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WOLFFGANG Choral Group In Studio For The Holiday Season!

Hobart High School's WOLFFGANG choral group is live on tonight's "Midwest BEAT with Tom Lounges" radio program on Lakeshore Public Radio.

The ladies were performing in our TV studio and broadcast over the radio while we were video taping their performances tonight in for possible visual media and social media use during the holiday season.

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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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