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Regular Performers Fred Newman 
Once a freckled-faced, snaggled-toothed kid making sounds behind teachers backs, Fred grew up at the foot of storytellers in small town Georgia. He eventually grew up and ventured overseas, working for awhile as a street busker, blacksmith and then carpet salesman. He tried to go legit, graduating Harvard Business School and working with Newsweek magazine, and was first heard on A Prairie Home Companion as a guest in 1980 as author of his first version of MOUTHSOUNDS.
He went on to work as an actor, a writer, and a fairly inept puppeteer with Jim Henson, hosting many shows for Nickelodeon and Disney (including the New Mickey Mouse Club) He created voices, music, and sound effects for the long-running Nickelodeon and Disney cartoon series "DOUG" and went on to win Aces, Emmys, Peabodys, Clios, blah, blah... Fred is the touring SFX-guy for A Prairie Home, and can be seen daily on public television's reading show "Between the Lions”. His brand new book and CD/CD-ROM of MouthSounds has just been published. He lives in New York and Connecticut with his wife and two children, a cat, and two surly parakeets. They are all loud. | | | |
More Regular Performers • Tom Keith • Tim Russell • Sue Scott • Rich Dworsky • Fred Newman • Pat Donohue • Gary Raynor • The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band | |
Prairie Home on the Big Screen: Encore Presentation
If you missed Thursday's stellar A Prairie Home Companion Live in HD performance, there's still a chance to see it in theaters. An encore performance of A Prairie Home Companion from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, will be beamed in high-definition exclusively to 500+ movie theaters across the U.S. and Canada. With special guests Elvis Costello, Robin and Linda Williams, Jearlyn & Jevetta Steele, and Heather Masse.
Minnesota author, illustrator, and cartoonist Chris Monroe inked a short comic strip with Garrison Keillor. The comic reveals a few tricks of GK's writing style... or does it?
Read the strip»
The Prairie Home cruise has become legendary on two of the Seven Seas and now is setting sail on a third, a weeklong spring break cruise of the western Caribbean along the Mexican coast, and it leaves March 14 from Tampa.
Stories of a Wobegon romance far from home, all delivered with Garrison Keillor's trademark humor.
Read the first chapter»Signed Copies Available»
