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April 1, 2023 - 8:00 PM

Boch Center - Shubert Theater

April 21, 2023 - 7:30 PM

The Egg - Empire State Plaza

April 28, 2023 - 8:00 PM

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May 27,  2023 - 7:00 PM

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When Arlo Guthrie returns to the stage in April, it will be just the man and his guitar.  “You have to be present,” Guthrie said of performing. “You have to be there, you can’t be dreaming."

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Arlo Guthrie's 2023 tour dates will present a stripped down version of Guthrie’s material, hearkening back to the days when the folk singer would dismiss his backing crew and go it alone.

Arlo Guthrie retired from touring in 2020. He has four tour dates in 2023, but don't expect him to sing with the band. He'll be doing what he loves, telling stories, strumming the guitar and chatting with the audience. 

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If you've missed seeing folk singer Arlo Guthrie perform, don't worry. The feeling is mutual. He's coming back in 2023, after a two-year retirement during the pandemic.

What to expect from Arlo Guthrie's return to the stage in 2023? A man and his guitar, greeting old friends

Matt Martinez

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After a two-year hiatus, Arlo Guthrie, Berkshire County’s premier folk singer, folklorist and folk hero, is returning to the stage in April.

His reasoning is simple: he misses his friends. If you’re reading this, you’re one of them.

“That’s the real reason you go is to see your friends,” Guthrie said, during a phone interview with The Eagle. He’s counting each and every head in the audience as an old acquaintance. “And they’re coming to see me because they consider me a friend.”

In the interest of maintaining that friendship, he felt he had to get back out there. As a man who has spent most of his life on the stage, he’s got an awful lot of friends to catch up with. He’s hoping to make some new ones, too.

Guthrie will perform at the Boch Center-Shubert Theatre in Boston on April 1; The Egg in Albany, N.Y., on April 21; Monmouth University’s Pollak Theater in West Long Branch, N.J., on April 28; and a the Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center in Stowe, Vt., on May 27. More information on tour dates can be found on arloguthrie.com .

Guthrie stepped away from the stage in 2020 largely because of the coronavirus pandemic, he said. He had recently suffered two strokes, and was in the process of recovering from them when the virus wreaked havoc on the live music scene. In his “Gone Fishing” retirement post on Facebook, he noted that he was mostly recovered from the strokes when all of his live engagements were canceled.

The demands of touring helped make the decision clearer.

“The older you get, the less you wanna sit in a 45-foot tin can,” Guthrie said during the phone interview.

In the retirement post, Guthrie said that he felt he wasn’t performing up to his own standards in recordings he made in early 2020. He noted that while he might have had a longer run than a dancer or an athlete, he still felt it was time to hang up the “Gone Fishing” sign for a while.

Now it’s time to get back out there.

“There’s a shelf life to everything,” Guthrie said. “My shelf life as a guitar player and singer may have ended. But my life as an entertainer hasn’t ended at all.”

The 2023 tour dates will present a stripped down version of Guthrie’s material, hearkening back to the days when the folk singer would dismiss his backing crew and go it alone.

“It’s reverting to how it used to be,” Guthrie said. “No band, no crew, no lights. It’s just a guy.”

Guthrie paints a reverent, almost mythic portrait of the lone musician — the guy and his guitar. That trial by audience provides an acid test for the ballad singer and hard rocker alike. It also draws natural comparisons to some of his mentors: Pete Seeger, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and his own father, Woody Guthrie, to name a few.

“That’s where the rubber meets the road,” Guthrie said. “If you can’t stand there by yourself and keep the crowd in the palm of your hand, you shouldn’t be on stage.”

Even as Guthrie proved himself as a great performer, he never saw himself becoming famous, he said. His zest for performance doesn’t come from sell-out crowds and wild times.

Conversely, he recalls, in vivid detail, a bowl of clam chowder he had when playing the Palace Theatre in Albany — the best he’s ever had, in fact. Therein lies his love for the craft: a lifestyle that lets him see new places, discover new things and perform unabashedly.

“I didn’t have the rock gene,” Guthrie said. “Nobody writes an 18-minute monologue to be popular on the radio.”

Funnily enough, that monologue, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” would go on to become one of Guthrie’s most popular songs . The antiwar anthem chronicles a teenaged Guthrie’s misadventures in trash disposal, as he and his friend, Rick Robbins, attempted to haul some garbage for the owner of the titular restaurant, Alice Brock.

The story behind Arlo Guthrie's 'Alice's Restaurant Massacree' and how it became a Thanksgiving tradition

• By Jess Gamari, The Berkshire Eagle
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Guthrie and Robbins disposed of the load of trash down a hillside in Stockbridge upon realizing that the dumps in Great Barrington were closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. The teens’ subsequent arrest and trial became the basis for the song — and the reason that Guthrie missed out on selective service for the Vietnam War.

It’s now played regularly on radio stations around the country on Thanksgiving Day. Up until the pandemic, Guthrie regularly performed it every year at Carnegie Hall.

The song was something of a turning point for him. Guthrie recalls when he first started out in Chicago in 1966 as an 18-year-old folk singer, he started telling “spontaneous tales” onstage; somebody told him to “shut up and sing.” After “Alice’s Restaurant,” he was performing and somebody told him to “shut up and talk.”

Storytelling is an intrinsic part of being a folk singer, he said. The personality that accompanies it is also key. His fans know him well — after all, he’s spent a good chunk of his career conversing with them.

There’s a certain level of honesty to it that far outweighs flashy maneuvers, he says.

“They already like you or they wouldn’t be coming,” Guthrie said. “They don’t really care about the tricks.”

Regardless of what he’s performing, he has one “simple” trick for the trade. Philosophically speaking, it may not be simple at all. But it’s imperative for any performer.

“You have to be present,” Guthrie said. “You have to be there, you can’t be dreaming. It doesn’t matter if you’re playing in a bar or on a street corner — if you’re not present, people will keep on walking.”

One time, during a concert, he stopped mid-song during a rendition of “The City of New Orleans” because he was thinking about dinner, he said. People came to hear that song, but he wasn’t going to play it for them until he could play it right.

He’s not just looking forward to playing the upcoming shows — he’s looking forward to being there.

Their trash adventure made music history. Arlo, Rick and Alice plan their first Thanksgiving together in 57 years

• By Larry Parnass, The Berkshire Eagle

While Guthrie is expecting to see familiar faces at his reunion with his friends, he also hopes to see some new ones. Sources of inspiration abound on the internet, he said, where opportunities have never been greater for anyone to find out more about who they are and where they come from through the collected works of … well, everyone.

Guthrie marveled at the accessibility of music to the current generation, musing that when he was growing up there was only about 30 or 40 years of recorded music to learn from.

“Now there’s 140, if you know what I mean,” Guthrie said.

As kids get instruments for the holidays this year and go to play them for the first time, they’ll go for the easiest things they can to start. Knowing how much of folk music is simply “three chords and the truth,” he expects some of them will be led to the same influences he was. They might even be listening to the man himself.

“They will learn to play by listening to people who might not be around anymore,” Guthrie said. “There’s access to these links that we’ve never had before.”

Guthrie still remembers the lessons he learned from his mentors. He’s thinking of them now as he prepares for his foray back into performing. Elliott still captivates audiences at 91. Seeger, who accompanied Guthrie on a series of live albums in concert, could arrest a stage until age 94.

In that time-honored folk tradition, he’s picking up right where they left off.

“None of them had a desire to be anyone but who they were,” Guthrie said. “They continued as links to a chain of ballad singers stretching way back. I hope to continue that for as long as I’m able.”

Matt Martinez can be reached at [email protected] .

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Arlo Davy Guthrie is an American folk-rock and talking blues singer, instrumentalist, songwriter and even actor from Coney Island, New York.

Born on 10 July 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, Arlo Guthrie came from a musical family, with his composer father, Woody Guthrie, and record producer sister, Nora Guthrie. In 1967 Arlo released his first album entitled “Alice’s Restaurant” which contained an A-side eighteen-minute talking blues song entitled “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” and a six song B-side. Despite the popularity of the single “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” a lampoon about the Vietnam War draft and has been known to become extended to a forty-minute live performance, is rarely included in his set list when he forms live. In 1969 a film with the name “Alice Restaurant” was based on the true story told in the song, but with the addition of a large number of fictional scenes and featured Arlo playing himself.

Continually releasing successful singles, Guthrie made an appearance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival. During the 70s Guthrie toured extensively and released nine albums including a two-record set that he recorded with Pete Seeger, an artist he regularly performed live with. During the 80s Guthrie released another collaboration record with Pete Seeger on top of two other albums. Additionally he made a pilot for a TV variety show called "The Arlo Guthrie Show" in February 1987 which included story telling and musical performances filmed in Austin, Texas that was broadcast in the United States on PBS. On top of recording and performing, Guthrie also maintained a strong stance regarding the politics of America. He was known to express his positions during his live performances, which were consistently anti-war, anti-Nixon, pro-drugs and in favor of making nuclear power illegal especially in the early years of his career.

Throughout the 90s Guthrie continued to tour and make political, film and television appearances. He also released more albums including “This Land Is Your Land: An All American Children's Folk Classic “ in 1997. In 2005 he released a live album that was recorded in Sydney, Australia and 2009 saw the release of “Tales of ’69.”

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The galloping acoustic chords of "Coming Into Los Angeles rolled in, creating a rebellious sounding backdrop for Arlo Buthrie's raspy, rock and roll sounding vocals to start preaching radical lyrical poetry. Drugs are an important part of this band's image, and practically everyone int he audience was smoking or tripping on something.

They were all friendly and mostly dancing or off in a world of their own. It was awesome to be a part of the festival. The clusters of people in the audience were really zen and surprisingly not that chaotic. Everyone just felt close, and felt like they wanted to be around each other.

They shared cigarettes and beers, and listened to the music together. It was really a nice thing to see, when the rest of the world usually feels so isolating. Arlo Guthrie's revolutionary lyrics were a perfect soundtrack for the environment. It felt like we were all a part of something new and bigger than ourselves.

The sound of the wailing guitar solos and fast acoustic guitars seemed to symbolize the clash of the major cultures of the time. The rising alternative lifestyle and the classical, standard lifestyle were now butting heads, and Arlo's music was a perfect reflection of how we all felt.

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I have seen Arlo many times since the early 70s. He never disappoints. His humor, humanity, and humility infuse his shows with a feeling of family and friends gathered together to celebrate life, endure troubles, and work for the good times to come. This concert was a good shot of love & kindness. We left smiling.

I've see Arlo solo, with his Family, with Pete Seeger, and as part of a trio, but this tour was the most Rock & Roll sounding of all the times I've seen him. His band was son Gabe, drummer Terry, and a couple that had played with his back in the 80s. He played lots of songs that I had never heard live before. He even spoke about the difficulty of having a large repertoire of songs that span his career.

This show included familiar favorites, surprise covers, and forgotten gems. If you've been a long time fan, or are just discovering Arlo's music, the Running Down the Road Tour is chance to see a pro at the top of his game.

I love Arlo and Sara Lee....and last year's concert at McCarter in Princeton was among the best I've ever seen. Last night's Asbury Park concert at the Paramount, while good, was disappointing that it didn't measure up to last year's concert. Arlo played Darkest Hour, Peace and perennial favorite This is Your Land....but in general the selection of music was not good. So many great songs were not performed. I also missed Sara Lee's rendition of "Can't Stop Falling in Love With You". And while much of Arlo's appeal is his connection with the audience, the accoustics may have been inferior, but it was hard to hear and he generally wasn't as congenial and entertaining as I'd hoped. I'd rate the concert a B-/C+..... as opposed to last year's concert when I gave it a solid A.

Arlo Guthrie's concerts are always the best and most memorable shows that I see. This event at Cain Park was no exception. He played beautifully, told fascinating stories and entertained us with his magical talent. During any trying times, Arlo knows how to enlighten and keep things piositive and happy. Everyone was so engaged that they ignored the harsh weather conditions all around them. I was sad when the show was over. My summer is complete now that I experienced this beautiful outdoor concert. Until the next time, Arlo!

Show was with a small band, consisting mostly of his family members. No where near as good as the last time I saw him a year ago. Plus the venue wreaked, at least where I sat. Tiny seat against a wall, plus some loud and OBNOXIOUS folks behind me that wouldn't shut up! The concert sound was so faint that these patrons absolutely ruined the experience for me.

We could listen all night to Arlo Guthrie's songs and stories... and Sara Lee Guthrie's additional songs AND stories were fab! Loved the background clips and stills. Arlo's son's keyboard skill were perfect fit. Everyone was in perfect voice. Looking forward to the next Arlo Guthrie concert!

Amazing! It's great to see real artist writing real music! 10/10 concert. He was very friendly and very welcoming. He told many stories to go along with his songs and every story was just unbelievable. From Woodstock to his dad, the memories never got old and that's really something to love

Amazing concert!! He is a awesome performer and so his daughter Sarah who opened for him!! The entire group did a fabulous job and I would highly recommend attending one of his concerts. It was great hearing a live performance of Alice's Restaurant!!!

Never miss a chance to hear Arlo in concert. I have seen him 4 or 5 times and it was always sublime. His songs are wonderful and his banter makes him feel like I'm sitting in the kitchen with an old friend.

Arlo was FANTASTIC! Emphasis on the FAN.

He truly interacts with the audience, telling stories, jokes, bits of trivia. Music was GOOD, vocals were excellent, video was cute. An overall, GREAT concert !

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Arlo Guthrie is one of America's most enduring folk rock artists. He sang at Woodstock in 1969. And he's had a faithful following since then.

The now-75-year-old with long silver curls has experienced health issues and announced in 2020 that he was retiring from touring. But Guthrie is coming back to the stage for a handful of shows starting Saturday at the Shubert Theatre in Boston. The shows will feature Guthrie in conversation about his life, as opposed to performing music with a band.

Guthrie says much of his life story is influenced by his late father, the legendary singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, whose spirit he still embodies. Guthrie spoke with WBUR's All Things Considered  host Lisa Mullins.

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On how he came to learn the famous protest song written by his father, Woody Guthrie:

"We had changed schools. And I remember walking in there, and our music teacher led the entire assembly in 'This Land is Your Land.' And I was the only one that didn't know the words. I mean, I knew that my father had written the song, but I had never bothered to learn it. I didn't think that anybody else had learned it.

"And so I ran home and told my dad what had happened. And so he sat me down in the back yard with a little guitar that he'd given me, taught me the chords, taught me the words. And I've been singing it for the rest of my life.

" 'This Land is Your Land' has become more important as time goes by. When my father wrote it in [1940] ... it wasn't critically important. It was only afterwards, during the 50s and 60s and 70s, that his songs became known. And there were people coming to see me who were hoping that in some way I would carry on his work, because he wasn't able to do it himself.

"I never felt uncomfortable sharing my father with other people. I wouldn't have done it exclusively. I wouldn't have been a clone of Woody Guthrie. I saw a lot of people come to our house [who] dressed like my dad, talked like my dad, sang like my dad, wrote songs like my dad. But they weren't my dad. And try as they might, they couldn't replicate his importance.

"And I thought his songs are important to a lot of people, and I owe it to them to continue singing them and to continue writing about the same things in a world that I was familiar with.

"One of the things my father noted was that it's better to fail at being yourself than to succeed at being somebody else. And I never wanted to be him. ... But I did want to be myself in a way that he would have approved, frankly. I mean, I'm a kid, I'm a son. And I wanted to bring it to a broader audience, so that we could all laugh together and sing together and enjoy life together."

On whether the success of his 18-minute-long song "Alice's Restaurant" was a blessing or a curse:

"Well, nobody in their right mind creates an 18-minute monologue to be played on radio. And that was certainly not my intent. My intent was to stand up on stage and waste 18 minutes of my time so that I had less songs to learn. It was really simple, and I found a way to do that. So I was entertaining at the same time that I was wondering, 'How the hell are you going to remain on stage for another hour? What else you got?' Well, luckily for me, I had my father, and I would sing some of his songs. And luckily for me, I started writing some of my own songs."

On why he decided to do a tour in which he's mostly in conversation with someone, as opposed to singing:

"Well, there was a time when I was able to do 30 nights in a row. Each night was two hours long or something like that — two-and-a-half hours. I mean, it was fun. It was great. Look, when you're 18 and you're a guy, and you don't need a reservation at a restaurant because everybody knows your face, I would recommend it to anyone.

"But to live your life like that, something's got to be wrong with you. [It's] fine for a couple, a few years, 10 years maybe — even 20. But to live 50 or 60 years or 70 years like that, where you can't go anywhere without somebody stopping you for whatever it is they want, it gets a little nuts. And over time, my voice couldn't physically handle it — the travel, the big band, the lights, the sound, the whole thing was getting to be too much."

On what song best imparts his life philosophy to his four grown children, all of whom are involved in music to some extent:

"It was a song that came to me through my sister Nora that was my father's lyrics — a song called 'My Peace.' I added music to it and frankly turned it into a song. I had to change a few words around because it was a poem. It's, 'My peace my peace is all I've got that I can give to you.' I love that idea.

"I mean, you can tell your kids — you can explain to your kids about why the sky is blue and all that kind of stuff that they want to know when they're little. But the truth is, it's how you feel about yourself, how you feel about the world, your place in it. Not to get so frantic when times get crazy. And not to get too excited when things go well. There's a balance. And if my kids have learned that through songs like 'My Peace,' more power to them."

This segment aired on March 30, 2023.

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Arlo Guthrie to Come Out of Retirement for Storytelling ‘What’s Left of Me’ Tour

The four-date run, produced by Guthrie and wife Marti Ladd, was designed to facilitate the folk singer's recovery from a 2019 stroke.

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Touring can be a tough way to make a living these days, but for Arlo Guthrie , playing live comes with certain medical benefits that aren’t available in retirement.  

“There’s nothing like playing before a live audience,” says the prolific songwriter, activist and storyteller who suffered a series of strokes in 2019 and decided to retire in 2020 as the pandemic shuttered the live music industry. Now, after three years resting at his home in Berkshire County, Mass. with wife Marti Ladd , the couple decided that “I could recuperate better in front of a live audience, rather than just sit at home, and both agreed I should get back out there as part of my rehabilitation.”

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“I didn’t really retire from the gigs. I retired from getting to them. I’m retired from seven-hour rides in a tour bus,” Guthrie tells Billboard . The first show in the series will take place at Boston’s Schubert Theater on April 1, followed by The Egg in Albany, NY on April 21; The Pollock Theater at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey on April 28; and The Spruce Peak PAC in Stowe, Vermont on May 27. 

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“What’s Left Of Me” was booked by Guthrie and Ladd’s new production company Gut3 Productions. Ladd is the director of set design for the series and has created an intimate setting with a backdrop of Arlo’s heroes and mentors hanging within a living room environment. The couple met 20 years ago in Woodstock and married in December 2021 .  For “What’s Left of Me,” Guthrie will talk about his life as a touring artist, his memories of his famous father Woody Guthrie and his wildly entertaining tales from the road. Guthrie has performed at Carnegie Hall, the 1967 Newport Folk Festival and the original Woodstock festival in 1969 and has released 32 acclaimed albums over his six-decade career. “What’s Left of Me” also includes rarely seen video footage along with an audience Q&A and snippets of his past performances. 

Guthrie says the stroke has affected his ability to perform music and says the series is not a music show with some conversation sprinkled in between songs.

“It’s a conversation between two people with maybe some music included,” he notes. “I would rather have it that way. There may be some young people who have no idea who I am, but who got dragged to these events by overenthusiastic friends or parents, or even grandparents and you’ve got to reeducate people and tell them where you’ve been and who you’ve been and make it as much fun as possible.

That includes telling the story of “Alice’s Restaurant Massacre,” a 18-minute monologue that’s both a celebration of Thanksgiving and a not-so-subtle protest piece against the Vietnam War. The talking, satirical format was unusual when it was released in 1967 and still occasionally befuddles folk music fans. 

“In 1967, I was beginning to tell my stories on stage and somebody yelled out, ‘shut up and sing,” he jokes “After ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ came out, I was back in Chicago and I was singing songs and somebody yelled ‘shut up and talk.'” 

While Guthrie is still affable and gregarious six decades into his career, he’s also become an outspoken advocate and proponent for folk music and the genre’s legacy. His father Woody is one of the most significant and recognized American folk artists of the last century and Arlo has received multiple awards and accolades for his work in folk music, which he insists is more of a musical movement than a genre.  

“The great folk musicians all learned how to play music the same way — on acoustic instruments in their houses. That’s the kind of music that I was brought up with. That’s the kind of music my father played. That’s the kind of music I taught my kids to play. It’s music you can take to any country in the world and sing or play with anyone – even those you may not be able to talkto. You may not even be able to say hello, but you can sit down and play something together. That to me, is really always been at the heart of what folk music is,” Guthrie explains.  

“That to me is what folk music is,” he continues. “It’s how you learn music. It’s not the sound of it. It’s not the look of it. You don’t need a fancy hat for it. You don’t need lights or amplification. You don’t need anything besides experience and the will to learn how to play.”

For more on “What’s Left Of Me” and to purchase tickets, visit: www.gut3.me  

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Arlo Guthrie “What’s Left Of Me”

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What's Left of Me is made possible thanks to the support of our sponsors: Spruce Peak and Stowe Mountain Rentals

Join Arlo Guthrie as he returns to the Spruce Peak Arts stage, Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 7PM as part of the “ What’s Left of Me? ” tour. Guthrie, joined by Bob Santelli, will talk about his life as a touring artist, his memories of his famous father Woody Guthrie and his wildly entertaining tales from the road. “What’s Left of Me” also includes rarely seen video footage along with an audience Q&A and snippets of his past performances. 

About Arlo Guthrie:  

Arlo Guthrie was born on July 10, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York; the son of legendary folk artist  Woody Guthrie  and Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a professional dancer with the  Martha Graham  Company and founder of the Committee to Combat Huntington’s Disease. Arlo grew up surrounded by renowned folk musicians:  Pete Seeger ,  Leadbelly , Cisco Houston, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott,  Sonny Terry  &  Brownie McGhee , and the Weavers.

Since his first public performance at the age of 13, Arlo became absorbed in the music that was shaping the world. By the age of 20, Arlo was touring overseas. He was attracting and surprising audiences all over the world with his unique folk style. Arlo is a natural-born storyteller as well as an accomplished musician playing the piano, 6-string and 12-string guitars, and harmonica. He offers a great selection of old and new, original and traditional songs that are as varied as his audiences. 

Arlo’s career soared with his debut of “The Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” at the Newport Folk Festival in 1967. Later that year, Arlo was nominated for a GRAMMY Award in the “Best Folk Performance” category for the studio version of the song on his debut album,  Alice’s Restaurant . The album went Gold (1969) and then Platinum (1986), and was adapted into a film by director Arthur Penn and released a few days after Arlo performed at the original Woodstock Festival in 1969. Arlo went on to release 32 acclaimed albums and has appeared in notable TV shows and movies throughout the following decades. 

Although he had not performed “Alice’s Restaurant” for years, Arlo put it back on the menu for the Alice’s Restaurant Massacree 40th Anniversary Tour (June 2005 – May 2006). Arlo toured with members of his family for the Guthrie Family Legacy Tour (June 2006-May 2007) bringing together the best of the Guthrie songs and stories from Woody, through the four generations of his children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren (depending on mood and availability). 

In January 2015, Arlo put “Alice’s Restaurant” back on tour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the actual events that led to the song. The tour made 132 theatrical stops across the USA. The live show was filmed for PBS in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on May 21, 2015 at The Colonial Theater. PBS aired the concert the following November 2016. Due to the overwhelming success of the road tour, the show was updated and took out again this time billed as the “Alice’s Restaurant – Back By Popular Demand” tour, which played 90 venues in the USA and overseas from October 2018 to November 2019.

Guthrie’s 2020 road shows began as usual, but after only 10 shows the tour was cancelled in March due to the coronavirus pandemic and the closing of venues nation-wide. Guthrie sold his home in Sebastian, FL in May 2020 and moved in with his long-time girlfriend, Marti Ladd who had her own home nearby. In June 2020, they returned to Guthrie’s farm in Massachusetts to wait out the pandemic. Arlo recorded a number of shows with his band at The Church (The Guthrie Center) and also released a music video premiered via  Rolling Stone Magazine  of Stephen Foster’s “Hard Times Come Again No More,” a co-production with famed pianist, Jim Wilson. 

In October 2020, Guthrie announced his retirement from the road. Arlo and Marti were married in December 2021, and by July 2022, they formed a new business Gut3 Productions. Guthrie had enough of being retired, and the couple created a series based on a new format “In Conversation with Arlo Guthrie” for his much-anticipated return to the stage. The new show is officially titled Arlo Guthrie – What’s Left Of Me – A Conversation With Bob Santelli . Unscripted, unrehearsed and under no illusions but his own, Arlo Guthrie returns to venerable venues as a man who has seen it all, and lived to tell the story. 

About Bob Santelli

Robert Santelli is the Executive Director of the GRAMMY Museum and former CEO/Artistic Director of the Experience Music Project. He is the author of nearly a dozen books and a contributor to magazines such as Rolling Stone . In 2012, Santelli co-produced Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection , which earned him a GRAMMY® nomination for “Best Historical Album.” In 2020, Santelli won a GRAMMY Award in the “Best Historical Album” category for his production work on Pete Seeger: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection .

In 2021 – and weighing in at more than four pounds, Woody Guthrie: Songs and Art, Words and Wisdom by Nora Guthrie and Robert Santelli traces Woody’s life and work, including handfuls of original lyrics never before published. The book has received the 2022 ASCAP Foundation Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for outstanding print.

For more information regarding Bob Santelli, please visit: stormliteraryagency.com/robertsantelli

“What’s Left of Me” is made possible in part to the generous support of event sponsor (Spruce Peak Resort Association) and lodging sponsor (Stowe Mountain Rentals): 

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Arlo Guthrie: Native Son

New exhibit coming soon.

• Date Mar 31 , 2023
• Event Starts 12:00 PM
• Venue Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame
• Ticket Prices Children $15 - Adults $23
• Availability On Sale TBA

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Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame (FARHOF) will look at Arlo Guthrie's life, from his childhood to his decade long career on the stage. Curated by the Museum Collective, “Arlo Guthrie: Native Son” will feature never-before-displayed personal items including Arlo’s first guitar, original handwritten lyrics, and early family photographs.

The exhibit will open to the public for tours on March 31, just one day before Arlo kicks off the What’s Left Of Me tour at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre on Saturday, April 1, 2023.

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