Wilco, Neko Case & others to play A Prairie Home Companion
[photo by Jon Behm]
From American Public Media, “If you showed up on July 6, 1974, at the Janet Wallace Auditorium at Macalester College in Saint Paul and plunked down your $1 admission (50 cents for kids) to attend the very first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion, you were in select company. There were about 12 people in the audience. But those in attendance thought there were worse ways to spend a Saturday afternoon, so Garrison Keillor and the APHC team went on to produce close to 500 live shows in the first 10 years alone. There were broadcasts from this venue and that, until March 4, 1978, when the show moved to The World Theater, a lovely, crumbling building that was one plaster crack away from the wrecking ball. (Now fully renovated and renamed The Fitzgerald, it is the show’s home base.) Today, A Prairie Home Companion is heard by more than 4 million listeners each week on some 590 public radio stations, and abroad on America One and the Armed Forces Networks in Europe and the Far East.”
Saturday, October 3rd @ 4:45pm
A Prairie Home Companion
Fitzgerald Theater
St. Paul, MN
w/ musical guests Wilco + Patty Loveless
Saturday, October 10th @ 4:45pm
A Prairie Home Companion
Fitzgerald Theater
St. Paul, MN
w/ musical guest Neko Case
Saturday, October 17th @ 4:45pm
A Prairie Home Companion
Fitzgerald Theater
St. Paul, MN
w/ musical guest Roseanne Cash
Saturday, October 24th @ 4:45pm
A Prairie Home Companion
Fitzgerald Theater
St. Paul, MN
w/ musical guest Old Crow Medicine Show
Tickets are $32/$38/$48 ($2 MPR member discount) and go onsale Tomorrow, August 18th @ Noon. [via More Cowbell]
