Woody Guthrie
Proletarian verse and protest songs thrive at Woody Guthrie Folk Fest in Oklahoma
July 22, 2024A sense of camaraderie flowed throughout WoodyFest as musicians jammed long into the night and attendees engaged in conversation over shared meals.
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Picking up sticks and stones at Woody Fest 2018
July 16, 2018In the hometown where Woody grew up, Okemah, Okla, each year around his birthday the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival takes place. It’s sorta an old hippie crowd along with progressive young persons desiring to connect to...
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“Green Grow the Lilacs”: Summer of the “Okies”
July 24, 2015WGTB is presenting Lynn Riggs' 1931 classic Green Grow the Lilacs, wherein two of the townsfolk identify themselves as being one quarter Native.
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Woody Guthrie’s first Daily Worker column
July 12, 2012Woody Sez "The national debit is one thing I caint figger out"
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Woody Guthrie ‘in his prime’
October 13, 2009After discovering master recordings of the legendary Woody Guthrie in a Brooklyn basement, Rounder Records released a four-disc boxed set, "My Dusty Road."
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