Greenwich Village still drawing attention
Glad to see nearly daily press for Folk and Blues Revival-centric projects
I like the publicity happening lately for the Greenwich Village books and activities.
I like the first paragraph of this article so much that I need to use it to sum up the significance of the Washington Square Revival.
https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Author-Q-As/2024/0923/david-browne-talkin-greenwich-village-sarah-seltzer-singer-sisters
IT CAME FIRST
DATELINE Sept 23, 2024: Los Angeles had Laurel Canyon. San Francisco had Haight-Ashbury. And New York City had Greenwich Village. Their respective music scenes shaped the 1960s. Greenwich Village came first.
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THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT was filmed in the old downstairs of
MIKE PORCO’s Folk City where it sat between 1969 to 1987.
🍿🍿🍿Your PAID SUBSTACK Subscription now offers The Gerde's Folk City Doc AND the Folk City at 50 Anniversary Reunion Concert from JUNE 2010 🚨🚨🚨
✅ SUBSTACK provides an easy value for your buck
Because a $5 minimum gift or monthly subscription (5 DOLLARS !!!!)
will get you NOT ONLY THE GERDE’S FOLK CITY DOC
BUT IT will also get you
Part ONE of the THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT (Eight videos)
Part TWO (FIVE videos) will be released here on Bob Porco’s Substack soon
Part THREE (THREE MORE videos) will also be released in due time
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https://bobporco86.substack.com/p/gerdes-folk-city-fiftieth-anniversary
🚨In 2016, I left a copy of my FULL RECORDING OF Arlo Guthrie’s interview with the Guthrie Center.
Saying “GERDE’S” to those still with us who have memories of Mike and Folk City in the early days, their eyes drift off and they remember youth. They remember approaching the cusp of a MOVEMENT never seen in the 20th Century AND they remember the decade of their lives where America was reshaped into a more modern version.
🎬 FULL ARLO GUTHRIE INTERVIEW AUGUST 9, 2013 AS PART OF YOUR PAID SUBSCRIPTION👇🏽👇🏽
https://bobporco86.substack.com/p/museum-pieces
Filmed to enlighten even the most staunch Folk Revival enthusiast and historian, the Gerde’sFolkCityDoc, POSITIVELY PORCO, is the story of FOLK CITY OWNER Mike Porco and the club a thousand musicians called HOME.
MIKE PORCO, was instrumental in, literally, setting the stage for the music revolution of the '60's. (Pun…meaning he cut the wood and nailed together a custom stage for his restaurant)
During Mike Porco’s stewardship (1960-1980) the KING OF CLUBS hosted early performances by a constellation of Folk and traditional music stars. Many American radio standards and Civil rights anthems were ofttimes heard by the public at Gerde's Folk City for the first time.
A list Folk City's distinctive fraternity of aspiring young artists and legendary recording stars borders on myth.
In the INDIE FILM, Bob Porco (ME), Mike's grandson, undertakes an ardent personal odyssey, seeking out and sitting down with those living treasures that launched a global music paradigm shift from a street corner in Greenwich Village.
It's an inspiring tale of a DEPRESSION-ERA immigrant- and the musicians that he met later in life- who answered their COLLECTIVE CALLING to be a part of the 1960’s Folk and Blues Revival together.
The FOLK MUSIC stars themselves tell the astounding history of Gerde's and Positively Mike Porco.
https://bobporco86.substack.com/p/documentary-on-mike-porcos-folk-music