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Thanks to all of our contestants for participating in the Great American Duet Sing-Off:
1st place: Anne & Pete Sibley, of Jackson, WY
2nd place: Lee and Sarah Atkinson, of Greensboro, NC
3rd place: Red Heart the Ticker, (Robin MacArthur and Tyler Gibbons of Marlboro, VT)
Ray Marklund Award: Elizabeth Brown and Connie Renda, of Brooklyn, NY
Mood Indigo (Susan Elliott & Joe Romano of Houston, TX)
Noah and Nathan Rickertsen (Cedar Rapids, IA)
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Previously available at our live shows, we brought in the beautiful, and incredibly detailed 35th Anniversary poster at a discount price. This new illustration by Rodica Prato, painstakingly details everything that is needed to get the show on air each week
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April 17 and 18, A Prairie Home Companion takes the stage at The Town Hall in New York City with Tom Rush, and Elvis
Costello. Then it's on to the Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut, on April 25, the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on May 2, and the Durham Performing Arts Center in Durham, North Carolina, on May 9. Stay tuned.
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Q: What do you call an English Major who refuses to recycle paper, postcards, popbottles or post-modern poems?
A: An ALLITERER.
This joke was sent in by Daniel S., of Bay City, MI. Thanks Daniel!
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A lovely break as always
(04/14/2009)
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. It's been one of those crazy weeks and listening to the show was a lovely break as always. As was the "Lamentation of the Peeps" dream I had Saturday night, where, all the Peeps on the shelves at my grocery store came to life after the store
closed...
The Poetry of Spring
(03/24/2009)
Spring is a time when we are one nation. In a few weeks, the South will head toward its air-conditioned caves and a cold summer chill will fall on San Francisco, but in spring and fall we are one people, more unum than pluribus, stepping gracefully to the music of photosynthesis,
and not even a sour economy can change that, so Viva sweet spring...
Louisville
(02/04/2009)
The first time I went to Louisville I set a house on fire, broke both my arms and was put into solitary confinement in a dark room for a week. It was a place I had wanted to return to for many years but never quite did...
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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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