Garrison Keillor's City Winery Tour - MAY and JUNE announced
MAY CITY WINERY TICKETS (on sale Feb. 28, Noon EST)
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 - New York, NY Wednesday, May 28, 2025 - Philadelphia, PA Friday, May 30, 2025 - Pittsburgh, PA
JUNE CITY WINERY TICKETS (on-sale now)
Monday, June 9, 2025 - Atlanta, GA
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - Nashville, TN
Wednesday, June 11, 2025 - St. Louis, MO
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - Chicago, IL
Garrison Keillor Tonight! is an evening of stand-up, storytelling, audience song, and poetry. One man, one microphone. There are sung sonnets, limericks, and musical jokes, and the thread that runs through it is the beauty of growing old. Despite the inconvenience, old age brings the contentment of LESS IS MORE. Your mistakes and big ambitions are behind you, nothing left to prove, and small things give you great pleasure because that's what's left. (“I was unhappy in college because it was a requirement for an intellectual, but then I went into show business and discovered that people won't pay to be made unhappy, their kids will do it for free.“)
There is the News from Lake Wobegon, a town booming with new entrepreneurs, makers of artisanal firewood and gourmet meatloaf, breeders of composting worms, and dogs trained to do childcare. But some things endure, such as the formation of the Living Flag on Main Street, citizens in tight formation wearing red, white or blue caps, and Mr. Keillor among them, standing close to old neighbors, Myrtle Krebsbach (“Truckstop“) and Julie Christensen (“Bruno, The Fishing Dog“) and Clint Bunsen. And an a cappella sing-along with the audience singing from memory an odd medley of patriotic songs, pop standards, hymns, and ending with the national anthem.
Northern California?
Please come back to Bend, Oregon. When we initially relocated to Oregon from Minnesota twelve years ago, one of my first conversations with a local was, "Oh, you're from Minnesota! You know Garrison Keillor came here! I loved his show and those red shoes! He seemed to enjoy himself walking around and chatting with the locals after the show." Safe travels.