On May 28, Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion will perform an acoustic duo set at Union Hall in Brooklyn, NY. The duo tours in support of their debut collaborative album, Exploration, and Irion’s recently recorded solo effort, Ex Tempore. Show is at 702 Union Street at 7:30. $12/$14 bucks gets you in.

The granddaughter of legendary folk music icon Woody Guthrie, and daughter of Arlo Guthrie, Sarah Lee Guthrie and her songwriter-guitarist husband Johnny Irion (Dillon Fence, Queen Sarah Saturday) team up for an essential collection of unadorned American roots songs on their critically acclaimed debut duo release, Exploration. A follow-up to their simultaneously released 2001 solo records (Sarah Lee Guthrie, Unity Lodge) on Arlo’s Rising Son label, Exploration marks an inspired contemporary folk-rock album drenched with sweet caressing harmonies, high-lonesome folk melodies and an incredibly rocking rhythm section including members of The Jayhawks, Son Volt and Tift Merritt’s band. The release is produced by Gary Louris (The Jayhawks) and Ed Ackerson, and mixed by Tom Rothrock (Beck, Elliot Smith), featuring 11 original compositions and a previously unrecorded Pete Seeger composition, "Dr. King."