This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we’ll be broadcasting from the Pan American Center at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. With special guests, Sorela, honky-tonk heroes Joe Ely and Joel Guzman, Prudence Johnson, mandolin maestro Chris Thile, and our man of steel Joe Savage. 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. Join us this week, when we float down the Rio Grande on a 10 foot enchilada.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion we're broadcasting live from the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park in Vienna, VA. With special guests, the all American bluegrass girl, Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, and internationally adored tenor Raúl Melo. 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 revisit two shows we did at the historic state theatre in Minneapolis. Wilco, the über-cool Chicago-based alt-rock band was on to perform a few songs from their Grammy®-nominated album Sky Blue Sky. Texas troubadour Carrie Rodriguez was with us, Bluegrass songstress Becky Schlegel sang "Heartaches by the Number", and Cowboy Jack Clement sang an impromptu version of "Old Fashioned Drunk" that lingers in our collective memory like a Bourbon hangover. Also in the singing Cowboy genre, Lefty yodels about Keats and the blooms of spring in the Lives of the Cowboys. Plus, a lesson on wood ticks that can only be learned from an early summer visit to Lake Wobegon. So take the transistor radio with you out into the backyard this Saturday, plant those heirloom tomatoes, and enjoy a freshly cut springtime redux of two shows, with The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, 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, we're uncorking a live broadcast from The Milwaukee Theater. With special guests, the legendary wanderers from Waukesha; The BoDeans, and the most famous American performer ever to wear a bow tie and panama hat, Leon Redbone. 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 Civic Center Auditorium in Bangor, Maine. Featuring Pulitzer Prize winning poet Maxine Kumin, the David Mallet Trio, and a comprehensive artistic rediscovery of our regular cast: The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with Rich Dworsky, Pat Donohue, Gary Raynor, Andy Stein, and Peter Johnson, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, and that gangly guy with the socks. Join us this week, live from the Queen City of the East.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we'll bring you a live performance from the Summit Arena in Hot Springs, Arkansas. With special guests, Nashville's honky-tonk hellions BR549, and gospel grandmaster Jearlyn Steele. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The News from Lake Wobegon, and much more. Tune in this Saturday for an all new episode of A Prairie Home Companion.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion we're back at the Town Hall for our big New York finale. This week's special guests include, the hottest "hot jazz" orchestra in all of Europe, Kustbandet, legendary Broadway actress and singer Barbara Cook, and the high lonesome voices of Robin & Linda Williams. 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 return to The Town Hall in New York City for our Spring Sonnet contest (see details below). This week's special guests include eclectic singer-songwriter Nellie McKay, sultry alto Prudence Johnson, Metropolitan Opera tenor Raúl Melo, and mandolin maestro Chris Thile. 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. Join us this week, for a poetic exploration into the human heart and the power of love.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we're setting up our giant radio antenna atop the historic Town Hall in New York City for three shows in April. This week's special guests include, the phenomenon in boots and a hat, Brad Paisley, American film actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley, poet Ron Padgett, and the subject of more email inquiries at APHC than anyone else, legendary Scottish folk-singer Jean Redpath. 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. Join us this week from action-packed West 43rd & Broadway.

This week on A Prairie Home Companion, while packing our giant steamer trunks for the trip to New York, we cobbled together a special Manhattan matinee to get you in the mood for spring. Featuring great American soprano Renée Fleming, the Queen of American folk music Odetta, legendary classical pianist André Watts, and the ambassadors of Scottish traditional music, Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and in Lake Wobegon the high school play is cancelled under student protest.