The Gratitude Tour — St. Peter, MN

Wednesday, April 26, 2017
7:00 p.m. CT

A live performance at Gustavus Adolphus College’s Christ Chapel in St. Peter, MN

Tickets: $25, $10 for staff, students get in free

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By phone: 507-933-7520
In-Person: Information Desk in the Jackson Campus Center, Gustavus Adolphus College

Mr. Keillor has now reached a certain age when you realize how lucky you are and you stop complaining. Complaint is a mainstay of comedy, so he is now experimenting with a comedy of gratitude, talking about parents, teachers, lucky breaks, dumb things that turned out smart. This is his first experimental tour.

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"Exes, etiquette, and losing a spark"

Dear Mr. Blue, I can’t get over my ex. We dated a few years ago and when we broke up, even though it was mutual, I was devastated. At 22 years old, it was my first time being in love, and my first time being heartbroken. The relationship itself had been turbulent: he was a night owl and an alcoholic…

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Saturday

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Long Beach, CA

A live performance at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center

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March 15, 2018

Thursday

7:00 p.m.

Mobile, AL

A live performance at the Saenger Theatre

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February 28, 2018

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7:30 p.m.

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A live performance at the Yavapai College Performing Arts Center

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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
7:00 p.m. CT

A live performance at Gustavus Adolphus College’s Christ Chapel in St. Peter, MN

Tickets: $25, $10 for staff, students get in free

Buy tickets online →
By phone: 507-933-7520
In-Person: Information Desk in the Jackson Campus Center, Gustavus Adolphus College

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The Forum at Grace Cathedral, September 2017

Posted on April 19, 2018 - Video

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young of the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, CA, sits down with Garrison Keillor for an in-depth conversation as part of the Cathedral’s program The Forum on September 17, 2017. Watch the conversation here

Minnesota Public Radio, Garrison Keillor Settle All Outstanding Issues

Posted on April 11, 2018 - Press Releases

St. Paul, MN – Garrison Keillor and Minnesota Public Radio have reached an agreement reopening public access to thousands of past shows of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer’s Almanac.

“MPR wants fans of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer’s Almanac to have free access to the thousands of wonderful performers and artists, musicians and poets whose work is included in those archives, and we want your fans to have free access to the decades of terrific material you created,” MPR President Jon McTaggart wrote in a letter to Keillor on April 5. A full copy of the letter is available at www.garrisonkeillor.com.

Letter from Jon McTaggart to Garrison Keillor

Posted on April 13, 2018 - Press Releases

Dear Garrison,

I could never have imagined the surprising circumstances you and I’ve been in for the past few months. But here we are, and I’m hoping this personal appeal can help to move us forward.

A Prairie Home Companion 40th Anniversary: Let’s Have a Party

Posted on April 30, 2014 - Press Materials

A Prairie Home Companion returns to the Macalester campus for an anniversary celebration with three days of music, comedy, food, and festivities, July 4-6th.

The Daily Circuit — O, What a Luxury

Posted on November 6, 2013 - Interviews

Garrison talks poetry and O, What a Luxury with MPR’s Kerri Miller

Poems of Gratitude: The Fourth Annual Common Good Books Poetry Contest

Posted on March 1, 2016 - Events

Garrison and Common Good Books are sponsoring a poetry contest! Pour your love onto the page, shape it well, and mail your love letter to Common Good Books before April 15 — fame and fortune could be yours.

ABC: What Makes St. Paul So Great?

Posted on October 10, 2013 - Video

Garrison gives a tour of St. Paul during the 2008 Republican National Convention

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Garrison discusses the 40th anniversary of A Prairie Home Companion in an interview with the Associated Press

CBS Sunday Morning — Garrison Keillor signs off — June 26, 2016

Posted on June 27, 2016 - Video

A profile of Garrison as he prepares to retire from A Prairie Home Companion

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Posted on May 21, 2014 - Video

Garrison chats with CBS This Morning about A Prairie Home Companion‘s 40th anniversary and his book The Keillor Reader

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Exes, etiquette, and losing a spark

Posted on April 18, 2018 - Mr. Blue

Dear Mr. Blue,

I can’t get over my ex. We dated a few years ago and when we broke up, even though it was mutual, I was devastated. At 22 years old, it was my first time being in love, and my first time being heartbroken.

The true story of last weekend’s blizzard

Posted on April 17, 2018 - Columns

A yuge blizzard descended on Minnesota over the weekend and all of our people who went south for the winter got back home in time to experience it. It was truly yuge, a fabulous blizzard and the snow was up to the housetops and the highway patrol said, “Stay in your homes. Do not drive on account of rabid wolves and jackals running loose.” But some of us went out anyway because that’s how we are. America was not settled by the timid.

A walk down the aisle

Posted on April 10, 2018 - Columns

There is a long aisle at our grocery store with soda pop at one end and tea and coffee at the other, which my love and I get to after the butter and eggs and 2% milk. We come to the beverage aisle and she selects the coffee, dark ground, with names like Swan Lake and Machiavelli. I notice the can of Maxwell House percolator grind and think of Mother and Dad. And there between the coffee and the soda pop is an extensive collection of waters.

A remaindered sermon from Easter Sunday

Posted on April 3, 2018 - Columns

I’ve been reading a fine book for Holy Week, Short Stories By Jesus, by Amy-Jill Levine, about the parables in the Gospels, and thought how much better Sunday School would’ve been had it been taught by a Jewish scholar rather than the rigid joyless fundamentalists of my youth. Jesus was Jewish, He wasn’t a Protestant, for God’s sake. Levine covers the whole string of them, the runaway boy, the tardy workers, the kindly alien, the good CPA, the mustard seed, the rich man and Lazarus, and respects the mysteries they represent.

Looking at snow, thinking of crocuses

Posted on March 27, 2018 - Columns

Late March is a time of rare unanimity here on the northern tundra when everyone — socialists, monarchists, anarchists, humble peasants, mighty tycoons — is ready for the snow to melt and green grass to appear and a warm breeze blow through the open window, which is unlikely to happen anytime soon and so we must live with the fact that the world is beyond our control.

We were wrong and we should say so

Posted on March 20, 2018 - Columns

Now that the 17th is behind us, the pipes have stopped calling from glen to glen, Danny is gone until next March when the valley is white with snow, I look at my calendar and don’t see much to get excited about. Easter is two weeks away and what with church membership in decline, the day is more about jellybeans and less about the Resurrection of Our Lord. And ladies don’t wear big hats as they used to do.

Too much information, baby, I love you

Posted on March 13, 2018 - Columns

Stormy Daniels is going to tell her story and if it is true that she whispered in her lover’s ear to meet with Kim Jong-un and talk about denuclearization and if steel tariffs were also part of the discussion, it’ll be news for a week and then something else will come along and she will be forgotten.

Press firmly and I’ll go away

Posted on March 6, 2018 - Columns

The beauty of Facebook, to my way of thinking, is the ability to unfriend people and make them disappear from your life. I wish we had a button on the steering wheel of our car that would do that. The people in the red car waiting to enter the parking lot at the concert Sunday who didn’t understand the basic principle of Taking Turns: one click and they go back where they came from.

What’s that shaking in my pocket?

Posted on February 27, 2018 - Columns

There is a power imbalance between the president of the United States and me, and so I am loath to criticize him lest he smack me down. Same with my mayor and city council, who could, if I offended them, send dump trucks full of snow and make a mountain at the end of my driveway and I might spend hours shoveling it and then collapse with a major coronary. So I am going to write about telephones instead. With all due respect to you in the telephone industry.

Firing 30 rounds at a wedding cake

Posted on February 20, 2018 - Columns

We’re all waiting patiently for the Supreme Court to decide the Colorado wedding cake case, whether a baker can be required to bake one for Adam and Steve–as he’s baked them for Solomon and his 700 wives, though the baker says his religious beliefs tell him homosexuality is an abomination unto the Lord.

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Interview with St. Louis Public Radio

Posted on April 19, 2018 - Audio

November 2, 2018 episode of St. Louis on the Air, on which host Don Marsh talks with Garrison Keillor ahead of an appearance at the Fox Theater.

JCCSF: O, What a Luxury

Posted on March 19, 2014 - Audio

Garrison discussed limericks, free verse, life in St. Paul, and the book O, What a Luxury at a November 2013 lecture at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.