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Chopping Wood: Thoughts & Stories of a Legendary American Folksinger

Assembly Hall, Judson Memorial Church 239 Thompson Street, New York, NY, United States

Come celebrate the long life and inspirational work of Pete Seeger, who died in 2014 aged 94, with David Bernz and Jacob Bernz. David will discuss his latest book Chopping Wood, co-authored with Seeger. David and his son Jacob, a founding member of Clearwater's Power of Song group, will also play some of Seeger's songs.

Free – $20
Event Series Beatnik Greenwich Village

Beatnik Greenwich Village, Walking Tour

Stumpdown Coffee Corner of West 8th & MacDougal Streets, New York, NY, United States

Straighten your shades Daddy-o, Marc Catapano’s walking tour goes right through the heart of Beatnik Greenwich Village. Visit the hottest spots, where the Beatniks made the scene and meet some of its hippest characters, like Jack Kerouac, Jackson Pollock, Lenny Bruce, and Diane DiPrima. Be there or be square!

$30 – $35

Janis Siegel and Friends: Something to Live For – Celebrating the Music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn

Blue Note 31 West 3rd Street, New York, United States

The music of Edward Kennedy Ellington and William Thomas Strayhorn has long been a staple of both the Great American Songbook and the jazz lexicon. This program of lovingly curated music contains some cherished classics, such as “Mood Indigo,” “Prelude to A Kiss,” and “Take The ‘A’ Train,” but also delves into some of the "deeper cuts" like “Star-Crossed Lovers,” “Absinthe (Lament for An Orchid),” and “Johnny Come Lately.”

$30

Genius & Invention: Schoenberg, Ives, Cage & Harrison – An Exploration American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

Celebrating ground-breaking composers Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives at 150 with the Hayley/Laufer duo’s stunning interpretation of the lushly expressionistic Book of the Hanging Gardens, and Ives’ violin and piano sonata. Plus Varied Trio and early keyboard music by unlikely Schoenberg students  Lou Harrison and John Cage. 

$20 – $30

Bob Dylan’s Village Trip: An Evening of Songs and Stories

Café Wha? 115 MacDougal St, New York, NY, United States

“Those early days in the Village were great,” Bob Dylan told his biographer Robert Shelton around 1970, shortly after he had moved into his townhouse on MacDougal Street, trying to recreate the magic of the early 1960s, when there was “music in the cafes at night and revolution in the air.”

$29.15 – $40.31

Quattro Mani American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend

Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, United States

Renowned duo pianists Susan Grace and Steven Beck perform works by Lou Harrison, John Cage, Arnold Schoenberg, John Adams and Fred Lerdahl who, with linguist Ray Jackendoff, developed the Chomsky-inspired generative theory of tonal music, an endeavor inspired by Leonard Bernstein’s Norton Lectures, given at Harvard in 1973.

$17.50 – $25

The Art & Science of Hang-out-ology:
David Amram in Conversation with Cliff Pearson

Lobby Bar at the Washington Square Hotel 103 Waverly Place, New York, NY, United States

David Amram, “Renaissance Man of American Music” and real-life Zelig, is now in his sixth year as Artist Emeritus of The Village Trip. He is the spirit of the festival, and a link to more than a half-century of fabled Village history. Indeed, David has lived much of it—hanging out with the Abstract Expressionists who changed the course of art, jamming with Parker, Monk and Mingus who changed the course of jazz, and composing for the great Joe Papp, who changed the course of theater.

$20

A Parting Glass: Dan Milner, Mick Moloney and Irish Music in Greenwich Village

The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United States

Our memorial concert honors Dan Milner and Mick Moloney--performers, professors, and impresarios who brought great Irish music to settings as varied as the Eagle Tavern on West 14th Street and classrooms at New York University. Performers include Bonnie Milner, Daniel Neely, their friends, and members of the Washington Square Harp and Shamrock Orchestra.

$25 – $30

East Village Underground: Two Centuries of Creativity and Rebellion, Walking Tour

Ottendorfer Library 135 Second Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Join Marc Catapano and uncover the dynamic history of NYC's East Village and its famous underground movements. Explore its radical political past, its avant-garde art, and groundbreaking jazz, rock, and punk scenes. Visit iconic sites like CBGB’s, St Mark’s Place, and Tompkins Square Park, and revel in the area's extraordinary cultural legacy.

$30 – $35

Go Tell It On the Mountain: James Baldwin in Words and Music

Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

Almost 40 years after his death, the words of James Baldwin are ever more resonant, speaking powerfully to us about culture, faith, race, justice, and identity. This celebration of Baldwin’s centennial honors his remarkable legacy with readings directed by actor and playwright Daniel Carlton, plus performances of the jazz, blues and gospel Baldwin listened to as he wrote, as well as new music by Julian Hornik and Nehemiah Luckett inspired by the novels Giovanni’s Room and Another Country.

$25.00

The Music of the West Village from Dylan to Springsteen and Beyond, Walking Tour

11 West 4th Street at Mercer Street 11 West 4th Street at Mercer Street, New York, NY, United States

Join Ann McDermott and visit the venues and hear the stories of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, two of the most prolific and popular artists of our times. Explore the sites of the dimly lit Greenwich Village clubs, such as The Gaslight Café and Gerde’s Folk City, from where they started out.

$30 – $35

Donald Judd Home and Studio, Guided Tour

101 Spring Street 101 Spring Street, New York, NY, United States

One of the most significant artists of the 20th century, Donald Judd challenged boundaries and definitions in the worlds of art, architecture, and design. Renovated in 2013 by Architecture Research Office (ARO), 101 Spring Street tells the story of Judd’s ideas and presents his work as he dictated it should be when he lived and worked there. Adam Yarinsky, a founding principal at ARO, will lead the tour along with a guide from the Judd Foundation.

$17.50 – $32.50

Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square

Village East by Angelika 189 Second Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Film screening at the Architecture & Design Film Festival. Directed by Kelly Anderson, Kathryn Barnier, and Ryan Joseph, this documentary film chronicles a trailblazing housing organizer and her diverse working-class neighbors as they fight Robert Moses, the real estate industry, and five mayors to create the first Community Land Trust in New York City—an oasis of permanent low-income housing in the heart of the rapidly gentrifying Lower East Side.

$13.64 – $17.84

Stand Up & Be Counted! The Village Trip Comedy Night

The Grisly Pear 107 Macdougal Street, New York, NY, United States

A great night of comedy featuring some of the best popular and up-and-coming comic talents in the New York area.

$20

Identity, Gender & Cockette Sexual Anarchy
An Evening of Glamour, Wild Tales, Photos & Films with Cockette Fayette Hauser

The Center 208 West 13th Street (Room 301), NY, United States

Fayette Hauser is a founding member of The Cockettes, performing in San Francisco from 1969 to 1972. In a rare Village performance, Fayette will reflect on the Cockette years with a talk and slideshow that will evoke nostalgia in those who were there and envy in those who missed out. She will also introduce two rarely seen films starring The Cockettes.

$25

Greenwich Village at the turn of the 20th Century, Walking Tour

Christopher Park Corner of Christopher & West 4th Streets, New York, NY, United States

Discover Greenwich Village in the early 20th century, America’s first great Bohemian center. In the company of Marc Catapano, visit landmarks like the Provincetown Playhouse, where Eugene O’Neill revolutionized theater, the Whitney Studio Club, home to the Ashcan School Painters, and the Washington Square Park Arch, where on January 23, 1917 Village Bohemians proclaimed the Free and Independent Republic of Greenwich Village.

$30 – $35

From the Courtyard

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

“Art preserves life in a very special way. Our memories die with us, but art preserves the values and experiences” – Undine Smith Moore

From the Courtyard first recreates the sounds of an East Village tenement courtyard, shared by multicultural immigrant families, then moves into the concert hall to hear how the rich legacy of folk music inspired later generations of composers. The concert features a premiere by Clarice Assad.
Presented in cooperation with the Tenement Museum.

$20 – $30

Bringing It All Back Home to Washington Square

Garibaldi Plaza Washington Square Park, New York, NY, United States

The Village Trip’s signature free concert in Washington Square Park this year celebrates girl power and sister acts! We are thrilled to welcome Tish and Snooky, glam punk rock legends of the Lower East Side; Janie Barnett, acclaimed as both session singer and Americana soloist; and BETTY, the indie rock trio who are Gloria Steinem’s favorite band. A program that’s as diverse as the Village itself.

Free

World Central Kitchen Fundraiser

St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United States

World Central Kitchen is first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. We, as artists, support this non-profit organization with our music and poetry, helping to raise awareness and money for their worthy cause by organizing this event and inviting everyone to join us in supporting World Central Kitchen. 
Presented by Composers Concordance in association with The Village Trip.

$25 – $30

Old-Fashioned Coffee House Night: David Roth and a Singer-Songwriter Showcase

Assembly Hall, Judson Memorial Church 239 Thompson Street, New York, NY, United States

Get into a 1960s groove as Peoples' Voice Café takes you back to the era of subterranean Greenwich Village coffee houses. No microphones, no amps, no speakers and of course no live-streaming. Just acoustic instruments and natural voices with chairs arranged in a circle and the lights low. Home-made music as it was and still can be.

Free – $20