The Colonial Theatre Presents Arlo Guthrie’s Lost World Tour
Pittsfield, Mass – The Colonial Theatre will present Arlo Guthrie’s Lost World Tour featuring Abe Guthrie and the Burns Sisters on November 20th at 7:30PM. Tickets for the performance range from $25-$55 and can be purchased in person at the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street Monday-Friday 10-5, Saturday 10-2, by calling (413) 997-4444 or 24/7 online at www.TheColonialTheatre.orgArlo Guthrie will perform his annual concert at the Colonial as part of his Lost World Tour. Featuring son Abe Guthrie and the Burns Sisters, Arlo will be playing new songs, along with a few classics. The Burns Sisters will be singing back-up. Abe will join them onstage, playing the keyboards. Terry “A La Berry” Hall comes back as drummer, Bobby Sweet will play lead guitar, and Berkshire native Jody Lampro will play bass.
If you've been to an Arlo Guthrie concert in the past 20 years it's likely you've seen Abe's great smile, heard his adept and tasteful keyboard accompaniment along with his powerful supporting vocals. In a recent interview Arlo was quoted: "Abe is a great musician and covers the bass for me, and whatever else I need." Abe started performing professionally with his father in the early 80's. The three Burns sisters (Annie, Marie and Jeannie) have been singing together all their lives. Their mother, Teresa, who sang in the church choir, taught them and so it began. Wild Bouquet is the eighth Burns Sisters Band album. It's an album of love, grace and understanding. It's also an album with songs that fit our times. They met Arlo Guthrie in 2004 at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Woody's hometown of Okemah, Oklahoma. This meeting sent them on a train ride with Arlo Guthrie & Friends Ridin' on the City of New Orlean (Benefiting Victims of Katrina).
Terry "A La Berry" Hall has been performing professionally since age 13. He toured the world for 14 years as drummer for Arlo Guthrie. He appears on 10 of Arlo's CDs and played at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The White House, on The Today Show and has shared the stage with Bonnie Raitt, Carly Simon, Joe Cocker, John Denver, Willie Nelson and Pete Seeger to name a few. Terry A La Berry has been entertaining kids around the country for the past 18 years as part of David Grover and the Big Bear Band. When not busy with David Grover, he tours and performs his own music and his new CD Never Be As Big As Hannah Montana, has been recently released.
As a Berkshire native and sixth-generation musician, Bobby Sweet began performing at age seven in his father's band. A sought-after lead guitarist, he has played shows with Vince Gill, George Jones, Asleep at the Wheel, Willie Nelson, The Bellamy Brothers, Waylon Jennings, and many others. He has written songs that have aired on many hit television series such as Touched By An Angel, Walker Texas Ranger, Judging Amy and Soul Food, among others. The singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist recently released his fifth solo album Days Roll By to critical acclaim.
Another Berkshire native, bassist Jody Lampro has played with both Arlo and Bobby in the past. In 2007 Jody teamed with Ben Hillman to work on a tune for a film about the creation of the hydrogen bomb called “Bomb Squad.”
In 2006 Arlo toured with his family in the Guthrie Family Legacy Tour, and last year he took to the road by himself on The Solo Reunion Tour: Together at Last, both of which he performed at the Colonial. The Guthrie family was featured in the November, 2007 issue of Vanity Fair as part the Music Portfolio Series on Folk Legends. The series features leaders in different musical genres.
As part of a Guthrie Foundation sponsored tour, Arlo and his family rode the Amtrak City of New Orleans train in December 2005, from Chicago to New Orleans, stopping along the way to perform benefit concerts. Arlo Guthrie & Friends, Ridin' on the City of New Orleans (Benefiting Victims of Katrina) raised over $140,000.
The Guthrie Center is a not-for-profit interfaith church foundation dedicated to providing a wide range of local and international services. Programs include everything from providing HIV/AIDS services to baking cookies with a local service organization, from an HD walk-a-thon to raise awareness and money for a cure for Huntington's disease, to simply offering a place to meditate. The Guthrie Foundation is a separate not-for-profit educational organization that addresses issues such as the environment, health care, cultural preservation and educational exchange.
To Purchase Tickets for Arlo Guthrie’s Lost World Tour
Tickets for the performance range from $25-$55 and can be purchased in person at the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street Monday-Friday 10-5, Saturday 10-2, by calling (413) 997-4444 or 24/7 online at www.TheColonialTheatre.org.
