Stars to perform at Woody Guthrie fest at Brooklyn College
`Okie’ found a home in Coney Island
The Grammy Museum, the Woody Guthrie archives and the Hitchcock Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College plan to celebrate the centennial of folk music legend Woody Guthrie in Brooklyn, where he lived for more than 25 years, married and eventually died.
Although Guthrie came from Oklahoma and sang country music, he moved to Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island in the early 1940s. After his physical condition, due to the disease Huntington’s Chorea, deteriorated in the 1960s, he was removed to Kings County Hospital, where the died.