Bob Webb and Dave Peloquin will give a concert celebrating the music of Woody Guthrie on Friday, July 13, at Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center in Gardiner.

GARDINER — On Friday, July 13, troubadours Dave Peloquin and Bob Webb will celebrate the music of Woody Guthrie on the occasion of his 100th year — and the eve of his actual birthday, July 14, 1912.

Drawing on more than 40 years of experience singing Guthrie’s songs, Peloquin and Webb’s performances combine music, warmth and humor.

Guthrie’s songs of hard times and good people have been celebrated worldwide. His songwriting influenced a generation of icons of American music, including Bob Dylan, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Bruce Springsteen and his son, Arlo Guthrie.

Peloquin and Webb will recount the surprising story of how his legendary “This Land Is Your Land” came to be written, as well as other well-loved songs such as “Hard Travellin’,” “Do-Re-Mi,” and “So Long, It’s Been Good To Know Yuh.”

Webb’s performance career has taken him from New Zealand to Poland, and has included touring with Tom Waits. He began singing Guthrie songs in 1963, and became acquainted with a number of Guthrie’s friends during his last years, including Will Geer, Bess Lomax Hawes, Sam Hinton and Frank Hamilton.

Besides being a talented guitarist, Webb is also a master of the five-string banjo in the “frailing” or “clawhammer” style of the Southern Appalachian mountains. In 1984, he curated “Ring the Banjar!: The Banjo in America from Folklore to Factory,” the first full-scale museum exhibition about the history of America’s “own” musical instrument.

Tickets to the concert at Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center, 280 Water St., are $16 for adults/$6 for students. Call 582-7144.