Hi-Line Living: KNMC revives the radio star

KNMC's Rock Lotto drew scores of music lovers to Town Square during this year's Havre Festival Day's celebration in September.

The event consisted of five bands whose members were chosen at random, each tasked with performing five cover songs that spanned from the '50s to the '90s.

Dave Martens, an organizer of the Rock Lotto and manager of KNMC, Montana State University-Northern's radio station, said at the time that the concert was both a means to promote local music and a celebration to mark the 15th anniversary of the station's resurrection.

The event was also a way for musicians to do wha...