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Desert Fringe Festival on Up Close Show this Friday (4/10)

Gary Daigneault Send an email April 9, 2026

In its eighth year of showcasing original, non-traditional, provocative performance art, The Desert Fringe Theatre and Cultural Arts Festival will take place on the weekend of April 17-19. 

On the Z107.7 “Up Close” show this Friday (4/10), Fringe Fest producer and Executive director of Project Sheba, Miri Hunter and Glass Outhouse owner Quisha Henderson will talk with host Gary Daigneault about the festival, its venues and features.

Find out all about this years Fringe Fest on the Z107.7 “Up Close” show live this Friday at 10:00am on Z107.7 FM radio and podcast at z1077fm.com.

Gary Daigneault Send an email April 9, 2026
Gary Daigneault

Gary Daigneault

Gary Daigneault has been a broadcast journalist for 45 years with awards and citations from the Associated Press, National Association of Broadcasters, Radio-Television News Association, Radio Inc. Magazine, five “Golden Mic” and four “Mark Twain” awards. In 2010 he was inducted into the Associated Press Hall of Fame. Daigneault taught Broadcasting for 27 years. He is President of Theatre 29, six term Past-President of Rotary Clubs, Past-President of Twentynine Palms and Joshua Tree Chambers of Commerce and chaired the Joshua Tree National Park Commission. Gary and wife Cindy live in Twentynine Palms since 1979. They have two children and five grandchildren.