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...north can be socially reserved, mild-mannered — a condition Garrison Keillor diagnoses as “Minnesota nice” during “News from Lake Wobegon” reports on “A Prairie Home Companion.” Almost every interaction shared with locals during our recent vacation along the...
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A teaser trailer for A Prairie Home Companion's 25-date Summer Love Tour. Join host Garrison Keillor, Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins, the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and sound-effects man Fred Newman for tender duets and ballads, poetry (Poe, Shakespeare, Anonymous), stories of passion and marriage, and Mr. Keillor's intermission walk through the audience for the sing-along of "Unchained Melody" and "Can't Help Falling in Love with You." All this and favorite elements of A Prairie Home Companion -- Guy Noir, Dusty and Lefty, the News from Lake Wobegon -- during an entertaining date night for all ages. Dates, Tickets, and more information available at: www.prairiehome.org
Teaser trailer for the 25-stop Prairie Home Companion Summer Love Tour. Join host Garrison Keillor, Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins, the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and sound-effects man Fred Newman for tender duets and ballads, poetry (Poe, Shakespeare, Anonymous), stories of passion and marriage, and Mr. Keillor's intermission walk through the audience for the sing-along of "Unchained Melody" and "Can't Help Falling in Love with You." All this and favorite elements of A Prairie Home Companion -- Guy Noir, Dusty and Lefty, the News from Lake Wobegon -- during an entertaining date night for all ages. Tour Dates and more information available at: www.prairiehome.org
Writer-actor Garrison Keillor and actress Virginia Madsen tell movie reporter Tim Lammers about working with Robert Altman on "A Prairie Home Companion."
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Garrison Keillor is America's favorite storyteller. For more than 30 years as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues. Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Facebook song by Garrison Keillor, host of "A Prairie Home Companion", week of October 3, 2009. www.PrairieHome.org For more Jim Terr YouTube videos, enter HYMIEHYMIE in search line.
Keppler Speakers exclusive and host of NPR's A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor reminisces about his childhood in Lake Wobegone, MN. www.kepplerspeakers.com
This week, A Prairie Home Companion comes to you live from the Fox Theater in Saint Louis, MO. In this video, Garrison Keillor tells you the history of the "fabulous" Fox, and talks about the upcoming show. -- Coming to you this week from the Fox Theater, in St. Louis, Missouri, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion. With special guests, living bluegrass legend and member of The Grand Ole Opry, Del McCoury and his sons Ronnie and Rob McCoury, and 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, and The News from Lake Wobegon. -- Tune-in to your local public radio station, or join us online at 5 pm CT for live audio streaming. www.prairiehome.org
Garrison Keillor talks about the upcoming show on stage at The Filene Center at Wolf Trap. Tune-in to your local public radio station at 5 pm CT, or join us online for live audio streaming at www.prairiehome.org -- Coming to you this week from the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia, it's a live broadcast performance of A Prairie Home Companion. With special guests, Robin & Linda Williams and Their Fine Group, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele, and Will Farley, the National Champion of the 2009 Poetry Out Loud project. 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.
Garrison Keillor promotes the upcoming show, and talks BBQ and the Southern lifestyle with the folks at Pigmasters in Greensboro, NC. -- 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. Tune in to your local public radio station at 5 pm CT, or join us on our Web site www.prairiehome.org for live audio streaming.
Garrison Keillor and Andra Suchy discuss the history and presence at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN... and of course, they introduce this week's show. -- 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. -- Tune-in at 5 pm Central Time on your local public radio station, or join us online at www.prairiehome.org for live audio streaming.
Garrison Keillor talks about Waterbury Connecticut, the beautiful Palace Theater, and of course, what's coming up on Saturday's show. 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. Tune-in to your local public radio station at 5 pm, or visit www.prairiehome.org for live audio streaming.
Garrison Keillor is backstage with the contestants for The Great American Duet Sing-Off, which will be held April 11, 2009 live at the Town Hall Theater in New York City. Here are the contestants: Mood Indigo (Susan Elliott & Joe Romano of Houston, TX) Red Heart the Ticker (Robin MacArthur and Tyler Gibbons of Marlboro, VT) Anne & Pete Sibley (Jackson, WY) Noah and Nathan Rickertsen (Cedar Rapids, IA) Elizabeth Brown and Connie Renda (Brooklyn, NY) Lee and Sarah Atkinson (Greensboro, NC) These duos will sing live on A Prairie Home Companion, and you can vote for the best group -- starting at about 6 pm Central Time, you'll be able to vote at www.prairiehome.org . Stay tuned; at the end of the show, the winners will be announced, and there will be much rejoicing. 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. More information available at www.prairiehome.org
How many Canada Geese does it take to sink a luxury ice house? Recorded live from The Historic State Theater in downtown Minneapolis, MN March 21, 2009. More NFLW episodes and podcast subscription information at www.prairiehome.org
Garrison Keillor talks about his back yard, and his office where he'll be working on his next novel during the Prairie Home spring break. Speaking of which, coming up this week on A Prairie Home Companion, a wintery mix of two Minnesota-grown shows. From the beautiful dance floor of the Lakeside Ballroom in Glenwood (from 2006), we'll hear Bill Hinckley and Judy Larson sing "The Barnyard Dance," Adam "Original Biscuit" Granger sings "The Sheik of Araby," and Guy Noir goes in search of a red shoe that holds the key to one man's happiness. From the University of Minnesota in the historic railroad town of Morris, a show from the well scrubbed PE Center (aka the gym), Tim Sparks and Pat Donohue team up in a pickin' frenzy to play "Freight Train", Prudence Johnson and Garrison sing Utah Philips, and Dusty and Lefty stumble into a BioMass Gasification Plant. Plus, in The News from Lake Wobegon, the story of Jellyglass Mortenson and His Six Hot Pickles. Listen live Saturday at 5 pm CT on your local public radio station, or www.prairiehome.org for audio streaming.
It warmed up a little this week in Lake Wobegon, making for some good snowball weather... Recorded live at the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, MN, February 14, 2009. More information available at www.prairiehome.org
It was February--Valentine's Day-- or as we say, Singles Awareness Day -- a big day in Minnesota because they are cautious people. And they get all giddy and before you know it they've bought a calligraphy pen and they're writing poems in big loopy letters on rose-petal paper-- just like Mrs. Hansen who came to see me... Recorded live at the Fitzgerald Theater, Saint Paul, MN, February 14, 2009. Script and more information available at www.prairiehome.org
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we'll welcome the Grammy™ Award winning Cajun institution known as BeauSoleil with Michael Doucet, and prolific world jazz trombonist and composer, Roswell Rudd. We're going to read the winners from our Valentine's Day Poem and Song Contest too. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Acting: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon. It's all live, this week from the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul.
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we're live from the Fitzgerald Theater, where we'll welcome two Bluegrass veterans, Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent, performing together in perfect harmony as Dailey & Vincent. Our favorite legendary Scottish Folk singer from Edinburgh, Jean Redpath will be there as well. Also with us, Andra Suchy, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The Guys All-Star Shoe Band, with guest Shoes Joe Savage and Butch Thompson, and of course, Mr. Keillor and The News from Lake Wobegon.
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we'll return to the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul for our midwinter homecoming. With special guests, from the legendary Country Western Swing band Asleep At The Wheel, Ray Benson and Eddie Rivers, and the phenomenal vocal quartet of Maria Jette, Christina Baldwin, Dan Dressen, and Bradley Greenwald. Also with us, singer Andra Suchy, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The Guys All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.
This week on A Prairie Home Companion we're live from the Palace Theater in Louisville, Kentucky. With special guests, honky tonk angel and 65th member of the Grand Ole Opry; Patty Loveless, and genre-defying Kentucky singer-songwriter Brigid Kaelin. 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, 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, 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, and Fred Newman, gospel singer Jearlyn Steele, and The News from Lake Wobegon.
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.
Garrison Keillor and Tom Keith gear up for this weekend's live broadcast performance from Cincinnati's historic Music Hall. With special guests, reigning grandmasters of traditional Celtic music The Boys of the Lough, 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.
Garrison sings a song nestled in his News From Lake Wobegon monologue. Recorded live at the Fitzgerald Theater, November 22, 2008. Lyrics avaialable at www.prairiehome.org.
Garrison and the Royal Academy of Radio Actors figure out why the deer crossed the road.
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Garrison Keillor brought the news from Lake Wobegon to a sold-out audience at the Fulton Opera House Sunday night, proving once again that nobody tells a story or captures the truths about human nature better than that Prairie Home Companion guy.
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A Grammy and Peabody winner, Garrison Keillor is the author of more than 15 books and is the creator, host and writer of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac, heard on public radio stations across the country. In April 2008, Keillor sat down with Roger Rosenblatt, also an award-winning writer and host of the Afternoon Night Table Series at the 92nd Street Y, to discuss his latest new novel, Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon. In this video clip, Keillor reads from the book and ruminates on insomniacs.
Garrison Keillor talks about writing as a child at the University of Dayton's Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop.
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It is six years since the last budget of news arrived from Lake Wobegon, and melancholy to report that Pontoon, Garrison Kellor's latest story of everyday life in the small Minnesota town, begins with a death.
The demise of Evelyn Frances Powell is as
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A funny clip of a Garrison Keillor story, told at Portland's Bagdad Theater while at a book-signing for "Pontoon - a novel of Lake Wobegone" on October 9, 2007.
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