This week on A Prairie Home Companion, it's our final show of the year, from The Town Hall in New York City. Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks will blow some very hot jazz into the icy atmosphere, keeping our molecules vibrating, Heather Masse (from the Wailin' Jennys) will swing by for a few duets, and celebrated New York stage musical composer, and lyricist, Ricky Ian Gordon will join us as well. The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band can't get the van started in St. Paul, so they'll have the week off getting that new alternator installed, but Rich Dworsky will hold things together with 88 keys of Steinway, along with The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Erica Rhodes, and Fred Newman, gospel singer Jearlyn Steele, and The News from Lake Wobegon.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion we welcome some old friends to The Town Hall for the holidays, including Robin & Linda Williams, Walter Bobbie, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Rivera, and the Pavlishyn Sisters. Also with us, the family we take for granted, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Erica Rhodes, and Fred Newman, and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band: Rich Dworsky, Pat Donohue, Andy Stein, Gary Raynor, and J.T. Bates.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, live from the Town Hall in New York City, we welcome the world's most famous living cellist, and founder of the Silk Road Project Yo-Yo Ma. Plus, legendary lyric Soprano Renée Fleming, and California wild man of the modern mandolin Chris Thile. We've also got bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer, and top violaist Nicholas Cords. And as always, 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, our fearless truck driver Russ Ringsak will negotiate the anarchy of Manhattan traffic to double park the big rig on West 43rd, thus beginning our annual holiday run at The Town Hall in New York City. With this week's special guests, legendary cabaret singer, pianist, and musical anthropologist Michael Feinstein, Metropolitan Opera Tenor Raúl Melo, and singularly soulful jazz vocalist Inga Swearingen. 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 preparing a live broadcast performance from Cincinnati's historic Music Hall. With special guests, reigning grandmasters of traditional Celtic music The Boys of the Lough, old-timey musicians Jake Speed & the Freddies, and renowned Minneapolis 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 News from Lake Wobegon.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, live from the Fitzgerald Theater, we've got the inimitable singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and percussive dancer Kristin Andreassen; and a last minute addition, the reigning Miss Minnesota USA, Kaylee Grace Unverzagt will be with us as well. Also on the show, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele together as The Steele Sisters. And as always, we'll round out the stage with The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith; The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with maestro Richard Dworsky, and much more.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we've stumbled into grace with very special guest, Emmylou Harris and her notorious Nashville band. Also with us, live from the Fitzgerald Theater, bluesman Spider John Koerner, The Royal Academy of Radio Acting: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with sole man Pat Donohue, and our happy host, an escapee from the silent generation, Garrison Keillor.

Coming to you this week from the Fitzgerald Theater, we've got Dobro daredevil Jerry Douglas with grand champion fiddler Luke Bulla, singers Jearlyn Steele, Kari Shaw, Andra Suchy, Joanna Jahn, the Royal Academy of Radio Acting; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, Rich Dworsky and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and much more. Join us this week for a post-election live broadcast performance.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion we're back in St. Paul at the Fitzgerald Theater, with hard-driving string band Pert' Near Sandstone, Rich Dworsky and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The Royal Academy of Radio Acting; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith. Join us this week, before the snow flies.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion we're coming to you from the Chapman Theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With special guests, Hot Jazz / Western Swingers The Hot Club of Cowtown, and legendary blues roller Elvin Bishop. Also with us The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, Rich Dworsky & The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon. Join us this week, for a live broadcast performance from the cultural confluence known as the Sooner State.