My Name is New York: Ramblin' Around Woody Guthrie's Town
Nora Guthrie, Woody Guthrie's daughter, is the Director of the Guthrie  Archives, President of Woody Guthrie Foundation and Woody Guthrie  Publications, Inc. She develops projects that bring Woody Guthrie's vast  cultural and, often unknown, creative legacy to life. Her  ground-breaking pairing of Woody's unpublished lyrics with music by  contemporary artists has expanded Woody's iconic image, forever changing  how we know him. Nora's collaborative projects have resulted in the  release of over 150 new lyrics and artwork publications in only the last  20 years, pioneering the revitalization of Woody Guthrie's expansive  legacy.In 1996, Nora Guthrie co-produced the first Rock-n-Roll  Hall of Fame Guthrie tribute concert with performers Pete Seeger, Tim  Robbins, Billy Bragg, Country Joe McDonald, Indigo Girls, Ani DiFranco,  and Bruce Springsteen among others, and co-curated the first major  exhibition on Guthrie for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling  Exhibition Series which toured at major museums throughout the country  for three years. Nora was executive producer of the Billy Bragg/Wilco  Grammy-nominatedMermaid Avenuemulti-disc sessions, which premiered the collaboration of Woody's unpublished lyrics with contemporary artists.Since 1998, Nora has released many albums that use Woody's lyrics;Daddy O Daddy,Ticky Tock,Happy Joyous Hanuka, Grammy winnerWonder Wheel, Grammy winnerThe Live Wire,The Works,Note of Hope, and most recently,New Multitudes. She was a co-editor to the bookWoody Guthrie Artworks(Rizzoli, 2005) and contributor to Kathy Jakobsen'sThis Land Is Your Land(Little, Brown & Co, 1998) andNew Baby Train(2004).In 2012, Nora is co-producing with the GRAMMY Museum a  year-long tribute to her father, in his centennial year. Celebration  events include educational conferences, a touring exhibit and  star-studded concerts that follow Woody's road from Oklahoma to New York  and will culminate at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. For more  information visit http://www.woody100.com/