BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK | For a number of years, Jose Pepe Flores, ethnomusicologist and record collector extraordinaire, dreamed about creating a Puerto Rican cultural center…
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The Village Trip is getting a boost from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, which has awarded it an $8,000 grant. The festival is one of…
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON | Like opening a rocking time capsule from the 1960s, the sights, sounds and excitement of Beatlemania came to life once again…
BY LIZ THOMSON | Where were you at 8 p.m. on Sun., Feb. 9, 1964? If you were alive back then, chances are you were…
BY LIZ THOMSON | Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Del Tredici who, for some 50 years, made his home at Westbeth Artists Housing, died on Saturday…
BY JEFFERSON SIEGEL | Through the lens of history, the Sixties decade is often remembered as an era of peace and love. It was also…
Due to forecast heavy rains over the weekend, The Village Trip has canceled its scheduled free concert in Washington Square Park on Saturday. “The Bringing…
David Amram, the “renaissance man of American music” and the official artist emeritus of The Village Trip, headlined the annual festival’s Eighth Street Block Party…
BY TERRI THAL | I did it. I wrote a book. It focuses mostly on my life in the Village in the ’60s, managing folk…
SPECIAL TO THE VILLAGE SUN | After a few nail-biting weeks, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has now granted visas to Kommuna Lux, the seven-piece…