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A Prairie Home Companion On 90.5 WKAR at 6 p.m. "A Prairie Home Companion" Comes to East Lansing Tickets on sale October 17, at 1-800-WHARTON SOLD OUT Public radio station 90.5 WKAR welcomes a live performance of A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, the celebrated variety show produced by Prairie Home Productions, and presented and distributed by American Public Media. The company will perform live at the MSU Concert Auditorium on Saturday, November 26, at 5:45 p.m. The program regularly airs Saturdays at 6:00 p.m. on 90.5 WKAR and is repeated Sundays at 10:00 a.m. Host Garrison Keillor and special guests will take the MSU Concert Auditorium stage for their first Lansing-area visit since October 1982. Tickets are available online at the Wharton Center website at www.whartoncenter.com or phone Wharton Center's box office at 517-432-2000 or 1-800-WHARTON, beginning October 17 at 10:00 a.m. Prices range from $38.50-$53.50 and $25.00 for students. "A Prairie Home Companion is a public radio gem," says WKAR's general manager DeAnne Hamilton, "and Garrison Keillor is a master narrator who knows that the way to make people see and feel something is through their ears." "Our audience has an amazing emotional attachment to Prairie Home," Hamilton adds, "because it's richly entertaining, always full of laughs and surprises. I'm delighted that fans throughout the region will be able to enjoy a live performance." The November 26 A Prairie Home Companion will feature live performances by local/regional musicians, to be announced, and comical skits by Keillor and the Prairie Home cast. Keillor will weave local humor into the show and share his signature monologue, "The News From Lake Wobegon," with mid-Michigan audiences. (Names of local guests will be released when available; watch WKAR.org for updates.) Native Minnesotan, Garrison Keillor began working at Minnesota Public Radio in 1969. In the summer of 1974, he hosted the first live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion, a program now heard weekly on over 580 public radio stations by over four million listeners. Keillor is also a frequent contributor to Time and the author of 13 books and winner of numerous awards for his broadcasting and literary work. With Philip Brunelle, Keillor has performed with many orchestras, including the Lansing Symphony Orchestra in 2004, and the Chicago, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Dallas, and National symphonies. He has appeared at Wolf Trap, Carnegie Hall, and other major concert venues as a member of The Hopeful Gospel Quartet. Keillor has received numerous awards for his broadcast and literary work, including: membership in the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (2001); The National Humanities Medal (1999); and a Grammy Award for the recording of Lake Wobegon Days (1985). A Prairie Home Companion is produced by Prairie Home Productions, and is presented and distributed by American Public Media. The program is sponsored nationally by Toyota, The Sleep Number Bed by Select Comfort and Watkins. Local broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion on WKAR is made possible by support from Wharton Center for Performing Arts and Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra. WKAR-TV will also air A Prairie Home Companion television special at 8:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving evening, November 24, which will be repeated the following Sunday, November 27, at 3:00 p.m. WKAR
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