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Our next meeting will be held on Thursday, October 10, 2024, at the Edgebrook Lutheran Church, 5252 W. Devon Avenue, Chicago, 60646. Doors open at 11 a.m. Invite a friend or neighbor to our meetings. All are welcome. Chris Walz from the Old Town School of Music Chris will present a program on the musical origins of Wood Guthrie and the story behind the creation of the song "This Land is Your Land". Chris first got interested in the guitar as a teenager through the music of the early Country Blues players like Mississippi John Hurt and Blind Willie McTell. He plays and teaches this style to this day. Always interested in Bluegrass as well, he developed his flatpicking skill and wound up spending three and a half years touring the world with the bluegrass band The Special Consensus. Chris has been at the Old Town School of Folk Music since 1996 and divides his time between performing and teaching.