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Arlo Guthrie

Nov. 16, 2008 - 7 pm

The Thoreau Society Presents:

Arlo Guthrie - Lost World Tour
Featuring Abe Guthrie and The Burns Sisters

Nov. 16, 2008 - 7 pm
Melrose Memorial Hall

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Melrose Memorial Hall
590 Main Street, Melrose, MA
 
April 21, 1861: "Pratt collects very handsome tufts of Hepatica triloba in flower at Melrose, and the bloodroot out also there." Thoreau, Journal.
     
 

Photo of Melrose Memorial Hall: Courtesy of the Melrose Symphony Orchestral Association,
the oldest continuously performing volunteer orchestra in the United States.

Melrose is the location of one of the most unusual performance centers on the North Shore. The gray granite building is located at 590 Main Street next to the City Hall and Central Fire Station. The building, which is a memorial to the soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, was dedicated on Dec. 14, 1912. Its construction was watched with much interest and favorable comments were made on the simple yet dignified interior and exterior of the building.

Memorial Hall offers a splendid setting for social, artistic, cultural, and political events. With a seating capacity of 900, the auditorium of the building houses a large stage measuring 30' x 40', dressing rooms, and a public address system, and has installed on the rear of the stage a grand organ, similar in construction and musical expression to an organ in the Municipal Building in Portland, Maine. This organ was a memorial to the World War I veterans and was dedicated in 1919. More...


Arlo GuthrieArlo Guthrie Biography:

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 practically lived in the most famous venues of the "Folk Boom" era. In New York City he hung out at Gerdes Folk City, The Gaslight and The Bitter End. In Boston's Club 47, and in Philadelphia he made places like The 2nd Fret and The Main Point his home. He witnessed the transition from an earlier generation of ballad singers like Richard Dyer-Bennet and blues-men like Mississippi John Hurt, to a new era of singer-song writers such as Bob Dylan, Jim Croce, Joan Baez, and Phil Ochs. He grooved with the beat poets like Allen Ginsburg and Lord Buckley, and picked with players like Bill Monroe and Doc Watson. He learned something from everyone and developed his own style, becoming a distinctive, expressive voice in a crowded community of singer-songwriters and political-social commentators. More...

 

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