APHC
Close WindowDo you listen to national public radio?” I inquired; a question that seemed to jolt her out of her tantric state.
“No,” she sighed, expelling out all of that bad air.
“Then, I’m sorry, my Dear,” I lamented, “But you just can’t get there from here.”
But in Abilene, Texas, you CAN get there from here! A live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion (“APHC”) is coming to Moody Coliseum, ACU, on October 18, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. To listen to APHC is to experience the eclectic, kinetic and frenetic cords of a live radio show broadcast that is vaguely reminiscent of radio variety shows from the 1930’s and ‘40’s. APHC is a light-hearted homage, to the “Golden Age” of radio. Garrison Keillor, the Host, Producer and Creative Genius behind APHC, has, for over 34 years, been delivering to the air waves, as The Washington Post put it, “…an answer to an American desire to fence off a small portion of the cultural landscape as a refuge from the coarseness, cynicism and irony that are post modern life.” ‘The News from Lake Wobegon’ is one of my favorite segments from the show, delivered personally and from the heart, without script or hesitation, by Mr. Keillor himself. If you don’t know or haven’t figured it out, Lake Wobegon is a mythical little town on the frontier plains of Minnesota, inhabited by God-fearing Lutheran Norwegians, mostly. “Lake Wobegon,” as Garrison puts it so succinctly, is “where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking and the children are all above average.”
Carried by over 580 public radio stations, as well as America One and Armed Forces Networks worldwide, APHC is heard by over 4 million listeners each week, including right here in Abilene on 89.7 KACU-FM Abilene Public Radio every Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon.
Now, here is the really exciting news! Members of KACU will have an opportunity to purchase tickets to this live broadcast performance in advance! A full house of only 3,500 seats is expected to sell out almost immediately, so you don’t want to take a chance and miss out on this once-in-a-hometown opportunity to be a part of cultural history. Okay, well, maybe cultural history is a bit of a stretch. “It is after all just, well, you know, it’s just radio,” as an APHC player once said, tongue firmly in cheek. But with an opportunity, as a member of the audience, to have your own personal note read on-air, live, to millions of strangers, or even a few of your sore-headed neighbors or relatives, who can possibly pass this up?! Ticket prices are: General - $25; Premium - $50, Prime- $70, and Prime + Post-Broadcast Reception on Stage - $250.
For more information on APHC, go to www.prairiehome.publicradio.org. Lake Wobegon: be there and be square.
