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'Monthly Metra Folk Jam' Turns Friday Commute into Impromptu Concert

By  Kyla Gardner and Jon Hansen | February 26, 2015 5:34am | Updated on February 27, 2015 8:50am

 James Conway, (center, playing the tin whistle), began organizing a monthly trip to Kenosha, Wis. about six years ago. The musicians turn a Metra car into a party the last Friday of each month.
James Conway, (center, playing the tin whistle), began organizing a monthly trip to Kenosha, Wis. about six years ago. The musicians turn a Metra car into a party the last Friday of each month.
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ABOARD THE LAST TRAIN FROM KENOSHA — One Friday a month, a Union Pacific/North Line Metra car transforms from a quiet commuter train into a traveling concert hall.

Chicago musician James Conway, who plays the harmonica and tin whistle, leads the journey across the Illinois border to a Wisconsin fish-fry on the last Friday of each month.

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