Greg Johnson's annual Woody Guthrie Tribute brings together many wonderful Oklahoma and Texas songwriters to honor the songs of Oklahoma's champion for human rights all around, from labor to civil rights and more. - Artists to be announced.
Who Is Woody Guthrie?
Most people know Woody as the artist who wrote "This Land is Your Land," but for those who look to him as an influence on art and activism, he is so much more. He wrote more than 3,000 songs in his lifetime - although relatively few were ever recorded - and he was a highly skilled visual artist.
His archive of work, housed at the Woody Guthrie Center, consists of more than 100 notebooks, correspondence, and many other documents that show his mission to speak for the disenfranchised. Woody wasn't simply a writer of protest songs; he was a committed activist who lived by very humanist principles. Activism wasn't something Woody did. It's who he was.