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Known to KPIG listeners as the friendly, down-home host of Out To Lunch every weekday on The Pig - the unassuming gal-next-door voice that made the workday go down smoother - Laura Ellen Hopper was in fact the brains behind KPIG. She created the Americana radio format that we know today.
Laura Ellen started her association with weird, offbeat radio stations as a teenage volunteer at KDNA in St. Louis - a station whose claims to fame included a highly publicized police raid and a running feud between the two Marxist communes based at the station's studios. Her tenure at the infamous KFAT was only slightly less bizarre. Come to think of it, KPIG is a pretty damn strange place to hang out, too. Coincidence? Perhaps.
Laura Ellen left us on Memorial Day 2007 at 7:15am, due to complications from cancer.
Laura Ellen Related Links
"Pigs In a Podcast" Episode #24 - Laura Ellen Tribute at the 2007 Americana Music Association
The Cowboy Cultural Society
KFAT Radio
Donations in Laura Ellen's honor can be sent to:
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