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SUMMARY:Celebrate America's 250th: This Land is Your Land - The Folks
 ongs of Woody Guthrie Outdoor Concert
UID:52395
DTSTAMP:20260405T212000Z
DTSTART:20260719T190000Z
DTEND:20260719T200000Z
LOCATION:320 E. North St.\nElburn IL 60119
ROOM: Outdoor Family Den
DESCRIPTION:Please note, this program will be held outdoors, weather permi
 tting. Please bring blankets and lawn chairs.This Land Is Your Land is a p
 rogram that combines music performance (guitar and vocal) and spoken comme
 ntary. The program features songs by legendary folksinger and songwriter W
 oodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie (1912-1967), as well as commentary on th
 e time period and each song. This commentary frames the program in a large
 r historical context, and offers specific details on Guthrie’s songs and
  his biography. The program also includes two singalong songs.The presenta
 tion aligns with the Illinois America 250 Commission's theme “We th
 e People.” This theme invites us to explore ideas of who has been includ
 ed and who has been left out of the nation’s promise, as well as how peo
 ple from all backgrounds have shaped and reshaped what it means to be part
  of “the people.” The Illinois America 250 Commission's goals are
  to uplift local stories, places, and programs; build pride; and showcase 
 how Illinois brings the ideals of the Declaration of Independence to life.
  Bucky Halker is a songwriter, performer, and historian with 15 albums, i
 ncluding Anywhere But Utah: Songs of Joe Hill (2015), a musical tribute to
  martyred labor songwriter Joe Hill (1879-1915), and The Ghost of Woody Gu
 thrie (2012), an original music tribute to the legendary folksinger.Halker
 , a Ph.D. in American History, has lectured and published extensively on m
 usic in America and has toured Europe regularly since 1990. He is the auth
 or of For Democracy, Workers, and God: Labor Song-Poems and Labor Protest,
  1865-1895 (University of Illinois Press) and the scholar-producer for the
  five-volume Folksongs of Illinois CD series.Bucky received the prestigiou
 s Archie Green Fellowship from the Library of Congress – American Folkli
 fe Center in 2012. He served as guest professor of American Studies at Car
 l von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany in 2016 and served on the
  Board of Directors for the Woody Guthrie Foundation for over ten years. 
  
URL:https://www.tcpld.org/event/celebrate-americas-250th-land-your-land-fo
 lksongs-woody-guthrie-outdoor-concert-52395
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