House
Athentic Brewing Co.
Ideal Bagel
Paper Doll Salon
Historic Athens
Canopy Studio
Fox Den Third Space
Hendershots
Huge thank you to our incredible performers!
Stephan Eutsler
Shaw Coggin
Dangfly!
Dictatortots
Telephone Pole
Cousin Clem
Mary and the HOT Hotty-Hots
Euclid
Zinnia Heart Eyes
Ashes to Omens
Austin Sisk
Fleet Machine
The Discipline
Full On Monet
Trvy and the Enemy
Strange Temples
Ava Wilds
The Geckos
Kicking Assets
Thank you to our generous sponsors for making this event possible: Grail Bra Specialists, Synovus Bank, Big City Bread Cafe, Samuel Thomas Law LLC, and Marti’s at Midday.
ABOUT ATHENS BUSINESS ROCKS:
It’s been said “You can’t swing a guitar around your neck in Athens without hitting a musician.” Not only does this statement refer to the performing musicians that most people associate with the world-famous downtown music scene, but also to the plethora of musicians who masquerade as “upstanding, straight-laced” business people during the day.
Athens Business Rocks hopes to create an opportunity for these hidden rock stars to reveal themselves. This isn’t a talent or song-writing competition - it’s simply a great opportunity for us to engage the business community in a day of music and fun and laugh with our friends and co-workers while raising money for Nuçi’s Space.
