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Man Is Man set passion and pain to music

Man Is Man performs Saturday night at the Hideout; check out their performance at WBEZ first.

Man Is Man set passion and pain to music

Christa Meyer

(Christa Meyer)

It’s been a long, battle-worn journey for musician Christa Meyer – ending a marriage and the band she was in (Puerto Muerto) with her then-husband and forging ahead, personally and creatively, as she started up her latest project, Man Is Man.

Meyer has come out the other side. She joined Eight Forty-Eight earlier this year to talk about the project. Now she’s back on Friday with a full band, and ready to

Man Is Man performs Saturday night at the Hideout in Chicago.

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