Bowers Fader Duo
St Johnโs in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesCutting Edge Concerts joins The Village Trip to present the Bowers Fader Duo performing both classical and contemporary repertoire. Their ongoing mission is to promote new American art songs for mezzo and guitar, through commissions, performances, and recordings.
Sophia Ramos: โNo Parental Guidanceโ
Pangea NYC 178 2nd Ave, NY, United StatesA music filled storytelling journey about the life of a perpetually irreverent Nuyorican Rock and Roll singer, cutting her teeth in the downtown 80โs and 90โs music scene.
Sixty-five Joyous Years in the Village, from Kerouac, Mingus, Monk, and Jackson Pollock to the New Voices of Today: Walking Tour with David Amram
Washington Square Arch at Fifth Avenue & Washington Square North NY, United StatesA truly unique opportunity to join Village Trip Artist Emeritus David Amram on a walk through his colorful life. David has known them all, played with them all โ among them Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Oscar Pettiford, and Pete Seeger.
Walk on the Wild Side: Lou Reed’s New York Walking Tour with Jesse Rifkin
100 East 17th Street 100 East 17th Street, NY, United StatesโIโm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. Weโre here. We are quintessential Americans โ weโre not only American, but New York-American.โ New York was Lou Reedโs city, and he was a crucial part of so many scenes.
East Village TV & Movie Sites Walking Tour
Puck Building 295 Lafayette Street, NY, United StatesTake part in the action of downtown NYC! On the East Village TV & Movie Sites Walking Tour, you'll be able to pose in front of The Puck Building featured in Will & Grace and American Psycho; explore St. Markโs Place to see locations from Desperately Seeking Susan, Broad City and Mad Men; visit Venieroโs […]
Village Voices
St Johnโs in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesGreenwich Village has been home to some of Americaโs greatest creative minds โ poets, composers, innovators, iconoclasts, and free-thinkers. Sopranos Sharon Harms and Adriana Valdes join pianistsย Joanย Forsyth, Cathy Kautsky, Gavin Cappon and the Village Guitar Orchestra to perform songs byย Henry Cowell, John Cage, Edna St Vincent Millay, Djuna Barnes, Robert Frost, Margaret Bonds, James Baldwin, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Tania Leon and Willa Cather. Exciting new settings by composers William Anderson, Nehemiah Luckett, Jonathon Dawe, Kitty Brazelton and Gavin Cappon enliven the program.
Howling For Jeremy Steig
3rd Sunday Jazz 6BC Botanical Garden 624 East 6th Street, NY, United StatesA Solo Flute Festival of Improvised Solos to Remember Jeremy Steig.
With flutists Cheryl Pyle, Haruna Fukazawa, Gene Coleman, John Kruth, Jay Rodriguez, Nick Gianni, Sylvain Leroux, Connie Grossman, Premik Russell Tubbs, Mary Cherney, and more.
The Village & Phil Ochs: Composers Interpret Phil Ochs
DROM 85 Avenue A, NY, United StatesPhil Ochs was part of the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960s and โ70s. He wrote protest songs in the spirit of Joe Hill and Woody Guthrie, and like Guthrie he was also a poet and journalist. His is an enduring legacy.
Janis Siegel: Iโll Take Manhattan
The Public Theater at Joe's Pub 425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place), NY, United StatesNine-time Grammy winner and founding member of The Manhattan Transfer,ย Janis Siegel, waxes rhapsodic about her beloved city in song and word. She will be assisted by two master musicians, John di Martino on piano and Boris Koslov on bass. The songs are diverse, romantic, bittersweet, vintage, modern, and full of heart and history, just like New York City itself.
Carol Lipnik, presented by TWEED
Pangea NYC 178 2nd Ave, NY, United StatesCarol Lipnik, the spellbinding, darkly humorous singer and songwriter returns to Pangea to perform selections from her two new albums, 'Blue Forest' and 'Goddess of Imperfection'
Jack Kerouac: Then and Now
Jefferson Market Library 425 6th Avenue, NY, United StatesAs part of the festivalโs Jack Kerouac 100 celebrations, a distinguished panelโHolly George-Warren, Joyce Johnson, Anne Waldman, and David Amram - will reflect on aspects of the writerโs life in New York City generally and the Village in particular and discuss his enduring legacy.
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Whitney Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art 555 West Street, NY, United StatesAn overview of the Whitney Museumโs Renzo Piano-designed building, and a behind the scenes view of spaces rarely open to the public.
Talented Punk and Rad Women Walking Tour
Former residence of Emma Goldman 208 East 13th Street, NY, United StatesJoin acclaimed public historian Kathleen Hulser on an exciting Village Trip walking tour to discover the Downtown streets that evoke the memory of generations ofย female radicals, punks, talented writers and singers who called the East Village their home.
Nowโs the Time! โ An Evening with David Amram and Friends Celebrating Jack Kerouac, Charlie Parker, Piri Thomas, and Todayโs Young East Village talents
Nuyorican Poets Cafรฉ 236 East 3rd Street, NY, United StatesCome celebrate the historic role and impact the Beats and bebop and jazz artists played in the rise of the contemporary East Village arts scene. Includes a screening of Pull My Daisy & film tribute to Charlie Parker.
Bad, Rad, and Boho Women of the Village Walking Tour
Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United StatesJoin public historian Kathleen Hulser to hear about mavericks such as Emma Goldman, Isadora Duncan, Dorothy Day, Mabel Dodge, Louise Bryant, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lorraine Hansberry, Nina Simone, Jane Jacobs, and Angela Davis and the many other rebellious spirits who left their mark on Greenwich Village โ and on the world.
Womenโs Rights are Human Rights: Eleanor Rooseveltโs Legacy
LGBTQ Center 208 W 13 Street, NY, United StatesA panel, chaired by public historian Kathleen Hulser, will assess the legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt, a brave woman ahead of her time whose beliefs were shaped by her life in the Village.
Chords of Fame: A Salute to Phil Ochs
The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesA distinguished group of artists, spanning the generations, will offer their interpretations of Ochsโ songs and honor his legacy of social activism. The evening, which will be emceed by Danny Goldberg.
Hot Summer Jazz Series: Jay Clayton Quartet
Pangea NYC 178 2nd Ave, NY, United StatesInternationally acclaimed vocalist, composer, and educator, Jay Clayton, will be joined on stage by Jay Anderson on bass and Ed Neumeister onย trombone.
Heather Patterson King: The Voices in my Head
Pangea NYC 178 2nd Ave, NY, United StatesJoin Heather Patterson King on a humorous and reflective musical journey through the voices that made her the performer she is today.
Charlie Parker & Stefan Wolpe
St Johnโs in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesCharlie Parker was crucial to the development of bebop, a uniquely American artform that thrived in Greenwich Village. Composer Stefan Wolpe fled the Nazis and settled in the Village, teaching avant-gardists and jazz musicians alike, forming a friendship with the jazz radical.