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Midwest Beat

Blues Women Of The Blues Festival!

By Tom Lounges
Published August 1, 2022 at 12:18 PM CDT

Tune in as Tom Lounges chat with Samantha Shocaroff Muffett and Michelle Prosser about the big blues festival celebrating women of the blues. He will also be spinning some songs by a selection of the female artists who will be performing at this event at Central Park Plaza in Valparaiso, IN.

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Tom Lounges
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.
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