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Local Current cheer: Help us fill our stocking with Minnesota holiday music!

by Jay Gabler

November 12, 2014

With snow on the ground, your thoughts may be turning to the holidays—and so are ours. We'll be celebrating the season (how else?) with local music, and we'd like your help to fill our music library with as much Minnesota holiday music as possible.

On Sunday, Dec. 21, David Campbell will host a special holiday episode of the Local Show from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on the Current. That episode will be re-broadcast the following day—Monday, Dec. 22—on our Local Current stream, followed by four hours of Minnesota holiday music presented by Andrea Swensson and me.

Andrea pulled a lot of Minnesota-made holiday music together for her seasonal shift last year, but we know there's a lot more out there! If you have any suggestions, please leave them as comments below or e-mail them to jgabler@mpr.org. Local bands, do you have holiday music you'd like us to consider playing? Please send it our way via our Web form (which, FYI, you can and should use all year long to make sure your new tunes make it into our hands to be considered for broadcast and/or blogging).

Thanks for rocking out with us this holiday season!

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This activity is made possible in part by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment’s Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.