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9 unusual facts about A Prairie Home Companion


Andy Stein

He is also known for the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band on the radio show "A Prairie Home Companion" and the movie.

Cindy Cashdollar

Cashdollar currently makes guest appearances on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, conducts workshops nationwide and plays in a number of musical venues around Austin, Texas.

Come Back Baby

Pat Donohue (member of The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band on NPR's A Prairie Home Companion) covered the song on his 2011 album Nobody's Fault.

Dayenu

Pianist Richard Dworsky does a rendition of the song "Dayenu" every year during Passover on the public radio program A Prairie Home Companion.

Freeport, Minnesota

Garrison Keillor, creator of Lake Wobegon and host of A Prairie Home Companion, has written that Stearns County in general and Freeport specifically, in addition to other small Minnesota towns, were inspirations for his fictional town, Lake Wobegon.

Lanesboro, Minnesota

In 2007, Garrison Keillor broadcast A Prairie Home Companion from the Lanesboro softball field and featured stories and songs about rhubarb.

Prairie Home Cemetery

Prairie Home Cemetery is an old area cemetery located in Moorhead, Minnesota on South 8th St. It is the origin of the name for the long-running radio show A Prairie Home Companion.

Sons of Hawaii

On November 16, 1985, Eddie Kamai and the Sons of Hawaii were featured on A Prairie Home Companion, along with the Kahelelani Serenaders, Taj Mahal with Carlos Andrade and his band, and the Kamehameha High School Glee Club, as well as Chet Atkins and Johnny Gimbel plus the show regulars.

Tom Keith

Keith was one of the primary sound effects performers for the Prairie Home Companion radio show and was often an actor in sketches written by Keillor.


American Public Media Group

Based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, American Public Media Group is ultimately a parent organization of—but distinct from—American Public Media, the distribution arm of Minnesota Public Radio that produces shows like On Being and Marketplace and distributes A Prairie Home Companion.

Fitzgerald Theater

The Fitzgerald Theater is the oldest active theatre in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and the home of American Public Media's A Prairie Home Companion.

Guy Van Duser

He recorded for Rounder Records extensively from the 1970s to the 1990s, and often appeared on American Public Media's A Prairie Home Companion.

Jean Redpath

Between 1974 and 1987, Redpath appeared regularly on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" APM radio show.

Karg Brothers

From there, Rich and Andy were chosen from among hundreds of other bands to perform live on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion radio show in April 2007, which was broadcast live on radio stations across the United States.

Mickey's Diner

The original Mickey's Diner appears in several Hollywood movies including The Mighty Ducks, Jingle All the Way, and A Prairie Home Companion.

Paul Rishell and Annie Raines

They have also recorded and performed as members of John Sebastian's J-Band, and appeared on the soundtrack to A Prairie Home Companion.

Prudence Johnson

Johnson's film credits include Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It in a role as a singer and Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion as herself.

Will Lamartine Thompson

It has been featured in the films The Trip to Bountiful, Junebug, and A Prairie Home Companion (sung by Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin), in the Anne Tyler novel The Accidental Tourist, and the television series True Blood.

WUKY

WUKY also airs A Prairie Home Companion, Car Talk, This American Life, On The Media, Whad'Ya Know, and other syndicated shows, and diverse, locally-produced programs for fans of Blues, female rock, Americana and World music.


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Tim Russell

In addition to his role on the film version of A Prairie Home Companion, Russell had small parts in two films set in Minnesota, 1994's Little Big League and 2009's A Serious Man.