Performance & Presentation at Glendale Public Library
The La Crescenta Valley New Year’s Flood of 1934: Life During the Great Depression in Southern California Join local artist Darryl Holter on a musical odyssey of Glendale’s weather history. Holter sings Woody Guthrie songs and shares video commemorating the 1934 Crescenta New Year's Day flood. This video features Darryl singing Woody Guthrie’s Los Angeles New Year’s Flood and includes archival images provided by the Natural History Museum’s Seaver Center for Western History Research. Images of the flood from the Library’s Glendale History Room will shed light on the history of the flood and its impact on local residents and ... [Read More]
Darryl Holter Workshop at The Folk Roots Festival
Darryl Holter Panel Discussion at The Folk Roots Festival: Social Justice And Folk Music. 2:00pm Workshop Panel Discussion: Social Justice And Folk Music - The Panel will discuss the history and today's songs about social justice. Featuring: Darryl Holter, Ross Altman, Jonathan Ritter with Larry Wines Moderator Folk Roots Festival: A Day of Music, Workshops, Panels and more. March 24, 2018 - 10am to 10pm St. John's Presbyterian Church 11000 National Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064 More Info: www.fwfolkrootsfestival.com ¤ Darryl Holter is a historian, entrepreneur, musician, and owner of an independent bookstore. He has taught history at the University ... [Read More]
Darryl Does Guthrie in Seattle
Darryl heads to Seattle this week to give a presentation on Woody Guthrie at the University of Washington. The panel, “Hard-Hitting Songs by Hard-Hit People: The Music of Woody Guthrie and John Handcox, 1936-1941”, takes place at the annual meeting of the Labor and Working Class History Association. Darryl will be joined by his friend and fellow musician, Michael Honey, a professor of History. Darryl’s talk will focus on how Guthrie’s attitudes toward race evolved during his time in Los Angeles. He plans to perform several songs including “Big City Ways”, “Hooversville”, “Oklahoma Hills” and “Los Angeles New Year’s Flood.”
Los Angeles Corral of Westerners
Almansor Court – 700 S. Almansor, Alhambra, CA. Social Hour: 5:00 PM Dinner: 6:00 PM Our Speaker: Darryl Holter His Subject: This Land is Your Land: Woody Guthrie in Los Angeles, 1937-1941 Woody Guthrie was, and still is, one of the most beloved of all American singers and songwriters. Guthrie’s very productive years in Los Angeles at the end of the Great Depression forever changed his music, his politics, and greatly expanded his audience. Guthrie performed his own songs on his popular, KFVD Los Angeles, live radio show. They made him first a local, then a national, celebrity. With his lyrics about unemployment, homelessness, and inequality, ... [Read More]
Darryl Holter at GRAMMY Museum
In conjunction with the recent release of their new co-authored book, Woody Guthrie L.A. 1937 to 1941, historians William Deverell and Darryl Holter joined GRAMMY Museum Executive Director Bob Santelli for a conversation surrounding the book and the legacy of one of the most iconic and influential songwriters of the 20th century, Woody Guthrie. Generated by IJG JPEG Library Generated by IJG JPEG Library
Darryl Holter Tangled Up in Dylan
Folkworks Review Darryl Holter Tangled Up in Dylan at the Caña Rum Bar – February 19, 2016 By Ross Altman, PhD Dateline, Los Angeles~ The hottest ticket in town turned out to be in a hidden rum bar in the unknown Petroleum Building in the 700 block of Olympic Blvd downtown tonight, just a block away from the Grammy Museum. An SRO crowd (I know, because I was standing throughout) saw local folkie historian Darryl Holter—co-author of the new book Woody Guthrie LA 1937-1941 (see my review)—in a show he called Holter Does Dylan. It was also it turns out ... [Read More]
Chevalier’s Books
New Owners Bringing Renewed Life to Chevalier’s Books 28 Oct 2014 Larchmont Village shoppers have been wondering about the next chapter for Chevalier’s Books. Window shoppers along Larchmont Boulevard were delighted to see the recent signage posted at 126 N Larchmont announcing Chevalier’s Books is “turning the page to a new chapter.” It’s good news for LA’s oldest independent bookstore: two book-loving and long-time Chevalier’s patrons, Bert Deixler and Darryl Holter, have bought Chevalier’s Books. “We’re fixing it up, on a very tight schedule,” Bert Deixler told the Larchmont Buzz in a phone interview. “It will be much like it was ... [Read More]
Darryl Holter grew up playing the guitar and singing country and rock and roll songs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His current brand of Americana music draws from country, blues and folk traditions and often tells stories about people, places and events.