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30-Minute Music Hour: Pat MacDonald
(Pat MacDonald performs live on the 30-Minute Music Hour)
Sturgeon Bay-based Pat MacDonald is best known for his 1980s band TIMBUK III. The band hit it big with MacDonald's song "The Future's So Bright (I Gotta Wear Shades)." Singer/songwriter Jackson Browne calls MacDonald, "one of the country's preeminent lyricists." Browne travels to Sturgeon Bay each summer to appear in MacDonald's annual "Steel Bridge Music Festival," a two day fest that raises funds to preserve the old steel bridge that crosses into Sturgeon Bay. MacDonald also owns (together with Browne) and operates The Holiday Motel in Sturgeon Bay which he's partially converting to studio space so musicians can stay and record. MacDonald tours clubs all over the country. His latest CD, released in January of 2007, is a solo effort called "Troubadour of Stomp."
January 15, 2008
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