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Prairie Home Companion

March 21, 1998      Nob Hill Masonic Center, San Francisco, CA

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Participants

Audience Pat Donohue Richard DworskyGuy's All-Star Shoe Band Garrison Keillor Laurie Lewis Todd Phillips Tom RozumSonos Handbell Ensemble Andy Stein. Frederica Von Stade Roger Wiesmeyer


Songs, tunes, and poems

San Francisco Bay Blues ( Garrison Keillor )
They Raided the Joint ( Pat Donohue )
Val's Cabin ( Laurie Lewis , Tom Rozum , Todd Phillips )
Millionaire ( Laurie Lewis , Tom Rozum , Todd Phillips )
A Route to the Sky ( Frederica Von Stade )
Vivaldi Concerto in Am (Sonos Handbell Ensemble  )
Quia Respexit (Sonos Handbell Ensemble  , Roger Wiesmeyer )
Chinatown, My Chinatown (Guy's All-Star Shoe Band  )
Rosetta ( Richard Dworsky , Andy Stein )
Rave On ( Garrison Keillor , Audience  )
Everyday ( Garrison Keillor , Audience  )
Kiss Me Before I Die ( Garrison Keillor , Audience  )
Copland Hoedown from Rodeo (Sonos Handbell Ensemble  )
Keep on the Sunny Side ( Garrison Keillor , Laurie Lewis , Tom Rozum )


Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

Beebopareebop Rhubarb Pie
Cafe Boeuf
Guy Noir- Private Eye
Mojave Mutual Funds
Powdermilk Biscuits
The Lives of the Cowboys


'The News from Lake Wobegon'

The exiles left LW to get away from their dark Lutheran families. GK wasn't a rebel. Cousin Rosemary was a rebel. She had long legs, short hair and big grin and went straight for what she wanted. At eighteen, she headed for California and studied Phy Ed at SF State. She got into all kinds of trouble in the 70s. She won the Nude Miss Unitarian contest in 1972, which lead to a career as a topless standup comedian in a bar in SF. She joined the People's Circus and smoked industrial strength reefer. She gave up on men and moved off to Larkspur with her lover, Alice, who was handy with power tools. Rose and Alice went back to LW for a visit. Rose was shattered by the experience. She bemoaned her upbringing and blames her parents. Her parents were just happy to see her. Alice used her power tools to make cabinets. When you rebel against your parents and run away, you never get over it. The child that stays home sees the parents diminish. You should be thankful, cheerful, make yourself useful and avoid self pity at all costs.


Other mentions/discussions during the show

Guy Noir - Private Eye: A tour bus load full of elderly MN Lutherans disappears in SF. Guy finds them with the mystic, Ardot, and releases them. GK talks to RM about living in SF and earthquakes. Lefty and Dusty are street entertainers in SF.


This show was Rebroadcast on 2000-03-11

Related/contemporary press articles

Modesto Bee Mar 30 1998


Notes and References

Archival contributors: Official website / Frank Berto


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