Garrison Keillor's PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION Heads Out On 25-City 'Summer Love' Tour

Garrison Keillor, who has been called America's finest storyteller, will bring a special live performance of A Prairie Home Companion to 25 cities across the US.

"The Summer Love" Tour is a coast-to-coast concert tour that takes on the everlasting theme of romantic love. Join host Garrison Keillor, Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins, the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and sound-effects man Fred Newman for tender duets and ballads, poetry (Poe, Shakespeare, Anonymous), stories of passion and marriage, and Mr. Keillor's intermission walk through the audience for the sing-along of "Unchained Melody" and "Can't Help Falling in Love with You." All this and favorite elements of A Prairie Home Companion: Guy Noir, Dusty and Lefty, the News from Lake Wobegon during an entertaining date night for all ages.

The complete tour schedule is as follows:

Aug. 10 - Interlochen, MI - Kresge Auditorium
Aug. 11 - Grand Rapids, MI - Meijer Gardens
Aug. 12 - Kettering, OH - Fraze Pavilion
Aug. 13 - Richmond, VA - Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
Aug. 14 - Brevard, NC - Music Center
Aug. 15 - Indianapolis IN - Conner Prairie
Aug. 17 - Red Bank, NJ - Count Basie Theatre
Aug. 18 - Danbury, CT - Ives Concert Park
Aug. 19 - Gilford, NH - Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion
Aug. 20 - Dallas, TX - AT&T Performing Arts Center
Aug. 21 - Flagstaff, AZ - Pine Mountain Amphitheater
Aug. 22 - Salt Lake City, UT - Red Butte Garden Amphitheater
Aug. 23 - San Diego, CA - Humphreys Concerts by the Bay
Aug. 25 - Saratoga, CA - The Mountain Winery
Aug. 26 - Jacksonville, OR - Britt Festival
Aug. 27 - Eugene, OR -Cuthbert Amphitheater
Aug. 28 - Portland, OR -Oregon Zoo Amphitheatre
Aug. 29 - Denver, CO -Denver Botanic Gardens-Chatfield
Aug. 31 - San Antonio, TX - Majestic Theatre
Sept. 1 - Moorhead, MN - Imagine Theatre
Sept. 8 - Knoxville, TN - Knoxville Civic Auditorium
Sept. 9 - Salem, VA - Salem Civic Center
Sept. 10 - Baltimore, MD - Pier Six Pavilion
Sept. 11 - Cary, NC - Koka Booth Amphitheatre
Sept. 12 - Charlottesville, VA - Charlottesville Pavilion

Currently in its 36th Anniversary season, A Prairie Home Companion has made Minnesota's way of life and the fictionAl Small town of Lake Wobegon part of American popular culture. The show is heard on close to 600 public radio stations nationwide, with a weekly audience that tops 4.3 million listeners. The program can also be heard on XM Radio, the Armed Forces Network Europe, the Far East Network, and in dozens of European cities via the Astra satellite network. Garrison Keillor's signature monologue, The News From Lake Wobegon, is available via podcast/iTunes.

A Prairie Home Companion is produced by Prairie Home Productions and presented by American Public Media. The show is sponsored nationally by General Mills, Inc. and by Ford. Audio clips, scripts and more information on A Prairie Home Companion can be found online at www.prairiehome.org.

Photo Credit: Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg News / Landov

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