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Thread #121312   Message #2648021
Posted By: evansakes
04-Jun-09 - 06:17 AM
Thread Name: Gig: Will Kaufman/Woody Guthrie
Subject: RE: Will Kaufman/Woodie Guthrie
Just looked up the date....Will is visiting us in Twickenham on June 21st

Here's the press release/flyer....

WOODY GUTHRIE: HARD TIMES AND HARD TRAVELLIN' is a live documentary that sets the songs of Woody Guthrie in the context of the American 1930s – the Dust Bowl, the Depression, the New Deal and the state of popular music itself. In the presentation, Will Kaufman brings such hard-hitting Guthrie songs as "Vigilante Man", "Pretty Boy Floyd" and "I Ain't Got No Home" into conversation with other relevant songs – from Joe Hill's "The Preacher and the Slave" to "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?". These renditions, buttressed by detailed historical commentary, exemplify the blending of music and radical politics that marks Guthrie's most powerful and evocative work.

WILL KAUFMAN is a singer, guitarist and Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Central Lancashire. In 2008 he was awarded the BMI-Woody Guthrie Research Fellowship. To book this presentation, contact Will on www.myspace.com/willkaufman