A Prairie Home Companion for May 03, 2008 from American Public Media

Maxine Kumin

May 3, 2008

This week on A Prairie Home Companion we'll bring you a live broadcast performance from the Civic Center Auditorium in Bangor, Maine. Featuring Pulitzer Prize winning poet Maxine Kumin, the David Mallet Trio, and a comprehensive artistic rediscovery of our regular cast: The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band with Rich Dworsky, Pat Donohue, Gary Raynor, Andy Stein, and Peter Johnson, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, and that gangly guy with the socks. Join us this week, live from the Queen City of the East.

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Segment 1

00:00 Logo

00:12 "Tishomingo Blues"

03:25 GK opens, talks about Maine

04:17 King script

06:03 Bush script

07:15 "Bangor, Maine" - GK/ Pat Donohue/ band

10:02 Rhubarb script

15:19 The Story of Bob script

20:56 GK intros Maxine Kumin, she and GK read her poetry

28:22 Powdermilk Biscuit Break

Segment 2

31:43 Grieg (Married Couple) script

39:40 GK intros David Mallett

40:56 "Angel Standin'" By- David Mallett

44:18 "Fishing" - David Mallett

48:45 Science script

54:00 GK intros Fiddlers

58:48 Intermission/ "Blues Skies'"

Segment 3

1:02:03 Hymn Medley

1:05:50 Greetings

1:10:17 Fred script

1:21:12 "Tenderness" - GK and band

1:24:16 GK intros Maxine Kumin, she reads "Seven Caveats in May"

1:29:00 "Whole Lot of You" - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band

Segment 4

1:30:48 The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3)

Segment 5

1:43:49 "Maine U Song" - "The Stein Song"- Shoe Band

1:45:28 GK talks about Bangor

1:49:00 "The Garden Song" - David Mallett

1:52:18 GK talks with Maxine Kumin

1:52:52 Confiscated script/ credits

1:55:26 "You Are My Sunshine", fiddlers

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Garrison, up in the bleachers, before the start of the broadcast.		Pat Donohue


Perhaps the smirk gives it away: Tim Russell's impression of Bush.		Garrison introduces one of his literary heroes, Maxine Kumin.


David Mallett leads the audience in an impromptu sing-along		The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band