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Schubert Club: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

Take a few thousand old books and add four guitarists in a majestic Italian Renaissance style space, and you have all the makings of an amazing night of music. On March 26, the Schubert Club welcomed the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet to the James J. Hill Center in St. Paul, Minn., for an evening of their signature, Grammy-winning music. Listen now.

Scott Blankenship started his radio career in college when he began working as a volunteer at a local cable radio station, announcing alternative and new rock music. His love and appreciation of classical music began at public radio station KVNO in Omaha, where he spent 13 years in various on-air and management roles, five of those years as the morning drive-time host.

Indications that radio was in his blood go back to age five, when he used a corkboard and a battered phonograph as a makeshift radio studio; his father's Air Force issue flashlight served as his "on air" light. In his spare time, Blankenship is an avid cyclist and amateur playwright with several produced scripts to his credit.


Scott Blankenship

Take a few thousand old books and add four guitarists in a majestic Italian Renaissance style space, and you have all the makings of an amazing night of music. On March 26, the Schubert Club welcomed the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet to the James J. Hill Center in St. Paul, Minn., for an evening of their signature, Grammy-winning music. Listen to that concert now.


Listen to the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet's recent Twin Cities concert

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