Woody Guthrie Centre Revisited
Read about our return to the Woody Guthrie Centre in Tulsa Ok Woody Guthrie Centre, Tulsa Oklahoma 2 October 2018 Images – Jim Jacob Words – Rob Dickens “I am an educator, not any entertainer” “If you play more than two chords, you’re showing off” – Woody Guthrie To Woody Guthrie, words were more important than music. This childlike, adventurous rebel had a big...
Woody Guthrie Centre
A look back to our visit to the Woody Guthrie Centre in 2016 The Woody Guthrie Center, Tulsa Oklahoma 2016 By Rob Dickens The Woody Guthrie Centre in Downtown Tulsa Oklahoma preserves Guthrie’s body of work and the continuation of his legacy. It opened in 2013, and is housed in a purpose-built facility of over 1,000 sq. meters in a former paper warehouse. The Centre also has live events in its 60-seat auditorium – a concert...
Woody Guthrie and Computers
Read about my day in Tulsa Oklahoma Woody and Laptops 31 August 2016 Tulsa Oklahoma A mixed bag of a day. That is to expected with the glorious uncertainty of travel . The high point was a visit to the Woody Guthrie Centre. I met the Executive Director of the facility Deana McCloud and she was good enough to show me some of the highlights of the Centre before leaving me to study the exhibits on my own. It was a fascinating...
Top 100 Most Essential Folk Songs
Best 100 folk songs Woody Guthrie Museum – Photo: LTTL Folk Alley went online in September 2003, offering live-streaming music twenty four hours a day. The hosted stream is produced by WKSU-FM in Kent, Ohio, which also built and maintains the web site. The Folk Alley playlist is created by senior host, Jim Blum, and Folk Alley Music Director Linda Fahey and features a distinctive blend of the best of...
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