Prairie Home Companion
The group make frequent guest appearances on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. They appeared October 23, 2011 on live Cinecasts of the show from the Fitzgerald Theater in Minneapolis, "seen on movie screens across North America," with Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins, Joe Ely, etc. On October 4, 2008 they appeared in a Cinecast from the same spot. Purdue Convocations presented a live broadcast performance of the show from the Elliott Hall of Music at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana in partnership with WBAA 920AM 101.3FM Public Radio from Purdue with the group and Purdue Varsity Glee Club on October 27, 2012. Starting with a radio appearance June 5, 2004 from Gilford, New Hampshire, together with Leon Redbone at the Meadowbrook Farm Musical Arts Center, where they performed "Wagon Wheel" (with David Rawlings on guitar), they've had a long recurring engagement with the show, including several appearances in the show's home state of Minnesota (on September 25, 2004; February 12, 2005; September 23, 2006; and October 24, 2009). Other live shows have included:
- the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, California on June 3, 2005.
- the Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia on May 26 & 27, 2006.
- Garrison Keillor's New Year's Eve Special at the Ryman in Nashville, Tennessee on December 31, 2006.
- the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Michigan on May 7, 2011.
As Secor describes the impact of this show on the group . .
". . Garrison Keillor taught our band a whole lot about performance. You know, that show goes all around the country and every town the show stops off in, it’s that show’s hometown. They tailor the show to those places. We’re that way, too. We’ve learned that this kind of music sounds best when you’re a hometown bunch of boys. So, we like to be the hometown band in all the towns we play in, tailoring our show to the Land of Lakes."Read more about this topic: Old Crow Medicine Show
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—For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
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