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Music Midtown 2017 dates announced

The Killers wrapped Music Midtown 2016. Photo: Rob Loud

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

The Killers wrapped Music Midtown 2016. Photo: Rob Loud
By Melissa Ruggieri
March 7, 2017

BY MELISSA RUGGIERI/AJC Music Scene

Music Midtown will return to Piedmont Park this fall for the same mid-September weekend it’s owned since 2012.

The two-day festival will take place Sept. 16-17, remaining a full-day Saturday-Sunday affair (last year it changed from Friday night and all-day Saturday to fill both weekend days).

The lineup for the Live Nation-produced festival is typically announced in June. Recent headliners have included The Killers , Beck, Elton John, Eminem and Twenty One Pilots.

Numbers from Billboard show that more than 129,000 attended last year’s event.

In 2014, Music Midtown generated an economic impact estimated at $50 million, according to a 2015 report by The Research Center at the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce.

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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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