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May 24, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion we're broadcasting live from the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park in Vienna, VA. With special guests, the all American bluegrass girl, Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, and internationally adored tenor Raúl Melo. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00 | Logo |
| 00:11 | "Tishomingo Blues" |
| 02:38 | GK opens, talks about the local sites |
| 03:54 | "Washington (America The Beautiful)"- GK/ Shoe Band |
| 06:04 | ELCA script into "Smoke in the Kitchen"- Shoe Band |
| 11:45 | Guy Noir script |
| 23:16 | GK intros Rhonda Vincent and the Rage |
| 23:38 | "Bluegrass Saturday Night" - Rhonda Vincent and the Rage |
| 26:42 | "Ashes of Mt. Augustine" - Rhonda Vincent and the Rage |
| 30:04 | GK talks with Rhonda |
| 30:24 | "Fishers of Men" - Rhonda Vincent and the Rage |
| 33:57 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 35:30 | GK talks to Pat Donohue |
| 36:18 | "Sometimes"- Pat Donohue and Shoe Band |
| 40:10 | GK talks about summer, white shoes, hot dogs |
| 40:33 | Cowboys script |
| 47:36 | GK brings up the band to sing about summer |
| 47:53 | "Turn, Turn Turn/ Surfer Girl/ Summertime"- GK/ Pat/ Rich/ Shoe Band |
| 54:15 | GK intros Raúl Melo |
| 55:13 | "Torna A Surriento/ Funiculì Funiculà/ 'O Sole Mio!"- Raul Melo, Tamara Sanikidze |
| 1:01:35 | Intermission- "Everybody Loves My Baby" |
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| Segment 3 |
| 1:05:38 | Greetings |
| 1:09:56 | "Congressman"- Pat Donohue and GK |
| 1:12:23 | Mom script |
| 1:21:05 | "Washington Blues"- Pat Donohue and Shoe Band |
| 1:22:26 | "Washington Notes" - GK |
| 1:25:00 | "Tenting On The Old Campground"- GK and Raúl Melo |
| 1:28:40 | "Elegy"- Shoe Band |
| 1:30:45 | Sonnet for Memorial Day- GK |
| 1:31:53 | "Ingemisco" (from Verdi's Requiem) |
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| Segment 4 |
| 1:35:28 | The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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| Segment 5 |
| 1:48:19 | "Mattinata" - Raúl Melo and Tamara Sanikidze |
| 1:51:00 | "Hit Parade of Love" - Rhonda Vincent and the Rage |
| 1:53:30 | Body script |
| 1:54:53 | Credits, "Summertime reprise", "Fire on the Mountain" |
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Photos from the show
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| The emblem of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. |
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Garrison Keillor starts the show by addressing the crowd. |
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| Rhonda Vincent sings "Ashes of Mt. Augustine." |
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Rich Dworsky |
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| "Mattinata" performed by Raúl Melo |
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Rhonda Vincent and the Rage |
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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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