[image: Ann McDermott with a tour group at Washington Square Park, scene of the folk riots]
Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, The Mamas & The Papas, Bruce Springsteen…. So many great careers were launched on the rickety stages of Greenwich Village. Join Ann McDermott for a trip “down the foggy ruins of time” to learn the real stories behind A Complete Unknown and the lives of Dylan, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez. Hear how The Woodstock Festival of Music and Art had its origins on Village streets.
Gerdes Folks City, the Gaslight, the Bitter End, Kenny’s Castaways, the Bottom Line, Café Au-Go-Go – venues which played a part in launching the careers of some of America’s most beloved artists. All of them were in the heart of Greenwich Village. There’s a reason why “The Village” was the first place to which Bob Dylan and so many others gravitated. They knew this was where it was all happening! The tour will visit these and other places that played a huge part in the stories of so many acclaimed artists, people like Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Dave van Ronk, Phil Ochs, Janis Ian and Joni Mitchell, as well as hundreds of others. In some cases, their lives were transformed by just one conversation or one performance in a dimly lit basement on MacDougal Street. Join Ann on a walk back in time to the real-life locales depicted in A Complete Unknown and tread not only in the footsteps of Bob and Bruce, but some of their female counterparts as well.
STARTING LOCATION: 1 W 4th Street at the corner of Mercer and W 4th Street (Hebrew Union College)
