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Mike Mills, Phil Lesh, Chuck Leavell and more added to ‘Georgia Comes Alive’

Mike Mills performs at the Fox Theatre Institute held a benefit concert on Friday, September 13, 2019. Robb Cohen Photography & Video /RobbsPhotos.com

Credit: Robb Cohen for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Credit: Robb Cohen for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Mike Mills performs at the Fox Theatre Institute held a benefit concert on Friday, September 13, 2019. Robb Cohen Photography & Video /RobbsPhotos.com
By Melissa Ruggieri
Dec 18, 2020

Several additional artists, including Georgia favorites Mike Mills and Chuck Leavell, have been added to the lineup of “Georgia Comes Alive,” the upcoming virtual music festival to promote voting in the Jan. 5 Georgia Senate runoffs.

Mills will be joined by the band Big Something, while other new names for the Dec. 26 livestream include Grouplove, Houndmouth, Phil Lesh & Friends and Nathaniel Rateliff; the presentation kicks off at 3 p.m.

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The online gathering, which also features previously announced Dave Matthews, Diplo, Big Freedia, Portgual. The Man, Warren Haynes, Ben Folds and more, is presented by Live for Live Music, nugs.net and Headcount and will support local grassroots organizations including Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda and CivicGeorgia.

A donation of any amount on the georgiacomesalive.com site will prompt an email with a link to the livestream on the day of the show.

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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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