The Post Weekend III

We added a touch of class to our weekend by putting on a pair on clean jeans, heading uptown, and joining the well-dressed masses at Town Hall. Ryan Adams played a string of shows at Town Hall last week, but this was something different - a live broadcast of the radio variety show A Prairie Home Companion.

We spent some time backstage before the show, where Irish folk singer Karan Casey was cooing at her baby daughter and members of the jazz ensemble Gravity were enjoying vast spreads of complimentary food. The turkey sandwiches looked good, but we snapped out of our hungry daydream when we were introduced to Howard Johnson, the tuba-playing legend who leads Gravity. Johnson’s resume also includes such big names as The Band (Johnson arranged the horn parts and performed on The Last Waltz) and Saturday Night Live (he used to be the show’s bandleader). We briefly talked to the band and wished them luck.