Words from Woody “Woody Guthrie was born in Oklahoma in 1912.  He wrote every word and every song you’ll hear tonight, or ... just about ... as close as makes no difference.  He died in New York City in 1967.  He was a folksinger.”
– from Woody Guthrie's American Song  <more>

On Stage & Screen: Bards, balladeers, and bounders It can be said that the great American folk singer has never quite found a home on Broadway. With the exception of Woody Guthrie’s American Song, few of the stories of these iconic figures have made it to the stage. Sure, there is The Balladeer in Stephen Sondheim’s musical Assassins, humorist Will Rogers in The Will Rogers Follies, and assorted other folksy narrators scattered throughout theater history. But it is the medium of film – both major studio pictures and documentaries – that have contributed the lion’s share of interpretations of the lives and legacies of folk musicians to the indelible image bank of our popular culture. <more>

Meet the cast of Woody Guthrie's American Song <more>

Woody Guthrie: This land was his land When Woodrow Wilson was elected president of the United States in 1912, it is unlikely that he would have been possessed of enough free time to note that later that year in the frontier town of Okemah, Oklahoma, a newborn child would be named for him who would grow up to become one of the most influential and prolific folk musicians of all time.   <more>

The Real Story of the Dust Bowl Migration Much of the music of Woody Guthrie is inspired by the rough-and-tumble times of the Dust Bowl Diaspora.  “I Ain’t Got No Home” and “Do Re Mi” are just a few of the songs that sing the plight of the migrant workers as they roamed the American heartland in the 1930s to escape the Great Depression and regional droughts in the Midwest. <more>