This off-site project will take place on September 11, 12, and 14 at the times and locations specified below.

Woody Guthrie wrote a lot of music in NYC from rent parties in Greenwich Village and gatherings at Washington Square Park, to performing on streets and in public places. His music inspired the songwriters and activists of the time. He spent his last days in New York and passed away in the Brooklyn State Hospital of Huntington’s Disease, shortly after a visit from young Bob Dylan who sang a song for him entitled, “Song to Woody”.

This project will visit the major locations and landmarks of Woody’s life in New York, right up to the present. We’ll be going from one location to the next, as others join us to perform the songs Woody wrote in the very locations where he wrote and sang them. We’ll include Union Songs, songs in Washington Square Park he sang with Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, his place on Mermaid Avenue near Coney Island, and the Brooklyn State Hospital, where we’ll sing Dylan’s “Song to Woody”, and in front of the Woody Guthrie Archives near 57th and Broadway where Billy Bragg and Wilco mined the source material for Mermaid Avenue volumes one and two.

Locations and dates will be publicized via various online communities including PIMAtalk, Craigslist, Conflux, and flyers will be posted around the NYC area. The public is invited to attend and participate, and we’ll go rain or shine. Hope to see you there. Bring your washtub, washboard, xylaphone, sousaphone, ringtone, banjo, harmonica, guitar, sitar, mason jar…!

Please - do join us as we “materialize” at these times and locations:

Thursday September 11th, 2pm - Washington Square Park

Friday September 12th, 1pm - Corner of 35th St and Mermaid Avenue in Brooklyn (Coney Island)
Friday September 12th, 4pm - Corner of Clarkson and Albany Avenues in Brooklyn (Brooklyn State Hospital)

Sunday September 14th, Noon - Corner of 57th and Eighth Avenue

For more information (and list of songs) please visit http://www.pressedengine.com/woodysghost