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| Live on "A Prairie Home Companion" May 3, 2008 |
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David Mallett on "A Prairie Home Companion" May 3rd!
Join us for a live national radio broadcast of this sold-out show from Bangor, Maine.
To hear the archived audio from the show, click here.
This episode of Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion", recorded live from the Civic Center Auditorium in Bangor, Maine, features Pulitzer Prize winning poet Maxine Kumin, the David Mallett Trio, and the regular AHPC cast: The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Fred Newman, and that gangly guy with the socks. David performs his classic "Garden Song", "Angel Standin' By", and "Fishing", his favorite piece of Henry David Thoreau's The Maine Woods from his latest CD, The Fable True.
This is David Mallett's second appearance on "A Prairie Home Companion". The first was a performance in Portland, Maine, in 1998. To hear an archived recording of that show on the Prairie Home Companion website, click here. |
The "Garden Song" is 30 years old!
Named as one of the "fifty most famous folk songs of all time", "Garden Song" was written by David Mallett and recorded on his first album in 1978. "Garden Song" was covered by Pete Seeger on his 1979 album, Circles and Seasons, the first of over one hundred fifty versions that have been recorded.
Other artists who have recorded "Garden Song" include: Noel Paul Stookey (Band and Bodyworks, 1979 and Wait'll You Hear This, 1982) John Denver (John Denver, 1979), Arlo Guthrie (Power of Love, 1981), The Muppets, and John Lithgow (Kid Size Concert video, 1989). The song has been translated into numerous languages and performed around the world.
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