Music Across Redlands

The First Family of Folk bring America’s music to the Inland Empire

Concerts in Riverside & Redlands

EVENING EVENT!

Friday, April 8^th @ 7:30pm in the Fisk Auditorium

(This is a Free Event)

Joel Rafael celebrates Woody Guthrie’s experiences in Southern California in song, ballads, poetry & prose.

The Presentation:

If American Acoustic Folk Music is at the center of the music of our national heartland, Woody Guthrie is its soul. Like his famous song, “This Land is Your Land”, Woody Guthrie was a troubadour who traveled by foot and freight train from California to the New York island. He wrote thousands of songs, a successful autobiography “Bound for Glory”, and left the footprint of his music and earthy, humorous wisdom across America. He traveled Route 66, visiting the Inland Empire along the way. He came to the migrant camps in the Inland Empire in the 1930’s, sharing his songs and stories, and collaborating with author John Steinbeck to put the essence of his novel, “Grapes of Wrath”, to music in the classic folk song, “Tom Joad”.

The Artist:

Joel Rafael wraps his artistry around the songs and stories of Woody Guthrie, mixing traditional folk idioms with contemporary sensibilities in a way that both transcends the moment and is fully present in it. Just call it timeless.

CHILDREN’S CONCERT!

Saturday, April 9^th @ 1:30pm in the Fisk Auditorium

(This is event is Free with Paid Museum Admission)

"GO Waggaloo!" is a delightful interactive concert experience for children performed by Sarah Lee Guthrie, (Woody’s granddaughter) and husband Johnny Irion.

The Presentation:

What does it mean to Go Waggaloo? Take a little bit of Sarah Lee Guthrie and her husband Johnny Irion, add their children (Olivia, 7, and Sophia, 2) and mix in an audience full of kids, and you have a fun, high energy, interactive musical ride that excites and transforms.

The Artist:

Sarah Lee and Johnny’s music reflects the enduring tradition of age‐old American folk music while embracing a fresh, poignant and up‐to‐date outlook. Not since Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, Nicolette Larson and Neil Young or even Johnny Cash and June Carter have two voices blended together so honestly and seamlessly.

“Go Waggaloo is a lovely batch of homespun folk songs for small tykes.” ‐LA Times

“Sarah Lee took the tradition that (her grandfather) Woody began with kids' music and made it better.” ‐USA Today