29th Annual Georgia Music Hall of Fame Awards

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29th Annual Georgia Music Hall of Fame Awards

29th Annual Georgia Music Hall of Fame Awards Banquet at the Georgia World Congress Center.

Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant performs with Dale Krantz Rossington and Carol Chase on background vocals. The group is being inducted into the Hall of Fame for its contribution in music over the past four decades.

Entertainer Usher Raymond gives the Atlanta sign after performing "Georgia on My Mind."

Ean Evans of Lynyrd Skynyrd performs on guitar.

Rickey Medlocke of Lynyrd Skynyrd performs on guitar,

Phaedra Parks is an attorney to many artists.

Usher Raymond performs "Georgia on My Mind" during the banquet.

Isaac Hayes is presenting the posthumous induction of Babs Richardson at the show. Richardson, who promoted artists from Georgia, died in 2006 at the age of seventy-seven.

Gary Rossington (from left), Rickey Medlocke and Johnny Van Zant of the group Lynyrd Skynyrd, who is being inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Mylon LeFevre and his wife Christi enter the awards banquet. LeFevre is being inducted into the Hall of Fame for songwriting at the Georgia World Congress Center.

Entertainment lawyer Joel Katz and his wife, Kane, arrive at the banquet.

Diana DeGarmo, American Idol runner-up from 2004, smiles for the camera.

Singer Johnta Austin is being awarded the Bill Lowery Horizon Award during the banquet.

Inductee Freddy Cole is being awarded the 2007 Mary Tallent Award.

Dr. Bobbie Bailey and Eva Mae LeFevre pose for the camera. Bailiey is being inducted into the Hall of Fame as a lifetime achievement, and LeFevre, whose son Mylon is being inducted tonight, was a 1985 inductee.

Allen Toussaint is performing with and introducing songwriter Mylon LeFevre for LeFevre's induction into the Hall of Fame for songwriting.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant performs with Dale Krantz Rossington and Carol Chase on background vocals. The group is being inducted into the Hall of Fame for its contribution in music over the past four decades.

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