Musician and activist Steve Lester on “Up Close Show” Friday (6/2)

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A very unique, very local, tongue-in cheek look back at the politics of Joshua Tree will be featured on this week’s Z107.7 “Up Close” show with Gary Daigneault.

Musician and activist Steve Lester has been chronicling local issues for over 30 years. His new album, “OUR CHILDREN’S WORLD” (30 years of protest songs from Joshua Tree) has just been released.

Join Lester and Daigneault this Friday (6/2) from 10:00 am to 11:00am as they talk about the issues and play cuts from the album.

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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.