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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Vegas Radio: Homegrown Show Observes 15 Years

Bands come and go, but “The Homegrown Show,” a weekly local music showcase on rock KOMP 92.3 FM, remains.

According to lasvegassun.com, the Sunday night two-hour radio show, which celebrates 15 years on the air this month, has featured more than 1,000 bands from Las Vegas and surrounding areas.

“I didn’t have a strategy to get this far,” jokes show founder and host Laurie Steele, who moved to Las Vegas from Southern California in 1996 for a job with KKLZ. Taking an interest in the local rock music scene, she pitched a local music show to the station; they didn’t bite, but KOMP did and welcomed “The Homegrown Show” with open arms.

Originally airing for just an hour, the program soon expanded to an hour and a half and for the past 10 years has been running as a two-hour show that includes band interviews and in-studio performances, as well as live showcases Steele hosts periodically in town.

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