Chickapalooza An art and music festival with Music at the Mansion II

June 27, 2026 Chickamauga's art and folk festival returns as Chickapalooza. The art festival is capped off with a special Music at the Mansion Concert series performance. The art festival is free all day with activities including stilt walkers, poetry reading artist gallery food and live local music. The Chickapalooza concert at the mansion is a ticketed event and a portion of the proceeds will go to preserve and restore the mosaic garden at Reverend Howard Finster's Paradise Garden.
Tickets for the special concert on the porch of the Gordon Lee Mansion with:
Disciple of The Garden
Dead Letter Office - International Tribute to REM
Elevation - The U2 Tribute
can be purchased for $25 at Sweet Deals of the Week
Let us share a message from Davia Weatherill Executive Director of the Paradise Garden:
Music is what carried Reverend Howard Finster's work into popular culture. While many know Finster's iconic Talking Heads album cover (Little Creatures, named album cover of the year by Rolling Stone in 1985), his connections run deeper - collaborations with R.E.M., who filmed their "Radio Free Europe" video at Paradise Garden, album art for artist like Adam Again and Blackhawk, and even his own, musicianship, including a Smithsonian Folkways recording where he plays banjo.
Most recently, during the World's Folk Art Church, we uncovered drawings and letters tied to U2's Pop tour - where Finster's angel imagery was projected on massive stage screens, bringing his work to audiences around the globe.
Thanks given to sponsors
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