Lafcadio Hearn Project: Four ghost stories for speaker and pianist
Tenri Cultural Institute 43A West 13th Street, NY, United StatesTenri Cultural Institute has a 30-year history of celebrating Japanese and Western culture. The Irish poet Lafcadio Hearn became an important bridge between Japan and the West. Four composers created musical works for narrator with piano based on Hearnโs much loved, โKwaidanโ, a chilling collection of Japanese ghost stories.
David Mills: Glamour + Despair
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.
Picture Book Bohemia: A Childrenโs-Book Walking Tour of Greenwich Village Led by Historian and Critic Leonard Marcus
Opposite the Forbes Building Fifth Avenue & 12th Street, NY, United StatesThis tour is postponed to Sunday 24, at 10am (due to forecast of thunderstorms on Saturday)
Greenwich Village was a vibrant creative crossroads for childrenโs literatureโs greats. On this walking tour, weโll visit the sites where 'Where the Wild Things Are', 'The Very Hungry Caterpiller', and - yes - 'Make Way for Ducklings' were all created + more
In the Wake of the High Line:ย New Architecture in the Far West Village and Hudson Square. Walking Tour with Architect Kyle Johnson
The plaza between the Whitney Museum and the south end of the High Line 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, United StatesExplore the rapidly changing western edge of Greenwich Village and Hudson Square, where luxury apartment towers by star architects and new office complexes for major tech and entertainment companies, are replacing old warehouses and industrial structures.
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.
Horszowski Trio: Chamber music by Village composers
Tenri Cultural Institute 43A West 13th Street, NY, United StatesThe celebrated Horszowski Trio presents music by composers who have livedย in Greenwich Village - Elliott Carter, Paul Chihara, Louis Karchin and Wang Jie, performed alongside Shostakovich's landmark Second Trio.ย The Horszowskiย Trio (Jesse Mills, Ole Akahoshi and Rieko Aizawa) has been described as "eloquent and enthralling" by the Boston Globe.
Electric Circus: presented by Composers Concordance & Marsyas Productions
St Markโs in the Bowery 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY, United StatesComposers Concordance brings together two e-guitar quartets โ Bodies Electric and My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama โ celebrating the Mel Powell centenary and offering new works by William Anderson, Bruce Arnold, Dan Cooper, Jane Getter, Patrick Grant, Kyle Miller, Gene Pritsker, Dave Soldier.
The Intimate Village: A West Village Walking Tour with Critic Michael Kimmelman
Churchill Square corner of Downing Street and Sixth Avenue, New York, United StatesThe event has been rescheduled from Sept. 24 to Saturday, Sept. 30.
Walk the West Village with New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman. The tour will unpack some of the social and cultural history of the Village.
A Tribute to Martin Boykan: Cygnus with Sharon Harms and Jessica Bowers
Loft 393 393 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesC๏ปฟygnus w๏ปฟith soprano Sharon Harms and mezzo Jessica Bowers
P๏ปฟrogram includes:
D๏ปฟavid Claman: The Maldive Shark
M๏ปฟartin Boykan: Diptych (quintet for Cygnus) and Sea Gardens, featuring Sharon Harms, soprano and Joan Forsyth, piano
R๏ปฟichard Festinger, Hidden Spring
C๏ปฟarman Moore: A Village Triptych for guitars, mandolins and soprano (setttings of poems by Gamel Woolsey, Djuna Barnes and Lennox Raphael)
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.
Cannabis + Creativity
Admission is free, but please book tickets below. Attendees must be 21 years or older. Screening of Elana Frankelโs short documentary on six people who use cannabis to enhance their creativity, followed by a discussion with the director and some of the people featured in the film. Presented in conjunction with The Travel Agency, a […]
The Long-Gone But Not-Forgotten 1970s Music Venues of the East Village, Walking Tour
105 Second Avenue at 6th Street 105 Second Avenue at 6th Street, New York, NY, United StatesJoin Ann McDermott and travel back to the East Village of the 1960s and โ70s, when the music was rocking, apartments were cheap, and you had to show up in person to buy a ticket! Visit 11 venues, including the Fillmore East, the Bottom Line, and CBGBs, where careers were launched, and stars were born.
Painting the Village: The Village Trip Art Walk โ A Tour with Artist and Historian Marc Kehoe
Washington Square Arch Washington Square Park, New York, NY, United StatesGreenwichย Villageย has spawned more influentialย artistsย and art movements than any other place in America. Walk theย Villageย streets withย artistย and historian Marc Kehoe as he traces the history of the Hudson River School, the workย of John Sloan and the Ashcan School, and the provocations of Dada in New York.
The Village Trip on West 4th Street
West 4th Street between Jones Street and Barrow Street West 4th Street, New York, United StatesPresented with the West Village BID the festivalโs traditional opening block party takes place this year on West 4th Street, โNew Yorkโs Left Bank,โ centered around the historic Music Inn, a Village fixture for more than half a century, and a hangout for the many musicians who played down the street at Gerdes Folk City and the Bottom Line.
Beatnik Greenwich Village, Walking Tour
Stumpdown Coffee Corner of West 8th & MacDougal Streets, New York, NY, United StatesStraighten your shades Daddy-o, Marc Catapanoโs 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!
The Colors of My Life โ A Cy Coleman Songbook
Janis Siegel & Yaron Gershovsky
Blue Note
31 West 3rd Street, New York, United States
Marking the 20th anniversary of Cy Colemanโs death and the release of Janis Siegel and Yaron Gershovskyโs acclaimed new album, this concert will be an unmissable celebration of the composer of such immortal classics as โWitchcraft,โ โRhythm of Life,โ โThe Best is Yet to Comeโ โ and โThe Colors of My Life.โ
East Village Art Tour with Marc Kehoe
The Cube at Astor Place at Lafayette Street, New York, NY, United StatesArtist and historianย Marc Kehoe leads you through the streets of the legendary East Village, cradle of counterculture and home of ground-breaking artists of the 1950s, โ60s, โ70s and โ80s. Though the scene declined in the 1990s, it has experienced a surprising rebirth of galleries and artistic activity in recent years.
In Memory of Sean Satin
Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, United StatesComposers Concordance presentsย a concert in memory of Sean Satinย as part of The Village Trip Festival. The event celebrates the life of guitarist Sean Satin, who passed away too soon in April 2024. Sean was a guitarist and a teacher at Greenwich House in the West Village, a dear friend, husband, and all-aroundย beautiful person. During the concert, Composers Concordance will launch The Sean Satin Memorial Prize for Guitar. Free to attend but booking required .
Lead Belly: The Man Who Invented Rock & Roll
The Loft at City Winery 11th Avenue at 15th Street, New York, NY, United StatesThe New York City premiรจre of Curt Hahnโs authorized documentary Lead Belly: The Man Who Invented Rock & Roll, which explores the extraordinary journey of music icon Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, one of the most influential figures in 20th-century popular music. As George Harrison once put it: "No Lead Belly, no Beatles."
The Music of the Bard: Words & Music of Shakespeare in the Park 1956-1967
The Public Theater at Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), NY, United StatesโWe have public libraries. Why not public theaters?โย said Joseph Papp, facing down Robert Moses, New York Cityโs infamous โpower broker,โ when the New York Theater Workshop was just two years old. This year marks the 70th birthday of what became Shakespeare in the Park, which we celebrate with David Amram who, from 1956 to 1967, composed the music for 25 of its productions. Gail Merrifield Papp, Joeโs widow andย theatrical partner for 25 years, will be among the friends joining him for this unique evening.ย