Garrison Keillor is wrapping up his long career as the host of "A Prairie Home Companion."

Here & Now's Robin Young went to Tanglewood in western Massachusetts to shine a spotlight on his long-time cast, Sue Scott, Tim Russell and Fred Newman.

Listen to our conversation with sound effects artist Fred Newman

Interview Highlights

Russell on how it feels to be near the end

"It's bittersweet, so we're all a little bittersweet about this closing adventure, I've loved every second of it."

Keillor on the other members of the show

"Well, they each bring some wonderful things to this. First of all, they know when to act and when not to act. And so they need almost no direction. And each of them has a number of tricks that a writer can call on, and when you are writing on deadline, this is so useful.

First of all, Fred does all of the sound effects. You're able to call on a dolphin, you're able to call on any sort of gunfire, thunder, lightning, rainfall, so on... Tim does voices. These are so good, you could immediately bring in, you know, the ghost of Humphrey Bogart, you can bring in John Wayne. And then Sue has certain characters, extreme characters, that she does extremely well. So you've got all of these tools, and when your imagination runs low as it tends to do, you can call on these things."