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Garrison Keillor in Cary

Sep 15, 2017 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

GARRISON KEILLOR RETURNS TO BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE

  • Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home “Love And Comedy Tour” with Richard Dworsky & The Road Hounds, Heather Masse, and Fred Newman, September 15.
  • Two-plus hours of stories, love duets and more.
  • Tickets on Sale Friday, April 28 at 10 a.m.

Prairie Home Love & Comedy Tour. Two-plus hours of stories, love duets, Guy Noir, Cowboys, poetic outbursts, and our famous Singing Intermission at which the Eager & Able-Bodied stand and sing around the campfire. Garrison Keillor celebrating his 75th, with Heather Masse, sound-effects man Fred Newman, Richard Dworsky and the Road Hounds coming to Cary on September 15. General Admission Lawn tickets are $45 and Reserved Seats and Reserved Table Seats are $65. There is a ticket limit of 8 per transaction.

Tickets can be purchased at Booth Amphitheatre (Monday – Friday, noon – 6 p.m.), through etix.com, or by phone at (800) 514-3849.

Garrison Keillor was born in Anoka, Minnesota, and began his radio career as a freshman at the University of Minnesota, from which he graduated in 1966. He went to work for Minnesota Public Radio in 1969, and from July 6, 1974 through July 1, 2016, he created and hosted his popular variety show, A Prairie Home Companion.  His many books include Lake Wobegon Days, The Book of Guys, Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance, Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny, and The Keillor Reader (Viking). He is the host of the daily program The Writer’s Almanac and the editor of several anthologies of poetry, most recently, Good Poems: American Places (Viking). In 2006, Keillor played himself in the movie adaptation of his show, a film directed by Robert Altman. In 2007 he opened an independent bookstore, Common Good Books, in St. Paul, the city where he and his wife make their home.

For complete concert information go to www.boothamphitheatre.com or call (919) 462-2025.

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Date:
Sep 15, 2017
Time:
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm