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GARRISON KEILLOR ANNOUNCES 26-CITY COAST-TO-COAST
A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION “RADIO ROMANCE TOUR”
Duet singing, improv, poetry, foolishness, and the News from Lake Wobegon.
(SAINT PAUL, Minn.) On Monday, July 8, A Prairie Home Companion kicks off the Radio Romance Tour 2013, a 26-city, 27-concert, 30-day, coast-to-coast bus tour that will run from Washington to Maine visiting the Darlings Waterfront Pavilion on Saturday July 27th. Starring host and writer Garrison Keillor, comedian Fred Newman, Richard Dworsky and the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band with guitarist Pat Donohue and violinist/mandolinist Richard Kriehn, these nonbroadcast shows offer more than two hours of duet singing (with either singer Aoife O’Donovan or singer/fiddler Sara Watkins, depending on the particular date), plus absurd improv with sound effects, Guy Noir Private Eye, poetry, outright foolishness, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

Garrison Keillor was born in 1942 in Anoka, Minnesota, and began his radio career as a freshman at the University of Minnesota. He went to work for Minnesota Public Radio in 1969, and on July 6, 1974, he hosted the first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion. Today, some 4 million listeners on more than 600