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Classical Cool: Ich Bin Ein New Yorker: Orchestral Concert for Young People

Classical 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.

The Greenwich Village Folk Festival: Live 40th Anniversary Concert

The 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.