{"id":12053,"date":"2024-03-06T10:19:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T15:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/?page_id=12053"},"modified":"2024-03-07T07:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T12:04:49","slug":"beatlemania-5-02-24","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/beatlemania-5-02-24\/","title":{"rendered":"The Village Trip Festival: Beatlemania"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An Annual Festival Celebrating Arts and Activism<\/span> across Greenwich Village and the\u00a0East\u00a0Village.<\/h3>\n

The Village Trip 2024 will run from September\u00a014\u00a0through\u00a028.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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BEATLEMANIA 2024-STYLE<\/h2>\n

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February 5, 2024, was indeed a fab, gear and groovy evening at the Loft at City Winery where a sell-out audience \u2013 from as far away as California \u2013 listened with rapt attention to the conversation between legendary radio personality Bruce Morrow and author Jamie Bernstein, and cheered Amiri and Rahiem Taylor, the twins of Blac Rabbit, as though they really were John and Paul.<\/p>\n

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The Beatles Are Coming – pre-show slideshow<\/div><\/div>
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She said, she said – Jamie Bernstein (right) with Blac Rabbit and TVT founder Liz Thomson<\/div><\/div>
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The Fab Four – Friends and Beatlefans since sixth grade. (l-r) Ann Siegel, Jamie Bernstein, Helen Thurston, Barbara Landreth<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Jamie Bernstein and Cousin Brucie – Come Together<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Jamie Bernstein and Cousin Brucie – Good Day, Sunshine<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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It Was 60 Years Ago Today: A Beatles Conversation with Cousin Brucie and Jamie Bernstein<\/strong>, the first of The Village Trip\u2019s quarterly events, kicked off a week of New York City-wide celebrations marking The Beatles\u2019 first landing in America and their epoch-making appearance on\u00a0The Ed Sullivan Show<\/em>, watched by 73 million people \u2013 including the entire Maestro Bernstein clan. Amiri and Rahiem weren\u2019t yet born and feel they missed out on all the fun of Beatlemania.<\/p>\n

Jamie, as big a fan of Cousin Brucie as she is of The Beatles themselves, was in fine form, onstage and off. In the Green Room before the show, she led a Beatles singalong, joyously playing air guitar, harmonica, and drums. On stage, she and Brucie brought their own memories and perspectives to the conversation, each from his or her own side of the transistor radio \u2013 the equivalent in 1964 of a cell phone! Their chat \u2013 and the exhilarating Blac Rabit sets that bookended it \u2013 held the audience spellbound.<\/p>\n

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Blac Rabbit – In My Life<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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Welcoming that audience was a greeting from Jon Keats and Bill Heckle at Liverpool\u2019s Cavern Club, where the Beatles got started: \u201cThe Beatles played here 292 times between 1961 and 1963. They actually made their debut here on the 9th February 1961 and it was a mere three years later, on the same date, that they made their US debut on The Ed Sullivan Show\u2026<\/em> New York and Liverpool, two great historic cities united by The Beatles!\u201d<\/p>\n

The Q&A after the conversation covered a lot of ground \u2013 from how \u201cThe Beatles Are Coming\u201d campaign unfolded, to what \u201cthe boys\u201d themselves were actually like, and of course how it felt to be inside The Beatles\u2019 bubble. Outside the bubble, fans did crazy things\u2014such as hiding themselves in laundry baskets to try and infiltrate the band\u2019s hotel suite, and asking a woman in a neighboring building if they could climb out her bathroom window and somehow reach the Beatles\u2019 hotel room on the other side of a perilous drop. And how John O\u2019Connor, the hotel\u2019s chief engineer disabled The Beatles TV (in those far-off days there was a bulb in the back) so he would be summoned to repair it and have the opportunity to get their autographs for the little girl who lived next door to him in the Bronx. That little girl, Nancy Stern, now all grown up, was in the audience to recall the story! Then there was Merle Frimark, now a celebrated publicity agent who, as a teenager, got herself a job at 1501 Broadway \u2013 The Beatles\u2019 US office \u2013 to help handle the truckloads of fan mail and later, to call\u00a0Cashbox<\/em>, Record World<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u00a0to get the chart reports and then Telex them to London. Occasionally, someone in the studio would Telex back! Nor should we forget the excitement of the demos that arrived routinely.<\/p>\n

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Merle Frimark, who snagged a job working in the Beatles office<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Sue Weisenhaus flew in specially from Fresno, CA<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Hey Jude – Jamie Bernstein leads the singalong<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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The Today Show<\/em>\u00a0team was on hand to interview Jamie and the Cuz before the event, and Les Marshak, the \"voice\" of\u00a0The Today Show<\/em>\u00a0and other NBC programs, was in the audience to made introductions from the floor. Three days later, NBC aired its eight-minute Beatles feature on The Today Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Harry Smith interviews Cousin Brucie for The Today Show<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Harry Smith interviews Jamie Bernstein for The Today Show<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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If you weren\u2019t lucky enough to be at City Winery, you can watch the complete recording of\u00a0It Was 60 Years Ago Today: A Beatles Conversation with Cousin Brucie and Jamie Bernstein <\/strong>\u00a0below<\/a>, and check out The Today Show<\/em> interview<\/a> with Harry Smith. And here\u2019s Lincoln Anderson\u2019s report from The Village Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Be sure to sign up for The Village Trip Newsletter<\/a> and stay up to date with the news, including another quarterly event in May and of course The Village Trip Festival, which takes place this year from September 14-28. Be there or be square!<\/p>\n

Please support The Village Trip<\/h3>\n

We are now a 501c3 non-profit. Make a donation and your gift will be\u00a0matched dollar for dollar<\/a> \u2013 up to $25,000 \u2013 by one of The Village Trip's generous board members. Your support is essential for us to continue producing a festival that captures the spirit of Greenwich Village, so please give whatever you can afford.<\/p>\n

Thanks, and stay tuned!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Jamie Kalikow Gallery of the Event<\/h4>\n

Jamie Kalikow is a New York City-based photographer specializing in music and street photography. She graduated from Syracuse University Newhouse School of Public Communications with a degree in photojournalism. Directly after graduating, she moved to Greenwich Village and has maintained an apartment on Bleecker Street since 1979. From the late 1970s till the present, she has photographed the streets of New York City and in the last decade photographed and videotaped over a thousand NYC music events.<\/p>\n

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