Arlo Guthrie returned to New York’s famed Carnegie Hall on Saturday for his annual Thanksgiving weekend performance—a tradition kept up nearly every year since 1967—and the singer-songwriter marked the occasion with a few of his family members, along with nodding to his father, folk legend Woody Guthrie.

The night featured an opening set from The Weight Band, an offshoot of The Band and their side projects, who also served as Guthrie’s backing outfit. The headliner was joined by his children Sarah Lee, Annie, Cathy and Abe, along with Sarah Lee’s husband Johnny Irion.

Although Guthrie did not play his Thanksgiving anthem “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” the night featured highlights like a couple of Bob Dylan covers and an Irion-led performance of “Airline to Heaven,” which features lyrics by Woody Guthrie put to music by Wilco as part of their Woody Guthrie tribute album with Billy Bragg, Mermaid Avenue. More extended members of the Guthrie family then came out to help out on the set-closing run of “This Land is Your Land.” The night’s encore also included a cover of The Band’s sing-along tune “The Weight” and another Woody Guthrie cover, “My Peace.” See Saturday’s full setlist below.

Arlo Guthrie has hinted that next year, which will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Alice’s Restaurant film, could be his final Thanksgiving celebration at Carnegie Hall, telling Billboard, “I don’t know if we’ll continue it beyond next year. Next year we’ll do the actual 50th anniversary show at Carnegie, and I think I’ll probably call it quits after that. It’s been a long tradition, but the older I get the harder it is to do. I’d rather quit while we’re ahead and it’s still a good show.”

However, Guthrie had more to say about that in another interview with Billboard a few days later. After speaking on his initial trepidation at playing a stage like Carnegie Hall, Guthrie says, “My kids have grown up there, and so have their kids, so to them it’s not a big deal at all. If that stage ever intimidated them, they never let on to me. So it’s just fun for us. I don’t know if that tradition will continue or not once I’m outta here, but I feel it’s up to me to continue it for as long as I’m here, for as long as I’m able to do it.”

Arlo Guthrie
Carnegie Hall, New York, NY

In Times Like These, Coming to Los Angeles, All Over the World, Mr. Tambourine Man, The Times They are A-Changin’, Gypsy Davy, A Satisfied Mind, City of New Orleans, Airline to Heaven, This Land is Your Land

Enc: The Weight, My Peace