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Lush Country
September 15 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Country Hits from the 1940s, 50s and 60s
Country music from the hi-fi era, featuring an all-star band with Prudence Johnson on vocals, Dan Chouinard on piano, and five other veterans of the country scene and A Prairie Home Companion.
Dan Chouinard: Piano, Vocals
Prudence Johnson: Vocals
Gary Rue: Guitar, Vocals
Richard Kriehn: Fiddle, Mando, Guitar, Vocals
Joe Savage: Pedal Steel Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals
Peter Johnson: Drums, Vocals
Gary Raynor: Bass
Dan Chouinard accompanist for Twin Cities performers, an enabler of community sing-alongs and a writer of hit shows.
Peter Johnson drummer with Doc Severinsen, Dave Brubeck, Manhattan Transfer, Gene Pitney.
Prudence Johnson a multifaceted singer who’s appeared around the globe, in two films and over a dozen albums.
Richard Kriehn won an international mandolin contest at age 19, and was on Prairie Home Companion for nearly a decade.
Gary Raynor has played with the Count Basie band, Sammy Davis Jr., and at Crooners with Marilyn Maye and countless others.
Gary Rue is the writer of 70 theater musicals, and was conductor and arranger for Gene Pitney and his 15-piece orchestra.
Joe Savage has performed with such country legends as Hank Thompson, Margo Smith, Stonewall Jackson and Wanda Jackson.