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Classic episodes from the “A Prairie Home Companion” archives

A Prairie Home Companion:  September 2, 2006

A Prairie Home Companion: September 2, 2006

Keeping the Minnesota State Fair memories alive with a 2006 broadcast. Our featured guests included The Del McCoury Band, Becky Schlegel, and Tommy Mischke.

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A Prairie Home Companion:  September 5, 2009

A Prairie Home Companion: September 5, 2009

Celebrating the  Minnesota State Fair with a broadcast from 2009 with guests, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Mindy Smith, Peter Ostroushko, and Andra Suchy.

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A Prairie Home Companion:  August 5, 2000

A Prairie Home Companion: August 5, 2000

Featuring a  rebroadcast from The Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, with The Charles Brown Quintet and Troka. In Lake Wobegon, Myrtle and Florian have been fighting for fifty years.

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A Prairie Home Companion:  August 21, 1999

A Prairie Home Companion: August 21, 1999

This repeat broadcast from November 8, 1997, from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, MN features guests, Sharon Isbin & Thiago de Mello, Steve Ross, John Fillipczak and the Classics, and Cedar Lake Seven.

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A Prairie Home Companion:  August 16, 1997

A Prairie Home Companion: August 16, 1997

Looking back with this 1996 performance from San Antonio with fiddler Johnny Gimble & his band, Texas Swing, and accordionist Flaco Jimenez and his band.

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A Prairie Home Companion:  August 11, 2001

A Prairie Home Companion: August 11, 2001

This featured rebroadcast performance is from Father’s Day 2000 the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, with the Irish Traditional group, Dervish and American folksinger, Tom Paxton.

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A Prairie Home Companion:  August 9, 1997

A Prairie Home Companion: August 9, 1997

This Halloween classic originally aired live from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. With Jearlyn Steele, Kate MacKenzie, bluegrass singer Larry Sparks, soprano Elisabeth Comeaux, and Bill Hinkley & Judy Larson.

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A Prairie Home Companion:  July 12, 2008

A Prairie Home Companion: July 12, 2008

We revisit a compilation show froom 2008 with guests Sam Bush, Buddy Emmons, and tenor Mark Thomsen. Dusty and Lefty get stuck roping shopping carts at a strip mall opening

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A Prairie Home Companion:  July 3, 2004

A Prairie Home Companion: July 3, 2004

The last live show of the 2004 season was broadcast from Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts with guests: Sam Bush, Inga Swearingen, Calvin Trillin, and the four classical bassists of the Existential Bass Quartet. Also, harmonica virtuoso Howard Levy and actress Erica Rhodes.

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A Prairie Home Companion:  July 23, 2016

A Prairie Home Companion: July 23, 2016

Enjoy a summer rebroadcast from 1999 with guests: New York folksinger Dave Van Ronk, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and bluesman Geoff Muldaur.

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