The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
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The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band is the house band that appears weekly on the popular radio variety show A Prairie Home Companion.
Featured regular members of Guy's All-Star Shoe Band:
- Pat Donohue – acoustic, electric and steel guitars, vocals
- Richard Dworsky – piano, organ, synthesizer, melodica, keyboards, vocals, band leader, music director
- Gary Raynor – bass, bass guitar
- Peter Johnson – drums, percussion
- Andy Stein – violin, tenor and baritone saxophones, mandolin, vocals (now only appears occasionally)
Other frequent, occasional, former or one-time guest members of Guy's All-Star Shoe Band (some of whom were also members of The Powdermilk Biscuit Band):
- Jearlyn Steele – vocals, often Gospel
- Jevetta Steele - vocals, often Gospel
- Peter Ostroushko – mandolin, acoustic guitar, fiddle
- Butch Thompson – clarinet (also appears as a frequent guest pianist)
- Jon-Erik Kellso – trumpet
- Dave Bargeron – trombone, tuba
- Arnie Kinsella – drums, percussion, steel drums (now only appears occasionally)
- Kim Cusack – clarinet, tenor and alto sax
- Duke Heitger – trumpet, vocals
- Cindy Cashdollar – dobro, steel and acoustic guitars
- Richard Kriehn – fiddle, banjo, mandolin
- Vince Giordano – bass saxophone, tuba, string bass and vocals (his band Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, a New York-based 20s and 30s style 11 piece jazz and dance band has also appeared on the show many times)
- Joe Savage – steel guitar, vocals
- Greg Brown – harmonica and electric, acoustic, and steel guitars
- Becky Schlegel – piano, acoustic guitar, vocals
- John Niemann – fiddle, mandolin, electric and bass guitars
- Barb Ryman – banjo, acoustic guitar
- Randy Sandke – trumpet
- Roswell Rudd – trombone (only appeared once)
- Leslie Gregory – fiddle, vocals
- Bernie Sundermeyer – bass, vocals
- Edwin Johnson – fiddle, vocals
- Marc Anderson – drums, percussion
- Buddy Emmons – dobro, steel guitar, vocals
- Michael B. Nelson - trombone, tuba
- Charlie Parr – steel guitar, vocals
- Bruce Johnson – fiddle, vocals
- Dick Rees – accordion, fiddle, vocals
- Dale Mendenhall - trumpet, alto saxophone
- Kenni Holmen – alto and tenor saxophones, clarinet
- Steve Strand – trumpet, trombone
- Mary DuShane – fiddle, vocals
- Bill Staines – acoustic guitar, vocals
- LeRoy Larson – banjo, vocals
- Elana James – fiddle, vocals
- Dakota Dave Hull – acoustic guitar, vocals
- Philip Brunelle – piano, organ, vocals
- Helge Lamo – accordion, vocals
- Jim Fryer - trombone
- Sean Blackburn – acoustic guitar, vocals
- Bob Douglas – mandolin, spoons
- Adam Granger – fiddle, steel and acoustic guitars, vocals
- John Koerner – acoustic guitar, vocals
- Dave Brown - tuba, trombone
- Bob Leary – banjo, acoustic guitar
- Cal Hand – dobro, steel guitar
- Dan Newton – accordion, vocals
- Paul Dahlin – fiddle, vocals
- Dean McGraw - acoustic guitar, vocals
- Mel Brenden – accordion, vocals
- Chris Silver – acoustic guitar, fiddle, vocals
- Jon Pankake – fiddle, vocals
- Chuck Hedges – clarinet (deceased)
- Dan Barrett – trombone, cornet
- Charlie MaGuire – acoustic guitar, vocals
- Sam Bush – mandolin, banjo, vocals
- Kathy Jensen – trumpet, French horn
- Mike Craver – acoustic guitar, vocals
- Pop Wagner – fiddle, vocals
- Soupy Schindler – harmonica, vocals
- William Huckaby – piano, vocals
- Tony Ross – cello, vocals
- Andy McCormick – accordion, vocals
- Molly Mason – bass, acoustic guitar, vocals
- Tim Hennessy – acoustic guitar, vocals
- Dick Hyman - keyboards, organ, piano
- Howard Levy – harmonica, acoustic guitar
- Greg Hippen – bass, vocals
- Catie Jo Pidel – fiddle, violin
- Scott Robinson – misc. wind instruments, mostly reed instruments
- Guthrie Trapp – mandolin, acoustic and electric guitars, vocals
- Stuart Duncan – fiddle, vocals
- Dan Neale – acoustic and steel guitars, vocals
- Rob Fisher - piano, organ, vocals
- J.T. Bates - drums, percussion
- Heather Kolbrek - fiddle
Guy's All Star Shoe Band also uses guest musicians from time to time. Whenever the Shoe Band has a horn section, Garrison calls them the Shoe Horns.
- Folk music duo Bill Hinkley and Judy Larson occasionally appeared as guest musicians. Hinkley died of cancer in May 2010. He was 67 years old.
- Country star and fiddler Joe Ely and accordionist Joel Guzman have frequently performed together on the show as guest musicians.