Coming up this week on A Prairie Home Companion, a nautical show for all the summer sailors. Maria Jette sings Schubert's "Die Forelle" ("The Trout"). Ruth Harrison turns down an opportunity to sail around the world with a swarthy author, Kate Rusby sings "I Courted a Sailor," John C. Reilly sings a sea shanty from our Iceland show, and you'll get the latest info on Tom Keith's cruise on Lake Superior called "The Inner Passage." Plus, Greek Tragedy, "The Golden Vanity," John Hiatt and a history lesson about the settlement of Minnesota by the Vikings. In Lake Wobegon, a bikini-clad water skier knocks the socks off a young pastor, literally.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, it's time again for our live season finale at the Ravinia Festival Pavilion in Highland Park, Illinois. With special guests, Nashville Hall of Fame singer-songwriter John Prine, Howard Levy, Andra Suchy, 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. Join us this 4th of July weekend for a very special wrap-up to the 2009-2010 APHC season.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we'll bring you a live broadcast performance from the Koussevitzky Music Shed at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, MA. With special guests The Wailin' Jennys, Hilary Thavis, Andra Suchy, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Erica Rhodes, and Fred Newman. Plus, the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, a live broadcast performance from the Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. With special guest, veteran Bluegrass center fielders Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder. Also with us, Kent, Ohio's very own Jessica Lea Mayfield, vocalist Andra Suchy, 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.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, a live broadcast performance from the Star Theatre at Spokane Arena. With special guests, the fine whines of veteran troubadours Robin and Linda Williams, the coolest cow-poke around, Wylie Gustafson, and singer-songwriter Andra Suchy. 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.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion we're broadcasting live from The Santa Barbara Bowl, in Southern California. With special guests, a master of flatted thirds and minor sevenths, bluesman Elvin Bishop, and fiddler extraordinaire Sara Watkins. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, the The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon. Join us this weekend, live from the beautiful American Riviera.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion we go deep into the heart of the wolf, with a live broadcast performance from the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, VA. With special guests, the grandfather of the singer-songwriter era Tom Rush, brilliant acoustic artists Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings Machine, and eclectic Jazz vocalist Inga Swearingen. Also with us, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, a live broadcast performance from The Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. With special guests, humorist Roy Blount, Jr., folk singer-songwriter Caroline Herring, The unbelievable Steep Canyon Rangers, and blues-woman E.G. Kight. 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.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, a special springtime compilation program in an effort to revive warm weather on the tundra with Stephanie Davis singing "Springtime Feeling In My Heart," Donald Hall reading a Jane Kenyon poem about warm weather and springtime is bath time for Dusty and Lefty, a pair of crusty cowboys coming in off the godforsaken trail. Plus, VocalEssence sings "Welcome Spring," Rob Fisher plays "Spring Fever" and in Lake Wobegon: Hope springs eternal when Ronnie Detmer believes he may have found a golden ring out in the Whippets' centerfield that belonged to the late, great Babe Ruth. All that, plus The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band in seersucker suits, and The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Sue Scott, Tim Russell, Tom Keith and Fred Newman.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, live from The Town Hall in New York City, our final Broadway engagement of the season. With special guest, legendary pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and composer, Dick Hyman. Also with us, vocalist Andra Suchy, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Fred Newman, and Erica Rhodes. Vince Giordano, Randy Sandke, and Andy Stein are sitting in with The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and of course, we'll have the latest News from Lake Wobegon.