Explore folk music history in Elgin
The Elgin History Museum, 360 Park St., will hold a benefit, “Woody Guthrie: American Folk Singer” at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5. Admission is $45, or $35 for Elgin Area Historical Society members.
This year's museum benefit will feature Bucky Halker, who is well known for his music-history programs on Woody Guthrie and the Great Depression and on working-class protest music from 1865-1950. Bucky examines the folk music history of Illinois to discover that the Land of Lincoln may well have the most diverse and vibrant musical traditions of any state in the nation.
There will be appetizer refreshments, silent auction and a cash bar.
Reservations are required; call (847) 742-4248 or email elginhistory@foxvalley.net.
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