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“BEST OF MIDWEST BEAT WITH TOM LOUNGES LIVE IN-STUDIO PERFORMANCES”

Originally broadcast on TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2016

TOPIC/SUBJECT:  "BEST OF MIDWEST BEAT LIVE IN-STUDIO PERFORMANCES"

Featuring: Lazer Lloyd, The Spaniels Forever, Willie Rogers, Christine Mild, Liz Mandeville, Marco Villarreal, Robert & Terri Ann Feddersen, and others…

“MIDWEST BEAT with Tom Lounges” is a weekly program all about music and the people who make it. Each show features a musical guest who sometimes performs live on air from the Lakeshore Public Radio studio during the broadcast.

Each year around the holidays — some of the best live in-studio performances are pulled from the various shows over the past year and collected into what we have come to call “The Best Of Midwest Beat Live In-Studio Performances.”

For this year’s annual recap compiled for this program, listeners will hear some of pretty amazing regional talents doing what they do best — making music and a little radio magic along the way.

Artists featured on this program include: Robert Rolfe Feddersen, Terri Ann Feddersen, Lazer Lloyd, The Spaniels Forever, Willie Rogers, Gene Stewart, Liz Mandeville, Doctu Rhute (aka Roy Hightower), Marco Villarreal, Christine Mild and Malcolm Ruhl.

Tom Lounges has been a region radio personality and a music journalist since 1979. For the last 35-years, he has been reporting on entertainment as a weekly columnist and feature writer for The Times newspaper. He was also publisher and editor of the monthly tri-state entertainment magazine ("Midwest BEAT Magazine") for over two decades, he has written hundreds of features for numerous national glossy magazines over the decades, and he wrote "Liner Notes" for over a dozen albums release by Sony Records.