Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor is bringing an evening of storytelling, poetry, and song to Ogden. The man who spent 42 years hosting A Prairie Home Companion is headed downtown with his longtime music director Richard Dworsky at the piano for a Friday night of limericks, sing-alongs, and that voice you’d recognize anywhere. As creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion, Keillor drew more than four million listeners a week with monologues that somehow always landed exactly where they needed to. Now 84 and touring with what he calls a show about “the beauty of growing old,” he brings the same gifts to the stage, just without the broadcast clock ticking. Expect poetry, limericks, the familiar characters of Lake Wobegon, and the sharp, cheerful wit of a natural storyteller who has only gotten funnier with age. This calendar listing is brought to you by NowPlayingUtah.com, Utah’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Utah Cultural Alliance.