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OKEMAH – After an absence of 14 years, Billy Bragg is returning to Oklahoma for a performance at the 15th Annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, which this year is celebrating Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday.

Bragg was a headliner at the concert played on Guthrie’s birthday at the inaugural WoodyFest in 1998.

A chance meeting with Nora Guthrie in 1992, when Nora was in the process of setting up her father’s archive and looking for ways to expand his musical legacy, resulted in Bragg being …

Jacob Abello

It’s almost here! The fifth annual Record Store Day is Saturday.

Celebrated every third Saturday in April, Record Store Day is the one day of the year that independently owned record stores come together with recording artists to celebrate the art of music. Instead of sleeping in on Saturday, get out and support your local indie music retailer.

As part of the festivities, Guestroom Records is hosting performances by Oklahoma musicians in all three of its metro OKC locations Saturday afternoon. (They won’t make you get up too …

Arlo Guthrie performs during the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Okemah, Okla., on Wednesday, July 14, 2010. Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman Archives

OKEMAH – Organizers of the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival have announced that Arlo Guthrie is returning this year to help celebrate what would have been his father’s 100th birthday. The solo acoustic show – the only ticketed event of the festival – will open the festival on Wednesday, July 11 and will take place in the newly-renovated Crystal Theater in downtown Okemah. Ticket information will be …

Woody Guthrie (AP file)

Today’s featured event:

TULSA – Hear Arlo Guthrie, John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Del McCoury Band with Tim O’Brien, Rosanne Cash, The Flaming Lips, Hanson, Jimmy LaFave and Old Crow Medicine Show at “This Land Is Your Land: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Concert” at 7:30 tonight at the Brady Theater, 105 W Brady Street.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The show is open to all ages.

To read my new interview with Jimmy LaFave, click here.

For more information, go to www.bradytheater.com.

For more events, go …

As you might expect, Oklahoma City psychedelic rockers The Flaming Lips have some special plans for their part of Saturday’s big “This Land Is Your Land: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Concert” at the Brady Theater in Tulsa.

This YouTube video posted today shows the Lips rehearsing for Saturday’s show, where they plan to perform Guthrie’s “Vigilante Man” on iPads. Back in October, they covered The Beatles’ “Revolution” on Apple tablets. The video shows at least one of the tablets emblazoned with the slogan “This iPad kills fascists,” a nod …

Jimmy LaFave

From Friday’s Weekend Look section of The Oklahoman. To read my recent story about tonight’s Red Dirt Hootenanny in Woody Guthrie’s honor, click here.

Jimmy LaFave keeps ‘Walking Woody’s Road’
The red-dirt singer-songwriter is part of the impressive lineup for Saturday’s “This Land Is Your Land: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Concert,” a Tulsa tribute concert also featuring Arlo Guthrie, John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Del McCoury Band with Tim O’Brien, Rosanne Cash, The Flaming Lips, Hanson and Old Crow Medicine Show.

For years, Jimmy LaFave has been championing …

Woody Guthrie (AP file)

From Wednesday’s Life section of The Oklahoman.

Red dirt musicians having a hoot for Woody Guthrie
Several Oklahoma players will perform Friday at a Red Dirt Hootenanny at Cain’s Ballroom as part of this week’s grand Guthrie centennial celebration in Tulsa.

TULSA — The spirit of Woody Guthrie will take up residence Friday night in the famed venue known as “the home of Bob Wills.”

“There’s two main rivers that go into what is red dirt music, and they come from Bob Wills and from Woody …

Arlo Guthrie (Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman Archives)

Today’s featured event:

Hear legendary folk singer Arlo Guthrie at 8 p.m. today and Thursday at the Blue Door, 2805 N McKinley. For more information, go to www.bluedoorokc.com.

On Saturday night, Arlo Guthrie will be part of the impressive lineup paying tribute to his father at “This Land Is Your Land: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Concert” at Tulsa’s Brady Theater. The concert also will feature John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Del McCoury Band with Tim O’Brien, Rosanne Cash, The Flaming Lips, …

Jackson Browne (AP file)

Tulsa Concerts & Shows on wimgo

The Los Angeles-based Grammy Museum, in conjunction with Woody Guthrie Publications Inc. and the Woody Guthrie Archives, has announced the addition of Jackson Browne as a special guest to the “This Land Is Your Land – The Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration Concert” lineup in Tulsa.

Taking place at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 10 at The Brady Theater, the concert serves as the pinnacle of the Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration in Tulsa, and it is the first installment of the series.…

Woody Guthrie

The LA-based Grammy Museum, in conjunction with Woody Guthrie Publications Inc. and the Woody Guthrie Archives, announced today details about their plans to commemorate the life and career of Oklahoma folk music legend Woody Guthrie in Tulsa.

Designed to celebrate Guthrie’s extraordinary body of work and impact on American music, Tulsa’s Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration will take place March 5-11 and will include an exhibition, educational programming, a conference at The University of Tulsa and a tribute concert headlined by John Mellencamp and Guthrie’s son Arlo Guthrie.

Arlo

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