Archives for January 2019

In my sopho­more high school year, my fam­ily moved from the house we had been rent­ing in the sub­urbs to a five-acre home­stead in the coun­try. Whereas pre­vi­ously we had lived within walk­ing dis­tance of pri­mary, mid­dle, and high schools, hence­forth my sib­lings and I would ride the bus.

At first glance, one could be for­given for dis­miss­ing twenty-five-year-old singer-song­writer Josh Okeefe as a mere pas­ticheur. An inter­net image search reveals his pen­chant for dress­ing like a cer­tain Robert Zimmerman (a.k.a. Bob Dylan),

Despite the band name, And Then There Were Two does not com­prise two mem­bers. The band num­bers three: singer Amy Carlin Lee, singer and gui­tarist Austin K. Haworth, and per­cus­sion­ist Chad Varnell.

Members of the Guthrie fam­ily per­formed a musi­cal show­case at Okemah’s St. Paul’s United Methodist Church on Saturday after­noon of the 2018 fes­ti­val. First up was Serena Guthrie, Woody Guthrie’s

Woodyfest held its innau­gural Woodyfest Youth Songwriting/​Showcase Competition in 2018. The show­case fea­tured per­form­ers age six­teen or younger. Master of Ceremonies and reg­u­lar Woodyfest performer

The Woody Guthrie Folk Festival has pro­vided a vari­ety of children’s pro­gram­ming over the years. Last year the fes­ti­val expanded from just orga­niz­ing kids’ con­certs to also host­ing youth work­shops. On fes­ti­val Friday, Woodyfest artists Joe Baxter and John Williams

Brad Lauretti has been wan­der­ing. Originally from Brooklyn, then based in Florida, now call­ing Nashville home, Lauretti rarely sleeps in his own bed. The front­man for This Frontier Needs Heroes tours con­stantly: in the last three years he’s played 226 shows, rang­ing from one end of the con­ti­nen­tal United States

Ellis Paul loves Woody. Of the Woody Guthrie tat­too on his right shoul­der, he says it’s the only thing he could put on his body that would be like a badge of who he was.