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This week's classic rebroadcast: we look back to October 2015 and a show from St. Paul, MN with The California Honeydrops, the Cactus Blossoms, and Christine DiGiallonardo.
A Prairie Home Companion is a weekly radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor that aired live from 1974 to 2016. In 2016, musician Chris Thile took over as host, and the successor show was eventually renamed Live from Here and ran until 2020.
Jul 10, 2024 · A Prairie Home Companion’s 50th Anniversary Tour returns home to The Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, MN for THREE SHOWS with our Special Guests: Heather Masse, Christine DiGiallonardo, Rich Dworsky, Sue Scott, Tim Russell and Fred Newman and more. buy tickets. July 21, 2024. Sunday.
6 days ago · A Prairie Home Companion: June 15, 1996. Posted on June 8, 2024 - Prairie Home Archives. A featured Prairie Show from the Laurie Auditorium in San Antonio, Texas, with Johnny Gimble and Texas Swing, Flaco Jimenez y su Conjunto, and the Oddest Laugh in Texas Contest. Read More.
A Prairie Home Companion: June 4, 2016. Originally broadcast from the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder bring the bluegrass melodies and lightning-fast...
Jul 2, 2016 · Garrison’s official website, with information about his books, columns, solo appearances, and more. A Prairie Home Companion with Chris Thile.
Jul 26, 2014 · At St. Paul's Fitzgerald Theater, home base to "A Prairie Home Companion" since the late 70's, we talked of fact, fiction, and the enduring power of his creation.
In 1974, after writing a fact piece for the magazine [The New Yorker] about the Grand Ole Opry, I started up A Prairie Home Companion on Saturday evenings, a live variety show with room for a long monologue by me (“It has been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon …”), and found steady colleagues who did most of the work, starting with my boss ...
A Prairie Home Companion is heard by 2.6 million listeners each week on nearly 600 public radio stations, online, and on the American Forces Networks, SiriusXM Radio, Radio New Zealand, and KPRG in Guam.
Jul 2, 2016 · Garrison Keillor's final A Prairie Home Companion airs Saturday. NPR's Scott Simon remembers the show, beloved by so many, and Keillor's particular talent for telling a story.
