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A3C Festival taps Nas, Ghostface Killah, Just Blaze as 2017 headliners

Nas will headline this year's A3C Festival. (Photo by Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for Rolling Stone)

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Nas will headline this year's A3C Festival. (Photo by Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for Rolling Stone)
By Melissa Ruggieri
May 31, 2017

BY MELISSA RUGGIERI/AJC Music Scene

The A3C Festival will return this fall and has already unveiled its initial lineup.

Nas, Ghostface Killah, Just Blaze and upstart MCs Joyner Lucas, SABA, Kirk Knight and Jay IDK will perform at the fest on Oct. 8 at the Georgia Freight Depot.

Nas recently announced a co-headlining “Dynamic” fall tour with Lauryn Hill, but will stick to a solo headlining gig in Atlanta.

The two days of performances begin Oct. 7; the 13th annual A3C Festival and Conference, which includes more than 1,500 artists, producers and industry experts leading panels and presentations, will take place throughout Atlanta Oct. 4-8.

Advance tickets are on sale starting at $70. Visit http://blog.a3cfestival.com/ to purchase.

About the Author

Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.

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