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      <title>Genesee County Jail To Launch Music School Thanks To Country Singer Jelly Roll</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Headed to Nashville this year? Make sure you stop by and celebrate these two West Michigan natives being added to the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum <a href="https://wgrd.com/ixp/44/p/west-michigan-artists-featured-country-music-hall-of-fame-exhibit/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Headed to Nashville this year? Make sure you stop by and celebrate these two West Michigan natives being added to the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum <a href="https://wgrd.com/ixp/44/p/west-michigan-artists-featured-country-music-hall-of-fame-exhibit/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <description><![CDATA[Here is where and when you can see Luke Bryan's Farm Tour when he stops in Michigan. <a href="https://wgrd.com/ixp/44/p/luke-bryan-farm-tour-2023/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Here is where and when you can see Luke Bryan&apos;s Farm Tour when he stops in Michigan. <a href="https://wgrd.com/ixp/44/p/luke-bryan-farm-tour-2023/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></content:encoded>
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      <description><![CDATA[With two words the Faster Horses Music Festival announced their intention to return this summer. Those two words? "We Back."

The annual music festival will take place at the Michigan International Speedway on July 16th-18th. The event's 2020 headliners; Jason Aldean, Thomas Rhett, & Luke Combs are set to take the stage at the 2021 event. 
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[With two words the Faster Horses Music Festival announced their intention to return this summer. Those two words? &quot;We Back.&quot;

The annual music festival will take place at the Michigan International Speedway on July 16th-18th. The event&apos;s 2020 headliners; Jason Aldean, Thomas Rhett, &amp; Luke Combs are set to take the stage at the 2021 event. 
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2020 01:15:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[It all started with a Tweet. <a href="https://wgrd.com/kacey-musgraves-kelsea-ballerini-call-out-mi-radio-station-for-sexism/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[There's a mash-up on YouTube of SIX different hit country songs that sound so similar it's hard to tell when one ends and the other begins. <a href="https://wgrd.com/free-beer-hot-wingssix-country-songs-separated-at-birth-audio/">Continue reading&hellip;</a>]]></description>
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