Sat, Apr 18
|Lindenwood Park Place
Tom Irwin's Sangamon Songs
Time & Location
Apr 18, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Lindenwood Park Place
About the event
Sangamon Songs: A Musical Play comes to St. Louis
SangSongs Productions in conjunction with CRSTL.FM presents Sangamon Songs: A Musical Play at the Lindenwood Park Place (3460 Jamieson Avenue St. Louis, MO 63139) on Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 7 p.m.
Tickets are available at SangSongs Productions Events Home ($25) or at the door ($30).
The two-act “musical play” combines narration, live music performance and a slide show based on an 1893 diary of a teenage Illinois farm boy. The songs, written by Tom Irwin and originally released on a 2012 recording, follow the life of young Harry Glen Ludlam through six months as documented daily in his diary. Adapted by playwright John W. Arden for the stage in 2018, the show runs about 2 hours with an intermission and was described by Illinois Times as "pure magic." Irwin’s sons John who portrays Harry and
sings, and Owen, who plays…