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Live Music Friday: Sunny Wilkinson and Ron Newman

WKAR Public Media | By Scott Pohl
Published May 13, 2016 at 11:48 AM EDT
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The husband and wife duo of Sunny Wilkinson and Ron Newman

Singer Sunny Wilkinson is our Live Music Friday guest. Ron Newman, her husband, is also with us on piano in WKAR's Studio S.

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BONUS MUSIC: Sunny Wilkinson and Ron Newman, 'High Wire'

Our Live Music Friday guests today are the husband-wife jazz duo of Sunny Wilkinson and Ron Newman. Along with recording and performing, they both teach. Ron is a professor of music theory at MSU and, of course, plays piano. Sunny is an artist in residence at the University of Michigan and Hillsdale College.

Together, they perform "You and I" and "It Could Happen To You" live from WKAR's Studio S.
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Scott Pohl
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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