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Widespread Panic will usher in 2020 at the Fox Theatre

Athens jam band will play three shows at the venue
Athens' Widepsread Panic will usher in 2020 at the Fox Theatre.
Athens' Widepsread Panic will usher in 2020 at the Fox Theatre.
By Melissa Ruggieri
Sept 25, 2019

For the third consecutive year, Widespread Panic will usher in the new year in Atlanta.

The heralded jam band will return to The Fox Theatre for a trio of shows at 8 p.m. Dec. 29-31.

Tickets to the concerts will go on sale at 10 a.m. Sept. 27 via www.foxtheatre.org and by calling 1-855-285-8499. Individual show tickets - which start at $75 - will be available, as well as a three-day package (there is a four-ticket limit for all shows).

Widespread Panic recently announced that two of its lauded live recordings, “Montreal 1997” and “Carbondale 2000,” will be released on vinyl in box set form for the first time this fall.

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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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