At Sunsets Gate
hosted by Garrison Keillor
Show #1376January 19, 2013
From ASU Gammage | Tempe, Arizona
0:00 | 01:58:59
Gail Steiger
Run Boy Run
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Coming to you this week live from ASU Gammage in Tempe, Arizona, it's A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, songwriter and cowboy poet Gail Steiger and old-time bluegrass outfit Run Boy Run. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
Run Boy Run
Flagged by Paste Magazine as one of "10 Arizona bands you should listen to now," old-time and bluegrass group Run Boy Run has been gathering fans throughout the West (and beyond) since they first teamed up at the University of Arizona in 2009. Winners of the 2011 Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band Contest, their sound includes captivating three-part female harmony and masterful fiddle work by a two-time Arizona State Fiddle Champion. Run Boy Run is Matt Rolland (fiddle, guitar), Grace Rolland (cello),Bekah Sandoval (fiddle), Jen Sandoval (mandolin), and Jesse Allen (bass).Gail Steiger
Songwriter, filmmaker, poet, and cowboy Gail Steiger has been playing guitar and writing songs - not to mention cowboying - since he was a youngster. He may have come by some of his talents through the gene pool: His grandfather, Gail I. Gardner, wrote cowboy songs, including the favorite "Tying the Knots in the Devil's Tail." Since 1995, Gail has been the foreman of the Spider Ranch near Prescott, Arizona. His filmRanch Album, celebrating cowboy life and ranching in northern Arizona, was released as a PBS special. He has also traveled the globe working on a documentary about cowboys around the world.