Events
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“Who Are We?” Songwriting Workshops for Kids
Anew 526 Hudson Street, New York, NY, United StatesTwo very special songwriting and performance workshops with award-winning singer-songwriters and storytellers! The events are specially created for children aged 6 - 12 years old, all of whom will be encouraged to dig deep into their hearts to explore, wonder, and write about "Who Are We?".
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The Republic of Greenwich Village: Birthplace of the American Avant-Garde, walking tour
Washington Square Arch at Fifth Avenue & Washington Square North NY, United StatesFollow artist and historian Marc Kehoe through the streets of what, in January 1917, Duchamp declared to be “the Republic of Greenwich Village” and visit locations where the artists lived, worked, and partied.
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The Slambovian Circus of Dreams: FREE CONCERT
Gansvoort Plaza 38 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, United StatesThe Village Trip’s signature event – this time in an exciting new venue: Gansevoort Plaza! Still free of course, and taking place as usual on the final Saturday of the festival.
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Notes from a Life: An Evening with Allen Shawn
Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street, New York, NY, United StatesAn intimate evening in the company of Allen Shawn, author, pianist, and composer whose six-year sojourn in the West Village marked a creative turning point when – influenced by his friendship with clarinetist Benny Goodman – he began blending classical music with elements of jazz. His lively music is characterized by emotional directness and an openness to a variety of idioms. “Notes from a Life” is a sonic diary featuring chamber pieces from across four decades by this multifaceted musician celebrated for his “distinctly urban energy.”
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The Peoples’ Voice Café: Pamela Jean Agaloos + Cactus Rose
Assembly Hall, Judson Memorial Church 239 Thompson Street, New York, NY, United StatesWhat better way to end the second Saturday of The Village Trip than in the warm company of the Peoples’ Voice Café, featuring Pamela Jean Agaloos, a familiar face on New York’s Irish/Scottish trad scene, and Cactus Rose NYC, a Native Americana act from Lenapehoking.
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Classical Cool: Ich Bin Ein New Yorker – A Concert for Kids and Families
St Mark’s Church in the Bowery 131 East 10th Street, New York, NY, United StatesClassical Cool is the festival’s annual concert for children and families and this year, with Ich Bin Ein New Yorker, it honors the New York spirit and the East Village community at its heart. Hosted by Nina Bernstein Simmons, the program features excerpts from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story, and his "Ode to Freedom" from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, performed at his Christmas concert in Berlin in 1989, a year of hope and peaceful revolutions. Classical Cool also features premières by Shoko Suzuki, and William Kentner Anderson. Community African drummers under Amos Gabia and local choral ensembles join The Village Trip Festival Orchestra, conducted by Garrett Keast of the Berlin American Academy of Music. Featured soloists include the winner of our Concerto Competition, and soprano Curtlyn Ifill.
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The Greenwich Village Folk Festival: Live 40th Anniversary Concert
Great Hall at Cooper Union 7 East 7th Street, NY, United StatesThe Village Trip is proud to be working with Rod MacDonald and Raymond Micek to co-present The Greenwich Village Folk Festival at 40, a very special all-star celebration of the rich legacy of folk music in the Village. In the 1960s, the sounds of the folk revival reverberated around the world, but the roots of that revival can be traced back to the 1940s when the neighborhood was a cheap, bohemian refuge for radicals, artists, and writers – among them Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, both of whom sang in the Great Hall at Cooper Union where the folk community will gather once more to raise its voice in song.
$50 – $60