The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #135018   Message #3075987
Posted By: Suffet
16-Jan-11 - 07:16 PM
Thread Name: The first song you performed in public?
Subject: RE: The first song you performed in public?
It was Woody Guthrie's Hard Traveling at the Interlude Cafe in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York, on a hootenanny (open stage) night in November 1963, eight days before the Kennedy assassination.

There is a YouTube video of me performing the same song at the same venue in March 2009. New owners had changed the name to the Bliss Gourmet Cafe, added a few more items to the menu, and moved the stage area a few feet, but otherwise the place was pretty much the same.

--- Steve