The festival’s Women of WoodyFest series also continues Saturday at The Blue Door.
Woody Guthrie
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State officials turn the lights off on artist Jack Fowler’s projected Woody Guthrie-themed protest
On Feb. 27, Fowler projected an image of folk legend Woody Guthrie on a large tarp covering renovations to the north end of the Oklahoma state Capitol.
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WoodyFest faces an uncertain future as it prepares for its 20th anniversary
The festival launched a $60,000 GoFundMe campaign in January.
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Smithsonian Folkways debuts previously unrecorded Woody Guthrie songs on its new Roll Columbia collection
Guthrie was commissioned to write 26 songs in the 1940s for a documentary about Columbia River dams in the Pacific Northwest.
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The Blue Door’s annual tribute to Woody Guthrie confronts perceived fascism
Blue Door owner Greg Johnson has been organizing a Woody Guthrie tribute every year since 1991.
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“Today is a Dust Bowl of a different sort,” Chuck D said. “You have a political climate that’s akin to a Dust Bowl, and it’s swirling in the minds of confused Americans.”
“Today is a Dust Bowl of a different sort,” Chuck D said. “You have a political climate that’s akin to a Dust Bowl, and it’s swirling in the minds of confused Americans.”
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Folk rock legend Graham Nash headlines this year’s WoodyFest
Other performers at WoodyFest include Annie Oakley, Beau Jennings, The Turnpike Troubadours, John Calvin Abney, Red Dirt Rangers, Ellis Paul and John Fullbright.
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Star-studded tribute show celebrates the Bob Dylan Archive’s Tulsa arrival
On a Night Like This organizer Steve Ripley played with Bob Dylan on the Shot of Love tour in the early ’80s.
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Alice’s Restaurant holds cultural weight 50 years after famed incident
Arlo Guthrie will perform “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Thanksgiving arrest.
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Held in Guthrie’s hometown of Okemah, the event, also known as WoodyFest, hosts artists from across the nation and fans from around the world.
Held in Guthrie’s hometown of Okemah, the event, also known as WoodyFest, hosts artists from across the nation and fans from around the world.