- Born
- Birth nameArlo Davy Guthrie
- Height1.83 m
- Arlo Guthrie was born July 10, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York; the son of legendary folk artist Woody Guthrie and Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of the Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease. Arlo grew up surrounded by renowned folk musicians: Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, Cisco Houston, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, and the Weavers.
Since his first public performance at the age of thirteen, Arlo became absorbed in the music that was shaping the world. By the age of 20 Arlo was touring overseas. He was attracting and surprising audiences all over the world with his unique folk style. Arlo is a natural-born storyteller as well as an accomplished musician playing the piano, 6-string and 12-string guitars, and harmonica. He offers a great selection of old and new, original and traditional songs that are as varied as his audiences. Arlo's career soared with his debut of "The Alice's Restaurant Massacree" at the Newport Folk Festival in 1967. Later that year, Arlo was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Folk Performance category.
Although he had not performed "Alice's Restaurant" for years, Arlo put it back on the menu for the Alice's Restaurant Massacree 40th Anniversary Tour, June 2005-May 2006. Arlo toured with members of his family for the Guthrie Family Legacy Tour, June 2006-May 2007. The legacy tour brought together the best of the Guthrie songs and stories from Woody, through the four generations of his children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren (depending on mood and availability).
In January 2015 Arlo put "Alice's Restaurant " back on tour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the actual events that led to the song. The tour made 132 theatrical stops across the USA. The live show was filmed for PBS in Pittsfield, Massachusetts May 21, 2015 at The Colonial Theater. PBS aired the show the following November. Due to the overwhelming success of the road tour, the show was updated and took to the road again this time billed as the "Alice's Restaurant - Back By Popular Demand" tour, which played 90 venues in the USA and overseas from October 2018 to November 2019.
Guthrie's 2020 tour began as usual, but after only 10 shows, was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic and the closing of venues nation-wide.- IMDb mini biography by: Rising Son Records
- SpousesMarti Ladd(December 8, 2021 - ?)Jacqueline Hyde(October 9, 1969 - October 14, 2012) (her death, 4 children)Jackie Guthrie(October 9, 1969 - present) (her death, 4 children)
- Children
- Parents
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Long curly silver hair
- Dansko shoes
- Had a hootenanny-style bar mitzvah when he was 13. His Hebrew tutor was the then-unknown Rabbi Meir Kahane, who later became founder of the Jewish Defense League.
- Served as one of several celebrity witnesses to testify at the trial of the Chicago Eight, featuring defendants Abbie Hoffman, David Dellinger, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, Bobby Seale, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner (1969-1970).
- Son of Woody Guthrie
- The only original performer of the 1969 Woodstock Festival (Bethel NY) to perform on the 50th Anniversary at the original site. - August 2019.
- Best friends with Pete Seeger.
- You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
- I don't do anything on stage that allows me to become a trained seal, where you're just doing the same thing over and over.
- My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel good about who they are.
- [on the advent of 'Flower Power'] All political systems are on their way out. We're finally gonna get to the point where there's no more bigotry or greed or war. Peace is on the way. People are simply gonna learn that they can get more by being groovy than by being greedy.
- [on Woodstock, 1969] What made it wonderful was the fact that all those people could get along together without one black eye, one cut lip. That's what went down - the kids respected the cops for doing their thing (and doing it well, too) and the cops respected the kids for not running wild - even though the conditions were terrible. You know, they could have started burnin' stuff down, but they just sat there and were grooving with each other.
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