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Ally Venable and famous blues duos headline this episode of "Midwest Beat Blues."

Dave Mika, host of "Eye on the Arts Radio," talks with Amy Davis Navardauskas, Executive Director at the Art Barn School of Art, and Melissa Washburn, Program Manager at the Art Barn School of Art, about "Art Within Reach," beginning January 7th.

On this edition of "Eye on the Arts - Radio," host Dave Mika talks with Kirk Muspratt, Music Director/Conductor of the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra, about the upcoming Romeo & Juliet concert on Friday, May 10 th at 7:30pm.

Today: Indiana Dunes National Park Ranger Rafi Wilkinson is on "Regionally Speaking" to talk about the always-changing Mount Baldy.

For this week's edition of "MIDWEST BEAT BLUES" program things begin with a triple play of rock blues from the late RICK DERRINGER with one song from three of Rick's blues releases of the early 1990s and early 2000s.

This week's theme is NEW BLUES RELEASES! I do a double shot of songs from several NEW album releases for the entire 2 hour program. Among the artists who have new albums featured are: Ally Venable, Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton, Chris Duarte, Marc Broussard, Mike Zito, Joanna Conner, Eddie 9V, Taj Mahal, Nigel Mack, and Michael Jerome Browne.

South Shore Arts Executive Director Jonathan Canning, the host of Eye on the Arts Radio, speaks with Brandon Johnson, the South Shore Arts Gallery/Exhibition Manager, about the 83rd Annual Salon Show: My America, on view June 19 through August 15, 2026.For more information visit: southshoreartsonline.org/myamerica

This week's program starts off with a twin spin from "Electric Swamp Funkin' Blues," the forthcoming new album from Alligator Records by SELWYN BIRCHWOOD. This show gives my listeners an advance preview of two of the album's most powerful songs -- "The Church of Electric Swamp Funkin' Blues" and "All Hail The Algorithm."This week's edition also includes some of the latest songs from LIL' ED & THE BLUES IMPERIALS, ALLY VENABLE, and JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR. A special contest is also announced where blues fans can register for free to win prize packages related to blues guitarist JOANNE SHAW TAYLOR and her performance on Tuesday, March 31st at Hobart Art Theater.The songlist for the show also includes deep cuts from artists like RUFUS THOMAS, MAURICE JOHN VAUGHAN, BILLY BRANCH, JOHNNY WINTER, RICK DERRINGER, ALVIN LEE, DEBORAH BONHAM, KOKO TAYLOR and others.

Next week, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol finally arrives in paperback, along with Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton's memoir, journalist Fareed Zakaria's update on the post-American world, journalist Annie Jacobsen's look inside a top secret U.S. military base, and journalist Mitchell Zuckoff's true tale of the survivors in a WWII plane crash.

Members of the Jan. 6 committee are pursuing additional witnesses and say they are receiving a lot of new evidence. Their public hearings are now going to extend into July.