shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com August 25, 2015 • Page 15 Barn None: Rock Garden Tour Set For Yankton Show BY REILLY BIEL reilly.biel@yankton.net Any show geared toward members of a specific state or region is bound to be successful, and fortunately for South Dakotans, one of those shows is hitting the road. Rock Garden Tour (RGT), a public radio show based in Sioux Falls, will perform its variety show, “Soul Butter & Hog Wash, A Fancy Country Barn Tour,” in front of a live audience at the Bernie and Myrna Hunhoff Barn near Yankton on Saturday, Aug. 29 at 7 p.m. Musical guests will include the electric-Americana band Pleasure Horse. The barn is located at 43937/3-3rd St., north of Yankton. “RGT is South Dakota’s version of ‘Prairie Home Companion,’ but the music and humor is tailored to the www.missourivalleyshopper.com www.missourivalleyshopper.com state,” said Bernie Hunhoff, years back. When the idea for a barn tour came up, Ted who is hosting next week’s Heeren, writer and producer RGT show at his farm. of RGT, knew who to call. “The barn looks like it’s 25 years old but it was “It seems like the right actually built in the 1950s place for them to do their by a man named Robert Sch- tour. It fits their flavor,” said Hunhoff. “South Dakota is ramm. He used Black Hills such a rural state and it lumber,” Hunhoff said. “He died just as he was finishgives us our culture and pering it.” sonality, so having the show in a barn is a good represenSeveral years later, Huntation of all that.” hoff purchased the barn and “It’s going to be a TV moved it onto his property. show this time,” explained It was used occasionally Katie Hunhoff, Bernie’s to house horses and cattle daughter. “It will still be a before the Hunhoffs decided radio show but it will be to use it as a community televised on South Dakota place. The barn has since www.missourivalleyshopper.com Public Broadcasting (SDPB).” been used for fundraisers, “We’ve always shared it political events, dances and with the community,” said wedding parties. Bernie Hunhoff. “This way, “It’s kind of a cool place we’ll share it with the whole because it looks like an state.” old-fashioned barn but it’s Heeren started RGT in in really good shape,” said 2000 and did it on and off Hunhoff. The Hunhoffs extended again for several years before it became regular radio an offer to RGT to use their programming. barn when the group taped It is a comedic radio a show in Yankton a couple www.missourivalleyshopper.com www.missourivalleyshopper.com www.missourivalleyshopper.com Visit our Web site at www.missourivalleyshopper.com Visit our Web site at www.missourivalleyshopper.com Visit our Web site at www.missourivalleyshopper.com SEE TONY FOR... 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RGT has done shows throughout the state, including Mount Rushmore. “As we’ve taken the show out of a radio studio and onto a stage, it’s naturally evolved because now there’s an audience and a fourth wall you have to deal with more in a theatrical production,” explained Heeren. “Every new thing we try is fun and it’s always a learning experience.” The band has expanded through the years to Heeren on vocals, his father-inlaw on guitar and two of Heeren’s cousins on piano and bass. For the past three years, RGT has done one television special per year. In 2013, the group performed at the Orpheum Theater in Sioux Falls and last year at the historic Matthews Opera House in Spearfish. This year, Heeren and his crew decided to give the show a different feel. “A lot of what we talk about involves rural and small-town life,” he said. “We thought a barn would be a fun place to play.” RGT is starting its tour at Gov. Daugaard’s family farm on Aug. 27. After the show in Yankton, RGT will give its final tour performance at the OTA Conference in Sioux Falls. “In radio, you get to create a world and the listener gets to play a part in that,” Heeren said. “Playing a show onstage is very different. “People respond to what we like about the show, which is that it’s a reflection of this unique part of the world in this time and place,” Heeren said. “We choose to live in South Dakota and we love it here, so it’s fun to celebrate the things we love about this place.” This love of the state from RGT is evident to radio listeners. “We’re constantly talking, singing and reacting to things we find interesting about living here. It’s very local and unique because of that,” Heeren said. For the Yankton show, RGT has been compiling a handful of new, original tunes and parodies, one of which will involve Myron Floren, the accordion player who was known as “the happy Norwegian” on the Lawrence Welk Show. RGT’s show will be mainly about barns and their changing role and symbol. “When you see a barn on the side of the road, oftentimes it’s one that’s not in use,” said Heeren. “It’s a relic from a different time of agriculture.” “Some of the show is reflective, but most of it is kind of humorous thoughts about what the barn means and includes some stories that have taken place in barns throughout the region,” Heeren said. RGT airs on SDPB Radio on the last Saturday of every month at 8 p.m. To purchase tickets for the event, visit sdpb.SHOP. org or call 1-800-456-0766. Follow @ReillyBiel on Twitter. MOODY MOTOR NIOBRARA, NE Patrick Hawk 251 Spruce Ave • Box 260 Niobrara, NE 68760 www.moodymotor.com pjhawk@hotmail.com (402) 857-3711 (800) 745-5650 Fax (402) 857-3713 Job Hunting? The Help Wanted section can help. There’s something for everyone in the Shopper! 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