A Prairie Home Companion

On a balmy evening in San Jose, Karl du Fresne attends a performance of Garrison Keillor's long-running radio show.

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3rd December, 2011

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On a balmy late-summer evening, a nose-to-tail procession of vehicles snakes up a steep, winding road in the wooded Santa Cruz Mountains high above San Jose, California. Their destination is the Mountain Winery, once the base of Californian wine pioneer Paul Masson. But it’s not wine that has attracted the stream of traffic that chokes the narrow access road. The Mountain Winery is better known these days as a concert venue with a magnificent amphitheatre, and people are coming here tonight to be entertained by – and to pay homage to – a long-running radio show familiar to many Radio ...

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