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Talking the 25-person rock band of La Crosse high school students ready to play Moon Tunes
Brian Renkas, a longtime Logan High School band director, joins La Crosse Talk PM on Tuesday to hype up the La Crosse Confluence, a 25-student rock band, that’s playing Moon Tunes on Thursday and Ashely for the Arts later this summer.
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Renkas (7:00) talks how a 25-person rock band works, their favorite songs and where this got started. The La Crosse Confluence has a full horn section, guitarists, bassists, keyboardists, percussionists and vocalists.
The Confluence is made up of students from both Central and Logan high schools. So, we of course, talk about breaking up the band to their respective high schools, then encouraging rival schools to start their own and have a Coulee Region Battle of the Bands — which is the subplot of Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
Before Renkas joins, we talk about a couple stories happening in the area, including a microgrid that would power city and county buildings, as well as Western Tech, and the School District of La Crosse’s referendum.
