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Love Army Fights NC General Assembly With Music

WUNC | By Frank Stasio,

Adija Manley, Mark Haywood

Published July 12, 2013 at 11:02 AM EDT

Skillet Gilmore

Two weeks ago, the North Carolina Music Love Army did not exist. It was just an idea.

Now, the North Carolina Music Love Army is a 40 plus-member music collective singing out against the actions of the North Carolina legislature and supporting Moral Mondays.

Seven members of the collective join Frank in the studio today and play live. They are Jon Lindsay, Caitlin Cary, Lynn Blakey, Snuzz, Skylar Gudasz, Shirlette Ammons and Jesse Huebner.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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