The new film from Juno director Jason Reitman, opening in limited release on December 4 and widely on Christmas Day, stars familiar names like George Clooney and Jason Bateman.

Originally blowing out of the Dust Bowl in 1930s Depression Era America, he blended vernacular, rural music and populism to give voice to millions of downtrodden citizens.

When Arlo Guthrie, and his extended family, took the stage Tuesday night at the State Theatre, 130 W. College Ave., the politically themed folk singer came full of both songs and stories.

Local ballad singer Jane Birdsong will take the stage at the Randolph County Community Arts Center's Brown Bag Lunch Concert at noon Wednesday.

Music has a way of hitting that particular emotion that you just can't put your finger on sometimes.

Between the 40-plus years that Arlo Guthrie has been making music and the similar number of years his father, legendary folk pioneer Woody Guthrie, made music, America has been hearing the provocative sounds of the Guthrie clan for more than three-quarters of a century.

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings bring retro R&B and soul to water Street Music Hall on Saturday.

Some people come from musical families. Now that folk musician Arlo Guthrie's grandchildren are performing onstage, his family legacy goes back nearly 100 years.

Back by popular demand, "Woody Guthrie's American Song" is returning to Stage 3 Theatre in Sonora from Nov.

From Woody Guthrie and his pre-decessors and descendants to the cellist who played Bach in the cross-fire scarred street in Sarajevo to the jingoistic C&W ballads during America's unprovoked attack on Iraq, musicians with a social conscience have tried to use music for greater social purposes.

Folk singer Jerry Burgan, co-founder of the 1960s folk rock group We Five , will perform Saturday in Claremont.

Arlo Guthrie will be fighting for stage time Sunday night when three generations of his family perform at Harrisburg's Whitaker Center.

His band members were joking, Michael Chorney emphasizes, when they settled on calling his most recent musical project 'post-indie-acoustic-quasi-chamber-folk-jazz.' That's critic-speak for 'a little bit of everything,' which has certainly defined the Bristol-based musician's career.

Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 4:06 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 4:06 p.m. Scott Gibson grew up singing folk songs such as Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" in grammar school but later gravitated to Top 40 and dance music as a teenager and young adult when he played professionally in bands.

The Readington Community Theatre will present its first Coffee House music event on Saturday, Nov.

The tree-hugging post-hippies of the '80s stripped folk music of its bite in a way that surely caused Woody Guthrie to do back flips in his grave.

BMNN wrote: on Nov. 04, 2009: Over 60 years after Folkways Records released Woody Guthrie's first children's/family music album in 1947, his granddaughter Sarah Lee Guthrie is ensuring the family's commitment to children's music and its longstanding collaboration with Smithsonian Folkways, the home of Folkways Records.

Revivalist string band Old Crow Medicine Show has the look and sound of a band from another era, playing a mix of country, bluegrass and Americana songs that were written decades before anyone in the band was born.

In the short time Jonny Woodrose & the Broken-Hearted Woodpeckers have been together, the outfit has grown from being a bit of a joke band vehicle for singer Jonson Kuhn's humorous storytelling into one of the most engaging and fun Americana bands in the scene.

Halloween, the time when adults decide to don their favorite witty getups, whether it be the intellectual "Freudian slip" or the pop culture driven "Christian Bale Yelling." We're sure some of you are short on ideas, so we've compiled a list of band inspired costumes to wear to your favorite party.