The Peak to Peak Chorale Performs Woody Guthrie
By David Josselyn
Local talent in rural Gilpin County can be beautiful as our sunsets or sometimes like a diamond in the rough. This last weekend, May 5 through May 7, the Peak to Peak Chorale proved to be a fantastic sunset. The Chorale’s annual spring musical this year is called “Woody Guthrie Hard Travelin’: Life in America” and used Guthrie’s music and quotes to paint a picture of life in 1930s and 40s western America. Guthrie, most notable for “This Land is Your Land,” was a folk singer that identified with the working class. He grew up in Oklahoma during the dust bowl before “pickin’ up and leavin’ out” to California looking for work. Although penned in the first half of the twentieth century, Guthrie’s songs and words remain relevant to Americans today.
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