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Ben Harper
A Decade of “Yes” Amplify Decatur’s star-studded lineup and the early days that made it possible by Mel Selcho
IN A YEAR when the local festival favorite has some of its biggest names for headliners, Amplify My Community (“Amplify”) founder Mike Killeen was as reluctant to include himself as part of the story as he was to join the lineup this year. The self-described “hobbyist musician” describes Amplify as “the product of a decade of work by a collection of hundreds of incredible people who never heard a ‘no’ when we asked for time, advice or funds. And we had some big asks.” So in 2022, Killeen would become part of the never-a-no answer Amplify has known in its ten-plus years. Spring 2022
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