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      September 19, 2023
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      September 11, 2023
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      August 22, 2023
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      February 22, 2018
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      December 22, 2022
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      Milwaukee Record Staff
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Author Erin Dorbin

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Erin Dorbin

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Erin Dorbin is a really cool mom, public historian, and rural citizen-artist living and working in Driftless Minnesota. She misses Milwaukee and still gets the old band—Winter Bear—back together a few times a year for an excuse to return. She also has a new band called Missing Time in Minnesota and looks forward to playing your city soon.

Merry Figgsmas! An oral history of the Midwest’s love affair with The Figgs

Erin Dorbin
August 7, 2019
The Figgs have been a motivating and binding force in the Wisconsin/Midwest music scene for over two decades. They travel exclusively to satiate the Wisconsin audiences with multiple back-to-back shows every fe...
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