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In a recent Rising Stars event at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, some 100 people gathered each night over two days outside in the center’s Lyric Court to hear 20 up and coming young artists who were selected out of 250 auditioning youths to perform in the ninth annual Rising Stars showcase. For many it was their first in-person performance in more than year because of the pandemic. It was especially meaningful for two teens who became friends seven years ago onstage and now as newly named Artists of the Year were doing a duet at the same venue where they had first performed together.