Final Report and Request for Reimbursement Form
Evaluation Form (Woody Guthrie)
Evaluation Form (Getting in the Cows)
Evaluation Form (Going to Bartalina)
Program Description
Pastures of Plenty: Woody Guthrie’s Life & Times
Noted Woody Guthrie writer and performer Charlie Maguire brings a treasure-trove of Woody’s best loved, and least known songs prefaced with introductions to each selection in Woody’s own words! Performed on acoustic guitar, harmonica, jaw harp and spoons it’s like going to the theatre and hearing Woody Guthrie’s words and songs for real, as if he were passing through your town. It’s humorous, it’s casual, it’s informative, and always entertaining. Charlie can also provide PDF’s of a “Woody Guthrie Reading & Listening List” of books and recordings by him compiled by Charlie Maguire, as well as “His Songs Are Our Songs”, and “Woody Guthrie’s American Chorus” authored by Charlie and originally published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune that can be duplicated on site and distributed to your patrons after the program.
Getting in the Cows: Songs & Stories of Life on the Farm
Born and raised on a 500-acre dairy farm in western New York, Charlie’s songs and stories of the people and their work, is a program of farm life that many still recall. Those were the days of tractors without cabs, cows that went out to pasture every day, hired men, blacksmiths, a wood stove in the house, and plenty of “homemade.” It was a time of fall plowing, filling silo, baling hay and straw. A time of raising your own meat, eggs, and milk, and for the kids — hunting in the fall, houses in trees, and rafting down the creek. It was a time of “making do, or doing without,” and there were good friends and families you could count on to see you through. If you ever lived the farming life or wanted to, or if you knew someone who did, you owe it yourself to hear the songs and stories worthy of Smithsonian inclusion in their exhibit “Barn Again.” Don’t miss this one!
Going to Bartalina: True Songs & Stories of Commercial Sailing on the Great Lakes
This program introduces a song with a story and then the song is performed using, vocals, guitar, and harmonica. Here a few samples:
“Going to Bartalina”: I learned this phrase on my first voyage, aboard the M.V. Nordic Trader with an all Filipino crew. The phrase means doing a job you can’t get out of. Once on board, a crewmember is subject to the weather, the duties aboard ship and the whims of the Captain, whose word is law. There is no escape in other words, until you someday leave the ship. The point being that sailors don’t really go anywhere as they move around the world. They always just go to “Bartalina”.
“Barefoot Dan”: Dan was a wheelsman on the William Clay Ford, and steered this huge iron-ore carrier in his bare feet because he claimed he could feel the motion of the ship better. As Third Mate, I was paired with Dan on a voyage from Two Harbors, MN, to the Rouge River Ford Plant in Michigan.
“Rolling On The Deck”: Assigned to US Coast Guard Buoy Tender Sundew-WLB-404 the Captain assigned me to the deck crew pulling buoys as big as pickup trucks out of Lake Superior.
Duration: 75 minutes
Target Audience: All ages
Performer Needs/Set-up and Take-down Time: Please ask when booking.
Cost for 2024/2025: $1,015. Price includes performance, mileage and hotel stays. (Hotel costs will only be applied if artist stays overnight.)
Contact: www.compas.org/book or call Katie Schmieg Miller, Arts Program Manager at 651-292-3265
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