Y ou can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant — even an evening of music with the Guthrie family. The church that made folk music history 50 years ago in Arlo Guthrie’s hit song is now a community center and the site of an annual folk music series in the summers. And it serves dinner as well.
On a summer night you can here Grammy-winning bluesman, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Chris Thomas King, up from New Orleans, singing I’m an American Man, wry and soaring over a rising trumpet.
Chris Smither. Roan Yellowthorn. Emerging musicians and folk legends perform here from June to September, sometimes together. Seth Glier protests and laments in a driving tenor in a thunderstorm — Do the next right thing or the next thing right.
Guitarist, banjo player and folk musician John McCutcheon will perform at the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington.
Folk guitarist and songwriter Chris Smither performs often at the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington.
Folk musician Bill Staines joins the lineup of folk musicians at the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington, in the church from Alice's Restaurant.
John Flynn joins the lineup of folk musicians at the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington, in the church from Alice's Restaurant.
Folk singer / songwriter Richard Shindell has joined a long lineup of folk legends in the Troubador series at the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington.
Singer / songwriter Catie Curtis plays the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington. Press photo courtesy of the artist.
The Slambovian Circus of Dreams have become regulars at the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington.
Folk singer-songwriter and musician Seth Glier will perform at the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington.