MONDAY: We will never understand why some people dislike Garrison Keillor. Personally we enjoy his folksy manner and dry sense of humor, even if A Prairie Home Companion is at times a bit hokey. Keillor will be at GW’s Lisner Auditorium to read from and discuss his latest book Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon. Books will be sold by Olsson’s. 7 p.m. Psychotherapist and author Amy Bloom will be at Politics and Prose to…
If you were traveling over the holiday weekend, you would have easily missed the announcement that popular local NPR affiliate WAMU 88.5 FM will be making big changes to their broadcast schedule — most notably moving the entirety of their popular weekend bluegrass programming to an HD Radio channel, leaving many listeners upset and confused as to how the station could abandon their signature music programs on the regular FM dial. Here’s what’s going to…
FRIDAY: >> The Millennium Stage Conservatory Project concludes this weekend at the Kennedy Center. Promising young musicians from the nation’s best conservatories will be giving free concerts in the Terrace Theater: Eastman School of Music (tonight), Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University (Saturday), and Shepherd School of Music, Rice University (Sunday). All concerts begin at 6 p.m. and can also be experienced by live simulcast through the Millennium Stage Web site. >> Garrison Keillor brings…
Local NPR station WETA-FM recently completely reversed course a second time, switching back to a classical format after two unsatisfactory years as a news station. With the “New Classical” WETA came all kinds of questions about programming, complicated by the fact that WETA was also absorbing the area’s last commercial classical station, WGMS. Would WETA return to its former identity before the change to news? Would it become a version of the classical lite WGMS?…
The agenda’s coming in a little late this week, many appologies. Before we get into our picks, we’d like to wish a very happy 5th birthday to Jammin’ Java. The Vienna venue that started out small has come far since its beginning, earning acclaim and great acts along the way. Head on out to the ‘burbs (and if you take the metro, wear a belt), and pay Jammin’ Java a visit sometime this month. Might…
Author, musician and radio personality Garrison Keillor once wrote that in Lake Wobegone, Minn., the women are strong, the men are good looking and all the children are above average. Apparently at Wolf Trap, the wolves speak fluent English and raise homeless liberals to become hosts of shows on public radio – or so we are led to believe. This was one of Keillor’s many jokes on “A Prairie Home Companion” at Wolf Trap on…
FRIDAY: For many of us, going to see Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” recorded live was one of the few times in our early teens when both we and our parents could agree on attending the same event without rancor. But Keillor’s getting up there, and it seems more likely we’ll be sharing “This American Life” or even some yet-to-be produced program with our own kids. For now, thank goodness, Keillor and company are…