News Updates - January 16, 2012

  • Rich's recent memorable collaborations on A Prairie Home Companion include accompanying: Elvis Costello, Brad Paisley, Dave Rawlings Machine with Gillian Welch, Nick Lowe, Elvin Bishop, Leon Redbone, Steve Wariner.
  • New CD Releases: Rich wrote and played the incidental music for Garrison Keillor's monolog collection, "My Little Town" and audio book version of "Guy Noir - The Straight Skinny" (HighBridge Audio). Rich plays on two tracks of an upcoming Peter Ostroushko CD for Red House Records. Prairie Home's "Christmas Companion Volume 2" with Sarah Jessica Parker singing "The Christmas Song" with Dworsky accompanying, is now on iTunes.
  • New DVD release: "A Prairie Home Companion Live" features Rich and the Shoe Band accompanying Elvis Costello, Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele and others. PBS American Masters documentary by Peter Rosen called "Garrison Keillor - The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoe" is now out on DVD and still playing on PBS. Dworsky appears on camera as musician and composer .
  • Live performances include 2010 and 2011 month long Prairie Home Summer Love tours: Carribean and Canadian PHC cruises; two appearances with the wonderful Nellie McKay at the Dakota in Minneapolis; and three concerts with Garrison Keillor and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (recorded for upcoming CD release, including two Dworsky arrangements). Rich led the band for the 2nd Prairie Home Companion live Cinecast (performance carried live in HD in 500 US and Canadian movie theaters) with guests including Sara and Sean Watkins and Old Crow Medicine Show.

 
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)