No, this isn’t a storm warning, but rather notice of Garrison Keillor possibly heading to your neck of the woods for an author appearance related to his new title A Christmas Blizzard or a Prairie Home performance. If you can’t be at one of the events, you can still “get a chill” checking out [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Narrator News'
Christmas Blizzard coming your way
November 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Author News, Narrator News
Tags: author tour·christmas blizzard·garrison keillor·Prairie Home Companion
Keeping up with Paula
July 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Author News, Narrator News
Our friends over at A Prairie Home Companion have posted a new interview with Paula Poundstone on their website. In it, Paula talks about her comedy, appearances on the PHC Joke Shows, and enjoying her work on Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! She even mentions the new collection from Wait Wait…, called Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Famous [...]
Tags: A Prairie Home Companion·Joke Show·npr·Paula Poundstone·PHC·Wait Wait·wait wait . . . don't tell me
The Dog Says “Congratulations!”
May 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Author News, Narrator News, Uncategorized
Kudos to HighBridge author Kevin Kling, who is the recipient of the 2009 A.P. Anderson Award for Outstanding Contributions to Literature and the Arts in Minnesota.
Find the recording of his book The Dog Says How here.
Tags: Kevin Kling·The Dog Says How
Prairie Home favorite on Late Night
May 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Hear It Here First, Narrator News
Scottish folk singer Jean Redpath, long a favorite guest on A Prairie Home Companion, will visit the Late Show with David Letterman on Thursday, May 21. She last visited Prairie Home on February 7, 2009. You can hear that show here.
You can also hear Jean Redpath on two Prairie Home recordings that were recently released [...]
Tags: A Prairie Home Companion·David Letterman·Jean Redpath·Late Show
Jones is in the “Spirit”
February 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Hear It Here First, Narrator News
Best wishes to frequent HighBridge reader Simon Jones,
who begins performances tonight on Broadway in a new production of Blithe Spirit. The classic Noel Coward comedy stars Angela Lansbury, Christine Ebersole, Jayne Atkinson, and Rupert Everett. Deborah Rush, Susan Louise O’Connor, and Simon Jones complete the cast, which performs its first public preview on February 26 and opens on [...]
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Walkin’ to New Orleans—or flyin’ free c/o American Routes
December 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Narrator News
In celebration of their tenth anniversary, public radio gem American Routes, is hosting a gala concert at the House of Blues in New Orleans on January 16, 2009.
Better yet, for all you American Routes with Nick Spitzer fans, you can win air travel for two and a 3 nights’ stay in New Orleans, plus [...]
Gwen Ifill Speaks with HighBridge about The BreakThrough
December 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Author News, Hear It Here First, Narrator News
When Gwen Ifill was in studio at the beginning of December recording The BreakThrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, producer Paul Ruben sat down with her to ask some questions on her book and on the imminent Obama presidency.
Listen to the full interview here first.
Audiobook clubs note: Ms. Ifill [...]
Tags: book club·breakthrough·gwen ifill·interview·obama·politics
Boutsikaris comes to “W.”’s Defense
October 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Narrator News
Dennis Boutsikaris, who read The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot and In the Wake of Madness for us, appears in the new Oliver Stone movie W (see movie trailer). The film stars Josh Brolin as George W. Bush, Elizabeth Banks as Laura Bush, James Cromwell as the senior Bush, and Ellen Burstyn as Barbara [...]
Kling on a stick
August 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Author News, Narrator News
Kevin Kling delighted the Minnesota State Fair crowd on Friday, August 22, treating his fellow Minnesotans to a mid-day performance of several stories from his latest audiobook, The Dog Says How. Fans of public radio, livestock, seed art, butter sculpture, food on a stick, and great storytelling (in no particular order) gathered around the Minnesota [...]
HighBridge and Guests at BEA 2008
July 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Author News, Narrator News
Better late than never is an old adage. We’ll take advantage of it to post not-exactly-in-real-time images from BEA 2008 in Los Angeles.
True, general traffic was down throughout the exhibit hall, but we at HighBridge had the chance (and for once the time) to have some good conversations (what a concept!) with the librarians, booksellers, [...]
Tags: bea·dion graham·evan handler·garrison keillor·sex and the city
