Tribute To Woody Guthrie

This Saturday November 28th singer/songwriter Arlo Guthrie and other members of the Guthrie clan, his son Abe Guthrie, daughter Sarah Lee Guthrie and her husband Johnny Irion will pay tribute to his American folk legend father, Woody Guthrie at New York’s Carnegie Hall. They will be performing new music by Billy Bragg, Wilco, Eliza Gilkyson, Janis Ian, Wenzel, and The Klezmatics, put together with some of Woody’s unpublished lyrics.

Woody Guthrie was the figurehead of the folk music movement and is best known for writing “This Land Is Your Land” which is a standard sung in American schools nationwide. Sadly Woody died in 1967 due to complications of Huntington's disease.

Arlo who wrote the most famous thanksgiving song ever “Alice’s Restaurant”, which is about a Thanksgiving Day feast gone a skew and turns into an anti war protest song, has made it a tradition to play a Thanksgiving Day concert at Carnegie Hall every year since 1970 and this year is no different. He started the tradition with American folk singer Pete Seeger.

Arlo is also celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock with the release of Arlo Guthrie: Tales of '69. Which was recorded live in concert in Long Island, New York just before Woodstock. The Guthrie clan will also perform at Newark, New Jersey’s NJPAC the following Sunday.