FILE - In this April 29, 2014 Garrison Keillor pauses in his St. Paul, Minn., office. Host Garrison Keillor plans to stay home and listen to “A Prairie Home Companion” on the radio for a couple of shows this winter. Keillor plans to stay home and listen to "A Prairie Home Companion" on the radio for a couple of shows this winter. Mandolinist Chris Thile of the band Nickel Creek will be the guest host for shows Feb. 7 and 14, 2015 from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. It's only the second time in the show's 40-year history that it's had a guest host. Singer and fiddler Sara Watkins, Thile's bandmate in Nickel Creek, hosted in 2011. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt, File)
Republished November 26, 2014 - 4:40 PM
Original Publication Date November 26, 2014 - 4:05 PM
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Host Garrison Keillor plans to stay home and listen to "A Prairie Home Companion" on the radio for a couple of shows this winter.
Mandolinist Chris Thile (THEE'-lee) of the band Nickel Creek will be the guest host for shows Feb. 7 and 14 from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.
It's only the second time in the show's 40-year history that it's had a guest host. Singer and fiddler Sara Watkins, Thile's bandmate in Nickel Creek, hosted in 2011.
Keillor says "Prairie Home" has been "a pretty dependable show, and now and then it likes to do something entirely different."
The 72-year-old humorist and bestselling author says he looks forward "to sitting at home and listening" to the shows.
Tickets for the show's winter run go on sale Tuesday.
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