Kristin Andreassen
November 22, 2008
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. 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.
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This independent feature-length documentary film by Peter Rosen goes behind the scenes at A Prairie Home Companion, and inside the imagination of the man who
created it.
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We'll be on stage at the Fitzgerald Theater November 21 and 22. Our post-Thanksgiving broadcast comes from Cincinnati on November 29. Then we finish out 2008 in the Big Apple, with shows at New York City's Town Hall on December 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20 and 27.
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Post to the Host:
I loved your column on Barack Obama but what in the world did you mean describing Michelle Obama as "jumpy"?
Mary O.
St. Louis MO
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She has a lot of physical energy, a lot of bounce. I don't mean she's nervous or anxious, just that she has a quickness and grace. I liked the word "jumpy" but can see how it might be taken another way. No, she is very cool, very much herself, not self-conscious, but like a lot of young people
she hops and bops when she moves. It's going to be fun to have that young family in the White House, don't you think? That graceful way they walked out on stage in Grant Park on Election Night — didn't stride, didn't jump around or wave their arms, moved with quiet joy and grace, aware of how
much the night meant to so many people. I truly admire that gracefulness and humility about them. So — okay, I won't say "jumpy" again. How about lively?
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Q: Have you heard my new statistics joke?
A: Probably.
This joke was sent in by Doyle S. of Eugene, OR. Thanks Doyle!
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Take a Few Risks Along the Way
(11/18/2008)
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. It was, once again, a little stretch of calm on the wild way. With the election and winter's arrival and the deer hunting opener all in the last week or so, it's tempting to say to heck with it all and hole up in the kitchen and bake all night and
sleep all day...
Tulsa Tonic
(11/18/2008)
A couple of highlights worth mention from the Mudcats Montana tour this last summer: We played in Butte where my brother Mick lives, at the Silver Dollar Saloon — he lives in the city but not at the saloon — on a Monday night...
Sitting On Top of the World
(11/11/2008)
Be happy, dear hearts, and allow yourselves a few more weeks of quiet exultation. It isn't gloating, it's satisfaction at a job well done...
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Listener-submitted short stories or poems about their homes or lives — or whatever they fancy. Here are the latest:
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