Life Is Good

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Sunday, May 22, 2005

THE SARAH LEE & JOHNNY HOUR

THE SARAH LEE & JOHNNY HOUR
CREATED BY
DAVID REO



The Sarah Lee & Johnny Hour is a one hour musical, comedy, variety show hosted by Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion. This is a show where social consciousness and environmental issues, though music and comedy, can continue to have a voice. This is a retro styled show based on the format of the old Smothers Brothers and Sonny & Cher Show. Sarah Lee being the comedian and Johnny the straight man. The main set is a replica of the stage at the Guthrie Center in the Old Trinity Church in Housatonic, MA. The church made famous by Sarah lee’s father, Arlo Guthrie, in the Alice’s Restaurant saga. Sarah Lee and Johnny open the show each week center stage with a comedy dialog mixed with political satire leading into their songs with a house band to their right filled with the most eclectic "A" list musicians and vintage 30’s style instruments on the planet. The second main set is a replica of the New York City loft where Woody Guthrie held his weekly hootenannies. Each week there is a segment with a featured name artists selected from the elders of folk, country, blues and bluegrass music, the likes of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, to the very last of the Mississippi Delta blues legends like Dave Honeyboy Edwards. This is a show that gives respect and spotlights the elders in traditional music, culture and the arts, a show that represents a musical heritage that has been past down through generations, a show that pays tribute to the past yet honors the very best in American traditions presently. There will also be a segment where two new undiscovered artists are spotlighted, where the viewing audience gets to vote on line which artists gets to be included in a weekly hootenanny from the Woody Guthrie loft set at the end of the show. Another segment will include Arlo Guthrie who is beamed in via satellite onto a big screen from exotic locations around the world while on the road, where he talks with Sarah Lee who affectionately refers to him as "Pop". One week he is with Eskimos, the next week he is in the Amazon jungle with birds, the next week he is surrounded by pigmies in Africa. He always has a message. There is also a cowboy poetry segment with Ramblin Jack Elliot reading poetry from a western campfire background. Also included in the weekly cast is are current popular comedians.to work with the comedy sketches that will run between music spotlights. The show also features short independent films and a segment where Sarah Lee performs with children. The show always ends with Sarah Lee and Johnny, the featured artists and the new "discovered" undiscovered artist on the Woody Guthrie New York City Loft set where they all have a "hootenanny" an intense jam session of Woody Guthrie songs. Sarah Lee and Johnny always end the show upbeat and with the message of peace. This show is an American Classic.

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