Off the Air

A collection of press clippings, special projects or appearances including Garrison Keillor.

Summer Love in the Tar Heel State

September 12, 2010

PHC staffer Ella Schovanec is on the Summer Love tour with Garrison, Sara Watkins, Fred Newman and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band and will update us periodically from the road.

We did a show tonight from the Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, North Carolina. We found out that Koka is actually a man (not a bean like I originally thought). A past mayor of Cary who helped build the amphitheatre as a home for the North Carolina Symphony. And it's a beautiful home, we were surrounded by sweet smelling southern yellow pines and the stage was right next to a lake with tame geese and turtles and a duck named Rufus that all happily swam after the bread we tossed them.

It was a great show and the audience was stellar, though it drizzled off and on all night long, they stuck with us. Robin and Linda Williams did a rendition of "If I Should Fall Behind" that, combined with the rain, ensured that there wasn't a dry eye left in the place. Tomorrow is the tour's last stop, Charlottesville, Virginia, though I don't think any of us are ready to say goodbye just yet.

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