Robin and
Linda Williams
December 20, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion we welcome some old friends to The Town Hall for the holidays, including Robin & Linda Williams, Walter Bobbie, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Rivera, and the Pavlishyn Sisters. Also with us, the family we take for granted, The Royal Academy of Radio
Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band: Rich Dworsky, Pat Donohue, Andy Stein, Gary
Raynor, and J.T. Bates.
|
|
Garrison Keillor will be taking up a Sunday residence at Feinstein's in New York this December. He'll sing romantic songs, and maybe tell a New York
story or two. With pianist Richard Dworsky.
|
|
|
|
|
Listen to The News from Lake Wobegon wherever and whenever you want. We're pleased to announce GK's signature monologue is now available as a free podcast, updated every Monday.
More Information >>
Download the latest episode >>
|
|
A Prairie Home Companion's New York stint continues at The Town Hall — December 19, 20 and 27.
|
|
Post to the Host:
What was the name of the book you are reading that you mentioned on last night's (12/13) show?
Dick B.
Oxford, MS
--
The English Major, by Jim Harrison. A terrific funny picaresque novel by a great American man of letters. I've read many of his poems on The Writers Almanac.
Permalink | Comments (0)
|
|
Q: What does Santa say when he is stuck upside down in the chimney?
A: OH, OH, OH!
This joke was sent in by Alec L. of Miami, FL. Thanks Alec!
|
|
Where's Your List?
(12/16/2008)
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. It's been a week, let me tell you. One humdinger. I've been baking and wrapping and planning, but the decorating is done. We managed to do the whole shebang in fewer than two hours this year. Not bad...
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...
Christmas in New York: Merry and Muscular
(12/09/2008)
The Christmas tree in Rice Park in St. Paul is taller than the tree at Rockefeller Center in New York, 90 feet compared to 72, but New York's is the Tree de la Tree, the Tree Iconic, the one that you'll see on national TV...
|
|
Listener-submitted short stories or poems about their homes or lives — or whatever they fancy. Here are the latest:
|
|
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.
|
|
Back to newsletter list
