The 2019 edition of Music Midtown takes over Piedmont Park Sept. 14-15. Check out our video guide for Day 1 of the festival.
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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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