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Atlanta New Year's Eve concerts 2017: Xscape, Widespread Panic and more

(L-R) Tameka Cottle, LaTocha Scott, Tamika Scott, and Kandi Burruss of Xscape will play a hometown show on New Year's Eve. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for BET)

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

(L-R) Tameka Cottle, LaTocha Scott, Tamika Scott, and Kandi Burruss of Xscape will play a hometown show on New Year's Eve. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for BET)
By Melissa Ruggieri
Dec 9, 2017

BY MELISSA RUGGIERI/AJC Music Scene

As posited by artists ranging from Nancy Wilson to Ella Fitzgerald to Harry Connick Jr. — what are you doing New Year’s Eve?

You still have a few weeks to answer that. But plenty of Atlanta venues will be bopping with acts including Xscape, Widespread Panic and Michelle Malone, as the clock ticks toward midnight.

To read our list of some possible places to rock out in the waning hours of 2017, visit The Music Scene blog on MyAJC.com.

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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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