The 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.
As 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.
Freedomland! 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 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.”
The 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.
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.
John French Sloan arrived in Greenwich Village in 1904 and joyfully proceeded to observe and record in oils the rollicking daily life of the neighborhood. Along with his painter friends, dubbed “The Ashcan School,” Sloan changed American art forever. Walk led by artist and historian Marc Kehoe.
