One More Night from 2013

featuring Heather Masse and The DiGiallonardo Sisters

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This week on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, we travel back to June 29, 2013, for the season finale from Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts. With special guests, genre-bending string band Joy Kills Sorrow, singer and songmaker Heather Masse, and harmonizing siblings The DiGiallonardo Sisters. Plus, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, harmonica virtuoso Howard Levy sits in with The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon. Listen to the show.

The DiGiallonardo Sisters — Daniela, Nadia, and Christine — started singing together when they were kids Brooklyn. They still call Brooklyn home, and they still love stacking up those three-part harmonies. Now, Daniela teaches social studies at Brooklyn's Mark Twain Intermediate School for the Gifted & Talented; Nadia is a pianist, composer, arranger, and singer; and Christine is a singer and actor.

Using traditional bluegrass as a jumping-off point, Joy Kills Sorrow honed a sound that wandered into folk, rock, pop, and jazz from the time they first formed in 2005. The name? It was from WJKS, the call letters of a 1930s Indiana radio station that was once the on-air home of the Monroe Brothers. Vocalist Emma Beaton, guitarist Matt Arcara, Wes Corbett (banjo), Jacob Jolliff (mandolin), and bassist Zoe Guigueno last performed together in 2020.

Growing up in rural Maine, Heather Masse sang hymns and folk songs around home with her family. Now based in New York, this New England Conservatory of Music alum is a one-third of the Juno Award-winning Canadian trio The Wailin' Jennys. Heather will be featured on several of the upcoming A Prairie Home Companion 50th Anniversary shows.

Multi-instrumentalist Howard Levy is perhaps best known for developing a fully chromatic harmonica style on a standard 10-hole diatonic instrument. Anyone who's ever picked up a little Hohner Marine Band can appreciate the feat. The musical adventures of this Chicago-based Grammy winner include journeys into jazz, pop, rock, Latin, classical, folk, blues, country, and more. He has appeared on hundreds of recordings.

50th Anniversary Commemorative Mugs

Handcrafted by artisans from Deneen Pottery to mark Garrison Keillor's final year as host of A Prairie Home Companion, these stoneware mugs are stunningly beautiful and one of a kind. Each mug is molded in pieces and then assembled and fired. The medallion features the house that sits at the back of the stage during most live performances. Each mug holds 14 ounces.

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