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A Retirement Celebration for Owen DeJong

On Wednesday, December 14, SDPB celebrated the career of longtime Morning Classics host Owen DeJong with a morning of memories, friends and great music all broadcast live from the Freedom Forum on the campus of USD.

The musician line-up is as follows (listed in order of appearance):

Rawlins Piano Trio (Ioana Galu, Marie-Elaine Gagnon, and Susan Keith Gray)

Mezzo Soprano Tracelyn Gesteland with Susan Keith Gray at the piano

Rick Rognstad & Lorrie Thomas

Susanne Skyrm

Owen and Friends Band (left to right): Al Remund, Larry Rohrer, Nick Schwebach, Boyd Bristow, Owen DeJong and C.J. Kocher.