When last week’s Arlo Guthrie concert at the Community Arts Center started with a claymation video illustrating the events that place in “The Motorcycle Song,” fans in attendance suspected they were in for a fun and fairly unorthodox evening. They were right.

The performance saw Guthrie play all of his biggest hits, along with a few traditional folk songs and some tunes written by other music legends, including Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. It also included a six-song set from his daughter, Sarah Lee Guthrie, sandwiched in the middle of the show.

After opening things up with the “The Motorcycle Song,” Guthrie played his “Darkest Hour” before performing two songs with a tropical feeling.

The first of those tunes was a cover of Irving Kaufman’s “Ukelele Lady.” The other was a song named “Haleiwa Farewell (Haleiwa Blues),” which Guthrie said he wrote in Hawaii as a goodbye to his castmates on “The Byrds of Paradise.” During the performances of both songs, tropical scenes were shown on the screen behind Guthrie and his band, a pleasant site for those in attendance who braved a pretty brisk evening to make it to the theater.

Those songs were followed up by a cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Gypsy Davy,” which Arlo said his father “stole” from a traditional folk song, though he noted that, “Back in those days they didn’t call it stealing.”

He then told a story of the first time he met Bob Dylan, which happened when he was around 13 years old. After hearing a knock on the door at his family’s home, Guthrie opened it to find a young Dylan standing outside, hoping to talk to his dad. Guthrie said he let Dylan in because he was intrigued by his interesting shoes. That anecdote served as a transition into a cover of Dylan’s “Gates of Eden,” which he played while images of heavenly clouds rolled by on the screen behind him. Guthrie mentioned that he likes to play that particular song because it’s one of Dylan’s darker tracks.

After playing a half-dozen songs or so, Guthrie opened up the stage for his daughter, Sarah Lee Guthrie, to play a six songs of her own. Though you don’t often see a performer leave the stage for such a long period of time in the middle of their own concert, the aging musician was most likely resting his voice for his second set of the night. It also allowed his daughter to play for more fans than she would have seen as an opening act.

Sarah Lee, a gifted singer-songwriter in her own right, played a few of her original songs, including “Seven Sisters,” “Don’t I Fit in My Daddy’s Shoes?,” and “Go Waggaloo.” She also played a powerful untitled track that she wrote about her deceased mother, which was inspired by a vision Sarah Lee’s daughter had on an airplane following her mother’s passing — “She was turning from an angel into a star.” The last original tune she played was also untitled, and she said she had just recently written it. The unnamed track was political in its themes, stressing that we are all “pieces to the puzzle.”

She ended her set with the classic Red Hayes and Jack Rhodes song “A Satisfied Mind,” which saw Arlo re-emerge from backstage to play keyboard and harmonica. Sarah Lee said she was inspired to play that song after “thinking about how the government is being run.”

After the intermission, fans were treated to the night’s biggest highlight, when Guthrie played his 18-minute “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.” The song, which helped launch his career, was performed while scenes from the “Alice’s Restaurant” movie played in the background. After it ended, Guthrie jokingly told fans that he wouldn’t have written the song to be so long if he would have known that he would end up playing it virtually every night of his life.

The second set of Arlo’s performance also included a rousing rendition of “Coming into Los Angeles.” With his most famous performance of that song coming at 1969’s Woodstock Music Festival, fans in attendance were visibly excited to see him play it live during the festival’s 50th anniversary year.

Guthrie also treated fans to a cover of Steve Goodman’s “City of New Orleans,” which he recorded for his 1972 album “Hobo’s Lullaby.”

He closed the show out by playing two more of his father’s songs. The first was “This Land is Your Land” — a song Guthrie said he stopped performing for a while, until his fans urged him to start playing it again. The last song of the evening was Woody Guthrie’s “My Peace,” during which Arlo asked the fans to help him sing the chorus.

When the show had ended, all of those in attendance seemed satisfied with the way the evening had gone. Guthrie played all of the songs he is most well known for, and sprinkled in his classic humor and charm between the tracks. Fans also got to hear some stories that they had likely never heard before. Most importantly, Guthrie’s voice — which had a little gravel in it during his stories between songs — sounded fantastic when he was singing.

If he ever makes it back to Williamsport for a third time (fingers crossed), I think it’s safe to say Guthrie will have a big audience waiting to see him.