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Arlo Guthrie regroups for long solo tour
Folksinger and songwriter Arlo Guthrie will "reunite" with himself and return to the road as a solo act for a year-long tour that looks to hit more than 60 cities in the US and Canada.
"Sometimes you just want to do things yourself," Guthrie said in a press release for the outing, which he's billing as "Solo Reunion Tour--Together at Last." The singer, son of legendary folksinger Woody Guthrie and best known for his '60s hit "Alice's Restaurant," will start off down his long and winding solo road July 6 with the first of three shows at his home base in Housatonic, MA.
The tour stretches through the next 11 months, with Guthrie paying repeated visits to Housatonic and "The Church," which is the real-life setting of the events detailed in "Alice's Restaurant," and which Guthrie bought in 2002. The site now houses the Guthrie Center, an interfaith religious center and performing space.
Guthrie's full schedule is included below.
Like his late father, Guthrie remains committed to political and social causes. In December 2005, Guthrie and his family took a train trip from Chicago to New Orleans, stopping along the way to perform benefit concerts for musicians who lost their homes and livelihood in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
"We saw the disaster unfold in New Orleans, on a level that probably hadn’t been seen since the Dust Bowl era … and I wanted to do something that would actually help," Guthrie told the Wall Street Journal at the time. The performer and his family raised more than $100,000 for musicians affected by the disaster, according to Guthrie's publicist.
Guthrie's most recent studio work is "Alice's Restaurant--The Massacree Revisited," a complete 1997 re-recording of his 1967 debut album.
