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Garrison Keillor will get a taste of Greensboro this weekend.

Sure, he’s a few towns over for “A Prairie Home Companion,’’ his live radio gig. And sure, we can all hear it anywhere tonight on any public radio station, namely WFDD 88.5 FM and WUNC 91.5 FM in our corner of the world.

But check this out. He’s got Polecat Creek on the bill. Band member Laurelyn Dossett is from Greensboro. He’s got singer-songwriters Robin and Linda Williams on the bill. Robin is linked to Greensboro, too.

Robin’s grandfather was Murphy Williams , a longtime minister of Greensboro’s Presbyterian Church of the Covenant. Ask Robin about it, and he remembers going to the church in 1955 for his grandfather’s funeral.

It was the first time Robin saw loudspeakers. They were set up outside because so many people came to pay respects to his grandfather.

But that’s not the only link between Greensboro and Garrison tonight.

Keillor got fed Friday night by a handful of Greensboro barristers who have a taste for barbecue.

They’re the PigMasters . These local lawyers ditch their suits, slip on black T-shirts that carry the slogan, “Advocates of a Southern Lifestyle’’ and drive anywhere to feed folks, even to disasters to settle the stomachs — and minds — of hungry volunteers.

But they’re big Keillor fans, too.

Four years ago, they drove to South Dakota — a two-day drive — to feed North Carolina barbecue to Keillor and his crew. Two years ago, when he was in town to speak, Keillor returned the favor.

On Friday, the PigMasters cooked for Keillor again. This time, they drove 50 minutes east to the Durham Performing Arts Center where they parked their Pig Rig 10 feet from the center’s front wall.

They fed Keillor — and about 60 other people, including Dossett and Robin Williams — 50 pounds of chicken wings, 30 racks of ribs, four big cans of green beans and 50 pounds of potatoes .

You figure Keillor loved it. Look at the limerick he wrote the last time he ate GSO ’cue.

His review is on the door of the PigMasters’ Pig Rig:

“A pig from North Carolina

Was so good we all formed a line — a Half a block long

And burst into song

As we ate him, off paper (not china).’’

Contact Jeri Rowe at 373-7374 or jeri.rowe@news-record.com