Each Season Changes You
This week, we're back at our home base, the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, for a live broadcast with special guests, bluegrass siblings The Gibson Brothers, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Joe Newberry, and vocalist Heather Masse. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Fred Newman; pianist and musical director Richard Dworsky and The Exchange Street Quartet (drummer Bernie Dresel, Richard Kriehn on mandolin and fiddle, Gary Raynor on bass, and guitarist Chris Siebold); and the latest News from Lake Wobegon. If you're in the Twin Cities, join us at the Fitz after the show for the first of our January Jump Start concerts featuring all the guests from the broadcast.
So Far, So Near
This week, we're live from the Nourse Theater in San Francisco, California, with special guests the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band, sibling harmonizers T Sisters, and poet Joseph Stroud. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Jeri Lynn Cohen, and Fred Newman; pianist and musical director Richard Dworsky and the Inner Sunset Quartet (Jonathan Dresel on drums, Richard Kriehn on mandolin and fiddle, guitarist Chris Siebold, and Larry Steen on bass); and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
Early in the Evening
This week, we're rebroadcasting a show from January 2012 at The Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Joshua Bell plays Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor, and Jearlyn and Jevetta Sing "Rip it Up." In Lake Wobegon, unseasonably warm weather puts those who suffer from "Pump Handle Phobia" at ease.
Dancin' Out on 43rd Street
This week: a rebroadcast of a December 2013 performance at The Town Hall in New York City. Paul Shaffer joins Richard Dworsky and our house band to play the instrumental classic "Nut Rocker," Ellie Dehn performs "Ständchen," and The DiGiallonardo Sisters sing "When the Stars Go Blue." Plus, a John Lennon medley, and in Lake Wobegon, patrons at the Sidetrack Tap perform some impromptu satellite dish maintenance.
'Tis Winter Now
This week: it's our final live broadcast of 2014, from the Fitzgerald Theater on Exchange Street in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with our house choir, the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers with violinist Sara Pajunen, and vocalists Heather Masse and Lynn Peterson. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman; pianist and musical director Richard Dworsky with Richard Kriehn on mandolin and fiddle, guitarist Dean Magraw, and Gary Raynor on bass; and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
Like There's No Tomorrow
This week, we're live from our home base, the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with special guests, roadhouse R&B partiers the Marcia Ball Band, soprano Janis Hardy. Plus: the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Fred Newman; The Exchange Street String Quartet (pianist and musical director Richard Dworsky, cellist Sally Dorer, Richard Kriehn on mandolin and fiddle, and guitarist Dean Magraw); and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
This Vertical Place
This week, we're live from The Town Hall for our final New York show of the year, with special guests, Greenwich Village poet Edward Field, pianist and writer Jeremy Denk, and singers Karan Casey and Christine DiGiallonardo. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman; multi-instrumentalists Sam Bush and Stuart Duncan sit in with pianist and musical director Rich Dworsky and The 43rd Street Regulars (Chris Brown on drums, Richard Kriehn on mandolin and fiddle, and bassist Todd Parks); and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
Quality on 43rd Street
This week: we're back at The Town Hall in New York City for a live broadcast, with special guests, pub-rocker supreme Nick Lowe and musical ambassador Renee Fleming. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman; musical director Richard Dworsky with The 43rd Street Regulars (bassist Jeff Carney, cellist Eugene Friesen, Richard Kriehn on mandolin and fiddle, drummer Ray Marchica, and guitarist Chris Siebold); and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
All the Way
This week, we're live from The Town Hall on West 43rd Street in Manhattan, with vintage-pop singer Kat Edmonson, bandleader Vince Giordano, pianist and clarinetist Butch Thompson, and actress Kate Beahen. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman; pianist and musical director Richard Dworsky with The 43rd Street Regulars (trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso, drummer Tom Hipskind, Richard Kriehn on mandolin and fiddle, bassist Larry Kohut, and Chris Siebold on guitar); and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
Stand and Deliver
This week: we're live from the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, Minnesota, with special guests, spirited bluegrass quintet Steep Canyon Rangers, Rochester's own Choral Arts Ensemble, pianist Jane Belau, and our staff blues singer Hilary Thavis. Plus: the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Fred Newman; pianist and musical director Rich Dworsky and The Olmsted County Boys (Jeff Bailey on bass, drummer JT Bates, guitarist Armand Hirsch, and Richard Kriehn on mandolin and fiddle); and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.