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Morning Edition: Music

Minnesota high school band plays at Pearl Harbor

Minnesota high school band plays at Pearl Harbor

Students from Minnesota were among the band members playing in the International Mass Band at a Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony in Hawaii.

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'Lawdy Miss Clawdy' among songs in new oral history book

In the new book "Anatomy of a Song" by Marc Myers, Lloyd Price describes how he was discovered while playing this song in his mother's sandwich shop in New Orleans.

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Dessa appears on 'Hamilton Mixtape'

Dessa appears on 'Hamilton Mixtape'

Minneapolis rapper Dessa performs a song that was cut from the stage production.

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New film shows how a small studio in Wisconsin influenced Nirvana

Today's Morning Edition music is from Killdozer, with their take on the CCR song "Run Through the Jungle." It was recorded in 1983 at Smart Studios in Madison, Wis. A new film, "The Smart Studios Story," will be screened tonight at the Turf Club in St. Paul.

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Dorado Schmitt to play Dakota Jazz Club

Schmitt, who plays guitar and violin, was born in Lorraine, France. According to his bio, he was weaned on traditional Roma music and Gypsy jazz, but rebelled as a teenager by taking up the electric guitar.

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