Garrison Keillor Brings Summer Love Tour To Bass Hall 9/6

Performing Arts Fort Worth welcomes Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion Summer Love Tour to Bass Performance Hall on Tuesday, September 6, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $44, and are on sale NOW!

While this show is not for broadcast, it will include many popular elements from Keillor's long-running radio variety show, including Guy Noir, Dusty and Lefty and the News from Lake Wobegon. The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band and sound effects man FrEd Newman will be on hand, as well as musical guest Sara Watkins, one-third of the bluegrass trio Nickel Creek and a current touring member of The Decemberists.

In step with the tour's name, the show will feature Keillor and company reciting and performing summer and love-themed poetry, musical balladry and short stories.

Garrison Keillor is the author of numerous books, including Life Among the Lutherans (Augsburg Books) and Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance (Viking), and the editor of several anthologies of poetry, most recently Good Poems: American Places (Viking). He is the founder and host of the acclaimed public radio programs A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac.

Sara Watkins will be Keillor's musical special guest. A singer, songwriter and fiddle player, Watkins was only 8 years old when she became one-third of the Grammy Award-winning acoustic trio Nickel Creek. Two decades later, she embarked on a solo career, releasing her eponymous debut while Nickel Creek was on hiatus. Released in 2009, the self-titled record was produced by John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin and featured guest appearances by Gillian Welch,

Most recently, Watkins joined indie-rock ensemble The Decemberists on tour as a guest band member. She has also toured and performed with John Prine, Blind Boys of Alabama, Donavan Frankenreiter, Robert Earl Kean and Dar Williams. Between tours, Sara performs with her brother Sean as The Watkins Family Hour.

Sound-effects man FrEd Newman is an actor, writer, musician, and sound designer for film and TV. He is author of the book MouthSounds. Newman admits that, growing up, he was unceremoniously removed from several classrooms, "once by my bottom lip."

The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band is Richard Dworsky (leader, keyboards), Pat Donohue (guitar), Gary Raynor (bass), Peter Johnson (percussion), and Richard Kriehn (fiddle).

A Prairie Home Companion has been a public radio mainstay since 1974. It is heard by more than 4 million listeners on 600 public radio stations nationwide, as well as on XM Radio, the Armed Forces Network Europe, the Far East Network, and in dozens of European cities via the Astra satellite network.

For more information on APHC, please visit www.prairiehome.org.

To charge tickets by phone, call (817) 212-4280 in Fort Worth; 1-877-212-4280 (toll free) outside Fort Worth; or order online at www.basshall.com. Tickets are also available at the Bass Performance Hall ticket office at 525 Commerce Street. Ticket office hours: Monday through Friday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. and Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

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