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Introduction of the Chicago Musician podcast and its host, Shawn Stengel. Shawn is a long-time Chicago musician who has also worked across the country and internationally. This podcast will include reviews of theatrical productions and concerts, plus conversations with fellow musicians and interesting people that this musician has met along the way. The conversations are intended to be welcoming, informal, and free-wheeling. Hopefully these chats will be enlightening, personal, funny, unusual, political, truthful, emotional as well as musical.
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