Georgia on Our Minds!
50th Anniversary Tour hits Atlanta on November 8th
A Prairie Home Companion Fan Presale — Wednesday, August 21, 10:00 a.m. ET to Friday, August 23, 9:59 a.m. ET
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THE PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION 50TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW celebrates the half-century milestone of Garrison Keillor’s one-of-a-kind radio broadcast, which first hit the airways in July of 1974.
Expect a look back at the show’s origins in Minnesota and a sampling of Keillor’s droll stand-up on the beauty of being in his eighties. Comedy sketches might include favorites like “Guy Noir, Private Eye,” “The Lives of the Cowboys,” “Duane’s Mom,” or “Ruth Harrison, Reference Librarian.” There could be a word or two from the American Duct Tape Council, Coffee, Guy’s Shoes, Powdermilk Biscuits, or the Catchup Advisory Board. The Royal Academy of Actors (with sound-effects wizard Fred Newman) will be there, along with music director/keyboardist Richard Dworsky leading the band. Count on songs, jokes, the grand audience sing-along intermission, and more.
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Over the years, A Prairie Home Companion has had many memorable shows that were staged in Atlanta and elsewhere in Georgia. Below are a few highlights that will give you an insight into what to expect as we return to The Peach State.
New messages from your favorite sponsors or sketches have been included in the 50th Anniversary Shows. Here is a Café Boeuf sketch from 2014 (remember, the full Royal Academy of Radio Actors will be joining us for this return trip).
Georgia Town on a Summer Night from 2007
Magnolia blossoms spicy and sweet
Oleander pink and white
Hackberry, sassafras, chinaberry tree
Georgia town on a summer night
Shotgun houses on a quiet street
Japonica bushes and the tulip trees
Camellias and the honeysuckle vine
Georgia town in the summertime.
Fried chicken and sides at the old cafe
Dressing, coleslaw, and black-eyed peas,
Gravy and dressing and butter beans.
Corn and collards and turnip greens.
Fishing for catfish on the river shore
Mockingbird in the sycamore
Singing love songs to its mate
Georgia town on a summer day.
Mike & Ed's and Chicken Comer's
Smoky Pig — Country's Barbecue
Fat Freddie's and the place on 13th Street
They got it chipped chopped or sliced for you
The whistle of a Norfolk-Southern train
Sitting on the porch in the candlelight
Smell the arborvitae and the jasmine vine
Georgia town on a summer night.