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February 1999

UM sponsors Keillor
show in Butte June 5

National Public Radio celebrity Garrison Keillor will broadcast two performances of his live, two-hour, radio variety show, "A Prairie Home Companion," from Butte's Motherlode Theater Saturday, June 5. Nearly 2,200 tickets are available for the performances, which will be held at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The live broadcast is being sponsored by UM and Montana Tech of UM.

"A Prairie Home Companion," which is produced by Minnesota Public Radio, is heard Saturday evenings by more than 2.5 million fans on 450 public radio stations throughout the country.

The 4 p.m. show in Butte will be a live nationwide broadcast. The 7:30 p.m. performance will be for the theater audience only. To ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to gain admission, tickets are being offered through a mail-in drawing with a limit of two tickets per name selected. Tickets cost $35 apiece.

To enter the drawing, payment should be mailed to Prairie Home Tickets, c/o U.S. Bank, P.O. Box 4507, Missoula, MT 59806. Name, address and phone number should be included, as well as a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Payments can be made with a check payable to KUFM or by credit card. Credit card payments should include the card number and expiration date, and only Visa, Mastercard and Discover will be accepted.

The deadline for postmarks is March 12. When someone's name is drawn, the check or credit card will be processed, and the tickets will be mailed by March 31. If a name is not drawn, the check or credit card information will be returned. Seats will be assigned based on when names are drawn. For example, the first names drawn will go to the first show.

 

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