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Up North Lowdown

Life, death and the arts in northern Michigan

By Max Copeland
Published April 26, 2025 at 5:55 AM EDT
In the musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," Monty is ninth in line to inherit the earldom of Highhurst - other heirs beware! (photo courtesy Old Town Playhouse)
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In the musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," Monty is ninth in line to inherit the earldom of Highhurst - other heirs beware! (photo courtesy Old Town Playhouse)

This week on the Up North Lowdown, we’ll meet the host of a new podcast from Classical IPR called Intermezzo ... plus OUR host Ed Ronco goes on stage in Traverse City and dies. But on purpose.

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is the name of that play. We’ll also hear about a new murder mystery set in a fictional landscape that is unabashedly northern Michigan. Then we’ll meet a man who volunteers to play music to hospice patients.

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Max Copeland
Max Copeland was the local weekday host of All Things Considered on Interlochen Public Radio and the producer of The Up North Lowdown, IPR’s weekly news podcast.
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