{"id":421,"date":"2018-09-26T08:50:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T08:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2019-08-21T07:29:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T07:29:59","slug":"billboard-writes-about-the-village-trip-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/billboard-writes-about-the-village-trip-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"BILLBOARD writes about The Village Trip Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"
This weekend (Sept. 27-30) in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, a new festival entitled\u00a0The Village Trip<\/a>\u00a0will shine a light on a neighborhood whose artistic and historical riches are as curious and circuitous as its winding, brick-laden streets. And while a number of boutique festivals have popped up in New York City over the last few years, this one comes from an unlikely source \u2013 a British journalist living a full ocean away.<\/p>\n Liz Thomson, a London-based journalist, has nurtured a lifelong interest in Greenwich Village. “Baez was my gateway drug,” says the Village Trip co-founder\/executive producer of her interest in the ’60s New York folk revival, a fertile scene of music and protest that involved a post-blacklist Pete Seeger, a pre-fame Bob Dylan and a lot of acoustic guitars. Falling for Joan Baez, Vol. 2 <\/em>and learning guitar as a kid, Thomson’s passion for music continued throughout college (she earned a music degree) and into her journalism career (one of her first gigs was interviewing Leonard Cohen in the ’80s prior to his comeback).<\/p>\n Fast-forward to 1995. Thomson is a working reporter\u00a0and she gets an offer from U.K. publication Mojo<\/em> to visit the neighborhood that captured her imagination as a teen. The reason, coincidentally, is Joan Baez,\u00a0then in the midst of recording an album in the storied (but now-shuttered) Greenwich venue The Bottom Line. Mojo<\/em> wanted her to cover the Rings Them Bells<\/em> sessions, and she only too happily agreed.<\/p>\n Read the full article by Joe Lynch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Festival Shines Light on Undervalued Greenwich Village Music History This weekend (Sept. 27-30) in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, a new festival entitled\u00a0The Village Trip\u00a0will shine a light on a neighborhood … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n