A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands

Fiddler, singer and songwriter Laurie Lewis grew up in Berkeley, California. It was at the Berkeley Folk Festivals of the 1960s that she first caught the folk bug. And while she drifted away from the music after her high school days, she always kept her fiddle under her bed. A prudent move. In her early 20s, she discovered the Bay Area bluegrass scene and realized that music would be her life's work. In the mid-1970s, she helped found the Good Ol' Persons, an all-female ensemble, and she went on to form Laurie Lewis and Grant Street in the early '80s - a band that included her longtime collaborator Tom Rozum. The Right Hands are Tom Rozum, mandolin; Scott Huffman, guitar; Craig Smith, banjo; Todd Phillips, bass. The group's latest CD is The Golden West (HighTone Records).

The Brothers Frantzich

The Brothers Frantzich have spent several decades writing songs and singing in close harmony. And, yes, they really are brothers — Tim and Paul Frantzich, who grew up in Minneapolis and are still based in the Twin Cities. They have performed in clubs, theaters, churches, prisons, even on center ice before hockey games in Minnesota and elsewhere, and they are founders of Feed Them With Music, an organization promoting artists and events that donate 15 percent of profits toward feeding starving people worldwide. Heart Wing is The Brothers Frantzich's latest recording.