A Prairie Home Companion Comes to the Palouse

Garrison Keillor says he feels creatively “fertile, ambitious and restless” these days – and he will doubly demonstrate these traits in Pullman Saturday. He will present not just one, but two separate shows at Beasley Coliseum. The afternoon show will be a live broadcast of his public radio show, “A Prairie Home Companion,” featuring area musical guests Wylie Gustafson and Charlie Sutton. This show is mostly sold out – although you can hear it live at 3 p.m. on KPBX-FM (91.1) in Spokane and KWSU-AM (1250) in Pullman. The second is billed as “American Songs, Nattering and the Story of the Pontoon Boat,” featuring Keillor and the Guys All-Star Shoe Band. Plenty of tickets remain for that evening show. For the rest of Jim Kershner’s story, click here .

DFO: My family and I love traveling with a coupla tapes of Garrison Keillor’s “Lake Wobegon” best stuff playing on the car tape. We’ve laughed at the same stuff again and again — and keep wondering when the Coeur d’Alene Library will get new tapes from “A Prairie Home Companion.”

Question: Is there anyone out there who hasn’t had the pleasure of tuning in to “A Prairie Home Companion”?