A Prairie Home Companion for May 30, 2015
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This week: we're rolling into Detroit, Michigan, for a live broadcast from the 313's grand old picture palace, the Fox Theatre. The National Arab Orchestra Takht Ensemble will join us, directed by Michael Ibrahim and featuring singers Usama Baalbaki and Ghada Derbas. Broadway belter Christine DiGiallonardo will go note for note with the host in duets, and add a Brooklyn twist to this week's scripts. The young jazz musicians of the KDJ Trio will give us a taste of what's next from the Motor City sound. And poet Jim Daniels will read a few pieces informed by his experiences growing up in and around Detroit. Plus: our Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, will bend reality with their character impressions, and realistic animal sounds and explosions; radio rumble and backbeats from Rich Dworsky and the Internal Combustion Combo (Bernie Dresel, Larry Kohut, Richard Kriehn, and Chris Siebold); and an update on the latest News from Lake Wobegon, the tiny town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve. Find us down on the Public Radio end of the dial or tune in online this Saturday.