Arlo Guthrie
Great Performers Series Artist
Performance:
Wednesday, May 6, 2009: 8:00 p.m.
Arlo Guthrie was born with a guitar in one hand and a harmonica in the other, in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York
in 1947. He is the eldest son of America's most beloved singer/writer/philosopher Woody Guthrie and Marjorie Mazia
Guthrie, a professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease.
He grew up surrounded by dancers and musicians: Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Hellerman and Lee
Hays (The Weavers), Leadbelly, Cisco Houston, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, all of whom
were significant influences on Arlo's musical career.
Guthrie gave his first public performance at age 13 and quickly became involved in the music that was shaping the
world during the 1960s. Arlo Guthrie's career exploded in 1967 with the release of Alice's Restaurant, whose
title song premiered at the Newport Folk Festival helped foster a new commitment among the '60s generation to
social consciousness and activism. Arlo went on to star in the 1969 Hollywood film version of Alice's Restaurant,
directed by Arthur Penn.
With songs like "Alice's Restaurant", too long for radio airplay; "Coming into Los Angeles", banned from many
radio stations (but a favorite at the 1969 Woodstock Festival); and the definitive rendition of Steve
Goodman's "City of New Orleans", Guthrie was no One-Hit-Wonder. An artist of international stature, he has
never had a hit in the usual sense.
Over the last four decades Guthrie has toured throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia winning
a wide, popular following. In addition to his accomplishments as a musician, playing the piano, six and
twelve-string guitar, harmonica and a dozen other instruments, Arlo is a natural-born storyteller, whose tales
and anecdotes figure prominently in his performances.
Tickets on sale now. For more information about Arlo Guthrie, check out
his website at www.arlo.net.
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Cost:
$37 Prime
$32 Regular
$29 Seniors
$29 Buffalo State faculty/staff
$15 Student Rush
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