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Garrison Keillor Tonight at The Kent Stage on August 23rd
Garrison Keillor did “A Prairie Home Companion” for forty years, wrote fiction and comedy, invented a town called Lake Wobegon where all the children are above average, even though he himself grew up evangelical in a small separatist flock where all the children expected the imminent end of the world. He’s busy in retirement, having written a memoir and a book of limericks and is at work on a musical and a Lake Wobegon screenplay, and he continues to do “The Writers Almanac” sent out daily to Internet subscribers (free).
He has received major honors such as a Grammy Award, a Peabody Award, and the National Humanities Medal, and he continues to write and perform on tour. In 2017, after leaving the A Prairie Home Companion, Keillor resumed publishing The Writer’s Almanac independently and continued stage performances. His influence on American radio storytelling—particularly through the enduring world of Lake Wobegon—remains significant.
“Fans laughed, applauded and sang along throughout Sunday night’s two hour show” - Jeff Baenen, AP News
“His shows can, for a couple of hours, transform an audience of even so called coastal elites into a small town community with an intimacy only radio and its podcast descendants can achieve”- Chris Barton, LA Times
“[Keillor is] an expert at making you feel at home with his low key, familiar style. Comfortable is his specialty.” - Betsie Freeman, Omaha World Herald
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