Every year for 37 years La Crosse has been home for the
Great River Folk Festival. Starting with a Friday night concert, Saturday and Sunday were filled with two full days of great music, old-time dance, regional artisan crafts, children’s activities, ethnic foods, plus two more evening concerts. There was even a song writing concert. Who knows maybe Simon will enter next year?
It is always great seeing people you know too at local events in 'town.' Look who they entrusted to collect t-shirt/cd monies. Yep that's Sue and Dick. Right, that's Sue with her hand in the kitty...
And look who didn't mind posing with one of her 2 college buddies in the trio for the Friday concert! Annie does remember those college boys while they were in Ashland. They even mentioned her during the concert.
This particular Friday evening's opening concert was a special tribute to the songwriter Woody Guthrie celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth featuring three Minnesota legends, Tony Glover, Charlie Maguire and Pops Wagner who came together in this rare collaboration.
We enjoyed hearing the trio’s storytelling and Guthrie’s original music as they tied it to their own experiences as young musicians when they hung around the musical greats of those depression years/ researched them. Family, friends and archivists at the Woody Guthrie Foundation in NY, provided more of an insight as Guthrie wrote songs for the government artists’s program.
Dry banter added humor to the musical tribute to this legend who wrote some of the best folk music we still play today. Thousands of his lyrics still haven’t been published. How could one man be so prolific and those lyrics be just as relevant now as back then. Folk legends like Guthrie aren’t born every day…
This land is your land, this land is my land… I guess that makes you part owner of
End of the Rainbow Valley. Hey, what day do you want to come over to help weed?
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