A Prairie Home Companion for April 29, 2006 from American Public Media

April 29, 2006
This week, we'll run with Coyotes at the University of South Dakota’s Dakota Dome. It’s a special show utilizing dozens of historical musical instruments on loan from the National Music Museum at USD. Featured guests include The New Custer Brass Band, singer Becky Schlegel, USD faculty cellist & pianist Nick Curry and Susan Gray, plus Pat Donohue and Tim Sparks will explore the history of the guitar, playing their way through a collection that would make Andres Segovia light-headed. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Acting; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and much more. Live this Saturday on A Prairie Home Companion.

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Segment 1

00:00:00 Logo

00:00:15 Tishomingo Blues

00:02:50 GK opens, talks about Vermillion, Congress investigating oil prices, rain, historical music instruments

00:05:40 GK talks about vintage guitars from the museum, Pat Donohue and Tim Sparks play them

00:08:25 GK talks about the "King" cello, recites "Ode to the Cello," intros Nick Curry and Susan Gray

00:10:11 Nick Curry - Bach solo

00:14:36 "Early" - Becky Schlegel and Garrison Keillor

00:17:55 Cowboys script

00:26:56 GK introduces the New Custer Brass Band

00:27:20 "Yankee Notion Overture" - New Custer Brass Band

00:28:45 Brass (Lewis & Clark) script, "Hail Columbia"

00:32:46 GK talks about Felix Vinatieri

00:33:17 Powdermilk Biscuit Break

00:34:45 GK talks about the town of Vermillion

00:35:23 DakotaDome script

00:39:41 University of South Dakota Fight song

Segment 2

00:40:20 "Nine Pound Hammer" - Pat Donohue and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, Pat and Tim Sparks talk about vintage guitars

00:46:42 Guy Noir script

00:56:19 GK talks about Felix Vinatieri, "Black Hills Picnic Quickstep" - New Custer Brass Band

00:58:30 More Vinatieri talk

00:59:22 "Grand March" - New Custer Brass Band

01:01:41 Vinatieri talk, talks with Norbert Vinatieri

01:03:53 Intermission/"I'll See You in My Dreams"

Segment 3

01:08:30 Greetings

01:11:46 Fields of Gold" - GK/Becky Schlegel/Shoe Band

01:14:53 GK talks with Nick Curry

01:16:00 "Cello Sonata" / Chopin - Nick Curry and Susan Gray

Segment 4

01:19:59 News From Lake Wobegon

Segment 5

01:32:09 "Bound to Run For Tennessee" - Becky Schlegel and band

01:35:41 GK talks about Laura Ingalls Wilder

01:37:47 "In the Sweet By an By"/"Golden Years"/"Love's Old Sweet Song" - GK/Becky Schlegel

01:42:05 GK talks more with Nick Curry

01:43:44 "Sicilienne" - Nick Curry and Susan Gray

01:47:19 Pat and Tim play more guitars, "Two-Tone Stomp," "Folsom Prison Blues," "Long, Long Ago"

01:53:16 Thank you to South Dakota guests

01:54:00 "Fier Krakers Polka" - New Custer Brass Band (with Fred Newman)

01:55:32 Credits/"America the Beautiful"

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Fred Newman watches the New Custer Brass Band rehearse		Cellist Nick Curry and pianist Susan Gray (in the background) during rehearsal


The New Custer Brass Band bring us the "Yankee Notion Overture"		Becky Schlegel warms up in rehearsal


Fred Newman works his magic		Nick Curry enchants us with a Bach solo