A Prairie Home Companion: June 4, 2016

Originally broadcast from the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia. Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder bring the bluegrass melodies and lightning-fast picking, and Christine DiGiallonardo joins us to sing a few duets with the host and add her voice to our acting company. Plus: that Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Georgia's own Fred Newman; pianist and music director Rich Dworsky steers the house band (drummer Bernie Dresel, Larry Kohut on bass, Richard Kriehn on mandolin and fiddle, and Chris Siebold on guitar) through steamy Southern songs; and an update from Lake Wobegon.

[kurtbilinski]

I work in my garage every Sunday afternoon and never missed a show. I really really miss it. For NPR to erase the show is downright criminal - it's a national treasure.

[MrSeattleguy]

The world is a darker place without this show

[bernardmceachern]

I miss my Saturday nights with prairie home like olde times that just can't be recreated today

[dougaz]

Gosh I miss this. Saw PHC live three times. Listened since 1986. He was treated very unfairly. We all need this again

[barrybadrinath]

My dad would play this on the radio while we drove around the backroads of the place I grew up, holds a very special place in my heart.

[bernardrogan]

A national treasure for certain...we really need and miss you Garrison!

[danielhendrickson]

Listening to this show from my early childood to present (38) has been one of my best ways to unwind and forget about the day. My fondest memories of my dad driving me around in his old stick shift chevette after he got off work and drive around listening to repeats of the show on NPR. He did that all my life. Back ten years or so I was able to take him to a movie theater live casting one of Garrison’s shows. My dad was the stoic type so I never saw him laugh or cry. Sitting there watching him belly laugh at various parts of the show was magical. Never saw him so happy before or after. He passed in ‘19 so I have Mr. Garrison Keillor’s show to keep happy memories alive.

[michaelbarryprojects]

I miss Garrison Keillor hosting Prairie Home Companion. Nothing like it ever. Soothes the soul.

[PGS]

I miss this. America needs this kind of entertainment.

[pjcamp]

I was there. I miss this show. I spent 40 years listening to it while I made dinner.

[stevemcdonald]

Thank you, thank you, for presenting this here. We will not see or hear the likes of this show again. If 10, 000 years go by, never again.

[xrxs]

During the last few years during which the world has gone mad, l'd forgotten about Prairie Home Companion. Today, Garrison Keillor popped into my mind and this video cheered me, blotting out meanness and rumors of war.

[richardmorganwrites]

God Bless this man that has a bright spot in my life for decades.

[SchlubTheSecond]

It's impossible not to listen to this show with a smile on my face, no matter what's going on in the world or in my life. Thanks for the years of joy delivered in 2 hour intervals.

[Btrains]

I've forgotten how much I miss listening to this show on Saturday evenings😓..

[Little_Muskrat]

Greatest variety show EVER. We love you Garrison !!! ❤

[rodgailey]

So many Saturday nights standing in my kitchen, listening to my old familiar friends.

[simonboitoult]

What a find !! ... I so miss this radio programme.

[sillymxican]

I listened to this when I was about 15 every sunday, that was 11 years ago thanks for all the good times

[pietrikapoulin]

When I moved to Quebec from South Africa 30 years ago I asked a friend what the USA was like, one day he tuned in VPR and told me to listen to this show. He said this was America.