Special Nora Guthrie Tour Announcement

Hey friends!

Nora's going on a short tour in Oklahoma and Texas next week! I hope you can make it out to these wonderful events.

All the best,
Anna Canoni
Programs & Events Director


OKLAHOMA
April 15, 2009 - 8:00p
The Live Wire Listening Party - A FREE EVENT!
Nora Guthrie hosts a live listening session of her 2008 Grammy award winning album, The Live Wire: Woody Guthrie in Performance followed by a discussion on the project.
The Blue Door
2805 N. McKinley
Oklahoma City, OK 73106
Venue website


TEXAS
April 17 - 20, 2009

IT'S BEEN GOOD TO KNOW YUH: WOODY GUTHRIE IN PAMPA, 1929-1936 EXHIBIT

"And there on the Texas plains right in the dead center of the dust bowl, with the oil boom over and the wheat blowed out and the hard-working people just stumbling about, bothered with mortgages, debts, bills, sickness, worries of every blowing kind, I seen there was plenty to make up songs about. . . . I never did make up any songs about the cow trails or the moon skipping through the sky, but at first it was funny songs or songs about what all's wrong, and how it turned out good or bad. Then I got a little braver and made up songs telling what I thought was wrong and how to make it right, songs that said what everybody in the country was thinking. And this has held me ever since."
- Woody Guthrie

This exhibit will illustrate how the years Woody Guthrie spent in Pampa, Texas, from age 17 formed the foundation of a life that was to influence the folk music genre for the generations to come. Family tragedy, the Depression and Dust Bowl years, and picking up a guitar and giving a voice to the plight of the American worker were the driving forces that guided Woody throughout his prolific, but too-short career.

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WOODY GUTHRIE: WORDS AND MUSIC OF THE WORKING MAN SYMPOSIUM
We hope you join us for this special weekend long symposium on Woody Guthrie.

* April 17 from 7:00p - 8:30p
Nora Guthrie presents This Land Is Your Land: The Story of Woody Guthrie

* April 18 from 2:00 - 5:00p
Concert with Jimmy LaFave

* April 18 from 5:30 - 7:00p
Nora Guthrie presents Bound For Glory: The Legacy of Woody Guthrie

* April 19 from 2:00 - 5:00p
Concert with Josh Paulson, Cody Jasper, Andy Chase and James Davis

* April 20 from 5:30 - 8:00p
Film screening of Man In The Sand followed by A Conversation with Nora Guthrie

For more information on the Exhibition or Symposium, please visit the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum's website - www.panhandleplains.org.