SLIP AND FALL FEBRUARY BLUES
Vocal Essence Ensemble Singers
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, as our friends and family continue to injure themselves on the ice, we'll step very carefully back into the Fitzgerald Theater for our final show there this season. With special guests, the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers, Peter Ostroushko, Andra Suchy, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Sue Scott, Tom Keith, and Mark Benninghofen, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and much more coming up this week.
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Andra Suchy
Peter Ostroshko
VocalEssence Ensemble Singers with Philip Brunelle, Artistic Director.
Percussionist Marc Anderson joins the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band.
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Segment 1
- 00:00:00 - Logo
- 00:00:13 - Tishomingo Blues
- 00:02:34 - GK talks about spring coming
- 00:03:32 - Joy script
- 00:12:30 - "Rock and Roll" - Pat Donohue and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
- 00:14:43 - "I Ain't Never" - GK and Andra Suchy
- 00:16:23 - Guy Noir script
- 00:24:26 - Rite of Spring script
- 00:29:26 - Powdermilk Biscuit Break
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Segment 2
- 00:31:22 - "The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring" - VocalEssence Ensemble
- 00:33:20 - "Only A Rose" - Pat Donohue, Andra Suchy, and band
- 00:35:49 - Adventurers script
- 00:43:03 - "Nicaragua" - The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
- 00:46:10 - Coffee script
- 00:49:00 - Complaint script
- 01:00:36 - Intermission/"Lady Be Good" - Shoe Band
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Segment 3
- 01:04:26 - Greetings
- 01:07:35 - GK talks about Andra's summer wedding
- 01:08:45 - "Chapel of Love" - GK, Andra, band
- 01:11:37 - Duet contest announcement
- 01:13:00 - "Out of the Bucket" - Shoe Band
- 01:15:47 - Married script
- 01:21:47 - "Tributo a Martin Luther King" - VocalEssence Ensemble, with Peter Johnson and Marc Anderson
- 01:26:12 - "My Soul's Been Anchored" - VocalEssence Ensemble
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Segment 4
- 01:29:48 - The News from Lake Wobegon
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Segment 5
- 01:43:00 - "Macomb, Alabama" - Shoe Band
- 01:45:42 - "MLK (Sleep Tonight)" - VocalEssence Ensemble
- 01:48:36 - "The Snowstorm" - GK, VocalEssence Ensemble, Shoe band
- 01:51:31 - Ruth Harrison script
- 01:55:26 - Credits, Ode to Joy reprise
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Singer and songwriter Andra Suchy talks about singing duets with Garrison, and her latest album, Little Heart.
Old Sweet Songs: A Prairie Home Companion 1974-1976
Lovingly selected from the earliest archives of A Prairie Home Companion, this heirloom collection represents the music from earliest years of the now legendary show: 1974–1976. With songs and tunes from jazz pianist Butch Thompson, mandolin maestro Peter Ostroushko, Dakota Dave Hull and the first house band, The Powdermilk Biscuit Band (Adam Granger, Bob Douglas and Mary DuShane).
