May 31, 2003
Live from Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia, with Tim and Mollie O'Brien, Tom Paxton, and Cajun band BeauSoleil. Peter Ostroushko joins the Shoe Band.

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00:00Logo
00:11Tishomingo Blues
03:07Camp Wolf Trap script
06:07Camp Songs - GK, Mollie, Tim, Tom, Shoe Band, live audience
11:16GK talks with Michael Doucet
12:31Quoi Y'a Y'ou - BeauSoleil
15:58Graduate script
22:10Risin' River - Pat Donohue and Shoe Band
26:02GK talks about Washington DC
26:49Your Long Journey - Mollie O'Brien and Tim O'Brien
29:59Sweet Sunny South - Mollie O'Brien and Tim O'Brien
34:20GK gives away sheet music of "We're All Republicans Now" to the people on the lawn who are caught in the rain
34:59Powdermilk Biscuit Break
36:12GK reads his graduation sonnet
37:52Buffalo Wallow
40:56GK talks about the poor lawn sitters who are getting soaked in the rain
42:08John Ashcroft - Tom Paxton
44:19La Ville del Monteau - BeauSoleil
50:30Guy Noir script
1:01:18Intermission - Three Little Words
1:05:20Camp SFX script
1:06:30More Camp Songs - GK, Mollie, Tim, Tom, Shoe Band live audience
1:10:05Greetings
1:13:21I Love You A Thousand Ways - Mollie, Tim, and Shoe Band
1:16:18Garage Sale SFX script
1:18:37The Story of Bob script
1:25:18Psalm of the Prairie - Peter Ostroushko and Richard Dworsky
1:28:58Monologue
1:42:49Bye Bye Bye Bye Bye - BeauSoleil
1:46:58Bud's Coffee script
1:49:42Papa's on the Housetop- Mollie O'Brien and Tim O'Brien
1:53:05Credits
1:54:52The Next Time I'm in Town
1:56:37Newzreel/Fire on the Mountain triple fiddle closer

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Tim and Mollie O'Brien Tom Paxton
BeauSoleil Peter Ostrousko & Tim O'Brien
Rain on the Lawn Fred, Tim and Sue

Guest Recordings
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  • Mollie O'Brien
  • BeauSoleil
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    Guest Information
  • Tim O'Brien
  • Mollie O'Brien
  • BeauSoleil
  • Scripts
  • Camp Wolf Trap
  • Graduation
  • Guy Noir
  • Garage Sale SFX
  • The Story of Bob
  • Bud's Coffee

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  • Tim O'Brien
  • Mollie O'Brien
  • BeauSoleil
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