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Photos: Twin Cities music venues shuttered by coronavirus pandemic

Photos by Lucy Hawthorne for MPR
Photos by Lucy Hawthorne for MPR

by Jay Gabler

March 27, 2020

As the Twin Cities, along with much of the rest of the world, hunker down at home to slow the spread of COVID-19, photographer Lucy Hawthorne visited several local music venues to document closed doors, empty streets...and signs of hope.

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