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Woody Guthrie At 100! Live At The Kennedy Center All-star Historic Concert To Be Released As Deluxe CD+DVD Package

May 29, 2013

FEATURING JACKSON BROWNE, ROSANNE CASH, JUDY COLLINS, JEFF DANIELS, ANI DiFRANCO, DONOVAN, RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOTT, JOHN MELLENCAMP, AND MORE

PRESENTING WOODY’s BEST KNOWN SONGS LIVE: “HARD TRAVELIN’,” “RIDING IN MY CAR,” “I AIN’T GOT NO HOME,” “PRETTY BOY FLOYD,” “PASTURES OF PLENTY,” “DEPORTEE,” “SO LONG, IT’S BEEN GOOD TO KNOW YUH,” “DO RE MI,” “THIS TRAIN IS BOUND FOR GLORY,” “THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND,” AND MANY OTHERS

Centennial birthday celebration events held last year across the U.S. and Canada, Europe and the UK, coordinated and presented by the GRAMMY Museum, in association with Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. and Woody Guthrie Foundation & Archives

CD/DVD available everywhere June 11, 2013, through Legacy Recordings – coincides with televised premiere of one-hour version on PBS stations in June

NEW YORK, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100! LIVE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER pays homage to the artistry of American folk musician Woody Guthrie. This new CD+DVD commemorative package captures the historic all-star concert staged in his honor last October inWashington, DC. Featuring performances from Jackson Browne, Rosanne Cash, Judy Collins, Jeff Daniels (reading a letter, not singing), Ani DiFranco, Donovan, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, John Mellencamp, Tom Morello, Old Crow Medicine Show, Lucinda Williams, and many others, the set will be available June 11, 2013 through Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment.

The release coincides with the televised premiere of WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100! LIVE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER in June on PBS. (Check your local listings.) The CD+DVD package features eight performances not seen in the one-hour PBS broadcast, including two spoken word performances from actor Jeff Daniels and six musical performances from Old Crow Medicine Show,Jimmy LaFave, Rosanne Cash, Lucinda Williams, Judy Collins, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. Tracklists for the CD and DVD differ so see full details below.

In October 2012 (the same month as the concert), Woody Guthrie: Ain’t Got No Home, written, produced and directed by Peter Frumkin as part of the award-winning American Masters biography series, premiered on PBS.

The commemorative CD+DVD release will include a 12-page booklet containing rare photographs and a personal note from Woody’s daughter, Nora Guthrie, who administers the non-profit Woody Guthrie Foundation & Archives, and Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. Cover art for the CD+DVD package is based on artist Shepard Fairey’s screen print designed for the 2012 Woody Guthrie Centennial.

WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100! LIVE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER presents the ultimate live collection of the most famous songs written and (mostly) recorded by Woody Guthrie (b. July 14, 1912 – d.Oct. 3, 1967). They are performed by artists who have all proclaimed Woody’s influence on their craft down the years. The set starts with a familiar pair from Nashville’s Old Crow Medicine Show (“Howdi Do,” “Union Maid”), followed by touchstones from Judy Collins (“Pastures Of Plenty”),Jimmy LaFave (“Hard Travelin'”), Donovan (the children’s favorite, “Riding In My Car”), Ani DiFranco (“Deportee” aka “Plane Wreck At Los Gatos”), Sweet Honey In The Rock (“I’ve Got To Know”), and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott (“1913 Massacre”).

Rosanne Cash delivers a pair of Woody’s finest (“I Ain’t Got No Home” and “Pretty Boy Floyd”); likewise John Mellencamp, an avowed Woody Guthrie disciple, offers up one of his favorites (“Do Re Mi”). Bluegrass giants the Del McCoury Band team with singer-songwriter Tim O’Brien on “So Long, It’s Been Good To Know Yuh” and special guest Tony Trischka (on banjo) joins the group for Woody’s only instrumental song, “Woody’s Rag.” The entire cast takes the stage to close the concert with “This Train Is Bound For Glory” and, of course, Woody’s timeless “This Land Is Your Land.”

Over the past two decades, at the invitation of Nora Guthrie, contemporary musicians have composed music to Woody’s previously unpublished lyrics. Several of these artists presented their new songs at the concert, including Joel Rafael (“Ramblin’ Reckless Hobo”) and Lucinda Williams(“House Of Earth”). In collaboration with Nora Guthrie, bassist/producer Rob Wassermanassembled a full album of these new songs in 2011, Note of Hope. Two artists reprise their contributions from that album, namely Jackson Browne (“You Know The Night”) and Tom Morello(“Ease My Revolutionary Mind”).

The final contributor to WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100! LIVE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER is Woody himself. The DVD bonus features include rare footage of Woody singing “John Henry,” “Ranger’s Command” and “Greenback Dollar,” as well as spoken pieces by Woody (and others) that are illustrated by archival photographs and documentary footage. These portraits of Woody are reminders of how the songs of Okemah, Oklahoma’s favorite son took off around the world like a fast train on a well-oiled track.

WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100! LIVE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER is the chronicle of a major, post-modern hootenanny. It took place in Washington, DC, on October 14, 2012, and was the culmination of the yearlong celebration, following events in Woody’s native Oklahoma, Texas,California, Pennsylvania, and New York. Over 75 subsequent centennial events (dozens of concerts, tributes and dedications in folk, jazz and classical realms, conferences, seminars, exhibits, dance festivals, a stage musical) took place across the U.S. and Canada – “FromCalifornia to the New York Island” – and across the UK and Europe. Most of those events, as well as the Kennedy Center concert, were organized and presented by the GRAMMY Museum, in association with Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. and the Woody Guthrie Foundation & Archives.

Playing a major role in the centennial campaign is Robert Santelli, Executive Director of the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles, which curated the Woody Guthrie Centennial. Santelli is the award-winning author of This Land Is Your Land: Woody Guthrie and the Journey of an American Folk Song (Running Press, 2012), and co-editor of Hard Travelin’: The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie (Wesleyan, 1999). Santelli also co-produced and co-annotated Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial (Smithsonian Folkways). The coffee table-sized, 3-CD (and 150-page book) box set was released July 10, 2012, four days before Woody’s actual 100th birth date on July 14th. The box set went on to win this year’s Grammy Award for Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package.

In February 2013, HarperCollins published House Of Earth, a previously unpublished completed manuscript by Woody Guthrie that has been lost to readers since its creation in 1947. The book was edited and introduced by presidential historian Douglas Brinkley and Johnny Depp, and published on Depp’s imprint, Infinitum Nihil. House Of Earth finally provides a complement to Woody’s classic autobiography Bound For Glory (E.P. Dutton, 1943), a book that has exerted enormous influence on generations of musicians around the world, including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, Joe Strummer, and countless others.

WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100! LIVE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER is produced and directed by four-time Emmy Award-winner Jim Brown of Ginger Group Productions. Brown, an associate professor at NYU’s Tisch School Of the Arts, is one of America’s most accomplished music documentary filmmakers, with a concentration in American folk music, and has created some of the most enduring films in that genre. He received Emmys for The Weavers: Wasn’t That A Time! (1981),We Shall Overcome (1989), and Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007). Two of Brown’s films, A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly (1988) and Songs Of the Civil War(1991), were released with Columbia Records CD counterparts. Other titles include Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin’ (1984), Pete Seeger Family Concert (1991), Peter, Paul, and Mary: Carry It on – A Musical Legacy (2004), and two Harry Belafonte films, An Evening with Harry Belafonte & Friends (1997), and the biography, Sing Your Song (2011). Most of Jim Brown’s folk music films are very familiar to PBS viewers, as a result of being screened frequently for decades.

“Woody Guthrie never forgot about the people for whom the American Dream was far out of reach,” Santelli has written. “It was as if he had made a promise blessed in blood never to ignore the plight of the struggling American, no matter who he was, where he came from, or why he had hit hard times. Woody Guthrie sought to be the voice of the jobless, the homeless, and voiceless. And he was. Here’s hoping that Woody and his songs continue to be that voice for the next hundred years.”

WOODY GUTHRIE AT 100! LIVE AT THE KENNEDY CENTER CD+DVD
(Legacy Recordings 88883 72809 2 1)

CD:

Howdi Do – Old Crow Medicine Show
Union Maid – Old Crow Medicine Show
Ramblin’ Reckless Hobo – Joel Rafael
Hard Travelin’ – Jimmy LaFave
Riding In My Car – Donovan
I Ain’t Got No Home – Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal
Pretty Boy Floyd – Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal
I’ve Got To Know – Sweet Honey In The Rock
House Of Earth – Lucinda Williams
Pastures Of Plenty – Judy Collins
Ease My Revolutionary Mind – Tom Morello
Deportee – Ani DiFranco with Ry Cooder and Dan Gellert
You Know The Night – Jackson Browne and Rob Wasserman
So Long, It’s Been Good To Know Yuh – Del McCoury Band with Tim O’Brien
Woody’s Rag – Del McCoury Band with Tim O’Brien and Tony Trischka
Do Re Mi – John Mellencamp
1913 Massacre – Ramblin’ Jack Elliott
This Train Is Bound For Glory – All Performers
This Land Is Your Land – All Performers

DVD:

Howdi Do – Old Crow Medicine Show *
Union Maid – Old Crow Medicine Show
This Is Our Country Here – Jeff Daniels *
Ramblin’ Reckless Hobo – Joel Rafael
Hard Travelin’ – Jimmy LaFave *
Riding In My Car – Donovan
I Ain’t Got No Home – Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal *
Pretty Boy Floyd – Rosanne Cash with John Leventhal
I’ve Got To Know – Sweet Honey In The Rock
House Of Earth – Lucinda Williams
Pastures Of Plenty – Judy Collins *
Ease My Revolutionary Mind – Tom Morello
Deportee – Ani DiFranco with Ry Cooder and Dan Gellert
I Hate A Song (spoken word) – Jeff Daniels *
You Know The Night – Jackson Browne and Rob Wasserman
So Long, It’s Been Good To Know Yuh – Del McCoury Band with Tim O’Brien
Woody’s Rag – Del McCoury Band with Tim O’Brien and Tony Trischka *
Do Re Mi – John Mellencamp
1913 Massacre – Ramblin’ Jack Elliott *
Nora Guthrie (spoken word)
This Train Is Bound For Glory – All Performers
This Land Is Your Land – All Performers

* Bonus track which does not appear in televised PBS special

LegacyRecordings.com

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Pre-order Jackson Browne’s “I’ll Do Anything” Live in Concert Blu-Ray DVD.

May 6, 2013

Pre-order Jackson Browne’s, I’ll Do Anything – Live In Concert DVD and Blu-Ray on Inside Recordings. CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER.

Inside Recordings will release Jackson Browne – Ill Do Anything: Live In Concert DVD on June 18, 2013 with worldwide distribution through ADA.

The performances were captured during the November 2012 leg of his acoustic tour as part of AXS TVs live concert programming. The live concert will be released in High-Definition on DVD and Blu-Ray. The DVD can be pre-ordered now by visiting Amazon or clicking http://amzn.com/B00CIJ93EU for the DVD and http://amzn.com/B00CIJ93DQ for the Blu-Ray.

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Think Beyond Plastic Awards Ceremony

April 26, 2013

Innovation Trumps Pollution

When selecting the pre-finalists, the A-Spark investment team seeks applicants that present an offering that best addresses the plastic pollution crisis. Successful applicants will be determined solely on their investor deck’s presenting a clearly articulated outline of their business idea/model along with supporting technologies (if appropriate). Key success factors that A-Spark will be looking for include:

1) a novel solution to a problem that has yet to be addressed;

2) simplicity in implementation of the solution;

3) impact and scalability for a world market;

4) an outline of developmental objectives; and

5) ecological and financial sustainability.

The following pre-finalists have been invited to submit business plans and continue to compete.PulpWorks, Inc.
PUSH underground
Dirtball
VIRES Corp
Rockstock
DGrade
EcoLogic, LLC Mycodev Group
EggPlant
Bio-on
EcoPost
tru2earth

Think Beyond Plastic is an innovation competition for entrepreneurs working on solutions to the plastic pollution crisis. Eligible contestants compete for a first prize investment of $50,000 and $5,000 credit towards legal work for an existing business and a $10,000 investment and $3,000 credit for legal work for the most innovative business idea.

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Music Legends Joan Baez, Jackson Browne and Emmylou Harris Join Forces with the Downtown Streets Team to End Homelessness

April 16, 2013

The Downtown Streets Team (DST), a non-profit organization with an award-winning, innovative work-first model that is aimed at eliminating homelessness, is excited to announce a benefit concert hosted by Joan Baez with her special guests Jackson Browne and Emmylou Harris, at the San Jose Civic on Saturday, July 27, 2013. General tickets will go on sale in early May, but VIP tickets and sponsorship information is currently available via a link from DSTs website, www.streetsteam.org. All sponsors and VIP ticket holders will be invited to a reception hosted by DST for the artists on the stage following the concert.

Baez has been a longtime supporter of the Downtown Streets Team. “Joan has been incredibly supportive of our team for many years and has gotten to know many of our members as individuals, said Eileen Richardson, Executive Director, Downtown Streets Team. This is truly an exciting time for DST. Weve grown from a staff of one, four team members and a $50,000 budget to more than 17 employees, with almost 100 team members currently across multiple communities and a multi-million dollar budget in a few short years. And we continue to field calls from across the country from other communities wanting to implement our successful model. We believe this event is going to shake things up and help us continue to change the perception of homelessness within the county and across the nation.

All proceeds from this evening of acoustic music will go directly to support the Downtown Streets Team and its team members as they work to rebuild their lives and recover from homelessness. Team members attend weekly meetings and volunteer their time maintaining our neighborhoods in exchange for a basic stipend and access to agency-wide services, including job training skills, case management services and mentor opportunities. Based on a culture of dignity and respect, DST transforms the lives of individuals, ensuring they have the tools to thrive.

Joan Baez remains a musical force of nature whose influence is incalculable, from marching on the front lines of the civil rights movement and organizing resistance to the Vietnam War to inspiring Vaclav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic. Her earliest recordings fed a host of traditional ballads into the rock vernacular, before she unselfconsciously introduced Bob Dylan to the world in 1963, commencing a lifetime of shining a light on a list of songwriters too numerous to name. Amongst her many honors, she is the recipient of the National Recording Academys Lifetime Achievement Award.

Jackson Browne has written and performed some of the most literate and moving songs in popular music and has defined a genre of songwriting charged with honesty, emotion and personal politics. He was honored with induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, and the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame in 2007.

A 12-time Grammy winner and BillboardCentury Award recipient, Emmylou Harris contribution as a singer and songwriter spans 40 years. She has recorded more than 25 albums and has lent her talents to countless fellow artists recordings. In recognition of her remarkable career, Harris was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008.

To learn more about DST and get inside information about our concert, along with the the chance to win free tickets to what is sure to be a sold out event, please be sure to subscribe to our newsletter at www.streetsteam.org and our Facebook page, www.facebook.com/downtownstreetsteam.

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Artists for the Arts Foundation and For the Arts Present Jackson Browne and Gary Wright

March 20, 2013

DATE ADDED! Friday May 17, 2003

Singers/Songwriters JACKSON BROWNE and GARY WRIGHT join SMMUSD Student Musicians and international recording artists VENICE for the 10th anniversary benefit concert to support the Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundations For The Arts campaign. Hosting this event for her second time is CYNTHIA FOX of 95.5 KLOS. Proceeds from ticket sales & live auction will be used to fund arts programs in Santa Monica-Malibu public schools.

Where:

Barnum Hall Theater, Santa Monica High School Campus
601 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, California, 90405

When:

DATE ADDED! Friday May 17, 2003
Doors: 6:00pm Show: 7:00pm

Saturday, May 18 show SOLD OUT

TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT www.smmef.org

The Santa Monica-Malibu Education Foundation raises funds in support of Arts, Academics and Athletics. Through the Education Foundation, For The Arts raises awareness and an arts endowment to ensure that every student in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District receives a broad introduction to the arts as part of their complete education. www.smmef.org

Artists For The Arts Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping public school districts sustain and create Arts Programs. This is our seventh consecutive year helping to fund the For The Arts endowment. www.aftafoundation.org

For more information please contact: Amber Guerra (AFTAF) AGuerra@aftafoundation.org Ph: 310-428-8140 Linda Gross (For The Arts) – smmef@smmusd.org Ph: 310-396-4557

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