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Podcast: WBEZ News
Episode: Meet Chicago musician Mara Love, who won the 2025 Chicago Made Music Showcase
Description: Each year, Chicago’s cultural affairs department stages a competition for local musicians.
It’s called the Chicago Made Music Showcase….Winners go on to perform at Lollapalooza and Taste of Chicago ….and they get studio recording time.
The grand prize winner also receives ten-thousand dollars.
This year’s top vote getter is the singer Mara Love. She visited the studios of WBEZ sister station Vocalo to talk with Nudia Hernandez about what’s next.
HOST: LANE