The Ahn Trio: Homage to Sting

Those who came to Bernstein Remix at TVT2025 will already be acquainted with The Ahn Trio, whose exciting and innovative collaborations have wowed audiences around the world. We’re delighted to welcome them back with The Art of Collaboration: Sting, Jobim and Baechle.

Inspired by Sting's 1994 collaboration with Antonio Carlos Jobim on the song "Insensatez", The Ahn Trio celebrates music that transcends genres and borders with a performance of Dusan Bogdanovic's Suite of Six Songs by Sting reimagined through the lens of chamber music. They will be joined by renowned guitarist James Moore. The Trio – sisters Maria, cello, Lucia, piano, and violinist Khullip Jeung – will also present the world première of an exciting new work by Emmy Award–winning composer Mark Baechle. We can’t wait.

The Ahn Trio with James Moore
Nehemiah Luckett

Nehemiah Luckett: Song Cycle

We have other important premières too: Nehemiah Luckett, no stranger to the festival, returns with a song cycle for voice and piano commissioned by the ASCAP Foundation Charles Kingsford Fund and The Village Trip. Let It Be Told to the Future World: Reckoning with the American Experiment at 250, is a new multi-movement work for piano and voice created for the 250th anniversary of American Independence. Beginning with Thomas Paine’s words “These are the times that try men’s souls,” the piece gathers American writings across generations—especially from Black, Indigenous, immigrant, women, and other marginalized voices—to ask what the American experiment has promised, what it has betrayed, and what it still might become.

Ella Milch Sheriff

Ella MiIch-Sheriff: Poems by Mascha Kaléko

Ella MiIch-Sheriff makes her Village Trip debut with settings for voice, cello and piano of poems by Mascha Kaléko, who came to the Village in 1942 as a refugee, living at the other end of Minetta Street from Saul Bellow. Her writing vividly evokes the Village, which she regarded as “a hotbed of genius,” and “the melting pot in the melting pot.” The song cycle was commissioned by the Roger Shapiro Fund and The Village Trip from Milch-Sheriff, whose opera Alma was nominated for the 2025 International Opera Award.

Victoria Bond

Victoria Bond: Sirens Episode #11

Victoria Bond, a pioneering conductor as well as a distinguished composer, is now (we are pleased to say) something of a Village Trip stalwart. Her featured works have included Dancing Colors, inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe, and Dancing on Glass, Victoria’s 85th birthday tribute to composer Philip Glass. Last year, The Village Trip presented “Leopold Bloom’s Homecoming” from her opera Ulysses, and we’ll be continuing that story this year with a truly unique performance of the Sirens Episode #11 in which James Joyce has flirtatious barmaids seduce male patrons with their irresistible singing! Stay tuned!

Greenwich Village Folk Festival: 40th Anniversary Concert

Finally for now, The Village Trip is honored to be presenting the 40th anniversary concert of the Greenwich Village Folk Festival, launched as “a gift to the community” and celebrating the rich history of folk music in the Village.

    • Suzanne Vega,
    • Noel Paul Stookey of Peter Paul & Mary,
    • John McCutcheon,
    • Kirsten Maxwell,
    • Kenny White,
    • Cliff Eberhardt,
    • David Massengill

    and many more will feature in the festival’s all-star closing concert in the Great Hall of Cooper Union which has hosted such giants of the folk scene as Pete Seeger, Odetta, Richie Havens, and Judy Collins, not to mention the fiftieth anniversary broadcast of Oscar Brand and the WNYC Folk Festival.

    The Greenwich Village Folk festival ran annually until 1994 and was revived in 2020 with monthly online concerts that brought joy to musicians and audience alike as Covid deprived everyone of the gift of live music. Producers Raymond Micek and Rod MacDonald were motivated by the success of the online concerts to create this very special live event. Said Rod, a celebrated singer-songwriter in his own right who will also be performing.

    "The music of the Village has inspired writers, singers, and fans for decades, not only for its commercial success but for its insight, relevance, and originality. We consider ourselves part of the movement to continue this great tradition and are very pleased to share this event and this ideal with The Village Trip."

The Village Trip Poster 2026

We’ll be back again very soon with more irresistible goodies, but before we sign off, we’re thrilled to be able to share with you Marc Kehoe’s splendid poster for The Village Trip 2026. Marc is an East Village-based artist, art historian and tour guide, and he’s been a key part of Team TVT since 2022. This relationship grew out of a chance encounter on the A-Train en route to the Women March in 2017. We’ve been marching together ever since.

The Village Trip poster 2026 by Marc Kehoe

Let’s all keep our eyes on the prize.

Liz & Cliff