Events
October 2008
Prairie Home Companion host at NIU
Thursday, Oct. 30: The charming, witty, and always-entertaining writer and humorist Garrison Keillor, probably best known for his widely popular radio show A Prairie Home Companion, will make a stop at the
NIU
Convocation
Center
Thursday, Oct. 30. The show will be in the intimate theater set with doors opening at 6:30 p.m, and the show starting at 7:30 p.m. The
Convocation
Center
is located at 1525 W. Lincoln Hwy., DeKalb. Tickets are $30, $45, and $60, and are available at Convocation Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets, www.Ticketmaster.com, or charge by phone at (312) 559-1212. Garrison Keillor was born in 1942 in Anoka, MN, 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 on July 6, 1974, he hosted the first broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion in St. Paul. The show ended in 1987, resumed in 1989 in New York as The American Radio Company, returned to Minnesota, and in 1993 resumed the name A Prairie Home Companion. Over 3 million listeners on more than 450 public radio stations now hear the show each week. For more information, call (815) 752-6800 or visit www.niuconvo.com
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