The Bitter End
Urban Garage: A Performance Lab for Young Musicians
The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesUrban Garage is a performance lab for young musicians, aged 11-21, interested in genres of music not typically taught in schools - pop, rock, folk, blues, country etc. Through free, monthly open mics, guided jams and community service concerts, kids learn practical skills in musicianship and collaboration from seasoned professionals. This session will be led by founder/director Liz Queler and Seth Farber.
A Parting Glass: Dan Milner, Mick Moloney and Irish Music in Greenwich Village
The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesOur memorial concert honors Dan Milner and Mick Moloney--performers, professors, and impresarios who brought great Irish music to settings as varied as the Eagle Tavern on West 14th Street and classrooms at New York University. Performers include Bonnie Milner, Daniel Neely, their friends, and members of the Washington Square Harp and Shamrock Orchestra.
Stoned Soul Picnic: Diane Garisto & The Laura Nyro Project
The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesSidewalk and pigeon, you look like a city, but you feel like religion to me – Laura Nyro, in her album New York Tendaberry
Laura Nyro was “the very essence of New York City in the most passionate, romantic, and ethereal sense,” said Bette Midler, inducting Nyro into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. At the historic Bitter End, to which Nyro was no stranger, Diane Garisto and the Stoned Soul Picnic band celebrate her remarkable legacy.
Terri Thal and Friends: Greenwich Village and Me
The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesThe event will also be livestreamed.
Terri Thal in conversation with and accompanied by musicians Tom Paxton and Happy Traum. Moderated by Liz Thomson, music journalist and author, and founder of The Village Trip.
Chords of Fame: A Salute to Phil Ochs
The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesA distinguished group of artists, spanning the generations, will offer their interpretations of Ochs’ songs and honor his legacy of social activism. The evening, which will be emceed by Danny Goldberg.
BLUE: celebrating the 50th anniversary of Joni Mitchell’s acclaimed album
The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesHannah Reimann and Michele Temple perform Joni Mitchell's Blue in its entirety, a performance that marks the album’s fifty-year anniversary.
Sing Out! The Village Trip Hootenanny
The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesThis event will also be livestreamed.
A glorious finale to The Village Trip! Join Christine Lavin and friends David Buskin and Robin Batteau, David Massengill, Hannah Reimann, Michele Temple and of course David Amram, Artist Emeritus of the festival, for the now-traditional Village Trip hoot, a celebration of the New York folk revival and its rich and enduring heritage.
Bodies Electric Celebrates the Music of Edgard Varèse, and Frank Zappa and the Psychedelic Circus
The Bitter End 147 Bleecker Street, New York, NY, United StatesFathers of invention – the first wild man of classical music and the cultural gadfly. Two great iconoclasts who never met yet have much in common