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On Saturday, September 15, 2012, The ArtsCenter will host a community celebration of the life and work of Woody Guthrie, who would have been 100 years old in 2012. The event will start at 2pm. Tickets can be purchased in advance or at the door for $5 for ArtsCenter Friends and $7 for the General public.
Those who have agreed to perform Woody?s music or read from his writings (subject to change) include Jon Shain and Joe Newberry, Katherine Whalen, Kim Arrington, Zelda Lockhart, Senator Ellie Kinnard, Tim Stambaugh, Charles Pettee, Danny Gotham and Jim Watson, Blood Jar Creepers, Sacrificial Poets, Cyril Lance, Nathan Golub, and Art Menius. UNC American Studies Professor Robert Cantwell will place Woody?s career in context.
Woody Guthrie was a man who traveled through the land. A hard working man and brave. Well, maybe not hard working, but definitely brave and prolific as a writer of songs and prose and as a visual artist. Guthrie?s impact on American popular culture remains strong 100 years after his birth in Okemah, Oklahoma on July 14, 1912. A lifelong radical, the ?softened? version of his ?This Land is Your Land? has become a patriotic anthem, while songs like ?Do Re Mi? and ?Deportee? sound remarkably current and are still sung by performing artists today. His son Arlo and several of his granddaughters have achieved musical stardom on their own.
Those of us in the baby boomer generation sang Woody Guthrie?s songs in school, but learned little about the man save for his proclivity for traveling through the land. Perhaps that is appropriate since Guthrie has become as much symbol and myth as a real person. For at least two generations, he was the personification and voice of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression of the 1930s ? a real Okie who fled to California seeking a new life, just like Steinbeck?s fictional Joad family.?Despite his short career, Guthrie changed the world and served as a bridge between the broadside composers of the 18th and 19th centuries and the singer-songwriters of the late 20th century. He inspired a whole new generation including Rambling Jack Elliot, Arlo, and, most notably, Bob Dylan, whose dedication to Woody has been overly celebrated.
The ArtsCenter?s programs are supported in part by The North Carolina Arts Council, The Orange County Arts Commission, WCHL, and Courtyard Marriot. Special thanks to The Woody Guthrie Foundation and Woody Guthrie Publications for their support in putting this on.
The ArtsCenter is a non-profit teaching and presenting organization founded in 1974. The largest employer of artists in Orange County, NC, it serves nearly 60,000 people annually, through classes, studios, concerts, theatre, spoken word, gallery displays, more than 80 school shows, and more. The ArtsCenter exerts a local economic impact of almost $2,900,000 which generates the equivalent of 78 full time jobs and $231,000 in state and local tax revenue.
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