15 Facts About Nora Guthrie

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Nora Guthrie is president of The Woody Guthrie Foundation, president of Woody Guthrie Publications and founder of the Woody Guthrie Archive, and lives in Mt.

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Nora Guthrie graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 1971.

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Nora Guthrie followed in her mother's footsteps, studying modern dance with the Martha Graham Dance Company and at New York University.

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Nora Guthrie started a dance company with another NYU dancer, Ted Rotante, whom she married.

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In 1994, Nora co-founded the Woody Guthrie Archives with Harold Leventhal and archivist Jorge Arevalo.

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In 1996, Nora Guthrie co-produced the first Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum Tribute series honoring Woody Nora Guthrie.

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In 1998, Nora Guthrie worked with folk artist Kathy Jakobsen to create the children's book This Land is Your Land, published by Little Brown, and Co.

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In 2003, Nora Guthrie collaborated with Berlin composer and performer, Hans-Eckardt Wenzel on the innovative Ticky Tock, released on Contraer Musik Records.

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Nora Guthrie worked with the klezmer band The Klezmatics, exploring Woody Nora Guthrie's Jewish-themed lyrics.

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In 2001 the Woody Nora Guthrie Archive received a donation of a wire recording dating back to the 1940s.

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In 2008, Nora Guthrie released another new album of unpublished lyrics with folk rock singer-songwriter, Jonatha Brooke, The Works.

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Nora Guthrie first invited Jay Farrar to peruse the Archive, who invited the other musicians to collaborate on the project.

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In 2013, Nora Guthrie collaborated with Douglas Brinkley and Johnny Depp to release House of Earth, a previously unpublished manuscript Woody Nora Guthrie wrote in 1947.

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In 2005, Nora Guthrie commissioned contemporary classical composer David Amram to create a symphonic interpretation of "This Land Is Your Land", asking Amram to use the text and melody as the inspiration.

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Nora Guthrie collaborated with Del McCoury on an album focused on Woody's hillbilly and bluegrass styled lyrics.