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July 1, 2006
This week, from the beautiful Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts, we bring you the official Prairie Home Companion season finale and Independence Day Special. Broadcasting from the Koussevitzky Music Shed at Tanglewood, the performance will be live on radio and filmed for broadcast on the PBS television program Great Performances, Sunday, July 2 at 9 pm Eastern. With very special guests, two-time Academy Award winner - and star of Robert Altman's "A Prairie Home Companion" movie, Meryl Streep, Canada's finest female trio, The Wailin' Jennys, and spine-tingling Gospel singer, Jearlyn Steele. Also with us, the Hopeful Gospel Quartet with Robin & Linda Williams, Carol Elizabeth Jones, and Mr. low G himself, Carson Wyler. Actress Erica Rhodes will join the Royal Academy of Radio Acting, and sitting in with the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, Mr. Andy Stein. Join us for the fireworks, this Saturday on your local public radio station, and again Sunday on your local public television station.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:15 | GK intros - Happy Birthday America! |
| 00:01:51 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:03:38 | GK reminisces about America |
| 00:08:46 | "One Love" - Hopeful Gospel Quartet and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
| 00:11:30 | GK talks with Meryl Streep |
| 00:13:23 | Mother Script |
| 00:24:47 | "How I Got Over" - Jearlyn Steele, Shoes |
| 00:28:20 | "Twelve Gates To The City" - Jearlyn Steele, Hopeful Gospel Quartet, Shoes |
| 00:31:03 | Powdermilk Biscuit Theme Break including "Horses Stood Around", "Pigs in a Blanket", "Be Kind To Your Web-Footed Friends", and "Dogfight" - Hopefuls, Shoes |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:33:40 | "Jazz Names" - Pat Donohue and the Shoes |
| 00:37:30 | SFX Script |
| 00:42:37 | GK Intros The Wailin' Jennys |
| 00:43:02 | "Bring Me A Little Water Sylvie" - The Wailin' Jennys |
| 00:46:13 | GK Talks about The Wailin' Jennys |
| 00:46:37 | "One Voice" - The Wailin' Jennys |
| 00:50:18 | Guy Noir Script |
| 01:05:06 | Intermission - "Dr. Jazz" - Guy's All-Star Shoe Band |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:09:04 | GK Welcomes Back |
| 01:09:30 | "All I'm Thinkin' About is You" - Hopeful Gospel Quartet and the Shoes |
| 01:12:54 | Gehry Script |
| 01:13:50 | "Green Summertime" - Hopefuls with Rich Dworsky and Gary Raynor |
| 01:17:57 | Poems - GK, Meryl Streep, Andy Stein |
| 01:28:45 | "Calling All Angels" - Wailin' Jennys |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:34:27 | The News from Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:46:32 | GK Intros Jearlyn Steele |
| 01:46:47 | "I Shall Be Released" - Jearlyn Steele, Hopefuls, Shoes |
| 01:50:20 | Lobster Script |
| 01:53:19 | "What'll I Do" - Meryl Streep, GK, and Richard Dworsky |
| 01:56:27 | Credits |
| 01:57:25 | CLOSER - "Goodnight Ladies" into "Waitin' for You"- Hopefuls Gospel Quartet, Wailin' Jennys, Shoes |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Russ Ringsak)
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| Stage Manager Albert Webster adjusts a microphone before the show |
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A view from a monitor |
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| The Hopeful Gospel Quartet as seen from side stage |
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Meryl Streep lends a voice to the Mother script |
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| Linda Williams on the guitar |
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Meryl shares a poem with us |
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On July 4th, help us celebrate the 35th Anniversary of A Prairie Home Companion and the Fourth of July with a free live nationally broadcast show from Avon, MN.
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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