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Sam Heart Performs “Alice’s Restaurant”
November 28, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Free
“Alice’s Restaurant,” Arlo Guthrie’s beloved musical ode to garbage, small-town policing, and military conscription, celebrates many anniversaries. The song – its full name is “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” – has its conception on Thanksgiving Day, 1965, when Guthrie, then 18, and friend Rick Robbins, 19, were clearing out the Stockbridge, Massachusetts, home of Alice and Ray Brock.
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