A Prairie Home Companion: Keep It Clean (3/29/2014)

Coming to you this week from The Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, it's a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. With special guests, folksinger Willie Watson, soul siblings Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele, singer Hilary Thavis, and pianist and clarinetist Butch Thompson. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, musical director Richard Dworsky with Richard Kriehn, Dean Magraw, Gary Raynor and Peter Johnson, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

3rd & 7 37yd

...A street performer once sang it for me, tears in his poor eyes. It touched something in him. #aphc

by auroranebulosa via twitter 3/29/2014 10:36:33 PM
Thanks for the note about The Writer's Almanac Will.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:36:50 PM
Ditto on Rich D...so fine!

by Cheryl from Park City 3/29/2014 10:36:53 PM
Beautiful, Rich. Let's all cry.

by Tim 3/29/2014 10:37:17 PM
This convo with Willie Watson reminds me that our music collections might fuel the musicians of the future.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:37:44 PM
sniffle sniffle

by OldLion 3/29/2014 10:37:48 PM
arlo guthrie will be here in ann arbor may 14,15

by busguy5 3/29/2014 10:37:56 PM
that's great Arlo is still strange

by OldLion 3/29/2014 10:38:34 PM
Really nice tribute to troubled artists and recognition of their passions. Thanks.

by headopin 3/29/2014 10:38:37 PM
Doesn't Garrison look good on video ?

by Kharrin 3/29/2014 10:38:47 PM
Love the Banjo

by charles boren 3/29/2014 10:38:51 PM
auroranebulosa, thanks for painting that picture for us here.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:39:14 PM
...I shall thus always associate that song w/ him. Wonder what depth it touched in him. Wonder where he is now. #aphc #vincent #starrynight

by auroranebulosa via twitter 3/29/2014 10:39:22 PM
if you say so Kharrin

by OldLion 3/29/2014 10:39:32 PM
Hi Ann Arbor...from the North Side of town :)

by Kristine 3/29/2014 10:39:32 PM
Kharrin I think so!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:39:37 PM
...Was it personal, or only (only!) the beauty ofthe song for itself? Was it I, standing there, drinking in its meaning? #aphc

by auroranebulosa via twitter 3/29/2014 10:40:21 PM
Great to see live. We just get a cropped hour long version, 3 years old on uk radio

by andyihammond 3/29/2014 10:40:30 PM
what time is it there? for future reference

by Ian 3/29/2014 10:40:41 PM
...Was it some sense of charity, me standing there, with a white cane, evidently blind, enjoying his gift so? #aphc

by auroranebulosa via twitter 3/29/2014 10:40:46 PM
Julia are they considering doing this on a more regular basis

by OldLion 3/29/2014 10:41:12 PM
auroranebulosa, you have me speechless with your story.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:41:17 PM
...Ordinarily, I would condemn such motion as in great error, but the thought was surely sincere, and, thus, to be praised in him. #aphc

by auroranebulosa via twitter 3/29/2014 10:41:29 PM
I'm not saying Mr Keiollor looks that good in person, but WOW ain't it good to see him entertain us !

by Kharrin 3/29/2014 10:41:32 PM
Sorry Ian, I had to shake myself - the time here at the Fitzgerald Theater? 5:41 p.m.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:41:44 PM
"Mexican Cowboy" — @WillieWatsongs http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bj7dM-SCYAA_gbl.jpg

by Prairie Home Comp. via twitter 3/29/2014 10:42:07 PM
Thanks Julia

by Ian 3/29/2014 10:42:19 PM
my ex #2 says he always looks constipated

by OldLion 3/29/2014 10:42:24 PM
Love Banjo Music

by charles boren 3/29/2014 10:42:32 PM
OldLion, I know the team will get feedback, ideas, and the requests for more video, but I can't say the status with any knowledge or honesty!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:42:43 PM
ann arbor am at h pkwy and plymth at work!

by busguy5 3/29/2014 10:43:25 PM
can we do anything to help the process?

by OldLion 3/29/2014 10:43:26 PM
I am loving that we are able to see the show live...much thanks to all who are making this possible!

by Kristine 3/29/2014 10:43:39 PM
One of the things that I love about APHC is that it takes me out of my typical musical spheres...May not always buy recordings of what I hear, but am a better person for being exposed to the variety of artists.

by Will Westerfield 3/29/2014 10:43:50 PM
You're doing it now by commenting and participating OldLion!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:44:11 PM
Thanks Kristine!

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:44:36 PM
"You sing as if the microphone had never been invented." —GK to @WillieWatsongs

by Prairie Home Comp. via twitter 3/29/2014 10:44:49 PM
That is one heckuva compliment to any show, Will. Whew.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:44:52 PM
this is great...luv this...keep it up

by bella 3/29/2014 10:45:17 PM
pass it on this is great, would be interesteing to see the different venues if it could happenon the road, like nyc when he is there for multiple weeks

by busguy5 3/29/2014 10:45:21 PM
Sounds great, blues for economics. Would the video include charts or graphs?

by Richie R 3/29/2014 10:45:22 PM
Thanks Kristine and Julia too!

by A. Campbell 3/29/2014 10:45:26 PM
Julia, tell us poor listeners how we can keep hearing and seeing this great feed we are getting now 'live from the fitz.'

by Kharrin 3/29/2014 10:45:51 PM
Julia ~ I thought I read that Garrison is retiring in the not-too-distant future. Is that true? Is there a firm date? And if he is retiring...what will be the status of PHC?

by Midcoast Maine Sailor 3/29/2014 10:46:27 PM
Honestly starting to wonder if someday in the future I'll refer to tonight as the time I got to see Willie Watson live, on A Prairie Home Companion.

by Julia Schrenkler, MPR 3/29/2014 10:46:28 PM