April Come She Will
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we're getting ready for our spring run in New York City with a look back at a broadcast from The Town Hall in April 2009.Wynton Marsalis plays "My Jazz, My Soul" and appears in Guy Noir as subway busker Pierpont Marsalis, and Heather Masse sings "Our World." Plus, it's a tough time for marriage in Lake Wobegon, unless you have a ritual argument like Myrtle and Florian Krebsbach.
You Never Know
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we rewind to October 2009, and a broadcast from The Fitzgerald Theater. The boys of Wilco play "One By One" and Patty Loveless sings "Busted." Plus, a song about being "Unfriended," Dusty and Lefty meet a "horror punk" musician, and in Lake Wobegon, a booger joke starts a troublesome chain of events.
Puttin' on the Style
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we're kicking off our run of spring repeats with a show originally broadcast from The Fitzgerald Theater back in March 2002. Cowgirl singer Stephanie Davis joins Garrison on "Pick Me Up On Your Way Down," our good friend Peter Ostroushko plays the "East Texas Waltz," and guitarist Mike Dowling performs "Rosalie." Plus, Guy Noir tangles with The Question Man, Cindy Cashdollar sits in on steel guitar with The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and in Lake Wobegon, a bad cough requires "Grandma's Plaster."
Counting the Stars
Coming to you this week from The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, it's a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, vocalist Heather Masse and pianist Jed Wilson, and singing sisters Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, and Fred Newman; an extra-wide Shoe Band with Michael B. Nelson, Kenni Holmen, and Steve Strand on brass and Joe Savage on steel guitar; and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
Someone's in the Kitchen
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we're live from The Fitzgerald Theater in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota with a show celebrating all things banjo. With special guests, five-string masters Noam Pikelny, Joe Newberry, and Bill Evans, singer Suzy Bogguss, and country music historian Bill C. Malone. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, guitarist Dean Magraw joins The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
Winterbound
Coming to you live this week fromThe Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, it's A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, young bluegrass band Run Boy Run, soprano Maria Jette, and the Midwinter Tuba Quintet. 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.
The Heart is a Tender Thing
Coming to you this week from The Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, Buddhist-inspired folk musician Ellis, and men's choir Cantus. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Lindsay Marcy, and Fred Newman, guitar man Dean Magraw sits in with The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
Dreaming About Magnolias in Bloom
This week on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, we're kicking off a five-week homestand in Saint Paul, Minnesota with a live broadcast from The Fitzgerald Theater followed by our Prairie Home Companion Masked Ball. With special guests, big-voiced New Orleans vocalist Topsy Chapman and our good friend Butch Thompson and His New Orleans Orphans. Plus, 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.
Spring will Come
Coming to you this week from the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wisconsin, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, close-harmonizers The Krause Family Band, and our good friends Robin and Linda Williams. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, Dean Magraw sits in on guitar with The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.
At Sunsets Gate
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.