Garrison Keillor News

AVON - Garrison Keillor let the real voices of Lake Wobegon be heard Saturday during his special 35th anniversary, Fourth of July broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion" live from Avon.

AVON - Nearly 10,000 people gathered in the two city blocks that comprise Lake Wobegon Park today to celebrate 233 years of the United States and 35 years of "A Prairie Home Companion." Avon, a town of roughly 1,200 people, was the July Fourth destination for Garrison Keillor and "A Prairie Home Companion" fans everywhere.

I walked the length of the westbound Lake Shore Limited as it left Albany last Sunday, six crowded coaches, and counted three Twitterers and a couple of phone texters, six laptoppers , four video gamers, and 27 people reading books.

The local storytelling series called The Stoop takes to the airwaves. Strong women - check.

America's foremost humorist and commentator, Garrison Keillor, takes his skits and jokes, music and monologues across the country in his traveling radio show, spinning his stories into American gold.

AVON - One thing is clear about Saturday's national broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion" live from Avon: No one knows just what to expect.

Appellate Judge James A. Stewart wonders if Garrison Keillor inspired Joel Hodgson and Andrew Zimmern.

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WHERE 8 Wednesday on WNET/13 REASON TO WATCH For a man selling the simplicity of America, Garrison Keillor is an awfully complicated fellow.

As has often been the case, he will be performing with Steep Canyon Rangers . Hosted as usual by Garrison Keillor the program will be broadcast live from The Koussevitzky Music Shed at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts.

PBS's "American Masters" trains its lens on an icon of the heartland: Garrison Keillor, host of public radio's "A Prairie Home Companion" and raconteur of the doings in fictional Lake Wobegon, Minn.

One short weekend, so much to do - an invitation to go swimming by moonlight, the Iran protest march downtown with our mouths taped shut, a dance at the Eagles Club with a hot horn band playing '70s funk that propels people onto the dance floor as if shot from guns - but here I am stuck with houseguests who are unable to sit in a room without me ...

Set for L.A. Theatre Works' The Physicists [ TM ] Paula Kelly, Suzzanne Douglas, et al.

We miss our weekly visit with the president and his cohorts on "The West Wing.'' The Obama fly swatting was entertaining, but it pales to President Bartlet's turkey pardoning.

Chautauqua Institution will present an evening with Garrison Keillor at 8:15 p.m. Monday in the amphitheater.

Bay Chamber Concerts kicks off its 49th Summer Music Festival with jazz and classical concerts on July 1 and 2. On Wednesday, July 1, the acclaimed Butch Thompson Trio will perform at the Strand Theatre in Rockland at 8:00 p.m. "Opera House Opening Night" on Thursday, July 2, at 8:00 p.m. the Rockport Opera House will feature two of the world's ...

How sad it is that opposition to gay marriage is often presented as a religious issue.

Don't bother calling to wish me a Happy Father's Day because I won't be here, kids, I've got the day off.

Directed by Peter Rosen. Written by Sara Lukinson. ** 1/2 Talk softly and carry a big mike .

The "News from Lake Wobegon" will be broadcast from Lake Wobegon this Fourth of July.