Coming to you this week from the Town Hall in New York City, a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, innovative and magical guitar duo, Brazilian-born brothers Sergio and Odair Assad, and up from the Smoky Mountains of Virginia, old friends Robin and Linda Williams. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Acting; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and SFX man Mr. Fred Newman, maestro Richard Dworsky, a New York celebration of William Shakespeare, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

Coming to you live this week, via old-time copper wire ISDN networks, and from the historic Town Hall in New York City, it's A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. This week's special guest, the Portsmouth progenitor of Blues, Folk, and Country music, Tom Rush, young master pianist and Juilliard alumni Shai Wosner, and Bluegrass bombshell Sarah Jarosz. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and SFX man Mr. Fred Newman, Rich Dworsky and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

Coming to you live this week from the Town Hall in New York City, in its Alabaster 37th season on Public Radio, A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With this week's special guests, guru of jazz, blues, and ragtime Leon Redbone, luminescent singer-songwriter Heather Masse, and sitting in with The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, Mr. Andy Stein. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, SFX man Mr. Fred Newman, and junior L.A. star member Ms. Erica Rhodes.

Coming to you this week from the historic Broadway Town Hall in New York City, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion. With special guests, traveling Tennessee troubadour extraordinaire Justin Townes Earle, and originally from Gary, Indiana, Gospel Singer Jearlyn Steele. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and SFX man Mr. Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion we're in Nashville, Tennessee at the beautiful and historic Ryman Auditorium. With special guests, the prolific Emmylou Harris, hairy bluegrass madman Sam Bush, and master fiddler Stuart Duncan. Plus, young hip Tennessee duo The Civil Wars, and a former host of the show, singer and fiddler Sara Watkins. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion our last springtime compilation program before we're live again next week at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, including bits and pieces from our spring and fall runs at The Town Hall in New York City. Raúl Melo sings Puccini's "Che Gelida Manina," Nellie McKay sings "I Want to Get Married" and Brad Paisley sings "I'm Still a Guy." Plus, Guy Noir hosts a papal visit to the Big Apple and a message from Bob's Bank (Save at the Sign of the Sock!). And in Lake Wobegon, Darlene down at the Chatterbox Café has been visiting online chat rooms and it's been getting a little racy. It's finally spring and love is in the air, this week.

Coming up on A Prairie Home Companion, an all-things-Irish compilation in advance of St. Patrick's Day on the 17th. Martin Sheen plays James Joyce in an episode of The Lives of the Cowboys, the late Frank Harte sings a tune from Finnegans Wake, and Pat Donohue has the Irish Blues. Plus, Sean O'Driscoll, Cathal McConnell and The Boys of the Lough, and Solas. In Lake Wobegon, Ronnie Detmer's uncle travels to Dublin to collect an inheritance. Grab your hankie for a "Danny Boy" sing-along and say a prayer for your sainted mother, this week.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, the first in our springtime compilation series: a mix of shows from the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. Superstar Brad Paisley sings "La Bamba" in an episode of Guy Noir and joins Sam Bush and Pat Donohue for a picker's version of Pat's song "Stealin' from Chet." Plus, Alison Krauss, The Dave Rawlings Machine, Cowboy Jack Clement, Buddy Emmons, Johnny Gimble and Kacey Jones with Roger Miller's "King of the Road." Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Sue Scott, Tim Russell, Fred Newman and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band. It's a game of musical chairs, from Nashville, this weekend.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion we escape the heavy burden of late February snow by heading to balmy San Diego, for a live broadcast performance from the San Diego Civic Theatre, with bright-eyed Bluegrass ambassadors Sara and Sean Watkins, the United States Navy Band Southwest, and from the Department of Gospel Music Studies, Jearlyn Steele. Plus, fiddler and mandolin player Richard Kriehn sitting in with Richard Dworsky and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band: Pat Donohue, Gary Raynor and Peter Johnson. Plus, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors (Sue Scott, Tim Russell and Fred Newman) and the latest news from the buried plain.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, just like in the good old days, Tom Keith is driving the 1975 Winnebago with the wobbly stovetop and the ten gallon pot of scalding venison chili, to a live broadcast performance from the Physical Education Center Gym in Morris, Minnesota. With special guests, U of M Morris Concert Choir, fiddle champions Catie Jo Pidel and sisters Deena and Sedra Bistodeau, and master of the singing saw Andy McCormick. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, singer Jearlyn Steele, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.