December 4, 2022
Sunday
8:00 p.m.
Broward Center for Performing Arts, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Keillor & Company with Prudence Johnson and Dan Chouinard bring their show to Fort Lauderdale, FL for a performance of classic love songs, poetry, The News from Lake Wobegon, and a conversation about Why You Should Go On Getting Older
November 6, 2022
Sunday
7:30 p.m.
The Bend Theatre, West Bend, WI
West Bend, WI
Garrison Keillor brings his show to West Bend, WI for a performance of sing-a-longs, poetry, The News from Lake Wobegon, and a conversation about Why You Should Go On Getting Older
October 13, 2022
Thursday
7:30 p.m.
Virginia Theatre, Champaign, IL
Champaign, IL
Keillor & Company with Prudence Johnson and Dan Chouinard. A performance of classic love songs, poetry, The News from Lake Wobegon, and a conversation about Why You Should Go On Getting Older
October 9, 2022
Sunday
7:00 p.m.
Paramount Hudson Valley, Peekskill, NY
Peekskill, NY
Garrison Keillor brings his solo show to Peekskill NY. Be prepared to laugh and sing along as you celebrate all that unite us.
August 20, 2022
Saturday
7:30 p.m.
Big Top Chautauqua, Bayfield, WI
Big Top Chautauqua, Bayfield, WI
Garrison Keillor and his Prairie Home Friends (Fred Newman, Heather Masse, Rich Dworsky, Richard Kriehn & Dan Magraw) bring their show to Big Top Chautauqua for a performance of night of laughter, song and The News from Lake Wobegon.
Garrison Keillor and Some Friends from A Prairie Home
It’s all about independence – from Virus and Virtual Life, Back to what’s real. Poetry and Stories and Classic Duets.
Featuring:
Prudence Johnson
Bob Douglas and Adam Granger
Dan Chouinard, music director
JUST ADDED June 29 – Stillwater, MN • buy tickets >>> June 30 – Stillwater, MN • SOLD OUT
July 2 – Bayfield, WI •LIVESTREAM ONLY
July 4 – St. Michael, MN •Moved indoor buy tickets >>>
June 29, 2021, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CT THE AVALON, STILLWATER, MN
DINNER, CRUISE AND SHOW $113.00
June 30, 2021, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CT THE AVALON, STILLWATER, MN
SOLD OUT
St. Croix Boat & Packet Co., 525 Main Street South, Stillwater, MN 55082
We depart the beautiful historic city of Stillwater for an evening of humor and insight, fine dining, and beautiful views of the St Croix River Valley aboard the Avalon.
July 2, 2021, 7:30 PM BIG TOP CHAUTAUQUA, BAYFIELD, MN
LIVE STREAM AVAILABLE for this show only
The Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua is a 900-seat music venue and performing arts center, located near Bayfield, Wisconsin. It is an all-canvas tent-theater that has operated since 1986, primarily during the summer.
CHANGE: JULY 4, 2021, 4:00 PM Le Musique Music Room
4300 O’Day Ave. NE, St Michael, MN 55376
$42/$15
Due to the extreme heat, we are moving this show inside. Air-conditioned, theater seats and light concessions. Limited availability. Join us as we celebrate Independence Day with a sing-along of our patriotic favorites lead by Garrison Keillor and JEARLYN STEELE
Garrison Keillor did A Prairie Home Companion for forty years, wrote fiction and comedy, invented a town called Lake Wobegon where all the children are above average, even though he himself grew up evangelical in a small separatist flock where all the children expected the imminent end of the world. He’s busy in retirement, having written a memoir and a book of limericks and is at work on a musical and a Lake Wobegon screenplay, and he continues to do The Writer’s Almanac sent out daily to internet subscribers (free).
He and his wife, Jenny Lind Nilsson, live in Minneapolis, not far from the YMCA where he was sent for swimming lessons at age 12 after his cousin drowned, and he skipped the lessons and went to the public library instead and to a radio studio to watch a noontime show with singers and a band. Thus, our course in life is set.
Prudence Johnson’s long and happy career as a singer, writer, and teacher has landed her on the musical theater stage, in two feature films (A River Runs Through It, A Prairie Home Companion), a national radio (several long stints on A Prairie Home Companion), and on concert stages across North America and occasionally Europe. She has released more than a dozen recordings, including albums dedicated to the music of Hoagy Carmichael and Greg Brown, and a collection of international lullabies.
ADAM GRANGER and BOB DOUGLAS
Adam:
More than four decades ago, guitarist Adam Granger moved from his native Oklahoma to Minnesota, where he became a charter member of the Powdermilk Biscuit Band, A Prairie Home Companion’s first house band. He continued to be a frequent guest on the show. He’s written books and articles on music in general and flatpick guitar technique in particular. Granger’s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar, a book-CD set, is the largest collection of fiddle tunes in guitar tablature in the world. A Minnesota Bluegrass Guitarist of the Year, Adam has served as a judge at the International Flatpick Guitar Contest in Winfield, Kansas, as well as doing judging duties for the Minnesota Flatpick Guitar Contest. He has recorded over sixteen album projects.
Bob:
Texas-born Bob Douglas has lived in Minnesota since his college days. During that time, he worked with acoustic ensembles and jug bands, performing on Minneapolis’s fabled West Bank. Music became a full-time vocation in Germany when he teamed up with a Canadian group called The String Band, completing three European tours and two recording projects. As a regular performer in the early years of A Prairie Home Companion, Bob did mandolin duties and played spoons in the show’s first house bands, the Powdermilk Biscuit Band and the New Prairie Ramblers. In addition to duos with Adam, he currently performs with the Show’d Up Band, Pop Wagner, the House of Mercy Blood-washed Band, and the Tune Jerks.
Dan Chouinard is a St. Paul-based honky-tonk pianist, concert soloist and accompanist, street accordionist, sing-along enabler, Italian and French teacher, and bicycling vagabond. He’s been writer and host of a number of live history-with-music shows broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio and Twin Cities Public Television. He played on a dozen live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion plus a half dozen APHC cruises, and served as rehearsal pianist for Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, and Lindsay Lohan on the 2005 movie. He’s featured on a number of recordings with APHC regulars Peter Ostroushko (RIP), Prudence Johnson, and Maria Jette.