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Prairie Home Companion Summer Love Tour Concert Performance
Friday, August 13; 7 p.m.
Details:
Location: Rose Garden at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden (see photo above)
Ticket price: $55
Tickets may be purchased:
- At the Garden during regular hours (9 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
- On-line here (tickets purchased on-line include a $6 handling charge)
Weather: Please be aware this is an outdoor show and it will go on (weather permitting) rain or shine with no refunds. Since it may be warm, you may want to dress appropriately (cool clothing, bring a hat, etc.)
Seating: Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Concert-goers may bring blankets and lawn chairs and sit on the terraced lawn which provides good views to the performance area.
Food & drink: No coolers, please. Food and drinks (including beer and wine) will be sold at the concert.
Parking: Please carpool if possible. Free parking is available at the Garden, but it is not unlimited.
Handicapped accessiblity: There is a short walk from the entrance to the concert site. An ADA-accessible pathway is available.
While dates on this tour are not broadcast shows, they will include many favorite Prairie Home Companion elements, including Guy Noir, Dusty and Lefty, and the News from Lake Wobegon. Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins will be on hand, as will sound-effects man Fred Newman and the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band.
More about the Summer Love Tour
On August 10, Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion “Summer Love” Tour kicks off a 25-city run that will take the popular radio host and his pals from East Coast to West Coast, Texas to Minnesota.
This concert tour on the everlasting theme of romantic love will be jam-packed with tender duets and ballads, poetry (Poe, Shakespeare, Anonymous), and stories of passion and marriage — not to mention Mr. Keillor’s intermission walk through the audience for the sing-along of “Unchained Melody” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love with You.” An entertaining date night for all ages!
While these are not APHC broadcast shows, they will include many favorite Prairie Home Companion elements — Guy Noir, Dusty and Lefty, and the News from Lake Wobegon. Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins will be on hand, as will sound-effects man Fred Newman and the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band.
Garrison Keillor is the author of numerous books, including Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance (Viking) and 77 Love Sonnets (Common Good Books). He is the founder and host of the acclaimed public radio programs A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac.
Singer, songwriter, fiddle player Sara Watkins was only eight when she became one-third of the Grammy Award-winning acoustic trio Nickel Creek. Two decades later, she struck out on her own. A solo album, Sara Watkins (Nonesuch), was released in 2009. More at http://www.sarawatkins.com.
Sound-effects man Fred Newman is an actor, writer, musician, and sound designer for film and TV. He is author of the book (and CD/CD-ROM) MouthSounds. Fred admits that, growing up, he was unceremoniously removed from several classrooms, “once by my bottom lip.”
A Prairie Home Companion has been a public radio mainstay since 1974. It is heard by more than 4 million listeners on some 600 public radio stations nationwide, as well as on XM Radio, the Armed Forces Network Europe, the Far East Network, and in dozens of European cities via the Astra satellite network. More information can be found online at www.prairiehome.org.
