Morris PAC Hosts An Evening with Garrison Keillor 5/5/2011

The charming, witty, and always-entertaining writer and humorist Garrison Keillor, who is best known for his widely popular radio show A Prairie Home Companion, will be appearing live on Thursday, May 5 at the Morris Performing Arts Center.

Keillor hosted the first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion in St. Paul. The show ended in 1987 and returned in 1989 in New York as The American Radio Company. Shortly after, it returned to Minnesota, and in 1993 resumed the name A Prairie Home Companion. Today, over 3 million listeners on more than 450 public radio stations tune in weekly to hear his show.

Garrison Keillor's most recent role included playing himself in the movie adaptation of his show, A Prairie Home Companion (June 2006). It features Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin as the singing Johnson sisters, Lindsay Lohan as Streep's daughter, Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly as singing cowboys Lefty and Dusty, and Tommy Lee Jones as the Axeman, who is dispatched by the radio station's new corporate owners in Texas to shut down the show.

He is also the best-selling author of twelve books, including Lake Wobegon Days (1985); The Book of Guys (1993); The Old Man Who Loved Cheese (1996); Wobegon Boy (1997); Me: By Jimmy "Big Boy" Valente As Told to Garrison Keillor (1999); Love Me (2003); and 2004's Homegrown Democrat.

Keillor has received numerous awards, including a Grammy Award for his recording of Lake Wobegon Days. He has also received two Cable ACE Awards and a George Foster Peabody Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and recently was presented with a National Humanities Medal by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1994, he was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame at Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications.

Tickets go on-sale to the general public on Saturday, November 20 at 10:00 a.m. Tickets will be available by visiting MorrisCenter.org, calling 574-235-9190 or by visiting the Morris Box Office open 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Monday-Friday and 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. on Saturdays. Ticket prices range from $30-$75.

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