IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 25 -- Legendary American tribe singer
Arlo Guthrie is place to perform at the Orange County Great Park on Saturday
August 30th at 8:00 p.m. as part of the Great Park Night Flight Concert
Series. Attendance and parking are release to the public.
Arlo is best known for his epic musical soliloquy Alice's Restaurant.
Three generations of Guthrie's will perform at the Great Park, Arlo, his
son Abe, and grandson Krishna. They will highlight the performance with a
drink to Arlo's father, Woody Guthrie, by singing the long time favorite
"This Land Is Your Land".
In 2006 Arlo, Abe and Krishna staged the "Boy's Night Out" tour across
Europe, and at present this go comes to America for nine shows only. The Orange
County Great Park is the only when California performance.
Over the past 20 years, Arlo's son Abe has performed keyboard
concomitant and powerful supporting vocals along with his dad. It was
rare to see an Arlo show without Abe at his side. Arlo, who has just
completed a yearlong Solo Reunion Tour, aforementioned, "Abe is just a great
player. I can't wait to get back to playing together." Krishna Guthrie,
at only seventeen, is already an accomplished musician playing drums and
guitar. He got his beginning drum congeal at deuce; by trio he had already made his
first-class honours degree appearance with his father and grandad on level. Since and so, he
has occasionally joined the menage on point playing drums.
Arlo Guthrie was innate with a guitar in one hand and a harmonica in the
other in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York in 1947. He is the firstborn son of
America's most beloved singer/writer/philosopher, Woody Guthrie, and
Marjorie Mazia Guthrie. His mother was a professional social dancer with the
Martha Graham Company and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington's
Disease.
Arlo gave his first base public public presentation at historic period 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 extinct at Gerdes Folk City, The Gaslight and The Bitter End.
In Boston it was Club 47 and in Philadelphia he made places like The 2nd
Fret and The Main Point his household.
Arlo Guthrie's career exploded in 1967 with the release of his album,
Alice's Restaurant, whose title song premiered at the Newport Folk Festival
and helped foster a new commitment to social consciousness and activism
among the '60s generation. Arlo went on to star in the 1969 Hollywood cinema
version of Alice's Restaurant, directed by Arthur Penn.
Though Arlo's definitive interpretation of Steve Goodman's "City of New
Orleans" may get been his only "hit" song in the traditional sense, he has
ne'er the less achieved international stature. The 18 minute "Alice's
Restaurant," spell too long for radio airplay, has become an American
classic.
Over the last-place four decades Arlo has toured end-to-end North America,
Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia winning a broad and dedicated following.
In addition to being an accomplished musician -- playing the piano, six and
twelve-string guitar, harmonica and a xII other instruments -- Arlo is a
natural-born teller whose screaming tales and anecdotes ar woven
seamlessly into his performances.
The Orange County Great Park, which is almost twice the size of it of New
York City's Central Park, testament be a major metropolitan park and the focal
point of the overhaul of the 4,700-acre former Marine Corps Air
Station at El Toro. The Great Park will let in extensive natural areas and
open space in add-on to recreational and cultural uses.
For more information, please go to http://www.ocgp.org.
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