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LIVE MUSIC FRIDAY: Chris Rollins | WKAR

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It’s a Live Music Friday again here on Current State, and today, our guest is guitarist Chris Rollins. He’s one of many music instructors and music students who will be at an open house at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Marshall Music School of Music in Lansing.Current State talks with Chris Rollins, Marshall Music School of Music director Hank Horton, and 14-year-old singer Lauren Lancaster.

Lancaster and Rollins team up to perform "I See Fire" from "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug".

Scott Pohl has maintained an on-call schedule reporting for WKAR following his retirement after 36 years on the air at the station.
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