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WSU prof in All-Star Shoe Band
Travel with Garrison Keillor: the gig of a lifetime
Monday, July 16, 2012
By Becky Phillips, Marketing and Creative Services
Band members were grinning as their raucous beer medley swung its way around the audience seated in the St. Louis Fox Theatre. Polka music flirted and twirled. Fiddle player Richard Kriehn raised his violin to take a solo, but in that moment, his bow slipped and snagged itself on the violin microphone. With four million listeners also tuned in via National Public Radio, crunching and screeching filled the air as Kriehn struggled to pry the bow loose.
"Great...” thought Kriehn, who was on his debut tour with the band. "I just wanted to crawl under a rock at that point.”
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Kriehn, a highly accomplished musician, is the academic advisor for the School of Music at Washington State University. He advises all music majors and minors.
He can be heard on A Prairie Home Companion, which is carried weekly on WSU's Northwest Public Radio 5-7 p.m. Saturdays, and 1-3 p.m. Sundays (also Spokane Public Radio KPBX 3-5 p.m. Saturdays and 6-8 p.m.).
For the full story and a video performance by Garrison Keillor and Richard Kriehn, click the following link to Washington State Magazine.
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