In This Issue

Austin City Limits Celebrates 35 years with Willie and the Wheel, Pearl Jam and more

Fogerty Goes Live By Request

November Music Schedule

Your Chance to Win Tickets to See John Fogerty at the Ryman Auditorium

It was 35 years ago when a self-described "rag tag bunch of long-haired hippie public television types" caught Willie Nelson on video camera and produced the very first episode of Austin City Limits. To celebrate the show's anniversary and his new record, Nelson returns with Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel for a very special "Willie and the Wheel" episode on Saturday, November 14 at 11:00 p.m. It's just one of several special episodes this month, highlighted by a complete hour with Pearl Jam. It's been 18 years since the band's seminal debut, Ten, and in a sign that it may be a strong as ever, the band's latest, Backspacer, just hit number one. Catch the show that Billboard describes as, "Vedder and the band...riffing with the crowd as if everyone was mingling at a party rather than at the taping of a legendary TV music series," on Saturday, November 21 at 11:00 p.m.

Got a request for John Fogerty? Here's your chance to make it. Saturday, November 7 at 8:00 p.m. NPT offers a very special broadcast of John Fogerty - Live By Request. Just like it sounds, Fogerty will be performing live and taking requests from you and other PBS viewers around the nation who call into the special toll-free number. If you want to experience Fogerty even more live, scroll down for a chance to win tickets to his performance at the Ryman on November 22.

American Masters profiles Woody Guthrie. Independent Lens shares the emotional roller coaster ride of Roque Wave drummer Pat Spurgeon as he awaits a kidney transplant, and for those who missed it when it was pre-empted earlier this year, Great Performances offers an encore broadcast of Harlem in Montmartre.

It's another great month of music programming on NPT.

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Saturday, November 7, 2009

 
7:00-8:00 - Lawrence Welk Show

Saturday, November 14, 2009
 
8:30-10:00 - Celtic Thunder - Take Me Home
Irish sensation Celtic Thunder performs new songs and audience favorites in a recent concert from Ontario.

8:00-9:30 - American Masters: Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home.
The music of the nation's signature folk singer/songwriter has been recorded by everyone from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to U2.
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
 
8:00-9:30 - Great Performances: Harlem in Montmartre
The jazz age in Paris between the First and Second World Wars was a fascinating yet often neglected era in African-American cultural history.
 
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Friday, November 27, 2009
 
11:00-12:00 midnight - Soundstage: Sugarland.
Sugarland presents a versatile set with performances of "Joey, "Steve Earle" and "Genevieve" along with an homage to their home state with an R.E.M. cover.
           
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Saturday, November 28, 2009
 
6:00-7:00 - Tony Bennett: An American Classic

7:00-9:00 - Big Band Years
Packed with classic clips, this very warm and nostalgic program features the biggest songs that got a generation through World War II.

9:00-12:00 midnight - Doo Wop 50
This program celebrates five decades of vocal group harmony with performances by more than 20 of the original groups and performers popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
 
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Sunday, November 29, 2009
 
3:00-5:00 - Andre Rieu Live in Dresden: Wedding at the Opera

8:30-10:00 - Liza's at The Palace
Recently filmed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Liza Minnelli performs her greatest hits as well as songs from her 2009 Tony Award winning show, Liza's at The Palace.
 
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Monday, November 30, 2009
 
8:00-10:00 - Ed Sullivan's Rock and Roll Classics - The Sixties
Spanning the years 1963-1968, this new retrospective features classic song performances from The Ed Sullivan Show.
           
Until Next Month,

Joe Pagetta

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Enter Our "Stuck In Nashville, Again" Lyric Contest and Win Tickets to See John Fogerty at the Ryman Auditorium

Entries will be accepted beginning on Monday, November 2 through 5:00 p.m. November 13.  Winners will be notified on November 15 on how to get their tickets. Winning entries, and several honorable mentions, will posted to the NPT blog (http://www.npt08.wordpress.com) on Monday, November 15.