Originally called the Top Hat Club when it opened in 1938, the club hosted local talent and national acts such as B.B. King, the Four Tops, the Tams and Atlanta's own Gladys Knight.
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Artist such as Usher Raymond, Outkast, India.Arie, and Raven-Symoné have started out performing on stage at the festival.
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The name of Auburn, probably applied by Williams, is doubtless derived from a line in a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, Sweet Auburn, loveliest village on the plain.
The theme of the inscription on the plinth of the statue (alluding to the poet's lament for the passing of 'Sweet Auburn', Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village) may also be seen in connection with what Burrow mentions in the later book The Crisis of Reason: European Thought, 1848-1914: '...the growth of great cities with mass population....