An Evening with Garrison Keillor program

AN EVENING WITH GARRISON KEILLOR WEDNESDAy, MARCH 9 – 7:30 p.m.

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This event is sponsored, in part, by the Lied Performance Fund.

Audio description services and recorded program notes are provided through a partnership between the Lied Center and Audio-Reader Network.

Please turn off or silence cellular phones and other electronic devices during performances. Food and drink are not allowed inside the hall.

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Garrison Keillor

Stories from Lake Wobegon This 90-minute show is presented without intermission

Minnesota-born and raised, Garrison Keillor is the living embodiment of the Midwestern spirit. Each week, he shares his steady thoughtfulness, old-fashioned values, traditional songs and dry humor through his legendary, critically acclaimed radio show A Prairie Home Companion. More than 3 milPHOTOGRAPHY BY Brian Velenchenko lion listeners on more than 450 public radio stations now hear the show each week, and millions more discovered the show through the at Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Commuhit 2006 film adaptation, which starred Keillor, nications. PBS’ acclaimed series American Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin and Lindsay Lohan.

Masters honored Keillor by airing the documen He is also the author of many books, tary, The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes, including Lake Wobegon Days (1985); The which follows Keillor through a year of taping Book of Guys (1993); The Old Man Who A Prairie Home Companion and meeting his Loved Cheese (1996); Wobegon Boy (1997); many fans throughout the United States.

Me: By Jimmy “Big Boy” Valente As Told to

With Philip Brunelle, Keillor has performed Garrison Keillor (1999); Love Me (2003); with many orchestras, including the Chicago, Homegrown Democrat (2004); and Pontoon Milwaukee, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Min(2007). His newest book is Liberty: A Lake nesota, Dallas and National symphonies. He Wobegon Novel (2008). has appeared at Wolf Trap, Carnegie Hall and

Keillor has received numerous awards for other major concert halls as a member of The his extensive repertoire, including a Grammy Hopeful Gospel Quartet, and he has performed Award for his recording of Lake Wobegon on his own in one-man shows across the Days. He has also received two Cable ACE country and on tour broadcasts of A Prairie Awards and a George Foster Peabody Award.

Home Companion. His shows are undoubtedly He is a member of the American Academy of sell-out events, as the popularity of Lake WobeArts and Sciences, and recently was presented gon and A Prairie Home Companion continues with a National Humanities Medal by the Nato grow around the country, as audiences of tional Endowment for the Humanities. In 1994, all ages become exposed to this Midwestern he was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame sensation.

An Evening with Garrison Keillor

A fiddle ride back in time Jay Ungar and Molly Mason are combining folk classics from the Civil War era with original compositions to transport audiences back in time. This husband-andwife duo is one of the most celebrated acts on the American acoustic scene, able to warm the heart, feed the soul and appeal to all ages.

Observing the sesquicentennial of the Civil War in 2011, Ungar and Mason perform music related to military conflict and civilian life, as well as songs from the late 19th and early 20th century.

“During the civil war period, (American) music really took on its own character. So it has roots in Scottish and Irish music but also a lot of influences from African and other cultures that have mixed together here in America,” said Ungar.

Times have certainly changed in the last 150 years, but some things remain the same, “Back in the 1860s there were no records, no films, no DVDs, no Facebook or any of these things,” Ungar said. “People entertained themselves by playing music, singing and spending time together.”

Joining the statehood on Jan. 29, 1861, the state of Kansas is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year and Executive Director Tim Van Leer saw this as an opportunity, “2011 is the 150th year of Kansas, but another important reason we scheduled this particular event in April was to recognize the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Civic War.

The Confederates opened fire on Fort Sumter in South Carolina on April 12, 1861,” Van Leer said.

Ungar is perhaps best known for his deeply moving composition, Ashokan Farewell, which was chosen as the theme song for Ken Burns’ momentous 1990 PBS documentary series, The Civil War, earning him a Grammy Award and an Emmy Award nomination.

Ungar’s inspiration for Ashokan Farewell came from a music camp in the Catskill Mountains. He wanted to express the loss and longing he felt about being away from Ashokan after a summer full of music and friends. When approached by Burns about using the song as a primary component of The Civil War, Ungar initially did not see a connection between the two.

“At first I thought ‘I don’t get it’, I didn’t understand why it would fit. But, when we saw that tune together with some of the visual images, it was remarkable how well it fit and how it connected,” said Ungar.

Morgan Sheedy, senior journalism student at KU spends her time interviewing for jobs, cooking and singing in her car. lied.ku.edu

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SOMETHING EXCITING IS HAPPENING AT THE LIED CENTER AND YOU HAVE A FRONT-ROW SEAT! Phase one is done! The main-floor lobby expansion is complete—it’s doubled in size creating a more people-friendly space.

Construction on phase two is well underway. The education pavilion’s walls are going up on the southeast side of the Lied Center. These projects are made possible by gifts from the Lied Foundation Trust and the William T. Kemper Foundation.

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We proudly recognize our very important partners. Not only do our VIP Sponsors offer essential financial contributions, they also provide valuable and enthusiastic promotion of Lied Center performances to their customers, employees and the community. Their commitment to the performing arts allows us to provide education activities, free school performances and high-quality events each year. We honor our VIP Sponsors throughout the season on our electronic sign and with onstage recognition at their selected performances. We hope you will also thank them when you visit their businesses. For more information regarding our sponsorship program, contact the Lied Center Director of Development, Megan Poindexter, at 785-864-2788.

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