All'opra, All'opra!

hosted by Garrison Keillor
Show #1507July 18, 2015
From War Memorial Opera House | San Francisco, CA
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A Prairie Home Companion for July 18, 2015
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  • A Prairie Home Companion for July 18, 2015
  • Tishomingo Blues - GK and Shoe Band, GK Studio Open
  • Open Script, Part 1
  • Living in the Bay
  • Open Script, Part 2
  • The Monkey and The Engineer
  • I Laid Me Down to Slumber
  • Black S.U.V.
  • The Lives of the Cowboys script
  • Powdermilk Biscuit Break
  • Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate, The Storms Are On the Ocean
  • Les Mis script
  • Hinbarra
  • Cockles and Mussels (Molly Malone)
  • Fiddle Medley
  • Intermission - Hills of SF, GK Greetings
  • Safe at Anchor
  • Beautiful
  • Tall script
  • Temptation
  • News From Lake Wobegon
  • Take It With Me
  • The Anvil Chorus
  • Open Script, Part 3
  • GK Credits, Goodnight Ladies/ Merrily We Roll Along - GK, Chanticleer and Shoe Band, Back Up and Push/ Boston Boy - Sara Watkins, Richard Kriehn and Shoe Band
Chanticleer
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Chanticleer
Sara Watkins
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Sara Watkins
This week: our summer rebroadcasts continue, with a show originally from the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, California back in January 2013. Chanticleer perform "I Laid Me Down to Slumber" and Sara Watkins sings "Take it With Me." Plus, Dusty and Lefty wrangle with lawless Silicon Valley desperadoes, thoughts on the perils of being a tall person, and there's a terrible flu going around Lake Wobegon.

Guest Information

  • Chanticleer

    Chanticleer had its beginnings in 1978 when a musicology grad student named Louis Botto got a bunch of his friends together around a dining room table in San Francisco. Now in its 35th season, the Grammy-winning male vocal ensemble has toured worldwide and released dozens of recordings, including 2012's By Request (Chanticleer Records). More than 100 men have sung with Chanticleer, the first group of its kind to be inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. The current members are: Eric Alatorre, Michael Axtell, Casey Breves, Michael Bresnahan, Brian Hinman, Ben Jones,Matthew Knickman, Cortez Mitchell, Gregory Peebles,Kory Reid, Alan Reinhardt, and Adam Ward. Jace Wittigis the interim music director.

  • Sara Watkins

    Singer-songwriter and fiddle player Sara Watkins - along with her brother Sean and mandolinist Chris Thile - was a founding member of the Grammy-winning progressive bluegrass group Nickel Creek. In 2015, Sara and Sean released their "family-band-of-sorts project," Watkins Family Hour, and then embarked on a tour that included stops at Conan, NPR's Tiny Desk Concert, and the Newport Folk Festival. Sara's latest recording: Young in All the Wrong Ways (New West Records).