Coming up this week on A Prairie Home Companion, memories from the Great Minnesota Get Together:The State Fair. Becky Schlegel will sing a Greg Brown song, Patty Griffin will sing "Long Ride Home" and Jearlyn Steele will recall her first place win at the State Fair Talent Show. Plus, Minnesota broadcaster Tommy Mischke, Del McCoury and his band, and Guy Noir takes on security detail at the Fair. We're gearing up for our mammoth State Fair Rhubarb tour with pronto pups and cheese curds.

Coming up this week on A Prairie Home Companion, the best of two shows we did from the "Tar Heel" State. From our shows in Charlotte and Chapel Hill, we'll hear from legendary Bluesman Nappy Brown, The Red Clay Ramblers, and Sweet Honey in the Rock. Plus Suzy Bogguss, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Tom Keith, and Fred Newman, and the news from Lake Wobegon. So y'all join us for some sticky sweet Southern memories, this week!

Coming up this week on A Prairie Home Companion: a special Wild West compilation show full of unwashed cowboys, jangling spurs, painful cacti, and rotgut whiskey. Cowboy poet Paul Zarzyski recites "Bucking Horse Moon," Stephanie Davis sings an ode to bailing twine, and Wylie Gustafson gives a sentimental performance of "Cattle Call." And because you can never have too much yodeling, Janet Sorenson sings "Cowboy Sweetheart," plus Tish Hinojosa, Chris Thile, Joe Ely & Joel Guzman, and Robin & Linda Williams.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we revisit a few shows we did with a brass enhanced Guy's All-Star Shoe Band. From our St. Louis show last year, we'll hear songstress and minister's daughter, Erin Bode, as well as horn players Dave Bargeron, Kathy Jensen and Jon-Erik Kellso (affectionately known as The Shoe Horns). And from a Memorial Day show at Wolf Trap, we'll hear more from the beefed up band, plus The Wailin' Jennys, poet Billy Collins, and The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Tom Keith and Fred Newman.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, a summertime mix of three shows from Ohio. Sam Bush and Buddy Emmons sit in with Rich Dworsky and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, tenor Mark Thomsen sings "La donna e mobile," and Dusty and Lefty get stuck roping shopping carts at a strip mall opening. Plus, "the drifter" is back in Lake Wobegon. Join The Royal Academy of Radio Actors—Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Tom Keith and Fred Newman—for a whirlwind review of performances from the Buckeye State.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion we'll bring our broadcast season to a close at the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, Illinois. With special guests, Sam Bush, Suzy Bogguss, Howard Levy, and Jearlyn Steele.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion we'll bring you a live broadcast performance from Tanglewood — the Koussevitzky Music Shed in Lenox, MA. With special guests The Del McCoury Band, poet Donald Hall, and singer 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'll bring you a live broadcast performance from the Blossom Center for the Performing Arts in Cuyahoga Falls. With special guests The Wailin' Jennys, Jorma Kaukonen, Robin & Linda Williams, 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 driving deep into Washtenaw County to bring you a live broadcast from the Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We'll have big-time country artist Suzy Bogguss on stage, and Powerhouse Americana duo The Milroys will drive down from Ferndale and sing a few tunes. As always, we have the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with a special pair of guest shoes, Howard Levy and Joe Savage, and The News from Lake Wobegon.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we'll march our phalanx of pen-wielding English majors into the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, bringing Minnesotan cultural exchange to the coastal peoples of the Pacific. With special guests, blue-eyed soul sister Bonnie Raitt, actor and 'flower in the gun barrel' Martin Sheen, and gospel-singer Jearlyn Steele. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with Rich Dworsky, and The News from Lake Wobegon. Join us this weekend, on your local Public Radio station.