Dear Friends:
You are receiving this missive because you signed up for updates on
The Village Trip. We've not bombarded you - and we hope you will be pleased to hear that our first
festival opens next week. As you can see below and on the
website, we have events programmed from September 27 through 30, including a
concert in the Park, the idea that was the starting point for the whole project. We are thrilled to have as our headliner
Suzanne Vega, whose career was born in Greenwich Village.
Thank you to all of you for supporting The Village Trip and for believing in what many thought was a crazy idea ("ambitious", was how must people put it!). As you'll see, we've acquired some fabulous civic and business partners as well as sponsors, and our program embraces poetry, theater, photography - and of course music, including some very cool jazz with the
New School. And we are privileged to have an Artist-in-Residence - the legendary
David Amram, who has worked with Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Miller, Charles Mingus and Willie Nelson, to name but a few, and whose composing credits include the score for
The Manchurian Candidate.
Most of our events are
free, but we are encouraging people to reserve places - all the links are below. Our final event, a celebration of the New York folk revival, takes place at the fabled
Bitter End on Bleecker Street. We have an all-star line-up and tickets are a steal at $25! A splendid time is guaranteed for all.
Perhaps we will meet some of you over the course of the weekend - do please come and say hello. And if you do attend, we'd of course like to know what you thought of it all. If you'd care to
make a donation, that's welcome too of course.
Many thanks for being a friend of The Village Trip. It's taken time to get here and working from the ground up has been challenging. But as they say:
if we build it they will come. We hope you will.
Regards
