Celebrate 50 years of Alice’s Restaurant w/ Arlo Guthrie at Emerson
ChickenJam West Productions will bring prolific songwriter Arlo Guthrie to Bozeman as part of his extended “Alice’s Restaurant 50th Anniversary Tour – Back by Popular Demand” on Saturday, May 4th. The show will take place at the Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture beginning at 8pm. Tickets range $39–$49 in advance and $47–$57 at the door, depending on availability. This event is open to concert-goers of all ages.
Born in Coney Island, New York in 1947, Arlo is the eldest son of Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of the Committee to Combat Huntington’s Disease, and America’s most beloved singer/writer/philosopher/artist Woody Guthrie. Arlo has become an iconic figure in folk music with a distinguished and varied career spanning almost sixty years.
Growing up Guthrie, Arlo was surrounded by such renowned artists as Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, to name only a few. Not surprisingly, Arlo drew from these influences and he in turn became a delineative artist bridging generations of folk.
Arlo’s career exploded in 1967 with the release of Alice’s Restaurant, whose title song helped foster a new commitment among the ‘60s generation to social consciousness and activism. Arlo went on to star in the 1969 Hollywood film version of Alice’s Restaurant, directed by Arthur Penn. With songs like “Alice’s Restaurant,” “Coming into Los Angeles,” and the definitive rendition of Steve Goodman’s “City of New Orleans,” Guthrie was no one-hit-wonder.
The “Alice’s Restaurant 50th Anniversary – Back By Popular Demand Tour” began in the the fall of last year and will run through May of 2020. This outing celebrates the anniversary of the movie Alice’s Restaurant which was released in 1969, 50 years ago. It’s a multimedia extravaganza guaranteed to connect the past with the present with hopes for the future.
Advance tickets for the Arlo Guthrie and other upcoming shows are available at www.chickenjamwest.com. Tickets can also be found in-store at Cactus Records and www.cactusrecords.net. •
