Garrison Keillor is coming to the Narrows Center in Fall River, MA, on Saturday, May 3, 2025, with his show Garrison Keillor Tonight. Purchase tickets HERE.

Garrison Keillor Tonight is an evening of stand-up, storytelling, audience song, and poetry. One man, one microphone. There are sung sonnets, limericks and musical jokes, and the thread that runs through it is the beauty of growing old. Despite the inconvenience, old age brings the contentment of LESS IS MORE. Your mistakes and big ambitions are behind you, nothing left to prove, and small things give you great pleasure because that’s what’s left. (“I was unhappy in college because it was a requirement for an intellectual, but then I went into show business and discovered that people won’t pay to be made unhappy, their kids will do it for free.”) There is the

News from Lake Wobegon, a town booming with new entrepreneurs, makers of artisanal firewood and gourmet meatloaf, breeders of composting worms, and dogs trained to do childcare. But some things endure, such as the formation of the Living Flag on Main Street, citizens in tight formation wearing red, white or blue caps, and Mr. Keillor among them, standing close to old neighbors, Myrtle Krebsbach (“Truckstop”) and Julie Christensen (“Bruno, The Fishing Dog”) and Clint Bunsen. And an a cappella sing-along with the audience singing from memory an odd medley of patriotic songs, pop standards, hymns, and ending with the national anthem.

Born in Anoka, Minnesota, Garrison Keillor is the author of numerous books, including novels, a memoir, That Time of Year, and his recent Brisk Verse. For more than forty years, he hosted the radio show A Prairie Home Companion, heard on public radio coast to coast and beyond.

The Narrows Center is located at 16 Anawan Street in Fall River, MA. Tickets can be purchased online HERE. For those wanting to purchase tickets in person, box office hours are Thursday through Saturday, 12 noon to 5 p.m. Parking is free. Patrons are welcome to bring their own food, beverages, and alcohol to all events in bags and small coolers that will fit under your chair. The venue also uses all-in ticket pricing, meaning the price you see is the price you see with no hidden fees at check out.

This event is presented by JKB Entertainment Group/Limelight Magazine.