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Special Guests Greg Anderson is a senior at Stillwater Area High School and has studied piano for the past ten years. He has appeared in numerous recitals, concerts, master classes, and radio and television performances, and has won or placed in many competitions. Also a composer, Anderson was named Minnesota High School Composer of the year for his "Fantasy in d minor." Twin Cities resident Maria Jette has performed with such varied groups as The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Wratislava Cantans Festival in Poland, and the New York City Chamber Symphony. Her varied roles include Handel's Galatea, Monteverdi's Poppea, Britten's Fido, and the Countess in "The Marriage of Figaro." Jette is joined by pianist Sonja Thompson. Born in Athens, Georgia, Leo Kottke taught himself to play the guitar after learning theory and harmony from trombone lessons. In 1969, he released "6 and 12 String Guitar" (Takoma Records; re-issued on Rhino Records) and began touring extensively. Since then, Kottke's fingerpicking style has become legendary and his compositions have become standards in their own right. His newest recording is "One Guitar, No Vocals" (BMG/Private Music). The Minnesota Boychoir is an amateur, non-denominational group of Twin Cities-area boys, ranging in age from 6 to 15, who are selected through annual auditions. Founded in 1962 as the Morris Nilsen Boys' Choir, they perform locally and internationally, including visits to Norway, Costa Rica, Vienna, and Prague. Mark S. Johnson has served as music director since 1993.
Peter Ostroushko was raised in Northeast Minneapolis, where he taught himself to play the piano, mandolin, fiddle, and other string instruments. He played an uncredited mandolin set on Bob Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks," and has since played on more than 100 other albums. His latest recording is "Pilgrims on the Heart Road" (Red House).
Singer/songwriter Ann Reed grew up in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and taught herself to play her brother's guitar. She started playing at coffeehouses and cafes in the Twin Cities area, and has since performed throughout the country, winning many local and national awards along the way. Her latest CD is "Timing Is Everything" (Turtlecub), with her twelfth recording due out in April. Butch Thompson first became interested in jazz as a child in Marine-on-St. Croix, Minnesota, where he discovered the piano at age three. He joined the Hall Brothers New Orleans Jazz Band in 1962 and became one of the few non-Orleanians to guest occasionally at Preservation Hall. Thompson has released nine CDs in his solo series, "Thompson Plays Joplin" (Daring/Rounder Records). His latest CD, "Yulestride," is an album of holiday tunes, also on Daring/Rounder.
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A Christmas Blizzard
GK's New Holiday Story
A comic novella about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown.
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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.
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The latest collection of Lake Wobegon short stories gathered from live broadcasts include Confirmation Sunday, the church directory photos, Pastor Ingqvist's leather bound sermons along with song lyrics and the "95 Theses," among others. Companion audio also available.
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