Billy Bragg and Andy Irvine for Vicar Street

Dublin’s Vicar St. is the venue on September 17 as two of Woody Guthrie’s biggest fans, Billy Bragg and Andy Irvine, celebrate his 100th birthday with a special show. Tickets priced €26 go on sale on Monday May 28.
Most of the songs will be drawn from the Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions, a four-disc collection comprising recently discovered Guthrie lyrics that Bragg and chums like Wilco put music to, and 1999’s Man In The Sand ‘Making Of’ documentary.

“I’ll be playing acoustic instruments and singing from the book of lyrics which I compiled from the archives and used during the sessions, quoting from Woody’s handwritten notes that are often tagged onto the manuscripts,” the Bard of Barking says. “I’ve recruited some friends to join me at the shows to add their voices and interpretations to the ever evolving and continually relevant words and work of Woodrow Wilson Guthrie.”