Arlo Guthrie

Arlo Guthrie: "Alice's Restaurant" 50th Anniversary Tour

When Arlo Guthrie was arrested on Thanksgiving Day 1965 for littering, there's no way he could've known the incident would inspire one of the definitive counterculture anthems of the '60s. But after he was kept out of the Vietnam draft because of the arrest, Guthrie, the son of folk hero Woody Guthrie, spun the ironic incident into an increasingly absurd 18-minute satirical talking-blues song called "Alice's Restaurant Massacree." Fifty years later, it remains one of the strangest popular songs of all time -- and just as wryly hilarious as ever. The song continued to grow over the years and even went on to become a movie starring Guthrie. Join folk legend Arlo Guthrie to sing along with "Alice's Restaurant," plus an evening of old and new, original and traditional tunes at New Jersey Performing Arts Center.