Woody’s 99th Birthday Celebration!
Sat July 16, 8pm
The Creative Alliance (3134 Eastern Ave.)
$20, $15 mbrs. Adv tix sug.
Bring yer axe!
Hootenany & Singalong to follow in Marquee Lounge.
Benefits Woody Guthrie Dreams production in NYC.
Woody’s 99th Birthday is upon us! The buzz is building! Woody Guthrie Dreams, (which premiered at CA in 2004) is up in NYC in September. Playwright/actor/musician Michael Patrick Flanagan Smith (Woody in his play) cast his real life friend and new actor Caleb Stine as Woody’s sidekick Cisco Houston. Caleb hosts Mike and some of the finest musicians in Bmore doing songs from the vast Woody songbook and reading from the visionary’s letters. Join us in the Creative Alliance’s new Lounge afterwards for a hootenany-singalong! Bring an instrument!
Special guests include:
John Bolten and Allison Smith, Ben Forstenzer (Balto Afro Beat Society.) Bob Friedman (Mambo Combo,) Carl Freundel (Mikes 1st drama teacher!), Dave Huber (Whale Show,) Linda Nelson (what a VOICE!)…and more!
Songs about grave yards, massacres, buffalo skinners, unions, and deportees. One of the best shows of the summer EASY! Doan miss it!
Proceeds help launch Mike’s amazing Baltimore-based production at the Theater for The New City on the Lower East Side!
July 19th, 2011 at 8:31 am
What a great show! Went with my best friend and my sister, who both also loved it. I’ve been a Woody Guthrie fan for about 10 years. This show was a great tribute to him! I feel sort of stupid for not realizing how many great folk singers we have in Baltimore. From a beautiful rendition of ‘Deportees’ to a heartfelt rendition of ‘Pastures of Plenty’ to rowdy singalongs of ‘Hard Travelin’ and ‘This Land is Your Land’…a great evening! Only disappointment is that it wasn’t recorded, so I guess I’ll only be able to listen to those performances again in my memory…maybe that is appropriate for what Woody called his ‘living songs’.