2023 Music
Songwriting to Save the World!
Workshop with David Roth for Kids Aged 9 to 12
Greenwich House Music School
46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, United States
Join singer and musician David Roth on a journey into songwriting! For kids aged 9 to 12.
The Village Trip at the Eighth Street Block Party
Intersection of Eighth and MacDougal streets Greenwich Village, New York, NY, United StatesDavid Amram, Artist Emeritus of The Village Trip, along with a group of musicians and friends launch The Village Trip 2023, a two-week-plus extravaganza of music, art, poetry, walks, talks and much more. A fun family-friendly street party to herald our fifth neighborhood festival. Hosted by Village Alliance.
Neighbors, Lovers and Friends: Michael Kelly and Brad Moore at Salmagundi
Salmagundi Club 47 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesA world premiere packed evening of classical American art song with Michael Kelly and Bradley Moore at the Salmagundi Club, featuring words and music by an array of the Village's iconic residents, past and present.
Playing for Change: a Play-a-Thon for Ukraine
St Markโs in the Bowery 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY, United StatesA Play-a-Thon for Ukraine which will benefit the Ukraine Childrenโs Action Project. We welcome performers of all ages and abilities playing any instruments. The music will be by Ukrainian composers. Find out more and REGISTER to take part.
Folk, Joke, and Hope Songs โ
A Concert with David Roth
Jefferson Market Library
425 6th Avenue, NY, United States
Today we get together and sing with musician David Roth! Bring friends and family!
From Odesa: Kommuna Lux plus special guests
DROM 85 Avenue A, NY, United StatesMaking its Manhattan debut โ direct from UkraineโKommuna Lux is a hi-energy seven-piece band whose โOdesa gangsta folkโ has been thrilling audiences for almost a decade with its beguiling mix of Klezmer and rowdy speakeasy tunes that have a bohemian Black Sea coastal vibe.
Both Sides of Joni with Alexis Cole, Monika Herzig and Friends
Pangea NYC 178 2nd Ave, NY, United StatesCelebrate the release of Both Sides of Joni, a set of jazz arrangements of Joni Mitchell classics by pianist Monika Herzig, featuring award-winning vocalist Alexis Cole with Peter Kienle, Gina Schwarz, and Cassius Goens.
Terri Thal and Friends: Greenwich Village and Me
The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesThe event will also be livestreamed.
Terri Thal in conversation with and accompanied by musicians Tom Paxton and Happy Traum. Moderated by Liz Thomson, music journalist and author, and founder of The Village Trip.
Wonderful Town โ Jamie Bernstein and Janis Siegel and friends in a seventieth anniversary celebration of Leonard Bernsteinโs great downtown musical
The Public Theater at Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), NY, United StatesA unique and intimate cabaret โ featuring the Maestroโs daughter Jamie Bernstein with Grammy-garlanded Janis Siegel, baritone Michael Kelly, and pianist Yaron Gershovsky, long-time musical director of The Manhattan Transfer. A glorious celebration of songs such as โOhio,โ โPass the Football,โ and โOne Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Manโ โ and the stories behind them.
Mazel! Yiddish Classics Reimagined by an Unlikely Trio
The Public Theater at Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), NY, United StatesCelebrate Rosh Hashanah in the company of Janis Siegel, John Di Martino and Cantor Daniel Kramer for the first live presentation of their highly acclaimed Covid-lockdown album of Yiddish classics with a backbeat.
Jazz for Justice: Freedom First โ We Are With You / Estamos Contigo
Nuyorican Poets Cafรฉ 236 East 3rd Street, NY, United StatesAn all-star concert for Keith LaMar, who has spent almost 34 years in solitary confinement on death row in Ohio for a crime he didnโt commit.
Seeking Refuge: Sounding loss and displacement
St Johnโs in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesPoet Mascha Kalรฉko is your guide to an afternoon of song and chamber music that explores the themes of loss, isolation and displacement common to so many refugees. Soprano Sharon Harms is joined by pianist Joan Forsyth and guitarist William Anderson to perform music by Dawe, Hailstork, Pollock and more.
Living In Twilight with Carol Lipnik and Gordon Beeferman
Pangea NYC 178 2nd Ave, NY, United StatesA harrowing, hysterical look at life on the edge of the apocalypse. A genre-defying, comedic romp through the boneyard of contemporary culture.
Shanah Tovah! A Joyous New Year’sย Musicalย Celebration with Avram Pengas, David Amram & friends
DROM 85 Avenue A, NY, United StatesSongs of New York Cityโs Yiddish theater,ย Sephardic folklore andย theirย global roots will welcome in the new year. Come toย listen, sing along, and dance to theย music ofย both the Ashkenazic andย Sephardicย communities which continue to enrich the music of the world.ย
Statuesque: A Drag Celebration of BIPOC LGBTQ+ Trailblazers
The Stonewall Inn 53 Christopher Street, New York, NY, United StatesA drag celebration of BIPOC LGBTQ+ heroes, Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and Stormรฉ DeLarverie at the Stonewall Inn, the place where it all began. The event, sponsored by The New School, will draw attention to the epidemic of violence against trans women of color that remains more than 50 years later, and will fundraise for the first statue honoring a trans person in New Jersey, commemorating Marsha P. Johnson. Legendary Queen, Harmonica Sunbeam, will host and headline the event.
Zora Rasmussen at Pangea
Pangea NYC 178 2nd Ave, NY, United StatesZora Rasmussen returns for a monthly residency bringing to Pangea a set of smoky vocals with a twist of comedy.
Let Freedom Ring! Music and Voices of the March for Civil Rights, Then and Now
Great Hall at Cooper Union 7 East 7th Street, NY, United StatesIn the Great Hall where Lincoln spoke and the NAACP was born, Let Freedom Ring! Music and Voices of the March for Civil Rights, Then and Now will honor the sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington, with an evening of song, dance, and oratory that address the way our society confronts discrimination, inequality, and oppression.
Julie Gold: Closing the Distance
Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, United StatesAn intimate evening of songs and stories with the inimitable Julie Gold, Greenwich Villageโs own Grammy winner, a singer-songwriter known the world over for โFrom a Distance,โ a song which has been read into the Congressional Record and which was used to wake up the astronauts on the Mir Space Station the very first time the Americans hooked up with the Russians in outer space. Join Julie โ a wonderful raconteur as well as songwriter โ for a very special evening.
Bringing It All Back Home to Washington Square. Free concert with the Peace Poets, People of Earth, & BETTY
Washington Square Arch Washington Square Park, New York, NY, United StatesDue to the high chance of heavy thunderstorms, this concert in Washington Square Park has been cancelled.
Geographically and spiritually, Washington Square has always been the center of the Village. Bohemiaโs beating heart. A place to gather, whether to protest or just hang out, often with a guitar โ and to dance! The signature event of each yearโs Village Trip festival, this concert in the Park brings together a stellar selection of New York City talent: People of Earth, The Peace Poets and BETTY, the award-winning indie rock trio which (as Gloria Steinem puts it) โspreads the most lasting kind of revolutionโ.
It Was 60 Years Ago Today: A Beatles Conversation with Cousin Brucie and Jamie Bernstein
The Loft at City Winery 11th Avenue at 15th Street, New York, NY, United StatesA celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Beatlesโ first visit to America and their historic appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964. The harmonies of the duo Blac Rabbit (โMaybe the Best Beatles Cover Band Ever,โ New York Times) will transport us back to the heady days of Beatlemania.