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Rate Our Big Music Weekend
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Atlanta Music Scene surely felt like a major, live music scene —on Saturday night alone.
Athens’ rock titans R.E.M. were at Lakewood Amphitheatre. [See our writer David O’Brien’s take HERE. And the rest of the photo gallery - including the shot of lead singer Michael Stipe, above - HERE. ]
Gospel, soul and jazz were well-represented at Philips Arena, where the AARP celebrated its 50th anniversary with the Debbie Allen-directed “Songs of Soul and Inspiration,” featuring Dionne Warwick, Shirley Caesar, Queen Latifah, Patti Austin, Ann Nesby and others.
Top contemporary jazz could also be heard over at Chastain Park Amphitheatre, were guitarists George Benson and Atlantan Earl Klugh played.
Jam-rock was well-represented over at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park, where moe. and Keller Williams rounded out the bill.
Blues-rockers Blues Traveler headlined the festivities in Candler Park.
And hip-hop and R&B acts - large (Young Jeezy, Keyshia Cole) and burgeoning (Day 26, Rocko, Trey Songz) - provided the entertainment at V-103’s annual Car & Bike Show at the Georgia World Congress Center.
And again, that was just Saturday — rocker Melissa Etheridge, jazz-blues wonder Lizz Wright and others also played over the past weekend.
And that was just some of the music in the larger venues — there was also Raheem DeVaughn, Chrisette Michele and Solange at the more intimate Tabernacle; Martin Luther, Lina and IC Green at Sugar Hill; and still-going local power Dionne Farris at Cenci.
Pretty great amount of talent in town over the past few days, huh? Did you get to any of these shows? And if so, how would you rate them?
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