NEWS FLASHES
2009 - mid 2010 Highlights

Prairie Home Companion memorable collaborations:

  • Richard collaborated again with the wonderful cellist Yo-Yo Ma on an original Dworsky tune: Summit Avenue Rag (listen to the PHC archive)
  • Picking legends Sam Bush (mandolin) and Brad Paisely (guitar) joined Rich on his original tune The Tennessee Tumble at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium (listen on the PHC archive)
  • Superstar Sheryl Crow used Rich and the Shoe Band to accompany her on 4 tunes when she was a guest at L.A.'s Greek Theater .
  • Rich led the band accompanying the great Elvis Costello when he guested on the first PHC Cinecast live performance in St. Paul , MN carried in high definition live in 500 US and Canadian movie theaters… Coming out soon on DVD). The list of other amazing artists that Rich got to accompany this last year includes: Elvin Bishop, Dave Rawlings Machine with Gillian Welch, Michael Feinstein, Nick Lowe, and Jerry Douglas.

Rich appeared as pianist on mandolinist/composer Peter Ostroushko's music on the soundtrack for "The National Parks - A Film by Ken Burns" (PBS); and he played keyboards on two new Ostroushko CDs ("Postcards" and "When the Last Morning Glory Blooms") on Red House Records.

Richard created an original keyboard underscore for Garrison Keillor's audio book recording of his "A Christmas Blizzard," collaborating live in the studio for much of the 5 CD set. He also contributes as keyboardist/composer on two other new Keillor recordings: "77 Love Sonnets" and "Motherhood." In August, he'll hit the road with Keillor on his coast to coast Summer Love Tour.

 
A Prairie Home Companion, a film by the late Robert Altman, premiered  in June of 2006 and is now available on DVD. It's been shown on HBO and many European TV channels. Rich appears as himself (pianist and bandleader) and accompanies Meryl  Streep, Lily Tomlin, Lindsay Lohan, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly, Garrison Keillor and others. He served as the film's music director, conductor, arranger, and contributed several songs to the soundtrack. Click here for the Movie Website

 
A Prairie Home Companion - The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack available in stores everywhere. In summer of 2006 it hit  #1 on the Billboard Magazine Bluegrass Charts and made it onto Billboard's Soundtrack, Country and Top 200 charts as well. Available on New Line Records (click here for info)

 
Start It All Over Again
Sally Dworsky
(vocals) with Richard Dworsky (piano). After years of requests, the brother and sister duo have recorded a CD of sweet songs by a wide mix of great songwriters.  Available at the Prairie Home Companion website  (click here). Click here to visit Sally Dworsky's official website
 
Kristin Chenoweth ( star of  stage and screen ) sings Dworsky's "Goin' To the Dance With You" on her CD Let Yourself Go   (Sony Classical) and has  performed it on PBS's Evening at Pops and around the country with various orchestras. (visit Kristin Chenoweth's official website)