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   + Event Calendar | News Releases | Get Tickets Garrison Keillor, Host of Prairie Home Companion, to Entertain at the NIU Convocation Center Thursday, October 30, 2008
The show will be in the intimate theater set with doors opening at 6:30p.m, and the show starting at 7:30p.m. The Convocation Center is located at 1525 W. Lincoln Highway in DeKalb. Tickets for this reserved seating event will go on sale Thursday, June 19th at 10am. Ticket prices 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, Minnesota, 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. Keillor's most recent role included playing himself in the movie adaptation of his show, A Prairie Home Companion (June 2006). It features Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin as the singing Johnson sisters, Lindsay Lohan as Streep's daughter, Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly as singing cowboys Lefty and Dusty, and Tommy Lee Jones as the Axeman, who is dispatched by the radio station's new corporate owners in Texas to shut down the show. He is also the author of twelve books, including Lake Wobegon Days (1985); The Book of Guys (1993); The Old Man Who Loved Cheese (1996); Wobegon Boy (1997); Me: By Jimmy "Big Boy" Valente As Told to Garrison Keillor (1999); Love Me (2003); and 2004's Homegrown Democrat. His newest novel, Pontoon, will be released in the fall of 2008. Keillor has received numerous awards, including a Grammy Award for his recording of Lake Wobegon Days. He has also received two Cable ACE Awards and a George Foster Peabody Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and recently was presented with a National Humanities Medal by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1994, he was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame at Chicago's Museum of Broadcast Communications. For more information call 815-752-6800. 
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