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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 |
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April
21, 1861: "Pratt collects very handsome
tufts of Hepatica triloba in flower at Melrose,
and the bloodroot out also there." Thoreau,
Journal. |
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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...
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 Arlo
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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"Walden
is blue at one time and green at another, even
from the same point of view. Lying between
the earth and the
heavens, it partakes of the color of both."
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