Star Bar closing after 35 years in Little Five Points

Live music venue Star Community Bar is closing after 35 years in Little Five Points. But another local music spot will take over the space early next year.

First reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Star Community Bar, known locally as Star Bar, will close for good on Dec. 31. Star Bar, which featured early concerts from bands like Mastodon and Drive-By Truckers, also announced the closure in an Oct. 29 Instagram post.

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Listening room Red Light Café, currently based at Amsterdam Walk on the border of Virginia-Highland and Morningside, will take over the space in January.

“The time has come for us to pass it on,” said Star Bar co-owner Luke Lewis in a statement to Rough Draft Atlanta. “The bar has always historically had challenges, being a live music venue.”

“With COVID-19, and then a lot of the film production leaving Atlanta, [it] made things even more difficult. So it was time for us to pass the torch on and go to the next thing,” Lewis added.

Read more on Star Bar’s history and closing on Rough Draft Atlanta.

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