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the brain is not easily dispelled it stays with you as you amble to the kitchen and take your meds and pour a cup of coffee and you have to sit down and get a grip on yourself and get your head on straight i left st paul ten years ago and moved to new york i was a big shot in st paul and in new york i am squeezed into the c train along with everyone else my wife loves new york and is happy here and living with a happy woman is much much more important than being a big shot i ve started a new career as a stand up comic and it s great fun to amuse people most of whom due to their taking citizenship seriously lack goofiness in their lives read more dancing in chelsea with willy and dylan posted on may 12 2026 columns i ve just had an amazing weekend in new york which is what people come to new york for to experience life in ways they didn t find likely in anoka minnesota i love anoka but it has its limits my weekend friday i was writing a book and that night my love and i went to see death of a salesman on broadway saturday i worked i got a call from my doctor saying the ct scan showed that my right hip wasn t broken when i fell on it but only had a huge hematoma that would ache for a few weeks and that night we went to a wedding of a friend s daughter at the famous hotel chelsea on west 23rd street and a dinner and dancing that followed a hundred guests and i looked around as the dj started spinning the discs with a walloping bass beat i could feel in my butt and i was the oldest person in the room at 83 and i was in a state of delight and started swaying and twisting with my love sunday i slept until 12 30 p m read more the windy city watch your step posted on may 8 2026 columns i did a show in chicago last week and i m sorry you weren t there because it was so fabulously good i m from minnesota and was brought up not to say that but i m 83 and it s time to take liberties i was also brought up to tell the truth so there i ve started a new career as a stand up comic my mother who has departed this world loved comedians even though she was brought up brethren and i used to tell her jokes and when she laughed it made me feel loved and the chicago audience laughed like crazy they came to have a good time and i didn t get in their way by talking about politics and after ninety minutes they gave me a standing ovation and we all went home i do the show standing up but it s not all jokes and i avoid snark and sarcasm i think irony is for teenagers i believe that life is a gift and that our existence here on this planet is a miracle and i am grateful for it grateful for the innovations such as earl grey ice cream and search engines online newspapers the urinal that flushes when i step back and for the fact that i can say alexa play the rolling stones brown sugar and she does no need to dig through the shelf of lps i could find the rolling stones on youtube but then i d have to sit through commercials for retirement homes energy drinks and stool softeners read more looking around not looking ahead posted on may 5 2026 columns driving through northern iowa last week the flattest farmland in america i thought of my uncle jim and the old keillor farm i loved as a kid the big barn and haymow the cows he milked by hand twice a day the horses prince and ned who pulled the hayrack a magical place for a boy my dad who grew up on that farm hated it because he saw it as perpetual poverty he was eager to make a break and start over he was not nostalgic i am but i was only a visitor it was dramatic to drive for hundreds of miles and see no barns or silos no windmill or grove around a farmhouse the grant wood landscape of rural america and see what corporate industrial agriculture looks like it looks like siberia a place you send people as punishment read more load next posts take a walk through our history with songs photos and some pretty wonderful memories in 1974 after writing a fact piece for the magazine the new yorker about the grand ole opry i started up a prairie home companion on saturday evenings a live variety show with room for a long monologue by me it has been a quiet week in lake wobegon and found steady colleagues who did most of the work starting with my boss bill kling and the producer margaret moos the engineer lynne cruise tom keith bill hinkley and judy larson and down to the present day sam hudson kate gustafson richard dworsky tim russell sue scott and fred newman not to mention fabulous guests tech guys good stagehands and so we sail the ocean blue in pursuit of truth and beauty sober men and true attentive to our duty the keillor reader a bit of history and some fun facts favorite songs from our past a prairie home companion photo album memories from staff and performers a bit of history and some fun facts in the summer of 1973 thinking this was something a radio guy should do someday i rode the train to nashville with my friend don mcneil from the softball team to see the saturday night broadcast of the grand ole opry at the ryman auditorium which was completely sold out that night so we stood in the parking lot behind the hall and listened to it on wsm from the radios in nearby pickup trucks there was a whole crowd of us out there we got to see loretta lynn s tour bus pull up in the alley and she herself step out and walk by in glittering white gown long black hair and the crowd parted for her nobody asked for an autograph a few people said quietly hey loretta and she smiled and picked up her skirts and went around back to the stage door the ryman wasn t air conditioned and the windows were wide open and when we ducked down behind a low stone wall we could see the lower halves of performers on stage dolly parton and roy acuff and bashful brother oswald and almost all of stonewall jackson my hero marty robbins sat mugging at the piano and sang love me grinning on the falsetto part in the chorus and then jumped up and did el paso strumming a little spanish guitar up on his shoulder listening to the music from car radios in the parking lot surrounded by reverent fans on a hot summer night i felt happy excited even exalted i thought i d like to do that someday the next spring i went back to nashville and wrote a piece about the opry for the new yorker roger angell handed me over to a fact editor bill whitworth knowing bill is from little rock and knows country music and bill at the time was the trusted deputy of william shawn the editor and so the assignment was made though mr shawn s interest in country music was slight at best on this daisy chain of connections my whole career hangs if roger had handed me to an editor from connecticut or if whit worth had fallen out of favor with shawn or if shawn had mentioned the opry to lillian ross and she said you re out of your mind i d be wearing a tsa badge and patting down men with suspicious pants at the airport i went to the friday night show and skipped the saturday night because richard m nixon would be there trying to slip the bonds of watergate and i didn t care to write about him i sat in the balcony of the ryman and watched the sequined ladies with big hair men in gaudy suits commercials for chewing tobacco and pork sausage and self rising martha white flour and goo goo clusters cousin minnie pearl i m just so proud to be here the red barn backdrop the haze of cigarette smoke the fans and their flash cameras the announcer in his funeral suit and i resolved to go home and start up a saturday night show of my own i wrote the piece bill whitworth shepherded it into print between ads for chanel no 5 and cartier diamonds and cricketeer yacht wear and i went up the stairs to bill kling s office at ksjn to talk kling kept meetings short he had a low tolerance for the prefaces and digressions by which people show they have a liberal arts education he was a true believer in radio listened to it religiously and in public radio surrounded by malcontents he got excited by good ideas i proposed the show and he told me to go right ahead saturday at 5 p m between the met opera and the new york philharmonic broadcasts he called in margaret moos who worked upstairs in publicity and asked her to produce it have fun he said it was a ten minute conversation saturday evening was a dead zone in radio but i was in a sinking marriage and had nothing to lose that time of year a minnesota life the facts with a grain of salt we are fiction writers after all july 6 1974 july 2 2016 1557 broadcasts first national live broadcast carried on npr s folk festival usa feb 17 1979 first regularly scheduled national broadcast may 3 1980 approximately 365 different venues approximately 10 000 performers approximately 4 million listeners 690 public radio stations approximately 3 400 000 theater audience members a prairie home companion benefit for the st paul chamber orchestra 1979 the young lutheran s guide to the orchestra benefit for the st paul chamber orchestra 1994 tv broadcasts world theater grand opening 1986 a prairie home companion disney 18 shows february through june 1987 a prairie home companion 2 nd annual farewell disney radio city music hall 1988 a pretty good night at carnegie hall disney 1989 great performances a prairie home companion from tanglewood 2006 great performances garrison keillor a new year s eve special 2006 movie theater presentations 2 cinecasts presented by fathom events radio show video livestreamed nationally to movie 2010 a prairie home companion film directed by robert altman may 2006 fan weekends phc hymn sing at concordia college moorhead mn 1992 f scott fitzgerald 100 th anniversary 1996 lake wobegon ice fishing weekend st paul 2002 lake wobegon ice fishing weekend bemidji 2011 a prairie home companion 40 th anniversary macalester college st paul 2014 13 talent shows 1995 2012 13 joke shows 1996 2014 over 3000 original lyric estimates im going with an average of 3 per show over 8000 personal greetings read since 1978 acclaimed guests bob and ray bobby mcferrin taj mahal pete seeger doc watson yo yo ma minnie pearl chet atkins the everly brothers willie nelson emmylou harris greg brown jean redpath carl perkins ray stevens the judds vince gill allison janney lynn thigpen alison krauss brad paisley the dixie chicks james taylor meryl streep lily tomlin john c reilly john lithgow martin sheen elvis costello reneé fleming marilyn horne nathan gunn dixie carter james earl jones roger miller carole king debra monk sara bareilles joshua bell tom brokaw harry smith charles kurault brandi carlile roseanne cash rosemary clooney kristin chenoweth victoria clark joel grey harry connick jr lyle lovett sheryl crow heart emmanuel ax jeremy denk dr john linda ronstadt al franken james galway nanci griffith arlo guthrie kathy mattea george mcgovern walter mondale itzhak perlman sydney pollack bonnie raitt leon redbone house bands powdermilk biscuit band new prairie ramblers butch thompson trio the coffee club orchestra rich dworsky and the guy s all star shoe band rich dworsky and the house band choirs that appeared angelica cantati choir beloit memorial high school choir bonai cantores cantus cedar lake seven central moravian church choir chanticleer choral arts ensemble classen school of advanced studies choir cornell university glee club dale warland singers durango children s chorale essex children s choir first presbyterian church choir of atlanta goshen college chamber choir gregg smith singers hamline university capella choir house of hope presbyterian church choir school kamehameha h s glee club the king s singers macalester concert choir minnesota boy choir minnesota opera chorus mormon tabernacle choir northfield youth choir st john s boy choir st juliana choir st malachi s choir st olaf concert choir surma the appalachian association of sacred harp singers the bach choir of bethlehem the bulgarian state radio and tv female vocal choir the college of st catherine women s choir concordia college choir the fóstbræōur male choir the russian chamber chorus of new york the tudor choir university of minnesota morris concert choir ukranian choir university of minnesota minneapolis concert choir kitka vocalessence waldorf college choir women s vocal ensemble of st olaf anchorage community chorus buffalo philharmonic chamber chorus bulgarian national folk ensemble purdue glee club ypsilanti chamber chorus yale russian chorus international broadcasts iceland ireland germany scotland england mexico canada heard internationally via the armed forces network and america one lake wobegon trail facts dedicated in 1998 65 miles long waite parke st joseph avon albany holdingford bowlus freeport melrose sauk centre west union osakis unusual acts hypnotized chicken murray the sea lion harley refsal the woodcarver avner the eccentric marching bands mouth sound participants bagpipers yodelers whistlers tap dancers flat foot dancers polka dancers belly dancer polka dancers arthur murray dancers sfx props tom keith s collection wingtips for footsteps box of cornstarch sounds like walking in snow styrofoam plates sounds like breaking wood old fashioned telephone roller skate across typewriter keys to sound like elevator door opening wooden legs to sound like people marching wood squeaker doorbells buzz or chime coconut shells in small gravel glass breaking cage crash box wood box with tin cans tour names junior woodchuck tour 1976 death march to the prairie 1977 spaghetti transmission tour 1978 thanks anyway tour 1980 unlikely tour 1982 definitely last motor home tour 1982 tour de force tour 1983 second annual farewell tour 1988 third annual farewell tour 1989 fourth annual farewell tour 1990 moonshine tour 1994 hopeful gospel tour rhubarb tour 2003 2005 2008 summer love tour 2010 2011 radio romance tour 2013 america the beautiful tour 2015 love and comedy tour 2017 11 sold out cruises alaska norway st lawrence seaway caribbean spain portugal spain france italy baltic sea interesting venues ramsey arts and science culture garden high schools college auditoriums and chapels churches state fairs oklahoma city zoo oregon zoo ball field in lanesboro mn open field in avon mn shakespeare festival old faithful lodge mark twain memorial house willa cather s home new york public library gibbon ballroom mn glenwood ballroom mn the surf ballroom mn botanical gardens wineries awards and proclamations grammy award ace george foster peabody national humanities medal audie awards election to the american academy of arts and letters numerous keys to the city and proclamation days letters from bill clinton jimmy carter barack obama a bit of history and some fun facts favorite songs from our past a prairie home companion photo album memories from staff and performers memories from staff and performers bill kling president emeritus of minnesota public radio and american public media the beginnings of a live keillor show occurred at 6 30 a m one weekday in the early 1970s 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