WOODY GUTHRIE: HARD TIMES AND HARD TRAVELLIN’ - performed by Will Kaufman
Friday, 9th September, 2011
8pm - Tickets £5
Civic Arts Centre, 155 Union Road, Oswaldtwistle BB5 3HZ
This is a live documentary and an absolute must for any Woody Guthrie fans, that sets the songs of Woody Guthrie in the context of the American 1930s – the Dust Bowl, the Depression, the New Deal and the state of popular music itself. In the presentation, Will Kaufman brings such hard-hitting Guthrie songs as “Vigilante Man”, “Pretty Boy Floyd” and “I Ain’t Got No Home” into conversation with other relevant songs – from Joe Hill’s “The Preacher and the Slave” to “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”. These renditions, buttressed by detailed historical commentary, exemplify the blending of music and radical politics that marks Guthrie's most powerful and evocative work.
I must stress, it's not a tribute act but an insight into the man and his life.
Tickets available by visiting the Centre, or going online to
www.ticketsource.co.uk/civicartscentre.