CounterPoint Music & Arts Festival 2014

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CounterPoint Music & Arts Festival 2014

The festival returns to Georgia for its second year, which is headlined by local duo Outkast.

Outkast frontmen Andre 3000, left, and Big Boi reunited and perform before a sold out enthusiastic crowd at the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Outkast frontmen Andre 3000, right, and Big Boi reunited and perform before a sold out enthusiastic crowd at the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

An enthusiastic crowd greets the reunited Outkast performing before a sold out enthusiastic crowd at the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Outkast frontmen Andre 3000 perform before a sold out enthusiastic crowd at the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Outkast frontmen Andre 3000, left, and Big Boi reunited and perform before a sold out enthusiastic crowd at the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Outkast frontmen Andre 3000, left, and Big Boi reunited and perform before a sold out enthusiastic crowd at the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Fans pack the festival to see the reunion of iconic hip hop band Outkast at the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Outkast waiting for them to take to the stage at the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs. This is only their second performance reunited after a decade. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Outkast's frontman Big Boi takes to the stage on their reunion tour at the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downsp. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Thievery Corporation performing on the Blu Freedom stage at the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs after a rainstorm had temporarily halted the event. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Fans enjoying the performing Thievery Corporation at the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs Sunday. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs was canceled temporarily as a electrical storm passed through causing officials to evacuate the festival grounds Sunday. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs was canceled temporarily as a electrical storm passed through, causing officials to evacuate the festival grounds Sunday. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Concert-goers take shelter from the storm at the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs. The festival was temporarily cancelled and the grounds evacuated for a couple of hours dying an electrical storm Sunday. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Concert-goers celebrate being able to return to the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs after an electrical storm Sunday. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Electronic dance music star and producer Pretty Lights performs at CounterPoint 2014. Photo: Melissa Ruggieri/AJC

Electronic dance music star and producer Pretty Lights performs at CounterPoint 2014. Photo: Melissa Ruggieri/AJC

Electronic dance music star and producer Pretty Lights performs at CounterPoint 2014. Photo: Melissa Ruggieri/AJC

Quincey Hanley, better know by his moniker Schoolboy Q, performs on the Hillside Stage on the first day of of the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs Friday. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Fans rock to to Quincey Hanley, better know by his moniker Schoolboy Q, on the Hillside Stage on the first day of of the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs Friday. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

A young lady gets her hula hoop groove on during the first day of of the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Hula-hooping friends Vanessa Pera, Danielle Urbanek and Lesi Michael have a spin on the first day of of the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Fans jam the barricade to watch Green Lantern perform on the Steeple stage on the first day of of the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Jasmine Alyce, Elle Carlsmith and Lola Worthington groove in grass skirts to Green Latern performing on the first day of of the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

Fans getting it with Green Latern's performance on the Steeple Stage on the first day of of the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

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Outkast frontmen Andre 3000, left, and Big Boi reunited and perform before a sold out enthusiastic crowd at the Counterpoint Music & Arts Festival at Kingston Downs. (Akili-Casundria Ramsess/Special to the AJC)

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