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 Alex Cooley was born in Atlanta, Georgia and became a leading international concert and music festival promoter. He attended Georgia State University and the University of Georgia before beginning his life-long entrepreneurial pursuits. Besides being a concert promoter, Cooley has served as a businessman, producer and entertainment mogul.
Instrumental in aiding the advancement of the music industry in Atlanta for four decades, Cooley has helped save the Fox Theatre from demolition, turned the Roxy and the Tabernacle into music landmarks and established some of the largest cultural events in U.S. history including the Atlanta International Pop Festival and Music Midtown.
The Atlanta Pop Festival, often referred to as the “Woodstock of the South”, was the first major rock event in the South and attracted an estimated 7,000,000 people over its two year run. In 1970, the festival was the largest gathering of people in Georgia history until the 1996 Olympics. The festival gave early exposure to legends like Janis Joplin and Led Zeppelin. The Atlanta Pop Festivals were a symbol of the regional youth’s interest in rock and roll and the growing influences of countercultural values.
Proving that Georgia had an undying need for large-scale live music events, Cooley co-created Music Midtown Festival, a three-day music festival which ran from 1994 to 2005 and at its peak, attracted close to 300,000 people and featured over 100 acts.
Over the span of forty years, Cooley has adjusted to the expectations of concert goers and the ups and downs in concert and festival markets. The activist, preservationist, and rock and roll impresario has brought a slew of talented high-profile artists to Atlanta and provided the area with premier concert venues and music experiences.
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