A Prairie Home Companion: Ceann Loch Wobegon (3/22/2014)

This week on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, it's a live broadcast from The Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota. With special guests, masters of Celtic music both ancient and modern, Battlefield Band, and our good friend Butch Thompson. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, steel guitarist Joe Savage sits in with The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

3rd & 7 37yd

Julia, maybe a contest prize could be getting to sit in the sound booth with your team...

by Will Westerfield 3/22/2014 11:01:02 PM
That's some fantastic fiddle.

by Sean Butler 3/22/2014 11:01:04 PM
*laughing* I think I've caught that feedback ;-) The world of music rights plus video can be tricky.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/22/2014 11:01:35 PM
wee, isn't this fun

by mymymarilyn 3/22/2014 11:01:51 PM
yes it surely is

by OldLion 3/22/2014 11:02:07 PM
And I'd love to be able to 'like' comments...like Will's

by Sean Butler 3/22/2014 11:02:34 PM
*tapping my teeth* Will, that's a great idea. There's not a lot of room but there's no other experience like it. Lots of walkie-talkie chatter. Maybe a visit? I'm seriously in a space that is only large enough to hold my chair!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/22/2014 11:02:42 PM
Good idea, Sean. I'll look into that and see if I can make it work

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/22/2014 11:03:01 PM
That is good fiddle! Pardon my short memory, but who's playing now?

by Chak Man Yeung 3/22/2014 11:03:15 PM
are you at the theater Julia?

by OldLion 3/22/2014 11:03:24 PM
Intermission, be right back

by DwarnoldfromFlorida 3/22/2014 11:03:36 PM
That was the Battlefield Band! Now we're on to intermission. This time refresh your beverage instead of the page?

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/22/2014 11:04:12 PM
OldLion I certainly am!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/22/2014 11:04:35 PM
I think I need some Powdermilk Biscuits...

by Sean Butler 3/22/2014 11:04:45 PM
already did I always keep a spare just in case

by OldLion 3/22/2014 11:04:48 PM
Intermission: Time to get those Powdermilk Biscuits out of the oven.

by Will Westerfield 3/22/2014 11:04:55 PM
I'm enjoying this so much, I'm not going to watch the basket ball game.

by charles boren 3/22/2014 11:05:11 PM
Ha! Beat you to the reference Will

by Sean Butler 3/22/2014 11:05:15 PM
;)

by Sean Butler 3/22/2014 11:05:18 PM
*laughing*

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/22/2014 11:05:31 PM
I've always wondered what the audience does in the short intermission!

by Chak Man Yeung 3/22/2014 11:05:52 PM
Indeed, Sean. Well-played!

by Will Westerfield 3/22/2014 11:05:55 PM
Battlefield Band close out the first hour with "The Garron Trotting" http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjXfj2_CcAA5-uv.jpg

by Prairie Home Comp. via twitter 3/22/2014 11:06:05 PM
looks like the : usual " stuff

by OldLion 3/22/2014 11:06:22 PM
Listening to #WETS @WETSFM @prairie_home #APHC #PrairieHomeCompanion #LakeWobegon

by Gregg Taylor via twitter 3/22/2014 11:07:00 PM
isn't this so gay!

by roberto 3/22/2014 11:07:08 PM
Julia, maybe during a future break you could wave to all of us from your closet.

by Dave 3/22/2014 11:07:13 PM
brb gotta wash the pig grease off my fingers save my seat

by OldLion 3/22/2014 11:07:18 PM
Julia, how about a camera shot of production crew when video music rights not available ?

by GherkinCat 3/22/2014 11:07:22 PM
Go GREGG!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/22/2014 11:07:26 PM
*laughing* Dave, I just might do that but I think the producer has to unlock the ankle bracelet here..

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/22/2014 11:07:57 PM
The intermission seems longer on the radio...

by Sean Butler 3/22/2014 11:08:08 PM
chains Julia?

by OldLion 3/22/2014 11:08:27 PM
I'm not sure the Show Band gets the credit they deserve. They are fantastic.

by William Smith 3/22/2014 11:08:28 PM
GherkinCat, I don't even think we could fit a real camera in here.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/22/2014 11:08:40 PM
Google Glass!

by Sean Butler 3/22/2014 11:08:53 PM
William Smith types the truth right there.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/22/2014 11:08:54 PM
2nd that

by Sean Butler 3/22/2014 11:09:41 PM
Je vous adore ... why would you stand by the door if you want a good view ? / Me and my High School French laughed outloud

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/22/2014 11:10:04 PM
You mean Guy's All-Star Shoe Band?

by Chak Man Yeung 3/22/2014 11:10:21 PM
The one and only

by Sean Butler 3/22/2014 11:10:33 PM
do you always get this silly after intermission Julia?

by OldLion 3/22/2014 11:10:49 PM
I guess it would be the several and only

by Sean Butler 3/22/2014 11:10:56 PM
Time for Greetings! I'd like to send out a personal inline greeting here to the St. Jerome's Alumni crew who are out enjoying a beverage tonight, may they enjoy one for me from a distance.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/22/2014 11:11:09 PM
Three cheers for the Shoe Band!

by Dave 3/22/2014 11:11:10 PM