Sunday, July 10, 2022

A new, live "Prairie Home Companion" online, and a musical memorial for "cowboy with a camera" Jack Hummel. July 10 special edition, 2022

Sunday special edition, July 10 2022

Your editor has COVID, and is in quarantine.  But online, the show must go on (reduced to the bare necessities of information,  owing to being devoid of his usual energies).

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CONTENTS...

●  A NEW "Prairie Home Companion," LIVE Sunday & on-demand for 48 hours; plus more news.

●  Note from quarantine, part one.

●  Remembering "Our Cowboy with a Camera," Jack Hummel

●  Note from quarantine, part two.

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A NEW, LIVE, PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION

Whaaat? It's really back? A NEW edition, ORIGINAL cast, LIVE, "PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION," livestream is TONIGHT (and on-demand for 48 hrs) as "AMERICAN REVIVAL," from Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.

The LIVESTREAM happens tonight, Sunday, July 10, 2022, at 5:30 pm Pacific / 8:30 pm Eastern.

AND: the show remains available for ON-DEMAND viewing for 48 hours.



You can join GARRISON KEILLOR & the APHC cast at the Ryman, via LIVESTREAM.

with Garrison Keillor & special guests
☆ Aoife O’Donovan (Grammy award-winning songwriter and singer)
☆ Joe Newberry (old-time banjoist, singer, more)
☆ Heather Masse (The Wailin’ Jennys)
☆ Rich Dworsky, leading an all-star band, including instrumental luminaries:
☆ Sam Bush
☆ Jerry Douglas
☆ Pat Donohue
☆ Gary Raynor
plus,
☆ Fred Newman (Sound effects ace)
☆ Tim Russell (the man of a thousand voices)


This is a RARE livestream of an APHC show. Indeed, it may be the one and only! Garrison Keillor and his all-star gangbusters music-making group will bring their best to the stage, along with ace actors Tim Russell and Fred Newman.

From the original home of "THE GRAND OLE OPRY" and the very place where the idea for "A Prairie Home Companion" was born so many years ago, radio's legendary Folk-Roots-Americana radio show returns for a ONE-NIGHT RUN.

The event takes place just four weeks shy of Garrison’s 80th birthday, so join in a celebratory show from the historic Ryman (where, by the way, the idea of APHC began).

A literal return to roots. It all started at the Ryman back in 1974, when Garrison Keillor traveled to Nashville to see the final "Grand Ole Opry" broadcast from that venerable auditorium and write about it for The New Yorker. The magazine got its article and Keillor returned home with an idea for a radio program of his own.

Twenty years later, in 1994, "A Prairie Home Companion" was the very first show onstage at the newly renovated Ryman — and APHC returned numerous times since.

Now, "A Prairie Home Companion American Revival" takes the Ryman stage with humor, music, no end of fun, and, of course, all the latest News from Lake Wobegon.

Garrison Keillor did the weekly coast-to-coast broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion for forty years, wrote fiction and comedy, and invented a little town called Lake Wobegon (where all the children are above average). Since the show ended a few years ago, Keillor has written a memo

Here's how it works:

You can watch the livestream via the web on your desktop computer, laptop, or mobile device with a free-to-get Mandolin account at:

watch.mandolin.com

Here’s what you need to know:

Step 1:
To create your Mandolin Account after you purchase a ticket, use the sign-up link in the email you receive.

Note that you will need to create your Mandolin account using the same email address you used to purchase your ticket.

Once you’ve created your account, you'll see your "Live at the Ryman" show(s) in the “My Shows” section of your account.

Step 2:
Access your Livestream on the day of your show via watch.mandolin.com ON THE DEVICE you’ll be watching the livestream. Sign-in to your Mandolin account.

Once you’ve signed in, click the “WATCH SHOW” button on your Live at the Ryman show at the scheduled concert time to open the livestream, then click “START THE SHOW.”

You can view the show on your TV by casting to your TV with devices such as Apple TV, Apple Airplay, and/or Google Chromecast.

For instructions to cast to your bigger screen, follow this link:
https://mandolin.drift.help/article/watching-on-your-tv/.

If you have questions or need customer support, they sent this link for you:
https://help.mandolin.com/hc/en-us

■  FOR LIVESTREAM ACCESS TICKETS: CLICK HERE


■  TO ATTEND IN PERSON at the Ryman: CLICK HERE

The Ryman is celebrating its 130th year as a music venue!

Since the APHC radio show ended a few years ago -- and with it, the live performances -- Keillor has continued as a prolific writer. In addition to his free daily online "Writers Almanac," he has published a memoir, a collection of limericks, and several novels. His most recent books are Serenity at 70, Gaiety At 80: Why You Should Keep on Getting Older, and Boom Town: A Lake Wobegon Novel.

More from and about Garrison Keillor, and how to listen to a different old recording of APHC each week, HERE.


Garrison Keillor at work.

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YOUR EDITOR HAS COVID

Yes, despite being vaxxed and boostered, one of the very virulent variants got me. Currently quarantined, I am finding this stuff is still formidable. It is challenging to sustain focus and energy for even simple tasks. The vaccine seems to be keeping it from impacting my lungs, and that's where it kills people. Mostly, I am frustrated that I cannot attend what is described below. Jack was a good guy.
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CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOR JACK HUMMEL is TODAY

The California Chapter of the International Western Music Association will preside over a Celebration of Life for Jack Hummel, one of the organization's most devoted and valuable members.

It happens today, Sunday, July 10, 4 to 7 pm. The venue is:

El Tracadero Steak House,  24274 Main St, Newhall, CA 91321

Coproprietor Raul will have extra people on staff to accommodate the gathering. No host bar and full menu.

Western music and cowboy poet performers and non-performers who knew Jack, bring your instruments and best voice for a song / poetry circle and your stories about Jack. 

Had your editor been there as planned, he would have recited this original piece of cowboy poetry:


“Our cowboy with a camera, Texas Jack”


By Larry Wines


With footlong lenses clattering, he brought the artist’s eye,

matched-up with tunes and croons of his musicians. Some subjects, pros with big time cred — others starting out, testing songs as a hope of new transition.


All in kind knew we’d arrived. His images made our stage-time seem immortal. A short three-minute song, like a seven-second ride — more confidence for next time we left the portal.


Like a roundup drawing volunteers, none gave or got a bill. His pictures were his gift to our profession. Or, to our avocation. Or maybe we should say — to our obsession.


As the lights came up, Jack’s camera tasted sagebrushed notes, drinking light and lyrics and guitar. He could see pioneers, cattle drives and steam trains of old, and in his pictures they returned from near and far.


I never forked a horse along a trail with Jack. But backstage, he was always such a pleasure. And never far away, Voleta sat and smiled, the lovely one whom he would always treasure.


There’s quite a pantheon of people of the West, mostly legend if I had to stop and reckon. But Jack left images fresh as spring, so memories live, and call, and beckon. 


Adios old pard, we bid you now adieu, you’ve laid down the bag of gear, your saddle pack. You’re metering light with Charlie Russell, and he’s sharing tips with you — with our cowboy with a camera, Texas Jack.

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RSVP / QUESTIONS about today’s event should be directed to Greg Khougaz, GregKhougaz@earthlink.net or to Scott T, scott.tonelson@gmail.com
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MUCH MORE was intended for this edition.

Alas, all must wait for the editor to recover. Everyone else is off galavanting around somewhere.

Our parting thought for this edition?

These variants are virulent. Wear a mask in stores and crowded places, at the very least.

So many of our fellow Americans refused to do what every other country's citizens did, and get vaccinated to protect everyone else. Hence, the virus has found fertile ground to spread AND MUTATE in the intransigent unvaxxed, coming back around to infect the rest of us. Be careful out there, so your sumner isn't used-up regaining strength after getting sick.

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