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I'm looking forward to seeing Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt, Guy Clark, and Joe Ely at the The Paramount Theatre this March in Seattle.
B and I are going to make a night of it and stay at the new Pan Pacific Hotel in Seattle. They were (maybe still are) offering 50% off their regular rack rates as part of their grand opening.
Looking at the website I see the Pan Pacific has nice views, large rooms, free wireless and Hypnos® beds claimed to be "the most comfortable beds in the world." Should be fun - I'll have to get to bed nice and early so I can test out those beds.
In April we are going to go North to Bellingham, Washington to see Arlo Guthrie and his son and daughter perform at the Mount Baker Theatre which looks like a cool old venue.
Arlo was popular with the younger crowd in the 60's and 70's. I had quite a few of his albums, and maybe an 8 track tape or two. He starred in the 1969 movie Alice's Restaurant. His song "Alice's Restaurant" and "Coming Into Los Angeles" were popular among crowds at the 1969 Woodstock music festival.
An odd bit of trivia is that he attended Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana which happens to be the Alma Mata of my mother Ginger.
His bio on ArloNet says -
"Arlo Guthrie was born with a guitar in one hand and a harmonica in the other, in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York in 1947. He is the eldest son of America's most beloved singer/writer/philosopher Woody Guthrie and Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease.
He grew up surrounded by dancers and musicians: Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Hellerman and Lee Hays (The Weavers), Leadbelly, Cisco Houston, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, all of whom were significant influences on Arlo's musical career. Guthrie gave his first public performance at age 13 and quickly became involved in the music that was shaping the world during the 1960s.
Arlo practically lived in the most famous venues of the "Folk Boom" era. In New York City he hung out at Gerdes Folk City, The Gaslight and The Bitter End. In Boston's Club 47, and in Philadelphia he made places like The 2nd Fret and The Main Point his home. He witnessed the transition from an earlier generation of ballad singers like Richard Dyer-Bennet and blues-men like Mississippi John Hurt, to a new era of singer-song writers such as Bob Dylan, Jim Croce, Joan Baez, and Phil Ochs. He grooved with the beat poets like Allen Ginsburg and Lord Buckley, and picked with players like Bill Monroe and Doc Watson. He learned something from everyone and developed his own style, becoming a distinctive, expressive voice in a crowded community of singer-songwriters and political-social commentators."
NPR : Arlo Guthrie in Concert
