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Millennium Stage

Couch Concert

Gogue Performing Arts Center

Music of Alabama: RyNea Soul, The Pine Hill Haints and Larry Mitchell

🛋🎶 Join us for a LIVE Couch Concert! For this National Spotlight, the Kennedy Center partners with the Jay and Susie Gogue Performing Arts Center at Auburn University to focus on artists of Alabama. Featured musicians are RyNea Soul, The Pine Hill Haints and Larry Mitchell. Community partners across the state include Seasick Records of Birmingham, Single Lock Records of Florence/Muscle Shoals and Standard Deluxe of Waverly.

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