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Prairie Home Trip to Iceland
The May 20 broadcast originates from Reykjavik, the beautiful capital city of Iceland, out in the middle of the north Atlantic. Half of Iceland's 297,000 people live in and around Reykjavik—which means "smoking encouraged" in Icelandic. It's a volcanic island, so if our broadcast is interrupted suddenly, that may be the reason. The Vikings came over in the 9th and 10th century to settle this rugged island, but what do I know? I've never been.
The famous Fostbraedur Male Choir, and Diddú (Sigrún Hjálmtýrsdóttir), one of Iceland's most popular singers, join me and all the Prairie Home Companion regulars for this show, along with the Sage of Southwestern Minnesota, the Silver Tongued Poet of the Potato Growers, Mr. Bill Holm, who is proud of his Icelandic heritage and will help us understand the place.
Dusty and Lefty will fly over, too, and also Guy Noir, and Jim and Barb of the Ketchup Advisory Board. Tune it to see if Icelanders sit in silent puzzlement or if they clap and stuff.
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From Garrison Keillor:
“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.”
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Robin & Linda Williams are among the most popular guest performers of A Prairie Home Companion (they also appeared in the movie, have performed as part of the The Hopeful Gospel Quartet, and made appearances as Marvin & Mavis Smiley). This CD features some of the duo's best harmonies from the show. Among the 12 tracks are familiar fan favorites, including "For Better or Worse", "Visions of Mother and Dad", "Tied Down, Home Free" and the title track. A collection that is muy bueno!
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