Lonnie Donnegan Band records "Vigilante Man"
Lonnie Donegan's son, Peter Donegan and his band, Lonnie Donnegan Band, open their new album with Woody's "Vigilante Man". Click here to read more
U.S. Olympics snowboards to "I'm Shipping Up To Boston"
(Interview excerpt with Dropkick Murphys)
"I'm Shipping Up to Boston" has clearly been one of the vehicles that has increased the Murphys' exposure over the past five years. The song is a constant presence at the Boston Garden, it was a huge part of the Red Sox championship season (pitcher Jonathan Papelbon took the mound with "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" as his soundtrack; he and the Murphys performed it on a float in the championship parade), and it was recently certified platinum.
"If you'd asked me five years ago, 'Do you think you'll ever have anything gold or platinum?,' I would have said, 'Aside from something in my mouth, no,'" Barr says with a laugh. "Then to have Seth Westcott snowboard to us and one of the U.S. ski team skiing to us. There's always some new thing happening with that song. It's crazy."
HBO special "The People Speak"
An HBO documentary, "The People Speak" inspired by Howard Zinn's books, "A People's History" and "Voices of a People's History", features two Woody Guthrie songs; Do Re Mi performed by Bob Dylan, Van Dyke Parks and Ry Cooder and This Land Is Your Land performed by Bruce Springsteen. Click here to read more
"This Land" featured in "Up In The Air" film
Six-time Academy Award nominated film, Up In The Air, opens with a funky, contemporary cover of Woody Guthrie's working-class American classic "This Land Is Your Land" by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, setting the story into motion. Says director, Jason Reitman, "It's a really lovely soulful entrance to the journey of this film about the American landscape." Click here for information on Up In The Air
Oscar Brand turns 90!
Oscar Brand's program every Saturday at WNYC. Oscar Brand's Folksong Festival is broadcast every Saturday, 10pm-11pm (Eastern Time), on WNYC-AM820 in New York City and can be heard live worldwide in streaming audio: www.wnyc.org
Channel 4 video on Guthrie Masters
After an amazing discovery in a New York basement, lost Woody Guthrie masters are being released...Read more and see the video at the Channel 4 website.
MSN Feature on My Dusty Road
"Woody Guthrie's Mystery Masters. A trove of newly discovered recordings brings new focus to the iconic troubadour's legacy..." read the full article here.
Woody Makes Top 400
The NYC400 is the first-ever list of New York City's ultimate movers and shakers since the City's founding-from politics, the arts, business, sports, science, and entertainment...More Info here.
New Guinness World Record!
6,000 People Play "This Land Is Your Land" at Red Rock, Colorado.
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World's Largest Music Lesson at Red Rocks. Swallow Hill Music Association, Denver Film Society and Red Rocks host an audience of
6,607, breaking the Guinness World Record for the largest music lesson. Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison, Colorado, USA. Audio from the event can be heard here.
Lonni Donegan - "Grand Coulee Dam"
Skiffle King Lonnie Donegan and his group in 1957, playing Woody Guthrie's song Grand Coulee Dam.
"This Land is Your Land"
A song Woody Guthrie wrote in response to Irving Berlin's more commercially patriotic "God Bless America," has been voted the number one essential folk song by 3,200 listeners to FolkAlley.com.
Tribute to Pete Seeger at MSG in NYC
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On a rain-soaked night, more than 15,000 people turned out at Madison Square Garden to salute the man who wrote or co-wrote some of the most influential political anthems of the last 60 years, including "If I Had a Hammer," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," and "Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There is a Season)."
The roster of A-list performers -- including Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Arlo Guthrie, Emmylou Harris, John Mellencamp, Kris Kristofferson, Joan Baez and others -- also included appearances by Tim Robbins, Norman Lear and Ruby Dee, and a happy birthday message to Seeger from President Obama.
Woody Welcomes Obama!
Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen and Tao Rodriguez lead the country singing
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND at the We Are One Obama Inauguration Celebration!
Photo: Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Images
"At the conclusion of today's concert for President-elect Barack Obama, 89-year-old Pete Seeger joined Bruce Springsteen for a sing-along with perhaps half a million people of Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land,' which I dare say practically everyone in the country knows from childhood. But sly old Pete, who actually hoboed with Woody during the Depression and Dust Bowl, had the crowd sing the song as it was actually written, as not only a celebration of this great land, but as a demand for workers' and people's rights."
Jonatha Brooke has just completed a new album of Woody's unpublished lyrics from the Archives. This is a very significant project. For the first time ever a woman has composed, arranged, produced and performed a complete album of Woody Guthrie songs. The gods must be shaking their heads, " 'bout time!" - Nora Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land A Concert Tribute to Woody Guthrie & John Steinbeck SHERYL CROW with THE BLACK KEYS, CAT POWER, SON VOLT,
MIKE NESS, HENRY ROLLINS, SARAH LEE GUTHRIE & JOHNNY IRION September 20, 2008
Photographs and copyright Stephanie Scott Images.
"Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie"
Composed by David Amram
David Amram premiered his new orchestral suite Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie with the Symphony Silicon Valley Orchestra with two performances on September 29th and October 1st . Conducted by Paul Polivnick, the premier celebrated the opening of the orchestra's new season and took place at the beautifully restored historic California Theater in downtown San Jose. The theater was packed! The symphony is currently being scheduled for performances with numerous orchestras throughout the country as well as a studio recording. We'll keep you posted!
M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" deftly connects Woody Guthrie's "Deportee"and
influence with M.I.A.'s hit single. Click here to read the article.
World renowned geneticist Michael Hayden named Canada's "researcher of the year". A close friend and colleague of Marjorie Guthrie's in Huntington's Disease research. Click here to read complete article.
Culture plays countermelody at new Grammy Museum - Walls are dotted with iconic objects: Bob Dylan's first guitar, the only known Woody Guthrie guitar, Seeger's banjo... Read the complete article
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