THIS CAUGHT MY EYE …
It began with these immortal words — “Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago … two years ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the restaurant …” — and continues with Arlo Guthrie’s “Running Down the Road Tour,” which luckily makes a stop Friday at the Academy of Music in Northampton. And he’s bringing along members of his former touring band, Shenandoah, too. If you can remember the ’60s, and even if you can’t (wink, wink), the best cuts from Guthrie’s catalog from the late 1960s and the early ’70s are bound to please.
Friday, 8 p.m. Tickets: $45-$55; 584-9032, ext. 105; www.aomtheatre.com
AND THIS …
Musician Jamie Kent is on his own kind of journey: The Northampton native and NHS graduate has had a really, really good year. Besides playing more than 150 shows across the country, he has a new album out, “All American Mutt”; was dubbed “A Rising Country Star” by Fox and Friends; and was named a “must see act” by Rollingstone.com, which exclusively debuted a Kent single and music video.
He’ll be back in the loving arms of friends and family for one night only, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Iron Horse in Northampton. Tickets: $15 in advance; $18 at the door. iheg.com; doors open at 5:30 p.m.
AND THIS …
I remember Elaine Bromka when she was just a theater student in the 1970s at Smith College (her Hedda Gabler was brilliant), and I’ve followed her career as it’s taken her to Broadway, film and TV. I even saw “Tea For Three” back in 2004, when it was first produced by the Chester Theatre Company. Since then, the Emmy Award-winning actress has toured the country with her one-woman show that depicts Lady Bird Johnson, Pat Nixon and Betty Ford, as they prepare to turn over first-lady duties to the newcomers. You can see her sparkling, witty performance Monday and Tuesday, at 7 p.m., at the Majestic Theater, 131 Elm St., West Springfield. Tickets: 747-7797