Arlo Guthrie: Alice’s Restaurant 50th Anniversar

A Thanksgiving tradition! Folk music icon Arlo Guthrie celebrates a half-century of the event that inspired “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” by performing that seminal song, along with popular selections from all his albums. A Thanksgiving anthem for families across the globe, this 18-minute musical monologue originates from Guthrie’s hilarious experiences on Thanksgiving in 1965. For this tour, Guthrie will perform the work in its entirety, as well as such beloved hits as “The City of New Orleans,” “The Motorcycle Song” and “Massachusetts.” Known to generations as a prolific songwriter, social commentator and master storyteller, Guthrie grew up surrounded by renowned artists, including Pete Seeger, Brownie McGee and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. He and Seeger created a legendary collaboration that thrived over 40 years. In 1965, a teenage Guthrie performed a “friendly gesture” that proved to be fateful. He was arrested for littering, leading him to be deemed “not moral enough to join the army.” At 19, he recounted those true events on the album Alice’s Restaurant in 1967. A partially sung comic monologue opposing war and the backward reasoning of authority, it has become an anti-establishment anthem and an essential part of Thanksgiving airplay on rock stations.