The scripts are being written and the songs are being chosen! The cast is packing their bags and getting ready to travel to Washington DC to put on an American Revival of the old radio show in our nation's capitol. We sure hope you can join us at The Anthem for a great show. Just an FYI but this show will not be streamed so we hope you join us for a wonderful evening of songs, stories and sketches. Get tickets to The Anthem >>> The intermission sing-a-long has long been a favorite among listeners of the radio show and the communal experience was featured in several reviews or articles about the show's recent visit to the Ryman Theater. Let's put aside all our differences and join together in song this one evening at The Anthem. Can you think of anything better? (click on the image for a breif video clip) |
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Join us live at The Anthem
for A Prairie Home Companion At a time of great political divide, we are bringing the show to our nation’s capital for the American Revival show. Music ties us together as we sing songs of old — the songs we should all know by memory. We have performed in Washington, D.C., more than 15 times, with some of the most fabulous audiences in the country. In fact, as each season of A Prairie Home Companion came to a close, one of the final stops each season was at Wolf Trap.
Given it's October, our show on October 21st will be staged at The Anthem at 8:00 p.m. and will include our actors, Tim Russell and Fred Newman; our songstress, Heather Masse; our opera diva, Ellie Dehn; our celebrated Broadway music director, Rob Fisher, one of our favorite poets, Billy Collins; our favorite fingerstyle guitarist, Pat Donohue; and Richard Dworsky at the piano, directing The Friendly String Quartet. Get tickets to the PHC show >>>
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GUEST PERFORMERS JOINING US AT THE ANTHEM
(all performances from A Prairie Home Companion)
ABOUT BILLY COLLINS:
Billy Collins was twice appointed United States poet laureate and also served as New York State poet laureate. In 2004, he was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Poetry Foundation's Mark Twain Award for humor in poetry. The poems in Questions About Angels; Picnic, Lightning; Sailing Alone Around the Room; Nine Horses; The Trouble with Poetry; Ballistics, and his other best-selling books have sparked a firestorm of interest in the art. His most recent collection of poetry, 'Musical Tables: Poems,' will be released on November 15th. “Aimless Love” >>> Poems from 'The Rain in Portugal' >>> ABOUT HEATHER MASSE:
Known to many as a member of the acclaimed Juno Award-winning Canadian band The Wailin’ Jennys, Heather Masse has taken the stage at hundreds of venues across Europe, Canada, and the U.S. She appeared regularly on A Prairie Home Companion, and the versatile vocalist has performed with the bluegrass band The Wayfaring Strangers on NPR’s World Cafe and at Boston’s Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops Orchestra. Among her recordings: August Love Song, Lock My Heart (with jazz legend Dick Hyman), and Beautiful Dreamer (a duet album with Garrison Keillor). “If You Were Mine” with Garrison >>>“Bird Song” >>>
ABOUT PAT DONOHUE:
Grammy™-nominated Pat Donohue (guitar) is a native and resident of St. Paul, Minnesota. He is a National Fingerpicking Guitar Champion and an innovative songwriter, with several albums to his credit on Red House Records and Bluesky Records. Nodody's Fault a new album by Pat Donohue is coming out soon. His songs have been recorded by Chet Atkins, Suzy Bogguss, and Kenny Rogers. His latest recording is American Guitar (Bluesky). He has performed on A Prairie Home Companion for seven years. “Waiting for You” >>>“Maple Leaf Rag” >>>
ABOUT ELLIE DEHN:
Soprano Ellie Dehn has graced many of the world’s leading opera houses, from the Metropolitan Opera to Teatro alla Scala and Bayerische Staatsoper. But her love of music started during her childhood in Anoka, Minnesota. She was raised in a musical home — the granddaughter of a Minnesota Orchestra flutist and the daughter of a piano teacher — and she went on to study at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. The current season finds her traveling to Japan to perform the role of Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus with the Seiji Ozawa Music Festival, as well as returning to the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for several projects. “Una Voce Poco Fa” >>>“Serenade” >>>
ABOUT RICHARD DWORSKY & THE FRIENDLY STRING QUARTET:
The Friendly String Quartet sees Broadway conductor and pianist Rob Fisher joining our longtime Prairie Home Companion music director Richard Dworsky, Keyboard player, composer, and improviser in any style, he also wrote the show’s script themes and underscores, plus a quartet of string instruments. Whether it's jazz, blues, or classical, you never know what to expect from the house band on this show. “Perpetual Motion” >>>“Tishomingo Blues” / “Hello Love” >>>
ABOUT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF RADIO ACTORS:
A well-known Twin Cities radio personality and voice actor, Tim Russell is a man of myriad voices. He appeared in the Robert Altman film A Prairie Home Companion and the Coen brothers’ A Serious Man. Sound effects man Fred Newman is an actor, writer, musician, and sound designer for film and TV. Turns out, no one is more surprised than Fred that he’s made a career out of doing what he used to do behind the teacher’s back — crossing his eyes, making sounds, and doing voices. He readily admits that, growing up, he was unceremoniously removed from several classrooms, “once by my bottom lip.” Guy Noir, featuring Billy Collins >>>The Lives of the Cowboys: Big Messer >>> |
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