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The B-52s add second show at Atlanta Symphony Hall

The B52s (from left to right: Cindy Wilson, Fred Schneider and Kate Pierson) will celebrate their 40th anniversary with two shows at Atlanta Symphony Hall. Contributed by Pieter M. van Hattem

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

The B52s (from left to right: Cindy Wilson, Fred Schneider and Kate Pierson) will celebrate their 40th anniversary with two shows at Atlanta Symphony Hall. Contributed by Pieter M. van Hattem
By Melissa Ruggieri
May 17, 2017

BY MELISSA RUGGIERI/AJC Music Scene

The B-52s are celebrating their 40th anniversary with not one, but two shows at Atlanta Symphony Hall this fall.

The band, which burst out of Athens in the late-‘70s with the eternally weird “Rock Lobster,” has nearly sold out its Sept. 15 concert at the venue, so a second date has been added for 8 p.m. Sept. 14.

Those tickets are $49.50-$125.50 and will go on sale at noon May 19 at www.ticketmaster.com, the Woodruff Arts Center box office and by calling 1-800-745-3000.

“The World’s Greatest Party Band” will perform both shows with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. And, considering the band is commemorating a milestone, expect to hear a career-spanning set list sure to include “Private Idaho,” “Love Shack,” “Roam” and songs from their 2008 album, “Funplex.”

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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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