2022 Music
Penny Arcade’s Longing Lasts Longer
Pangea NYC 178 2nd Ave, NY, United StatesPenny Arcade and Steve Zehentner return to Pangea with their world-wide hit show. Longing Lasts Longer, an investigation into the difference between nostalgia and longing, illuminates the seismic shifts over the past 50 years.
Bowers Fader Duo
St John’s 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: “No Parental Guidance”
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 80’s and 90’s music scene.
Village Voices
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesGreenwich Village has been home to some of America’s greatest creative minds – poets, composers, innovators, iconoclasts, and free-thinkers. Sopranos Sharon Harms and Adriana Valdes join pianists Joan Forsyth, Cathy Kautsky, Gavin Cappon and the Village Guitar Orchestra to perform songs by 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 ‘70s. 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: I’ll 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, 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'
Now’s the Time! – An Evening with David Amram and Friends Celebrating Jack Kerouac, Charlie Parker, Piri Thomas, and Today’s Young East Village talents
Nuyorican Poets Café 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.
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 Ochs’ 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 on 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 John’s 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.
Karen Mack and Elliot Roth
Pangea NYC 178 2nd Ave, NY, United StatesSongwriters Karen Mack and Elliot Roth present two sets of acoustic jazz, originals, pop/folk covers, and “not standard” takes on standards in Pangea’s restaurant/front lounge.
Glitter in the Gutter: Mermaid Edition
Pangea NYC 178 2nd Ave, NY, United StatesOur two glittering heroines follow the Gutter underwater as the pressures of an Artist’s life above ground gets increasingly thick and heavy. Join us for a splash of gravity-less swankiness under The Sea!
Glass Houses: Celebrating Philip Glass at 85
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesThe Village Trip partners with Victoria Bond and Cutting Edge Concerts to celebrate the legacy of ground-breaking composer Philip Glass.
Bringing It All Back Home to Washington Square with The Klezmatics and Joshua Nelson
Free outdoor concert
Garibaldi Plaza
Washington Square Park, New York, NY, United States
Geographically and spiritually, Washington Square has always been the center of the Village. Bohemia’s beating heart. A place to gather, whether to protest or just hang out, often with a guitar. The now-traditional Village Trip concert in the Park, headlined this year by Grammy-winning local heroes The Klezmatics, celebrates Greenwich Village as “a state of mind with no boundaries.”
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.
Village Composers and Stephen Dembski, featuring soprano Sharon Harms
Tenri Cultural Institute 43A West 13th Street, NY, United StatesGreenwich Village, has a thriving music scene represented in this program of newer and recent works by a diverse group of Village composers. This program of music is dedicated to the memory of composer Stephen Dembski, long-time West Village resident, who died suddenly in summer 2021.
Amanda Reckonwith Returns
Pangea NYC 178 2nd Ave, NY, United StatesInternational diva and Broadway legend in her own mind, “Amanda Reckonwith“ Returns! (after a 25 year retirement/rest cure) to razzle dazzle with high comedy and even higher notes!