A music festival is moving from Piedmont Park to a smaller venue in Atlanta

Central Park hosted the festival in 2022, which featured headliners Lil Baby and Jazmine Sullivan. Last year, the festival moved to Piedmont Park for the first time, a decision hailed as a symbol of the company's growth.

“A lot of people supported us in Central Park,” One Musicfest founder J. Carter told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution at the time. “We were sold out, but we knew we couldn't return to Central Park due to the size of the event and the rate at which it's growing. We simply needed a larger footprint and the timing couldn’t be more appropriate.”

Founded in 2010, the annual black music and culture festival attracts more than 100,000 visitors each year. This year it celebrates its 15th anniversary. Headliners include Cardi B, Gunna and Earth, Wind & Fire. Single-day tickets start at $99 and can be purchased at onemusicfest.com/tickets/.

It's been a tough year for paid music festivals in the Atlanta area this year. The rock and pop-oriented Music Midtown, which normally performs at Piedmont Park in September, canceled entirely before even announcing a lineup. The EDM Imagine Festival at Kingston Downs in Rome decided to postpone until 2024 due to inflation and other logistical issues. The Sweetwater 420 Music Festival, which moved to Pullman Yards this year, switched to a free model just weeks before the April event when advance sales lagged, leading to artists like Black Pumas and Beck being pulled from the program .

An NPR report last month noted that festivals around the world are being halted as major artists focus on their own amphitheater, arena and stadium tours. Several examples were given of festivals not happening this year: Desert Daze, a psychedelic rock fest in Southern California; Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, a reggae celebration in Northern California; Kickoff Jam, a country music festival in Florida; Blue Ridge Rock Festival in Virginia; Sudden Little Thrills, a multi-genre festival in Pittsburgh; and Float Fest in Austin, Texas.

The article cited a number of possible factors: rising costs, a saturated festival market, and reduced demand from Generation Z for festival-like events.

The AJC reached out to One Musicfest for more information.