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Photos: Xscape reunion tour plays to Atlanta hometown on New Year's Eve

Xscape celebrated at Philips Arena on New Year's Eve. Photo: Ryan Fleisher/Special to the AJC

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Xscape celebrated at Philips Arena on New Year's Eve. Photo: Ryan Fleisher/Special to the AJC
By Melissa Ruggieri
Jan 3, 2018

Atlanta's Xscape will wrap their reunion tour this weekend on the West Coast, but the quartet left the South with plenty of memories on New Year's Eve.

Performing at Philips Arena, Kandi Burruss-Tucker, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, and LaTocha and Tamika Scott helped the packed crowd usher in 2018.

Opening for the ladies were were June’s Diary, Zonnique (daughter of Cottle and stepdaughter of T.I.) , Tamar Braxton and Monica.

Photographer Ryan Fleisher was on hand to document the event for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Explore Check out his photo gallery from the concert.

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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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