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Zac Brown Band cancels annual Southern Ground Music & Food Festival

The Zac Brown Band had to make some changes to its May schedule. Photo: Danny Clinch

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

Credit: Melissa Ruggieri

The Zac Brown Band had to make some changes to its May schedule. Photo: Danny Clinch
By Melissa Ruggieri
Feb 15, 2017

BY MELISSA RUGGIERI/AJC Music Scene

The Zac Brown Band is canceling this year's installment of the Southern Ground Music & Food Festival, citing the need to focus on their new album, "Welcome Home."

On the festival's website , the band announced that the annual gathering in Charleston, S.C., which was planned for May 20-21, would be "rescheduled for next year."

Last year’s event featured performances from Tedeschi Trucks Band, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Sam Bush, Kacey Musgraves, Bruce Hornsby and ZBB.

The band hadn’t announced any musical guests for this year prior to the cancellation announcement.

Last month, the Zac Brown Band announced a 40-plus date tour that will launch May 12-13 at Verizon Amphitheatre in Atlanta. Their "Welcome Home" album is due May 12.

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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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