{"id":8096,"date":"2023-06-23T09:30:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T13:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/?page_id=8096"},"modified":"2024-01-31T04:58:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:58:47","slug":"the-village-trip-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/the-village-trip-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The Village Trip Festival 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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REVIEW OF 2022: Let the Good Times Roll<\/h2>\n

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\n\tThe Village Trip 2022 ended as it had begun \u2013 fun in the sun, people dancing to the beat which never stops. David Amram and Friends on Eighth Street, The Klezmatics and Joshua Nelson in Washington Square Park. \u201cLet the good times roll,\u201d the great Antoinette Montague commanded.<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>
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Artist and exhibition curator Marc Kehoe opens Framing the Village at the Revelation Gallery (Cliff Pearson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Photo wall at Framing the Village (John Eng)<\/div><\/div>
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Renee Manning with David Amram and Friends on Eighth Street (Jamie Kalikow)<\/div><\/div>
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Fun in the sun on Eighth Street (Jamie Kalikow)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Instead of delivering a speech, Council Member Erik Bottcher brought his guitar. Here he jams with Dave Keyes (Jamie Kalikow)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Rene Hart, bass, and Jerome Harris (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div>
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Tilted Axes (Jamie Kalikow)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Urban cool Patrick Grant, front, and Tilted Axes (Cliff Pearson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Let the good times roll: Antoinette Montague (right) with Renee Manning and David Amram (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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William Anderson conducts the guitar orchestra Sheer Pluck at Ah, Let\u2019s Go Back to the Village (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Soprano Elizabeth Farnum with Sheer Pluck, at the finale of Ah, Let\u2019s Go Back to the Village (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Yoshiko Kline and Ken Radnofsky at Classical Jack, the celebration of Kerouac and classical music (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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William Anderson goes electric at Classical Jack (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Soprano Elizabeth Farnum with guitarists William Anderson (left) and Oren Fader at Classical Jack (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Classical Jack: composer David Amram at the piano for Pull My Daisy, the music he wrote for Jack Kerouac\u2019s \u201cpetit flic\u201d (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n \n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>
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And they did, across two weeks and three weekends, Greenwich Village and the East Village \u2013 Washington Square Park to Tompkins Square Park. The Village Trip celebrated the neighborhoods, showing off not just their great legacies but also their continuing vibrancy. The spirit \u2013 artistic, activist \u2013 of which Robert Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian, spoke of in his inaugural Village Trip lecture, titled \u201cGlobal Greenwich Village,\u201d was everywhere evident. At the Nuyorican Poets Caf\u00e9, where David Amram, Bobby Sanabria, Jennifer Jade Ledesna, Marcos de la Fuente and Loisaida musicians celebrated the Beats and bebop in an evening organised by Lyn Pentecost and Pepe Flores of La Sala de Pepe y Foto Espacio, the infectious joy and energy of the evening made it seem that all things are possible. As Charlie Parker said: Now is the time!<\/em> Amen to that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Wonderful Town: Jamie Bernstein (left) and Janis Siegel in cabaret at North Square Lounge. In the background: Yaron Gershovsky on keyboard and baritone Michael Kelly (Cliff Pearson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\u201cSomewhere\u201d \u2013 Jamie Bernstein, Janis Siegel, and Michael Kelly close with a number from Bernstein\u2019s Uptown musical, West Side Story (Cliff Pearson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Michael Kelly \u2013 \u201cPass the Football.\u201d one of Wonderful Town\u2019s many witty numbers (Cliff Pearson)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Jamie Bernstein leads a unique walking tour celebrating the locales associated with Wonderful Town, the Downtown musical composed by her father, Leonard Bernstein, with Betty Comden and Adolph Green (Cliff Pearson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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David Amram and Janis Siegel (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div>
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Soprano Sharon Harms with the CompCord Chamber Orchestra at the Players Theater for Songs and Poems from the Village (Peter Fokas)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Suzanne Vega debuts her \u201cSong for Mariupol\u201d with the CompCord Chamber Orchestra (Peter Fokas)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Poez reading with the CompCord Chamber Orchestra (Peter Fokas)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Gene Pritsker (center), the CompCord Chamber Orchestra and guests, acknowledge the full house (Peter Fokas)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Suzanne Vega (center) with Cliff Pearson and Liz Thomson (Dan Scheffey)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Mark Levine, Manhattan Borough President, at the Jefferson Market Library introducing the inaugural Village Trip Lecture by Professor Rob Snyder (Cliff Pearson)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Professor Rob Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian, speaks on \u201cGlobal Greenwich Village\u201d (Cliff Pearson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Marc Peloquin celebrates David Del Tredici at 85 in Secret Music at St John\u2019s in the Village (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Marcos de la Fuente reads Jack Kerouac at Children of the American Bop (and Mambo) Night at Joe\u2019s Pub (Cliff Pearson)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Jennifer Jade Ledesna with Bobby Sanabria and David Amram at Joe\u2019s Pub (Cliff Pearson)<\/div><\/div>
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Janis Siegel (left) and Lauren Kinhan with Bobby Sanabria and friends at Joe\u2019s Pub (Cliff Pearson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The bop and mambo kings: Bobby Sanabria (left) and David Amram (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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From left: David Amram, Antoinette Montague, Jennifer Jade Ledesna, Marcos de la Fuente, Janis Siegel and Lauren Kinhan with Bobby Sanabria closing Children of the American Bop (and Mambo) Night) <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>
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What Maestro Leonard Bernstein called \u201cthe infinite variety of music\u201d was on offer: Classical and New Music at St John\u2019s in the Village, Tenri Cultural Institute, and the Players Theater. William Anderson thoughtfully curated concerts that crossed genres, pushed boundaries, and took us on any number of stimulating journeys criss-crossing the rich musical history of the Village, East and West.<\/p>\n

There were premi\u00e8res \u2013 from David Amram, Gene Pritsker and Suzanne Vega, the latter inventively paired with Composers Concordance. There was jazz in all its vibrant glory. Amram and Sanabria and a host of friends raising the roof at Joe\u2019s Pub as they celebrated The Children of the American Bop (and Mambo) Night.<\/p>\n

The great Janis Siegel, in another sold-out gig at Joe\u2019s, sang an exquisite and heartfelt tribute to her beloved New York City. And of course, there was Janis and Jamie Bernstein, the Maestro\u2019s daughter, and their friends with an exclusive and utterly enthralling evening honoring Wonderful Town<\/em>, a musical set in mid-century Greenwich Village bohemia. It\u2019s getting an Uptown transfer \u2013 need we say more!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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At the Strand, director David Deblinger introduces the all-star reading of Jack Kerouac\u2019s On the Road (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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David Amram (right) with son Adam (left) and Rene Hart prepare to play for On the Road, as David did for Jack Kerouac himself (David Ryzman\/Moonrise Media)<\/div><\/div>
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At the Strand, Dael Orlandersmith and Jose Rivera in the Strand\u2019s Rare Book Room awaiting the audience for On the Road (David Ryzman\/Moonrise Media)<\/div><\/div>
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Kevin Corrigan, Stephanie Berry, Dael Orlandersmith and Mercedes Ruhle listening to fellow readers of On the Road (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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John Ventimiglia reading On the Road (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Stephanie Berry, the final reader of On the Road (Cliff Pearson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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David Deblinger with Questlove, who joined the audience at the Strand (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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In an East Village Botanical Garden, flutists gather to celebrate fellow flutist Jeremy Steig, who died in 2016 (Dan Scheffey)<\/div><\/div>
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Village Voices: sopranos Sharon Harms (left) and Adriana Valdez celebrate Village poets and composers (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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I\u2019ll Take Manhattan: Janis Siegel honours New York City in song at Joe\u2019s Pub (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Taking Manhattan: Janis Siegel with (from left) John di Martino, Boris Koslov, and Bobby Sanabria (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The Village and Phil Ochs: At Drom, Gene Pritsker conducts (from left) Joan Forsyth, William Anderson, Melanie Milrano and Lynn Bechtold (Frank Fontana)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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At Drom, Henry Anderson (left) and Matt Scullin play Phil Ochs (Frank Fontana)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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The highlights were too numerous to mention, but for many the star-studded reading of On the Road<\/em>, directed by David Deblinger of HB Studio, with live music from Jack Kerouac\u2019s old buddy David Amram, was way up there. Questlove was in the audience! And emotions were high as we celebrated the late great Phil Ochs at a sold-out concert at the Bitter End, a club Ochs knew well and played often. Peter Yarrow was in the audience \u2013 Peter, Paul and Mary played their debut performance in the club back in 1961!<\/p>\n

History honored, history made across a few blocks of Downtown Manhattan that have given more to the world than any other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Now\u2019s the Time: Celebrating Jack Kerouac, Charlie Parker, Piri Thomas and today\u2019s East Village talent at the Nuyorican Poets Caf\u00e9 (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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At the Nuyorican Poets Caf\u00e9: Penny Arcade and David Amram (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div>
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At the Nuyorican Poets Caf\u00e9: Jennifer Jade Ledesna and Bobby Sanabria (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Noe Socha plays harmonica for La Bruja, the poet, actor, singer-songwriter, and community activist Caridad de la Luz, who is Executive Director of the Nuyorican Poets Caf\u00e9. At left: David Amram (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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At The Bitter End: standing room only for Chords of Fame: A Salute to Phil Ochs (Jamie Kalikow)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Phil Ochs remembered, by David Amram with Our Band, Magpie and Regie Harris, with Rene Hart on bass (Jamie Kalikow)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Phil Ochs remembered: from left Our Band, Reggie Harris, and Magpie with (standing) David Amram and Rene Hart. Danny Goldberg was the evening\u2019s host (Jamie Kalikow)<\/div><\/div>
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An honored guest at The Bitter End was Peter Yarrow (right), of Peter, Paul and Mary. With him are friends Carman Moore, composer, educator, and activist; and Trudy Mason of the New York Democratic Party (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Trippers at The Bitter End: from left Terri Howell of the Village Alliance, a TVT partner, Liz Thomson, Cliff Pearson, Elena Martinez, folklorist and co-Artistic Director of the Bronx Music Heritage Center, and percussionist extraordinaire Bobby Sanabria (Jamie Kalikow)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Be-bop meets classical – Charlie Parker and Stephan Wolpe at St John\u2019s in the Village with Hillard Greene and the Jazz Expressions: Hilliard Greene, bass, T K Blue, saxophone, and Dwayne \u201cCook\u201d Broadnax, drums (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Be-pop meets classical: Sharp Radway, piano, with Hilliard Greene, bass, T K Blue, saxophone, and Dwayne \u201cCook\u201d Broadnax, drums (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Classical meets be-bop: The Momenta String Quartet \u2013 Emilie-Anne Gendron, and Alex Shiozaki, violin; Stephanie Griffin, viola; and Michael Haas, cello (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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In the Lobby Bar at the Washington Square Hotel, Liz Thomson talks to Richard Barone about his latest book, Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s (Cliff Pearson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Adam Tendler,\u00a0\u201ccurrently the hottest pianist on the American contemporary classical scene\u201d among the performers at Glass Houses (Cliff Pearson)<\/div><\/div>
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Dancing on Glass: Pauline Kim, Chieh-Fan Liu and Coleman Itzikoff (Cliff Pearson)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Glass Houses: Celebrating Philip Glass at 85 draws a full house, including many featured composers (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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\u201cI think I can speak for everyone when I say that yes, we had as much fun as it looked like we did,\u201d said Lisa Gutkin, Klezmatics singer-songwriter and fiddler after the band\u2019s backyard gig in Washington Square Park. \u201cIt was fabulous to see so many of our long-time fans. But also, I loved watching people who were just wandering into the Park\u00a0join the dance line and go crazy. It was indeed thrilling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thank you all for coming. It\u2019s been quite a Trip! See you same time, same place next year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Bringing It All Back Home to Washington Square, signature event of The Village Trip: Reverend Billy and the Choir of the Church of Stop Shopping (Cliff Pearson)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Bringing It All Back Home to Washington Square: Tripping in the Park (Jamie Kalikow)<\/div><\/div>
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Frank London of The Klezmatics sounds a fanfare (Jamie Kalikow)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Klezmatics! Lorin Sklamberg and Lisa Gutkin (Jamie Kalikow)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Smoke and Water: Joshua Nelson and The Klezmatics (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div>
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The Klezmatics and Joshua Nelson wow the crowds in Washington Square Park (Jamie Kalikow)<\/div><\/div>
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Garibaldi looks down on the crowd from his perch (Jamie Kalikow)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Dancing to the beat of The Village Trip (Jamie Kalikow)<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Tired but exhilarated: Cliff Pearson and Liz Thomson with Cole Quest (far left) and Anna Canoni (far right), Woody Guthrie\u2019s grandchildren; and Lisa Gutkin of The Klezmatics, and Doug Yeager, manager of David Amram and a festival advisor. <\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Pianist and composer Theo Rockas at the festival\u2019s final Classical and New Music concert, Village Composers and Stephen Dembski, at Tenri Cultural Institute (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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David Amram Masterclass with young students at the Third Street Settlement Music School (Liz Thomson)<\/div><\/div>
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Third Street: David Amram jams with jazz students \u2013 you might call it a Jamram! (Liz Thomson) <\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Performance art at the closing party for Framing the Village: Dancer and artist Ariel Kleinberg: Lumia Artist: George Stadnik with Maxine Stadnik, Gregory Stadnik and Joshua White (Cliff Pearson) <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The view from behind as The Klezmatics and Joshua Nelson bring the afternoon to a close (Jamie Kalikow)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>
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And if you can, please consider making a donation<\/a> so the fun and fandango, the hi-jinks and high ideals of The Village Trip, can continue. Next year will be the fifth festival \u2013 let\u2019s make it really special.<\/p>\n

Always remember \u2013 it takes a village!<\/em><\/p>\n

Liz & Cliff<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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FESTIVAL BROCHURE<\/h3>\n

In 2022 the festival ran for two weeks, featuring more than 90 events \u2014 concerts, walks, talks, screenings, readings, special cocktails, cabaret, an art exhibition, and more.<\/p>\n

Take a look<\/a> at the brochure to see the full range of\u00a0events or view the programme online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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