Will Kaufman's "Woody Guthrie: Hard Times and Hard Travelin"

Will Kaufman's WOODY GUTHRIE: HARD TIMES AND HARD TRAVELIN' is a captivating "live documentary", with songs of Woody Guthrie played live and dramatised in the context of the American 1930s - the Dust Bowl, the Depression, the New Deal and the state of popular music itself.

Such hard-hitting Guthrie songs as "Vigilante Man", "Pretty Boy Floyd" and "I Ain't Got No Home" are brought into conversation with other relevant songs - from Joe Hill's "The Preacher and the Slave" to "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?". Altogether the show highlights the blending of music and radical politics that marks Guthrie's most powerful work.

Will Kaufman is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Central Lancashire. He is the author of Woody Guthrie, American Radical (2011).

"No one can understand the American people without listening to Woody Guthrie. Will Kaufman's doing important work here."
- Tom Paxton

"I thank Will Kaufman for introducing a new generation of Europeans to 'the other America'. It's a wonderful job he's doing."
- Pete Seeger

This event will run until 21.30 with a brief interval. Soft and alcoholic drinks will be available.

Tickets can be bought via the official website.