Soul Butter & Hog Wash

Sep 1, 2015

Rock Garden Tour, a South Dakota Public Radio show, is doing a barn tour called "Soul Butter and Hog Wash." They taped at Governor Dennis Daugaard’s rural Dell Rapids barn earlier, and on August 29 they taped the show at the Bernie and Myrna Hunhoff barn north of Yankton near the little farming town of Utica.

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Rock Garden Tour is a South Dakota Public Broadcasting show hosted by Ted Heeren, also known as "Flower Man," and Tom Hurlbert, known as "Oil Can.” The show is usually broadcast on public radio, but it translates beautifully to television.
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The show will air on South Dakota Public Television in November.
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Ted Heeren performs parodies of well known songs with a South Dakota flair. He's backed by the Rock Garden Tour Family Band members Jim Groth (Heeren's father-in-law) and Chris and Leo Vondracek (Heeren's cousins).
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"News from Pierre," a recurring commentator on the show, explained the origin of round barns.
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Musical guests were Ben Mahowald and Tim Evenson from the Americana band Pleasure Horse.
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Heeren's parody of "Come Sail Away" by Styx is always a crowd favorite. The audience sang a boisterous chorus of "come bale some hay.”
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Heeren started producing the Rock Garden Tour Radio show in 2002. He is also co-owner of Fresh Produce, an advertising agency in Sioux Falls.
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Vondracek, band keyboard player, is also an English professor and writer. He entertained the audience with his original poem titled, "I am 75% Liquidated Amish Furniture.”
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The Hunhoff barn, built in the 1950s by Robert Schramm, made for a festive venue on a moonlit night.