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.
Eliza Garth: Sonatas and Interludes by John Cage American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
St Markโs in the Bowery 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY, United StatesPianist Eliza Garth performs Sonatas and Interludes, John Cageโs 1947 masterpiece for prepared piano, a composition regarded as a formative piano work of the 20th Century. St Markโs Church in-the-Bowery is known and loved as a gathering place for innovative musicians, dancers, and poets, including Allen Ginsberg and Cage.
William Bland: Village Maverick American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
St Johnโs in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesKevin Gorman, praised for his โpassion, technical facility and explosive tonality,โ (Fanfare Magazine) is a champion of the piano music of maverick composer, poet, painter William Bland. He has performed and recorded Bland's epic cycle of piano sonatas for Bridge Records to great acclaim.
The Village Trip GuitarFest 24: Featuring soloists Oren Fader and Giacomo Fiore American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
St Johnโs in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesGuitarFest 24 expands on American Primitive, with the wildly inventive Ictus Novus, the Curtis Guitar Quartet, soprano Sharon Harms, and many of New Yorkโs best guitarists. It features music by American Primitives John Fahey, and Juliรกn Carrillo and works by Paul Lansky, Kyle Miller, David Amram, Agustรญn Castilla-รvila, and Gary Philo, among others.
Stoned Soul Picnic: Diane Garisto & The Laura Nyro Project
The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesSidewalk and pigeon, you look like a city, but you feel like religion to me โ Laura Nyro, in her album New York Tendaberry
Laura Nyro was โthe very essence of New York City in the most passionate, romantic, and ethereal sense,โ said Bette Midler, inducting Nyro into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. At the historic Bitter End, to which Nyro was no stranger, Diane Garisto and the Stoned Soul Picnic band celebrate her remarkable legacy.
Chopping Wood: Thoughts & Stories of a Legendary American Folksinger
Assembly Hall, Judson Memorial Church 239 Thompson Street, New York, NY, United StatesCome 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.
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!
Janis Siegel and Friends: Something to Live For โ Celebrating the Music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
Blue Note 31 West 3rd Street, New York, United StatesThe 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 โMood Indigo,โ โPrelude to A Kiss,โ and โTake The โAโ Train,โ but also delves into some of the "deeper cuts" like โStar-Crossed Lovers,โ โAbsinthe (Lament for An Orchid),โ and โJohnny Come Lately.โ
Genius & Invention: Schoenberg, Ives, Cage & Harrison โ An Exploration American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
St Johnโs in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesCelebrating ground-breaking composers Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives at 150 with the Hayley/Laufer duoโs stunning interpretation of the lushly expressionistic Book of the Hanging Gardens, and Ivesโ violin and piano sonata. Plus Varied Trio and early keyboard music by unlikely Schoenberg students ย Lou Harrison and John Cage.ย
Bob Dylanโs Village Trip: An Evening of Songs and Stories
Cafรฉ Wha? 115 MacDougal St, New York, NY, United StatesโThose early days in the Village were great,โ 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 โmusic in the cafes at night and revolution in the air.โ
Quattro Mani American Primitive & Inventors of Genius Weekend
Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, United StatesRenowned 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 Bernsteinโs Norton Lectures, given at Harvard in 1973.
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, โRenaissance Man of American Musicโ 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 itโhanging 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.
A Parting Glass: Dan Milner, Mick Moloney and Irish Music in Greenwich Village
The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesOur 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.
East Village Underground: Two Centuries of Creativity and Rebellion, Walking Tour
Ottendorfer Library 135 Second Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesJoin 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 CBGBโs, St Markโs Place, and Tompkins Square Park, and revel in the area's extraordinary cultural legacy.
Go Tell It On the Mountain: James Baldwin in Words and Music
Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United StatesAlmost 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 Baldwinโs 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 Giovanniโs Room and Another Country.
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 StatesJoin 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 Cafรฉ and Gerdeโs Folk City, from where they started out.
Donald Judd Home and Studio, Guided Tour
101 Spring Street 101 Spring Street, New York, NY, United StatesOne 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 Juddโs 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.
Rabble Rousers: Frances Goldin and the Fight for Cooper Square
Village East by Angelika 189 Second Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesFilm 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 Cityโan oasis of permanent low-income housing in the heart of the rapidly gentrifying Lower East Side.
Stand Up & Be Counted! The Village Trip Comedy Night
The Grisly Pear 107 Macdougal Street, New York, NY, United StatesA great night of comedy featuring some of the best popular and up-and-coming comic talents in the New York area.
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.