October 31, 1998 broadcast with Kate MacKenzie, Butch Thompson & The Hiawatha Marching Band, and The Chenille Sisters
Live from the Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota, with Kate MacKenzie, Butch Thompson & The Hiawatha Marching Band, and The Chenille Sisters.
October 24, 1998 broadcast with Maria Jette and the Ensemble Singers of the Plymouth Music Series
Live from the Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota, with soprano Maria Jette and the Ensemble Singers of the Plymouth Music Series.
October 17, 1998 broadcast with Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, James & Jeanne Galway, and Trio Voronezh
Live from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, with oldtime duo Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, James and Jeanne Galway, and Russian group Trio Voronezh.
October 10, 1998 broadcast with the Hopeful Gospel Quartet and Dave Van Ronk
Live from the Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota, with the Hopeful Gospel Quartet and guitar legend Dave Van Ronk.
October 3, 1998 broadcast with Kate MacKenzie, the Tannahill Weavers, and Ann Hampton Callaway
Live from the Fitzgerald Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota, with guests Kate MacKenzie, the Tannahill Weavers, and Ann Hampton Callaway.
September 26, 1998 Talent from Towns Under 2,000 rebroadcast
A repeat of PHC's March 15, 1997, broadcast, our Third Annual "Talent from Towns Under 2,000" contest from the Ball State University campus in Muncie, Indiana. With six groups from small towns across the nationâsome of them defying icy roads and delayed flights to make it to Muncieâand a News From Lake Wobegon about botulism and canning.
September 19, 1998 rebroadcast with Leon Redbone and Diana Krall
A repeat of PHC's June 7, 1997, broadcast, from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, with guitarist-singer Leon Redbone and jazz singer-pianist Diana Krall with her trio. Plus the show's rock'n'roll demolition band, The Love Shovels; and, in Lake Wobegon, Irene Bunsen goes to a doctor in Minneapolis but doesn't tell anyone about it.
September 12, 1998 rebroadcast with Leo Kottke and Iris DeMent
A repeat of PHC's May 24, 1997, broadcast, from Columbia, Missouri, with guitarist Leo Kottke and singer Iris DeMent with her band, the Troublemakers. Radio private eye Guy Noir wants to be dressed for a picnic and turns to Gary's Plaid Pants Warehouse, and in Lake Wobegon, it's prom night, and the theme is "A Night in Barbados."
September 5, 1998 rebroadcast with the Battlefield Band, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, and LeRoy Lehr
A repeat of PHC's May 3, 1997, broadcast, with bass-baritone singer LeRoy Lehr, old-time/bluegrass pioneers Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, and Scottish group The Battlefield Band, whose young fiddler, John McCusker, has written a song called "Woe Be Gone," especially for the show. At Lake Wobegon High School, Mr. Halverson has ordered that no students throw their mortarboards into the air after graduation. But Elizabeth Bunsen cannot make herself follow his orders.
August 29, 1998 rebroadcast with Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Butch Thompson, and Kate MacKenzie
A repeat of PHC's April 19, 1997, broadcast, with singer Gillian Welchâwhom critics have embraced as "the Carter Family's long-lost niece"âand guitarist David Rawlings, plus boogie-woogie pianist Butch Thompson and singer Kate MacKenzie.