The Village Trip 2024 Full Program

Join Ann McDermott and travel back to the East Village of the 1960s and ‘70s, when the music was rocking, apartments were cheap, and you had to show up in person to buy a ticket! Visit 11 venues, including the Fillmore East, the Bottom Line, and CBGBs, where careers were launched, and stars were born.

Greenwich Village has spawned more influential artists and art movements than any other place in America. Walk the Village streets with artist and historian Marc Kehoe as he traces the history of the Hudson River School, the work of John Sloan and the Ashcan School, and the provocations of Dada in New York.

Straighten your shades Daddy-o, Marc Catapano’s walking tour goes right through the heart of Beatnik Greenwich Village. Visit the hottest spots, where the Beatniks made the scene and meet some of its hippest characters, like Jack Kerouac, Jackson Pollock, Lenny Bruce, and Diane DiPrima. Be there or be square!

Artist and historian Marc Kehoe leads you through the streets of the legendary East Village, cradle of counterculture and home of ground-breaking artists of the 1950s, ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. Though the scene declined in the 1990s, it has experienced a surprising rebirth of galleries and artistic activity in recent years.

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.

Join Marc Catapano and Ann McDermott on a journey of discovery of the Mod, Pop, Happening world of 1960s Greenwich Village. Visit iconic spots like Café Wha? and Kettle of Fish, where legends like Bob Dylan, Edie Sedgwick, and Jimi Hendrix turned the Village into a cultural epicenter. Immerse yourself in the era's wild energy and liberating spirit.

The Lichtenstein studio is not usually open to the public, so this is a special opportunity to explore the place where one of the 20th century’s most important artists created many of his seminal works of Pop Art. The tour will be led by Nick Holmes, the Whitney’s Legal Counsel and a person who was instrumental in the renovation of the building.

Join Ann McDermott and travel back to the East Village of the 1960s and ‘70s, when the music was rocking, apartments were cheap, and you had to show up in person to buy a ticket! Visit 11 venues, including the Fillmore East, the Bottom Line, and CBGBs, where careers were launched, and stars were born.

Straighten your shades Daddy-o, Marc Catapano’s walking tour goes right through the heart of Beatnik Greenwich Village. Visit the hottest spots, where the Beatniks made the scene and meet some of its hippest characters, like Jack Kerouac, Jackson Pollock, Lenny Bruce, and Diane DiPrima. Be there or be square!

Join Marc Catapano and uncover the dynamic history of NYC's East Village and its famous underground movements. Explore its radical political past, its avant-garde art, and groundbreaking jazz, rock, and punk scenes. Visit iconic sites like CBGB’s, St Mark’s Place, and Tompkins Square Park, and revel in the area's extraordinary cultural legacy.

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.

One of the most significant artists of the 20th century, Donald Judd challenged boundaries and definitions in the worlds of art, architecture, and design. Renovated in 2013 by Architecture Research Office (ARO), 101 Spring Street tells the story of Judd’s ideas and presents his work as he dictated it should be when he lived and worked there. Adam Yarinsky, a founding principal at ARO, will lead the tour along with a guide from the Judd Foundation.

Discover Greenwich Village in the early 20th century, America’s first great Bohemian center. In the company of Marc Catapano, visit landmarks like the Provincetown Playhouse, where Eugene O’Neill revolutionized theater, the Whitney Studio Club, home to the Ashcan School Painters, and the Washington Square Park Arch, where on January 23, 1917 Village Bohemians proclaimed the Free and Independent Republic of Greenwich Village.

The edgy East Village has long led the way in cultural revolutions. This tour begins at the first place where Patti Smith read poetry, beginning the journey that led to her breakthrough. Why did she and so many creatives come here? Follow Ann McDermott on a stroll back through East Village music venues of the 1960s and ‘70s and learn about the performing artists who helped shape our culture.

An unmissable tour with authentic Beat poets from the Bowery! You'll visit iconic Beat Generation locations and hear live poetry recited and sung. If you love the Beat Generation and want to truly experience its vibe, to travel back in time and soak up the Beats' energy and passion for life – to get in the groove – then Marcos de la Fuente and Annalisa Marí Pegrum will take you there.
This tour is offered in both English and Spanish.

Join Woody’s grandchildren, Anna Canoni, President of Woody Guthrie Publications, and Cole Quest, of Cole Quest and the City Pickers, on a tour through Woody’s Village streets!

Together, we’ll walk through four locations – each “Almanac House” – where Woody spent his time living, writing, and creating some of his most famous works. Cole will perform songs written at each location.

Straighten your shades Daddy-o, Marc Catapano’s walking tour goes right through the heart of Beatnik Greenwich Village. Visit the hottest spots, where the Beatniks made the scene and meet some of its hippest characters, like Jack Kerouac, Jackson Pollock, Lenny Bruce, and Diane DiPrima. Be there or be square!

Greenwich Village isn’t just about artists, writers, and Bohemians. For almost 150 years, a vibrant Italian-American community has existed on the neighborhood’s southern edge. Starting in Washington Square Park, Marc Catapano will explore the history and cultural legacy of the “Italian Village,” visiting such landmarks as Our Lady of Pompei and St Anthony of Padua, plus sites associated with the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Learn about notable Italian-American locals, such as Gregory Corso, poet and one of the youngest members of the Beat Generation; Diane DiPrima, poet and activist; and mobster Crazy Joey Gallo, "beatnik gangster" and the subject of a Bob Dylan song. And take a dive into the rich Italian culinary legacy, from coffee houses and pizzerias, to bakeries and grocers.

The Original is an immersive walking tour through Greenwich Village with Michael Salgarolo following the strange, hilarious life of Chinese American author H T Tsiang. Alternatively ignored and ridiculed in his own time, Tsiang is now known as a visionary forebearer of modern Asian American literature. His two major novels, The Hanging on Union Square (1935) and And China Has Hands (1937) challenged mainstream representations of Chinese Americans and presented a deeply unhinged satire of the American Dream. The Original explores how the cafeterias, hand laundries, and radical arts scene of the Depression-era West Village inspired Tsiang’s writing and made him an “original.” 

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.