OXFORD,
Miss. – Legendary folk singer Arlo Guthrie brings his Lost World Tour
to the University of Mississippi Monday (March 9) for a performance at
the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts.
Tickets for
the 8 p.m. show are $25 for general admission seating, with discounts
available before the day of the performance for UM students. Tickets
are available by calling the UM Box Office at 662-915-7411 or by
visiting the Box Office in the Student Union from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or
the Ford Center Box Office from noon to 4 p.m. weekdays.
Guthrie’s
live performance is the final concert of the Heritage Series, which
promotes “engaging performers of note who have made significant and
lasting contributions to their discipline and our culture,” said Norm
Easterbrook, Ford Center director.
The Lost World Tour is slated to feature contemporary, family and folk music.
Guthrie was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1947. He is the eldest son of legendary folk pioneer, Woody Guthrie and Marjorie Mazia Guthrie. Guthrie gave his first public performance at age 13 and quickly became involved in the music that was shaping the social consciousness of the 1960s generation.
Guthrie’s career exploded in 1967 with the release of his album “Alice’s Restaurant,” whose title song premiered at the Newport Folk Festival. The 18-minute, 20-second “Alice’s Restaurant,” while too long for radio airplay, has become an American classic. His song “Coming into Los Angeles,” though banned from many radio stations when first released, had become a favorite by the time he played it at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.
Over the last four decades, Guthrie has toured throughout North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia winning a broad and dedicated following. Besides being an accomplished musician – playing the piano, six- and 12-string guitar, harmonica and a dozen other instruments – Guthrie is a natural-born storyteller whose hilarious tales and timeless anecdotes are woven into his performances.
Not to be confined to the world of folk and rock, Guthrie created “Arlo vs. The Symphony,” a program of symphonic arrangements of his own songs and other American classics.
For a complete list of performances coming to the Ford Center visit http://www.olemiss.edu/fordcenter/ . For assistance related to a disability call 662-915-7411.