We hope that all of you that found our post are ready to go on a deep dive into everything about music in Atlanta. Of course this is a really broad topic but we will do our best to share as much info as possible while still getting you out of here quick.
Kicking things off will be a list of the best musical instrument stores in your area. There will even be separate lists for where to buy guitars and the top drum shops in town and while some may quibble about which store should go in which list we will do our best to get things sorted out for you.
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Where to get a broken instrument repaired will follow that up. There are many repair companies that can tune a piano, repair a guitar, or work on all varieties of band instruments.
Once all the instrument talk is out of the way we will pivot to local music classes and lessons for kids or adults before moving on to stores for music lovers that sell vintage CD’s and records. You can find numerous places to be entertained at the best concert halls and live music venues near you.
Bars and restaurants with live music will get a shout out as well. A discussion about the Atlanta music calendar wouldn’t be complete without mentioning some great festivals and events either.
At the end we will share a map to help you find these stores or venues, and you are all welcome to read more about the scene in some other towns around the Southeast if interested.
Musical Instrument Stores In Atlanta
The best musical instrument stores near you would be:
- Atlanta Discount Music at 3514 Chamblee Dunwoody Rd
- Town Center Music at 4072 Suwanee Dam Rd NW
- Dirt Cheep Pro Audio + Musical Instruments at 2415 S Cobb Dr SE
- Music Go Round at 3675 Satellite Blvd #100
- Earthshaking Music at 648 McDonough Blvd SE
- Sam Ash Music Stores at 2999 Cobb Pkwy SE
- Atlanta Violins at 387 S Atlanta St, Roswell
- Wendell’s Music at 1869 Cobb Pkwy SE #500, Marietta
- Village Music at 114 N Avondale Rd, Avondale Estates
Atlanta Discount Music is a good place to buy acoustic and electric guitars in your area as well as other instruments, effect units, and amplifiers.
Town Center Music offers lessons, events, and orchestra rentals in addition to selling guitars, amps, effects, and basses.
A unique blend of new and used pro audio equipment and musical instruments can be found at Dirt Cheep.
Music Go Round buys, sells, and trades quality local used instruments and features a large collection of percussions, keyboards, band instruments, guitars, and accessories.
Some of the services offered at Earthshaking Music include private lessons, restrings, setups, and repairs for guitars, basses, head stocks, and other string instruments.
Sam Ash Music Stores excels at providing top quality drums, amplifiers, band and orchestra, and wind instruments as well as used equipment and maintenance services.
Atlanta Violins specializes in new and restored antique instruments from Germany, France, Italy, and the United States. They also provide excellent rental and rental credit programs for beginners and advanced players.
New and used guitars and amps, lessons, and string and fretted instrument repairs in Marietta are the specialties of Wendell’s Music.
Village Music offers drums, percussions, guitars, bass, ukuleles, mandolins, horns, woodwinds, keys, synths, midi, strings, and other accessories.
Where To Buy Guitars
If you are specifically trying to buy a guitar or guitar accessories check out:
- Maple Street Guitars at 3199 Maple Dr NE
- Big House Guitars at 2323 Cheshire Bridge Rd NE
- Aperio Guitar at 1029 Oak Moss Dr
- Firehouse Guitars & Music at 612 Medlock Rd, Decatur
- Guitar Center at 2480 Briarcliff Rd NE #13
- Righteous Guitars at 1455 Hembree Rd, Roswell
- Holgado Guitar Works in Decatur
Since 1981 Maple Street Guitars has been carrying a variety of products including guitars, mandolins, banjos, ukuleles, amplifiers, cases, gig bags, accessories, and more plus they provide classes and repairs too.
You can find a good selection of guitars, basses, amps, and more at Big House Guitars.
Aperio Guitar designs and builds S-style and T-style necks as well as the original Aperio neck shims to correct pocket depth problems. They fret their necks with stainless exclusively and drill them for Sperzel, Kluson, and Gotoh tuners.
Firehouse is a locally owned guitar store offering a wide selection of gear, lessons, repairs, and rentals.
Guitar Center is home to one of the largest selections of popular guitars, basses, amplifiers, keyboards, workstations, drums, percussions, microphones, PA systems, DJ equipment, stage lighting, recording software, studio gear, and more.
Holgado Guitar Works make guitars and basses from scratch and are working on establishing their own unique designs and shapes for production.
Of course just about all of the places we mentioned in our first Atlanta music stores list will sell guitars too.
Drum Shops Near You
Atlanta Musicians Exchange at 2619 Lawrenceville Highway is a good place to buy drums and many of the other shops we have listed will also have a nice selection.
Instrument Repairs
You can get quality instrument repair services in Atlanta at:
- North Georgia Horn Works at 2905 Cherokee St NW
- Gift of Music Instrument Repairs at 590 Commerce Park Dr SE #175, Marietta
North Georgia Horn Works is a local repair shop specializing in maintenance, repair, restoration, and customization of brass and woodwind instruments.
Gift of Music provides fast repair services ranging from minor to full chemical cleaning to complete overhauls.
You can also get your instruments repaired at Earthshaking Music, Sam Ash Music Stores, Maple Street Guitars, and Firehouse Guitars who we have linked you to in other sections.
Music Lessons
Taking music lessons at these schools can level up your game in a hurry:
- Atlanta School of Musical Arts at 1610 Lavista Rd #5
- Highland Music Studio at 743 Virginia Ave NE
- Lessons In Your Home at 6 Ivy Pkwy NE
- Guitar Shed at 1610 Hosea L Williams Dr NE
- Ztunes Music at 743 Virginia Ave NE #3683
- The Music Class at 1963 Hosea L Williams Dr NE
- Meta Music Education at 227 Sandy Springs Pl NE #362, Sandy Springs
- Atl Guitar Lessons at 595 E Crossville Rd #600, Roswell
- School of Rock East Cobb at 2469 E Piedmont Rd, Marietta
- Room 4 Cello at 2840 Franklin St, Avondale Estates
- New School of Music Johns Creek at 10800 Bell Rd, Johns Creek
Programs and lessons for guitar, piano, drums, bass, violin, viola, cello, saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, flute, songwriting, home recording, and music production are all available at Atlanta School of Musical Arts.
Local music classes and lessons for all ages including dancing, singing, and instruments are offered at Highland Music Studio.
Lessons In Your Home excels at providing a wide range of private music lessons for piano, violin, guitar, voice, drums, and much more.
Students of all ages and levels can take classes for guitar, piano, violin, drums, voice, bass, banjo, and ukulele at Guitar Shed.
Ztunes is known for providing development classes, instrument rentals, and private band and string instrument instructions for students aged 3 and above.
The Music School offers fun filled classes of singing, dancing, movement, and instrument play as well as research based education programs designed to unleash the musical potential of young musicians.
Meta Music Educationa recording studio was built for teaching students of all ages how to play music in an exciting, intuitive, and really effective way by providing private and group lessons, camps, and recording sessions.
Guitar, drums, bass, voice, and piano lessons are offered in a wide range of styles including rock, blues, jazz, country, and classical at ATL Guitar Lessons.
Students have one weekly group rehearsal where they learn to play classic rock songs that have been simplified for beginner musicians at School of Rock East Cobb.
Young children, teenagers, kids with learning disabilities, and high level players can take high quality music lessons near you at Room 4 Cello.
For those interested in learning how to play piano, guitar, bass guitar, voice, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, saxophone, trumpet, French horn, trombone, baritone, euphonium, tuba, violin, viola, cello, double bass, drums, and percussion New School of Music offers first rate lessons.
Don’t forget about the lessons at Town Center Music, Earthshaking Music, Maple Street Guitars, and Firehouse Guitars either.
CD & Record Stores
Some of our favorite stores for local music lovers with lots of vintage CD’s and records are:
- Moods Music at 1131 Euclid Ave NE
- Vinylyte Records And Skate Shop at 28 S Court Square
- Fantasyland Records at 360 Pharr Rd NE b
- Waterloo Sunset Records at 900 Battery Ave SE #1010
- Wax ‘N’ Facts at 432 Moreland Ave NE
- Mojo Vinyl Records at 36 Woodstock St, Roswell
- Ella Guru Record Shop at 2747 Lavista Rd, Decatur
- Sweet Melissa Records at 146 S Park Square NE, Marietta
- Ness Records at 114 N Avondale Rd, Avondale Estates
Vinylyte Records buys and sells handpicked new and previously played records in your area and even takes pride in providing a selection of new indie to reissues of grunge standards to previously played rock, jazz, and country must haves.
Classic, rock, jazz, folk, punk, and other genres of 45’s, DVD’s, CD’s, and blu rays are sold at Waterloo Sunset Records.
Since 1976 Wax ‘N’ Facts has been selling new and reissued vinyl LP records, CD’s, and cassettes from genres like rock, jazz, soul, R&B, hip hop, rap, disco, electronic, EDM, and more.
You can find a unique selection of new, used, rare, and autographed music at Sweet Melissa Records.
Ness Records is Avondale’s destination for music lessons, retail, vinyl records, and more.
Live Music Venues
These Atlanta live music venues are great places to see a concert or performance:
- Terminal West at 887 West Marietta St NW C
- Apache Cafe at 393 Marietta St NW
- Variety Playhouse at 1099 Euclid Ave NE
- Red Light Cafe at 553-1 Amsterdam Ave NE
- Tabernacle at 152 Luckie St NW
- The Loft at 1374 W Peachtree St NW
- Roswell Historic Hall at 972 Alpharetta St, Roswell
- Night at The Brick Wall at 760 Brown Pl, Decatur
- Dixie Tavern at 2349 Windy Hill Rd SE # 130, Marietta
- 37 Main at 106 N Avondale Rd, Avondale Estates
Terminal West is a premier Atlanta live music venue for special events that features an onsite bar and restaurant.
Live bands, open mic nights, jazz music, and DJ performances are held at Apache Café.
Variety Playhouse is a converted movie theater featuring a variety of popular acts in an intimate setting.
Some of the genres featured at Red Light Café include Americana, bluegrass, country, Western, folk, blues, jazz, roots rock, and everything in between.
Many notable acts have performed at The Tabernacle including Guns N’ Roses, Tove Lo, The Black Crowes, Adele, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, Robbie Williams, Alice in Chains, Bob Dylan, Prince and The New Power Generation, Lana del Rey, Babymetal, and Atlanta’s own Mastodon, and Blackberry.
For over five decades Center Stage Theater has been hosting music, comedy, wrestling, boxing, eSports, film and television recordings, and private events.
Roswell Historic Hall is a 130 year old venue that has a perfect, memorable, and timeless backdrop.
You might want to watch the live local music at Dixie Tavern as well as try their burgers and other Southern dishes.
37 Main brings one of the absolute best live music entertainments to Avondale Estates and features state of the art lighting and sound systems on a huge stage.
Restaurants With Live Music
Have a nice meal and enjoy good music at these restaurants:
- Two Urban Licks at 820 Ralph McGill Blvd NE
- The BQE Restaurant & Lounge at 262 Edgewood Ave NE
- Eclipse Di Luna at 764 Miami Cir NE
- Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint at 200 Peachtree St #L05
- Live at 825 Battery Ave SE #600
- The Select Restaurant + Bar at 6405 Blue Stone Rd # 200, Sandy Springs
- Big Oak Tavern at 1090 Alpharetta St, Roswell
- Virgil’s Gullah Kitchen & Bar at 3721 Main St, College Park
- Marlay House Irish Pub at 426 W Ponce de Leon Ave, Decatur
- My Parents’ Basement at 22 N Avondale Rd, Avondale Estates
Live Latin music, creative cocktails, and tapas are the specialties of Eclipse Di Luna.
Sweet Georgia’s Juke Joint is a soul food spot serving refined takes on classics such as chicken and waffles.
Marlay House Irish Pub offers an amazing line of live music near you as well as an extensive beer selection and more.
Bars With Live Music In Atlanta
Plus there are bars that play live music too:
- Blind Willie’s at 828 N Highland Ave NE
- Smith’s Olde Bar at 1578 Piedmont Ave NE
- Northside Tavern at 1058 Howell Mill Rd NW
- The Star Community Bar at 437 Moreland Ave NE
- 10 High Club at 816 N Highland Ave NE
- Mynt Restaurant & Lounge at 5021 Old National Hwy, College Park
Blind Willie’s features blues music from around the country plus local bands.
You can watch live blues music every night of the week at Northside Tavern.
10 High Club is a music venue with local and regional acts as well as live band karaoke.
Mynt plays a combination of old school and new school music and has live DJ bands too.
Music Festivals In Your Area
And finally for the top music festivals near you:
- Sweetwater 420 Festival in April/May
- Summer Shade Festival in August
- Taste Of Soul in October
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Enjoy The Atlanta Local Music Scene
Well guys, we tried cover as much as we possibly could. You read about the best musical instrument stores, drum and guitar shops, instrument repair services, where to go for lessons, vintage CD and record stores, concert halls and other live music venues like bars and restaurants, plus the best festivals near you.
Anyone that is still here probably knows bit about the local music scene themselves. If so feel free to tell us if we got anything incorrect, if we left any cool spots out, or just share your own thoughts in the comments at the end of the post. Now go have fun enjoying the music in Atlanta.
