Coming up this week bits and pieces of two shows from springtimes past: one from Hot Springs, Arkansas and the other from Columbus Georgia. The first-couple of old time music, Norman and Nancy Blake, sing "Hawaiian Mother of Mine," Robin and Linda Williams sing "Green Summertime," and Jearlyn Steele appears in an episode of Guy Noir as Geraldine — a woman in search of her stardom. Plus, guitarist Jake Fussell, country swingers BR-549, and a message from Lurleen's Spa in Hot Springs. Lurleen's Hot Springs: It Feels So Good When It's Done.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, it's a live broadcast performance from the Durham Performing Arts Center, in Durham, North Carolina. With special guests, Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group, roots duo Polecat Creek, and old-time string band Big Medicine. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, pianist Richard Dworsky, and The News from Lake Wobegon.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion we're live from the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee. With special guests, the bad boys of Bluegrass, The Sam Bush Band, and chart topping Country singer-songwriter Brad Paisley. Also with us, Andra Suchy, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we'll bring you a live broadcast performance from The Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut. Featuring Arlo Guthrie and the Lost World Tour with special guests Abe Guthrie and The Burns Sisters, Lara Herscovitch, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, pianist Richard Dworsky, and The News from Lake Wobegon.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, legendary English singer-songwriter Elvis Costello makes his first appearance on the show at Town Hall in New York City. Also with us: renowned guitarist/ songwriter Tom Rush, who influenced the greats (James Taylor and Garth Brooks) and introduced us to the likes of Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne. Plus, Heather Masse, Guy Noir, Radio Private Eye, and the latest post-Easter, post-Tax Day news from Lake Wobegon.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we're back at Town Hall with this season's talent contest: The Great American Duet Sing-Off. The six pairs of finalists will be singing their hearts out for your vote, the grand prize, a silver water tower trophy, and the title of Wobegon Idol. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Erica Rhodes, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we're live from The Town Hall in New York City. With special guests, jazz great Wynton Marsalis and his Quintet, and sensational singer Heather Masse. 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 News from Lake Wobegon.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we're live from the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in Appleton, Wisconsin. Featuring all local talent, including Cory Chisel, Greg Waters, Dance Billy Dance, American Fiction, Jonathan Eddy, and Helen Exner. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Acting; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, with the streets free of ice and snow, we can safely leave our feverish cabins for the annual spring visit to Minneapolis. We're broadcasting live from the State Theater with John McDermott, Rory Block, Peter Ostroushko, Maria Jette, and Andra Suchy. Plus, a Harpsichord, Cello, and Violin in honor of J.S. Bach's birthday, playing some of the master's "lost" works. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Fred Newman, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, it's a joke show compilation with the now legendary "Buzz Off" competition between our sound- effects men Tom Keith and Fred Newman, Andy Stein's latest "Knock-Knock" song, and a slew of blonde jokes, lawyer jokes, Unitarian jokes, puns, groaners and one really good parrot joke (no penguins this time). Southern-fried humorist Roy Blount Jr. takes a break from that NPR show to chime in with a few jokes, Guy Noir tries to find love through a dating service, and Dusty lets the bad jokes fly — that is until Spike and Big Messer show up. Of course the rest of the gang is here too — The Royal Academy of Radio Actors to help keep the laughs coming; and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band to keep the toes tappin'. And if you want to know what happened when the chicken slept under the car, you'll just have to tune in...