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.
Georgia O’Keeffe described music as being able to be “translated into something for the eye.” This unique concert features music inspired of by three of New York City’s most iconic artists, all of whom lived and worked in Greenwich Village and shared the heartbeat of the city: Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe and Jackson Pollock. The concert – presented in partnership with Cutting Edge Concerts – takes place in an elegant art-filled Italianate townhouse that for over 150 years has been home to one of New York City’s most celebrated arts clubs.
A publication-day conversation with Rolling Stone senior writer David Browne, whose latest book, Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital – based on 150 interviews and previously unseen documents – is an enthralling and long-overdue history of music’s most influential neighborhood. And what better place for an intimate chat than the fabled MacDougal Street coffeehouse that was once home to Pete and Toshi Seeger!
