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When The Bacon Brothers hit the stage at 9 p.m. Friday at the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival, at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, it’s purely a songwriter-driven evening.
Paul Hoeffler
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This is the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Monday, January 31, 2022.
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