Soundtrack of southern Minnesota

MANKATO —  

The eight inductees for the Mid-America Music Hall of Fame collectively tally dozens of albums, decades (and decades) of experience and more memories than can fit into one newspaper. 

But they'll reprise some of those good shows, great songs and bygone memories during a hall of fame concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday at the Kato Ballroom.

Inductees include: Whitesidewalls, The Shags, The Joe Schultz Band, Sandra Lee & The Velvets, The Murphy Brothers Band, Dick Kimmel and Jerilyn Kjellberg, Jim McGuire and Paul Durenberger.

"With a lot of people, this music is attached to their memories, their marriage, their job," said Doug Spartz, director of the hall of fame. "All their lives are associated with this music."

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