The spirit of Woody Guthrie was alive on Sept. 25, 2024, when the Oklahoma native, folk-songwriter, and activist was honored at Tulsa’s celebrated Cain’s Ballroom by an award and ceremony in his name. The Woody Guthrie Prize represents someone who shares similar values to Guthrie that he held during his lifetime. This year’s Woody Guthrie…
Woody Guthrie Center hosts an exhibit of rare photographs of Billie Holiday In the year 1957, a photographer named Jerry Dantzic is hired by Decca Records to photograph one of jazz’s greatest icons, Billie Holiday. These photographs all took place during a weeklong run of performances at a nightclub in Newark, N.J., known as Sugar…
The Thomas K. McKeon Center for Creativity recently switched its face-to-face events to an online format due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The workshops and forums are now delivered right to someone’s smartphone, laptop, or tablet via Zoom. But it was only a technological change. The quality of the workshops and discussions is still very…
