Keillor, the popular host of “A Prairie Home Companion” for more than four decades, is heading across the Land of 10,000 Lakes for what he is calling his “Gratitude Tour.”
Keillor will be visiting five cities in six days making Concordia his final stop at 8 p.m. April 28 in the Centrum, Knutson Campus Center.
“I have now reached a certain age when you realize how lucky you are and you stop complaining,” Keillor said in a release from Prairie Home Productions. “Complaint is a mainstay of comedy, so I am now experimenting with a comedy of gratitude, talking about parents, teachers, lucky breaks, dumb things that turned out smart.”
This tour coincides with the 50th Anniversary of Minnesota Public Radio. Keillor began his radio career as a freshman at the University of Minnesota. He graduated from the U of M in 1966 and began working for MPR in 1969. He hosted the popular variety show “A Prairie Home Companion” from July 6, 1974, through July 1, 2016.
Keillor has been honored with Grammy, ACE, and George Foster Peabody awards, the National Humanities Medal, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His many books include Lake Wobegon Days, The Book of Guys, Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance, Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny, and The Keillor Reader (Viking).