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LIVE MUSIC FRIDAY: Brian Lorente

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Scott Pohl
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WKAR
Country artist Brian Lorente is our Live Music Friday guest.

One of Michigan’s biggest summer music festivals, the Faster Horses country music festival at the Michigan International Speedway near Brooklyn, is this weekend. Current State celebrates country music in Michigan with our Live Music Friday guest, Brian Lorente.

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Bonus music: Brian Lorente, "Born Again"

The Faster Horses country music festival is this weekend at the Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, and Current State is celebrating country music with our Live Music Friday guest, Lansing-based country artist Brian Lorente.

Lorente and his band, The Usual Suspects, played at the first Faster Horses festival and will be playing at a number of gigs around Michigan and the Midwest this summer.

Current State talks with Brian Lorente about his career in country music, and he performs "Room 18" live in WKAR's Studio S.

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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