A Prairie Home Companion 50th Anniversary Celebration (2 CDs or DIGITAL) Garrison Keillor

A Prairie Home Companion 50th Anniversary Celebration (2 CDs or DIGITAL) Garrison KeillorFifty years ago, a Minnesota guy with literary ambitions took a sharp turn into the radio variety show business and thereby turned his life inside out. He was a loner, a stranger to bright lights, and the show brought him into the society of musicians and a stage crew, actors, and every Saturday at 5 p. m. families filed in to fill the empty seats, first a storefront in downtown St. Paul, then little theaters, eventually amphitheaters, concert halls,

Hattie Hale—Middle Spunk Creek Boys

Carl's Christmas Pageant

Bassman—Milton “Soupy” Schindler and Bill Hinkley

Conductor Helen Schneyer with Lisa Neustadt

to compassion or satire

Embroidered cap is blue washed cotton twill

and Garrison Keillor––is old-time gospel singing at its best

Alaska Cats

and plumbing issues

Recorded live at Radio City Music Hall on June 4

and a great pastrami sandwich

Modeled after vintage advertising signs