Framing the Village: FREEDOMLAND!
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesFreedomland! celebrates the West Village, the East Village, and the Lower East Side. Freedomland: Where we experiment, where we create, where we have freedom to be who we are!
Saturdays 1pm - 6pm + Tuesday, September 23 and Tuesday, October 7, 6pm - 8 pm
Bringing It All Back Home to Washington Square
Garibaldi Plaza Washington Square Park, New York, NY, United StatesThe Village Trip’s signature event, this free concert in Washington Square Park anchors the festival’s final weekend. This year, it will bring the soulful sounds of Kennedy Administration, whose sonic tapestry weaves together jazz, R&B, hip-hop, and pop. Also on the bill: Dali Rose.
ETHEL at the Met
Mezzanine at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, United StatesAs part of their regular residency at the Met, acclaimed string quartet ETHEL with guitarist Kyle Miller offer a preview performance of Miller’s Plea and A Minimum of Mountain, new works for electric guitar and string quartet commissioned by The Village Trip.
The Bergamot Quartet: Three World Premières
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesThe ever-innovative Bergamot Quartet performs world premières – by Samuel Adler, Louis Karchin, and Eli Greenhoe. The virtuosic yangqin player Cheng Jin Koh joins the quartet for a performance of her work Mountain of Echoing Halls.
Greenwich Village to Woodstock: The Greenwich Village Rock and Pop Scene of the 1960s, Walking Tour
Bagel Pub 815 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesTake a trip to the Mod, Pop, Happening world of 1960s Greenwich Village, when the streets turned from black and white to Technicolor. Visit the Night Owl Cafe, where the Lovin’ Spoonful re-invented folk music, the Cafe Bizarre, where the Velvet Underground re-invented rock and roll, and the Cafe Wha? where Jimi Hendrix re-invented guitar playing. Discover Trude Heller’s, New York’s most swinging go-go dance club, and delve into Bruce Springsteen’s garage rock beginnings. Experience the era’s explosive energy that ignited revolutions in music, art, and fashion that directly led to the 1969 Woodstock Festival, with 400,000 souls the biggest “happening” of the decade. Join Marc Catapano to relive this magical, transformative time.
ETHEL with Kyle Miller, electric guitar
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesAcclaimed guitarist-composer Kyle Miller joins the ever exciting and eclectic string quartet ETHEL for a dynamic program rooted in their shared New York City songbooks.
Composers Concordance: Ciabatta Cantata
St Mark’s in the Bowery 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY, United StatesComposers Concordance and friends explore themes of food and politics in new music for chorus, guitar and theorbo. The program includes music by Gene Pritsker, Dan Cooper, and William Anderson. Enjoy fresh ciabatta from the Grandaisy Bakery during the performance.
Unsung Heroes and Untold Stories: Another Side of the Village Folk Scene
Café Wha? 115 MacDougal St, New York, NY, United StatesLong before Dylan electrified Newport and folk-rock became a mainstream cultural movement, Greenwich Village was already humming with voices, stories, and songs that rarely made the headlines—but shaped a generation. Cafés and clubs echoed with the music of Fred Neil, Karen Dalton, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pat Sky, Tim Hardin, Bonnie Dobson, Richie Havens, Dave Van Ronk, and many others who helped define the soul of a movement.
Framing the Village: FREEDOMLAND!
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesFreedomland! celebrates the West Village, the East Village, and the Lower East Side. Freedomland: Where we experiment, where we create, where we have freedom to be who we are!
Saturdays 1pm - 6pm + Tuesday, September 23 and Tuesday, October 7, 6pm - 8 pm
The Queen of Bohemia Looks Forward to Meeting You!
The Francis Kite Club 40 Avenue C (between 3rd and 4th streets), New York, NY, United StatesThe Occasion: The publication of author Eve Kahn’s Queen of Bohemia Predicts Own Death a biography of Lower East Side activist journalist and party person Zoe Anderson Norris (1860-1914)
The Event: There will be cocktails, mocktails, signed books, tiaras, music by DJ Pepe Flores, a presentation of Zoe Anderson Norris’s life and works and an extraordinary panel of contemporary “Queens of Bohemia” in conversation with Eve Kahn.
The Topic: If the Past is Prologue (yes, talking about you Zoe) what will we do about the Future?
Framing the Village: FREEDOMLAND!
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesFreedomland! celebrates the West Village, the East Village, and the Lower East Side. Freedomland: Where we experiment, where we create, where we have freedom to be who we are!
Saturdays 1pm - 6pm + Tuesday, September 23 and Tuesday, October 7, 6pm - 8 pm
Framing the Village: FREEDOMLAND!
St John’s in the Village 218 W 11th St, New York, NY, United StatesFreedomland! celebrates the West Village, the East Village, and the Lower East Side. Freedomland: Where we experiment, where we create, where we have freedom to be who we are!
Saturdays 1pm - 6pm + Tuesday, September 23 and Tuesday, October 7, 6pm - 8 pm