Great news for fans of the SDPB radio show, “Rock Garden Tour.” They are traveling to Spearfish for a taping of their Rock Garden Tour television special, “North Grown Hardy, Celebrating 125 Years of South Dakota.” The evening’s musical guest will be Pleasure Horse (from Minneapolis). BUY TICKETS
The show takes place in our opera house theater on Saturday, August 23, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale NOW(both in the art gallery and online). Tickets are $20 all main floor and balcony seats–including 15 seats on stage. Be part of the televised special!
About Rock Garden Tour
The Rock Garden Tour is a radio show that celebrates the avant-gardeners; those that work the land, those that play the free range rock and roll, and those that live in South Dakota (more or less). Listen to their SDPB Radio show every Saturday night at 8pm (Central), 7pm (Mountain). “Rock Garden Tour,” known to SDPB Radio audiences for its affection for South Dakota idiosyncrasies, combines rock music, gardening, South Dakota“isms” and fun. What sprouts is totally unique radio.
Now, the live stage show is coming to Spearfish. Later this year the Spearfish stage show will become an SDPB Television special. The Minneapolis band, Pleasure Horse, is the August show’s musical guest.
The show is hosted by Flowerman (Producer Ted Heeren), with help from his sidekick, Oil Can (Tom Hurlbert). In the end, it celebrates the things that make South Dakota a great state. Flowerman and Oil Can are middle-American folk icons with two things on their minds: gardening and rock and roll. That’s it. If you want to shoot the breeze on the socio-economic implications of People Magazine, then this show may not be your shoe.
Sometimes they discuss the Coach’s fall from the top of the barn (twice), or talk about Coach’s experiment of using marigolds around the pumpkins as a pest deterrent, or the origins of the turnip-o-lantern, the trouble with squirrels, taverns, beer traps, rabid mini-ponies, pet wiener dogs named Rusty that died after 15 pretty good years, garden gnome subculture, if you can over-water a lilly pad, mojo, sonic pest-control, mountain goats, Montrose’s Labor Day softball tourney, and per usual, the real zombies of Hayti, SD.
Listen to the Rock Garden Tour, the most interesting public radio show of its kind, and keep it rural.
Video promotion of this event
Keep it rural.
