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Thursday, August 15, 2013

7 p.m.

Beacon, NY

Guthrie's Ghost

850 Wolcott Ave Beacon, NY

phone: (914) 907-4928

Price: $25.00

Purchase tickets online: Click here to purchase tickets

Website: www.beaconsloopclub.org

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Guthrie's Ghost is David and Jacob Bernz, Amy Fradon, Fred Gillen Jr., and Steve Kirkman.  They play songs which support the following quote:

"I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good.  I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose.  Bound to lose.  No good to nobody.  No good for nothing.  Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that.  Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling.  I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood.  I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.  And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.  I could hire out to the other side, the big money side, and get several dollars every week just to quit singing my own kind of songs and to sing the kind that knock you down still farther and the ones that poke fun at you even more and the ones that make you think you've not any sense at all.  But I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that.  The radio waves and your movies and your jukeboxes and your songbooks are already loaded down and running over with such no good songs as that anyhow."
   - Woody Guthrie.

This will be a magical evening of music with Guthrie's Ghost to benefit the Woody Guthrie Sloop Restoration Project.  The Beacon Sloop Club is hosting this concert and fundraiser Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 7 p.m. for its sloop, which is named after the singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie.  Please join David & Jacob Bernz, Amy Fradon, Fred Gillen Jr, Steve Kirkman for a great evening of music written or inspired by Woody Guthrie.

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