Submitted by: Michael Hancock, mhancock@uca.edu on 04/18/2024
In This Land Sings, GRAMMY® Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty has created an original musical tribute to the singer-song writer and political activist Woody Guthrie (1912-1967). The music Daugherty has composed gives haunting expression, ironic wit and contemporary relevance to the political, social and environmental themes from Woody Guthrie’s era. The performance will also incorporate “Dust Bowl” photographs from the 1930s by Dorothea Lange, the American photographer who documented the hardship and pain experienced by millions of displaced farmers and migrant workers during the Great Depression.