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Collective Soul to perform at MoonPie Over Mobile

Posted by Dale Liesch | Oct 2, 2019 | Latest, News | 0 |

Councilman Fred Richardson sang along to “Shine” after announcing that rock act Collective Soul would be the headliners for this year’s MoonPie Over Mobile event.

“On New Year’s Eve we’re going to let the light shine down,” Richardson said.

The band, which has sold more than 10 million albums, will be celebrating its 25th anniversary with the show downtown.

While organizers will be announcing opening acts later on, this year’s headliner was announced sooner than usual on the suggestion of Richardson himself, who is pitching in $10,000 in discretionary money to bolster the annual event.

“The greatest thing about this one is we started early,” Richardson said. “People can start making plans now. When we announce it in November people have already made plans to go elsewhere. We made an effort this year for an earlier start.”

This year’s MoonPie Over Mobile, which takes place on Tuesday, Dec. 31, will feature some of the same activities as years past, like a second-line parade and the cutting of the world’s largest edible MoonPie, courtesy of Chattanooga Bakery.

In addition to those activities, this year’s event will include a Roaring 20s costume contest to help ring in 2020 by wearing zoot suits and other attire fashionable in the 1920s, Events Mobile President Carol Hunter announced.

“MoonPie Over Mobile has become one of the premiere New Year’s Eve events in the Central Time Zone,” Hunter said. “Last year, an estimated 50,000 people attended MoonPie Over Mobile and we expect the streets to be filled again.”

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Dale Liesch

Dale Liesch

Dale Liesch has been a reporter at Lagniappe since February 2014. He covers all aspects of the city of Mobile, including the mayor, City Council, the Mobile Housing Board of Commissioners, GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico and others. He studied journalism at The University of Alabama and graduated in 2007. He came to Lagniappe, after several years in the newspaper industry. He achieved the position of news editor at The Alexander City Outlook before moving to Virginia and then subsequently moving back a few years later. He has a number of Alabama and Virginia Press association awards to his name. He grew up in the wilderness of Baldwin County, among several different varieties of animals including: dogs, cats, ducks, chickens, a horse and an angry goat. He now lives in the Oakleigh neighborhood of Mobile with his wife, Hillary, and daughter, Joan. The family currently has no goats, angry or otherwise, but is ruled by the whims of two very energetic dogs.

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