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Live at the Garden guests prepare to party

Michael Donahue

Thomas and Meade Carlisle

Guests gathered at the Live at the Garden Summer Concert Series VIP Premiere Party to learn which performers they’ll be partying with this summer.

About 500 people gathered at Memphis Botanic Garden on April 26 to hear the music lineup, which features Little Big Town (June 23), Boston (July 1), St. Paul & the Broken Bones and Drew Holcomb & the Neighbors (Aug. 11), Seal (Aug. 26) and Steve Miller Band (Sept. 15).

“We’re just blown away that everybody is so excited to hear the lineup,” said Live at the Garden co-director Sherry May. “We are absolutely blown away by the response we get from that party. They’re wanting to plan their summers and waiting to hear the lineup.”

Live at the Garden will celebrate its 17th year at the Garden, May said. “I think it’s a social event. Whoever’s on the stage is just icing on the cake. I think you see your friends and you come and have a good time. The people view it more as an event than a concert.”

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By Michael Donahue

Michael Donahue began his career in 1975 at the now-defunct Memphis Press-Scimitar and moved to The Commercial Appeal in 1984, where he wrote about food and dining, music, and covered social events until early 2017, when he joined Contemporary Media.