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A Prairie Home Companion is a weekly radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor that aired live from 1974 to 2016. In 2016, musician Chris Thile took over as host, and the successor show was eventually renamed Live from Here and ran until 2020.
Wartke got the idea of making a humorous rap-like song and video based on the tongue twister, while Fisher created the music and lyrics. [2] [15] [16] Wartke often makes comedic songs from German tongue twisters, which he says he frequently discovers on speech therapy websites. [16] When asked if Barbara is a real person, Wartke replied: "Sure!
Live from Here, formerly known as A Prairie Home Companion with Chris Thile, is an American variety radio show known for its musical guests, tongue-in-cheek radio drama, and relaxed humor. Hosted by Chris Thile , it aired live on Saturday evenings from 2016 to 2020.
A Prairie Home Companion is a 2006 American musical comedy film directed by Robert Altman in his final film. It is a fictional representation of behind-the-scenes activities at the long-running public radio show of the same name. The film received mostly positive reviews and was a moderate box-office success on a small budget.
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (/ ˈ k iː l ər /; born August 7, 1942) is an American author, singer, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality.He created the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prairie Home Companion (called Garrison Keillor's Radio Show in some international syndication), which he hosted from 1974 to 2016.
A Prairie Home Album is an album from the Prairie Home Companion radio show. It features items written for the early days of the program, when it was a morning show broadcast from KSJN in St. Paul, MN .
In the early 1990s, Donohue became a member of the house band on the radio program A Prairie Home Companion. [2] [3] [4] He and his colleagues in the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band are on-screen throughout much of the film A Prairie Home Companion based on the radio show. [1] Donohue wrote or co-wrote several of the songs on the soundtrack.
From 1974–1986, he was a regular and the original pianist on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion. [1] [2] Since the 1960s, he led the Butch Thompson Trio. [3] In the 1970s, Thompson's recordings gained popularity in Europe. He toured the continent extensively in the 1970s and 1980s, both as a solo artist and as a band leader or member.