Over 17 million listeners on more than 900 public radio stations, including this one, hear “A Prairie Home Companion” each Saturday evening.
The show’s creator and host, Garrison Keillor, speaks with Kate Lochte about his solo performance at Paducah’s Carson Center Thursday night at 7:30.
Keillor was born in 1942 in Anoka, Minnesota. He began his radio career as a freshman at the University of Minnesota, from which he graduated in 1966. He went to work for Minnesota Public Radio in 1969, and the first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion was in St. Paul on July 6, 1974.
The show ended in 1987, resumed in 1989 in New York as The American Radio Company, returned to Minnesota, and in 1993 resumed the name A Prairie Home Companion.
You can see Keillor's iconic storytelling style for yourself in his one man show blending humor and insight heard by public radio audiences for decades. It kicks off Thursday night at 7:30 in Paducah's Carson Center. Visit the Center's website for more tickets and more information.