The Peoples' Voice Cafe 239 Thompson St, New York, NY 10012 / 212-787-3903
PVC is an alternative coffeehouse offering live and live-stream entertainment in New York City,
presenting folk, blues, jazz, rap, poetry, spoken word, storytelling, theater and dance since 1979.
We shine a spotlight on social issues and artists from underrepresented cultures.
People's Music Network Winter Convergence
Peoples' Voice Cafe will be closed this Saturday but we urge all of you to attend the 2026 Winter Convergence of our sister organization, the Peoples' Music Network! The live gathering will be in New York City at the Central Park East II School.
(The main entrance is located at the intersection of First Avenue & E. 101st Street in Manhattan.)
lisa roma & Electrik Goddess Orquestra
is comprised of singer-songwriter guitarist lisa roma (Electrik Goddess) and her (Orquestra) musician friends Suki Rae (singer-songwriter, flutist+), Violizzy (aka Liz Taub, singer-songwriter, violinist, percussionist+), Barry Kornhauser (composer, cellist/guitarist+), and Roger Blanc (composer, guitarist+). Natural Artist/Poet/Vocalist since childhood, Lisa, composed on piano (17), self-taught guitarist (20); inspired & influenced by Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Beatles, Jobim, Coltrane, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Sarah, Ella, Wonder, Debussy, Billie, Carole, Laura Nyro, Joni & more; met & sang (18-20) with Catherine Russell; singing, performing, recording, collaborating with friends Judy Livingston, Peter Pasco, Bob Lepre, Rob Darnell & Poetic Notion Chorus, Paul Decoster at local Brooklyn & NYC+ venues (C-Note, Puppets Jazz Bar, University of the Streets, PorchStomp, Mary O’s). Memoirist, published poet, photographer, interfaith minister, her songs embody human, earthly, spiritual experiences. Flyer soundcloud.com/electrikgoddess sukiatry.com violizzy.com facebook.com/rogerblanc
LOCATION:
Judson Memorial Church
Assembly Hall (not the main sanctuary on West 4th St.)
239 Thompson Street, between West 3rd and West 4th Streets
New York NY 10012
TRANSPORTATION:
to West 4th St./Washington Square - south exit
Walk three blocks east to Thompson Street; turn left. (3 minutes) MAP
SHOWTIMES:
All shows start at 8 PM, Saturdays. Doors open at 7:15.
No reservations, so come early to be assured a seat.
ADMISSION:
Suggested contribution: $20. Friends of PVC*: $12. Students & Youth: $12
Folk Music Society of NY Members: $12. Judson Memorial Church Members: $12
More if you choose, less if you can't. No one turned away for lack of money. *Friends of PVC include monthly sustainers, regular volunteers, Collective members,
performers and people who donate at least $30.
ACCESSIBILITY:
Wheelchair accessible (including bathrooms). For info call 212-787-3903.
Masks are no longer required
We will continue to offer KN95 or other high quality masks to anyone who wants one.
We use three HEPA air purifiers within the Assembly Hall.
Jendog Lonewolf
Jendog Lonewolf is a touring, Two Spirit BlackNative Photographer, Hip Hop Lyricist, and Cultural Worker from Bushwick, Brooklyn who has performed internationally, shared stages with legends like Harry Belafonte and Archbishop Desmond Tutu; performed at numerous colleges, universities, and conferences, as well as private living room events, and taught Hip Hop Lyricism to middle schoolers. Jendog is a proud member of the People's Music Network and the Arts & Culture Team for New York State Poor People's Campaign.
ilovejendog.bandcamp.com
Lindsey Wilson
Lindsey Wilson is an NYC singer-songwriter with a flair for nostalgia with her memorable mix of 70's style urban folk rock and conscious lyrics. Throughout her musical career, Lindsey Wilson has embraced issues of the heart and mind within her original music. Love songs, protest tunes and lyrics of empowerment have all been a true representation of her style and sensibilities. Her songs "Stand for the People" and "The People Shall Rise" have caught the attention of culturally diverse audiences throughout the country. Lindsey's influences stem from a myriad of musically conscious voices such as Odetta, Richie Havens, Joni Mitchell, and Joan Armatrading. However, Lindsey's message is truly her own.
lindseywilsonmusicnow.com
Vincent Cross
Vincent Cross is a rustic folk troubadour rooted in Ireland and Australia, now based in New York City. Inspired by 60s icons like Seeger and Dylan, he blends poetic songwriting with folk tradition. His album Old Songs For Modern Folk reached #2 on the Folk DJ Chart, while The Life & Times of James "The Rooster" Corcoran drew critical praise. His essay "Writing the Songs of our Ancestors" appeared in Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore. His fifth album, A Place Where Songs Come to Live arrived in June and features an International Acoustic Music Awards finalist
"In the Eyes of My Father."
vincentcross.org
Mike Lee
Mike Lee grew up in the northern prairie of South Dakota and now calls Queens home. He sings the blues with a grin, exploring why we laugh through hard times and why life's highlights can bring a tear to our eyes. After releasing his debut solo effort, Pick Me Up Café, Mike founded the roots-rock band Goatroper with his partner Abbey Janii - "words you can dance to." You can find the two of them cutting a rug in a Brooklyn honky-tonk just as soon as singing a sweet tune around a fire in the north woods.
linktr.ee/thirdeye_grind
Tonight's concert is supported by the Folk Music Society of New York.
Rod MacDonald with Mark Dann
Rod MacDonald was born in Connecticut and began singing professionally in New York City, where he became a
leading headliner in Greenwich Village clubs in the 1980s. He recorded 21 songs for Fast Folk magazine
(now in the Smithsonian Folkways collection), including "American Jerusalem," "A Sailor's Prayer," "Every Living
Thing," and "White Buffalo," also recorded by numerous other artists. He has 14 solo CDs, mostly recently Rants and Romance.
The last four have made the top ten nationally on folk radio charts. Rod has also recorded three CDs with the
Palm Beach County band
Big Brass Bed, which New Times named "Best Folk Band" in 2016. Now living in south Florida, Rod has
been named to the "Ten Greatest South Florida Folksingers Of All Time" list by New Times, and one of
"Ten Magnificent Musicians of Palm Beach County" by The Palm Beach Post. He is also Music Americana
instructor with Osher Lifelong Learning at Florida Atlantic University, and was named Distinguished Faculty
Member in 2012. His third novel, Election Night, has just been published.
rodmacdonald.com
Lisa Klotz
Lisa is a singer/songwriter whose style is a combination of folk, blues and gospel held together by a powerful and resonant voice. Both her original and cover songs touch upon themes of environmental and social justice, family, conflict resolution and spirituality. Lisa's first CD, Morning Sun, was released last year and reached #32 on folk radio charts. She will be joined tonight by Annie Loney and Mark Dann.
lisaklotz.com
The Bev Grant Band
PVC favorite Bev Grant, singer/songwriter/guitarist, will be performing with Carolann Solebello on electric bass and vocals and Steve Mayone on electric guitar, mandolin and vocals. Each is a soloist and songwriter in their own right, but come together tonight as The Bev Grant Band, bringing soul-stirring music to help us all stay connected in our humanity and hope for the future.
bevgrant.com carolannsolebello.com mayonemusic.com
VeraForLove
VeraForLove is a singer/songwriter passionate about empowering people within our community to create positive change through music and humility. She is actively involved in the Peace Movement, collaborating with Nevada Desert Experience, an interfaith organization dedicated to abolishing the production of modern weaponry and nuclear weapons. She serves on the board of Pace e Bene, an organization focused on bringing nonviolence education to address social and environmental issues.
Saturday, March 14, 2026, at 8pm
Filthy Rotten System
Filthy Rotten System is a folk/rock/protest band that sprang out of the New York City Catholic Worker movement. They are usually found in the streets supporting demonstrations, marches, picket lines, and vigils for peace and justice, but they always enjoy themselves and keep their sense of humor. This is a rare opportunity to hear them indoors in a concert setting. The band just celebrated their 15th anniversary, so they must be doing something right.
Saturday, March 21, 2026, at 8pm
Tom Kastle Presents: Joe Hill: Alive As You And Me
This musical play, written by David Simmons of Fermat's Last Theater Company, tells the story of Joe Hill, the legendary organizer and songwriter, his life, death, and martyrdom. The play uses Joe's life as a lens to examine the war between capital and labor from the 1890s to the 1920s and the rise of the Industrial Workers of the World, the Wobblies.
Tom Kastle is an actor, singer, and founding member of the Solidarity Sing Along, the longest running protest Sing in the US.
tomkastle.com
Singing for Justice, a documentary on Faith Petric
Singing for Justice tells the story of Faith Petric (1915-2013), a political radical, musician, mother, worker and grandmother who united folk music and activism through almost a century of American social movements. Over her long and purposeful life, Faith inspired all to take responsibility for social change,urged women and elders to defy stereotypes, inspired and everyone she met to sing along.
Singing for Justice was awarded Best Editor by LA Independent Women Film Awards and Runner Up Best Documentary by B!tchFest Film Festival & Screenplay Contest.
singingforjustice.com
Reggie Harris & Pat Wictor
When Reggie and Pat take the stage, it's a celebration. The joy that transfers to their audience is boundless.
For these veteran musicians and friends, their artistry and skill is heightened by years of collaboration and trust.
Reggie Harris has earned wide acclaim from audiences
and peers around the world. Reggie's ability to craft songs of subtlety and power, and to create arrangements that stir the
soul, emanates from a deeply rooted passion for song across a wide range of genres. He is an accomplished writer and singer
whose vast knowledge of the songs of human and civil rights has made him one of the leaders of the tradition. Reggie serves
on the board of the Northeast Folk and Dance Alliance. As Musical Education Director of the
Living
Legacy Project, he works to increase knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement.
reggieharrismusic.com
Pat Wictor burst on the acoustic music scene as an innovative slide guitarist known for fresh and memorable
interpretations of traditional and contemporary songs. He has since become an acclaimed singer-songwriter of lean and poetic
songs, and a sought-after collaborator and session musician with dozens of recording credits. Pat has been
nominated for Folk Alliance Emerging Artist of the Year, for the Gospel Song of the Year by the Independent Music Awards,
and was a finalist in the Kerrville New Folk songwriting contest. His new CD, FLARE, reached #1 on the Folk-DJ charts,
and the song, "How Will They Tell It," also climbed to #1. He is also a member of the band
Brother Sun. patwictor.com
Together, Reggie and Pat form a duo of jubilant harmony and instrumental expertise. They blend originals and carefully
chosen songs by other artists into an expansive and free-ranging musical conversation that draws audiences into a warm embrace.
Tonight's concert is supported by the Folk Music Society of New York.
Saturday, Maay2, 2026, at 8pm
Harmony Grove (Wille Sordillo & Zoë Krohne)
Named after an 1850s anti-slavery enclave in their hometown, Harmony Grove is co-led by Willie Sordillo and Zoë Krohne. They offer a diverse repertoire of original compositions and interpretations of songs from folk, jazz, Latin and pop origins. Their mission is to entertain while presenting a vision which offers hope, joy and possibility in a troubled world. In addition to club dates, they have performed at fundraisers and rallies supporting immigrant communities, environmental concerns, peace initiatives and more. Willie has toured widely, solo and with the group Flor de Caña, and has recorded on the Folkways and Flying Fish labels.
williesordillo.com/Harmony%20Grove.htm
Pam Parker
Pam Parker is a labor musician, band leader, activist and union electrician. She is the founder of the Charm
City Labor Chorus and a member of the DC Labor Chorus, The Pride of Baltimore Chorus and a mixed quartet.
"The chanteuse blends Billie's precision with Aretha's brand of Soul and has been using her perfect classic
voice to lure in crowds for years--it's the combination of sweet tone and spot on vibrato that makes seeing her
live addictive." --The Washington Post pamparker.com
Saturday, May 9, 2026, at 8pm
Duprée & Kornhauser
Duprée, perhaps best known as one of the lead vocalists of Casselberry DuPree, brings to her audience a rich legacy of musical genres. Drawing on a background of gospel, folk, and country music, her songs encompass a downhome spirituality, coupled with a deep appreciation for the Gullah narrative, a bridge to her African roots. Add some reggae and blues, mix with a generous helping of social commentary and you begin to understand the wealth of this singer/songwriter. DuPrée's soaring contralto voice, powerful vibrato and melodious yodeling grip the listener with hope for humanity; her songs evoke the haunting quality of a longing for truth and an inquiry into the different shades of justice.
Barry Kornhauser was born in the Midwest of the Bronx and presently lives in Brooklyn. He is a composer, arranger, teacher and multi-instrumentalist (cello, guitar, bass guitar and mandola) in a wide variety of musical environments. He has performed on stages ranging from Merkin Hall and NJPAC to the Bronx Zoo and Hippo Playground. From Saint John the Divine and Trinity Church to Sing Sing Prison and Creedmoor. He has collaborated with DuPrée as an accompanist since the early 90s.
Saturday, May 16, 2026, at 8pm
Benefit Concert for People's Music Network
Activist musicians Joanie Calem, Pat Lamanna, and Steve Suffet have agreed to donate their respective shares of the admission and live streaming receipts to People's Music Network for Songs of Freedom and Struggle. Also known as PMN, it is a diverse community of performing artists, activists, and allies who use music, poetry, and other art forms as catalysts for a just and peaceful world. Joanie, Pat, and Steve are all longtime members.
Joanie Calem
Joanie began her performing career in Israel in 1983, singing Jewish and Arab folksongs in Hebrew, Ladino, Yiddish, Arabic and English, and telling the folk stories of the Middle East for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. She worked simultaneously for local NGOs supporting Jewish-Arab rapprochement, and often used her music in her community building work. When she moved to Columbus OH in 1998, she continued writing and performing for all ages, but switched her community building focus (and a lot of her songwriting) to disability awareness and inclusion.
A fellow Columbus artist once said about Joanie's music, "Most songwriters open a bottle of wine and sit down to write a song about broken love; Joanie opens a newspaper and writes a song about the broken world. She writes about the ups and downs of life (reality) from all its different angles."
Joanie's next CD, One Size Never Fits All will be out this summer, and features songs for healing the divides that seem to be cracking our relationships on all sides. We will sing our way back to a healed earth and humanity.
joaniecalem.com
Pat Lamanna
Singer-songwriter Pat Lamanna's songs have a strong folk influence, and cover social justice issues as well as philosophical, spiritual and personal topics. She is a 2019 winner of the South Florida Folk Festival songwriting contest, and was named "Interfaith Music Maker of 2025" by the Dutchess County Interfaith Council. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her partner, Richard Mattocks.
patlamanna.com
Steve Suffet
Better known in the United Kingdom than back home in the USA, Steve Suffet is best described as an old fashioned folksinger in the People's Music tradition. His repertoire is a mixture of railroad songs, trucker songs, coal miner songs, cowboy songs, union songs, old time ballads, blues, ragtime, Gospel, bluegrass, topical-political songs, Woody Guthrie songs, Irish songs, and whatever else tickles his fancy, including several songs he has written himself in traditional style. What all his songs have in common is that they are about working people, their lives, their loves, their hopes, and their struggles.
stevesuffet.com
Saturday, May 30, 2026, at 8pm
Carolyn Hester & Daughters
Folk legend Carolyn Hester, a pioneering figure in the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, came to New York in 1955 and recorded her first album for Coral Records in 1957. Known as a fiercely independent artist, she continues the work of a lifetime using her unique empathy to translate meaningful messages for her audience in the ongoing effort to create a better world. Her honeyed voice has raised up other artists to this calling, from Bob Dylan to Nancy Griffith. Tonight she will be joined by her daughters, Karla and Amy Blume, who continue the tradition of American Folk Singer-Songwriters. "Her sensual honey-husk voice has been a model for wave after wave of female singers. It somehow always sounds both sweet and strong-hearted, alluringly feminine and fiercely independent." --Scott Alarik, Boston Globe. wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Hester
Tonight's concert is supported by the Folk Music Society of New York.
Help The Peoples' Voice Cafe!
We are making great progress towards our fundraising goal!
A heart-felt thanks to all who have contributed so far.
If you can help, please click here.
The Peoples' Voice Cafe is supported in part by the generosity of
Peoples' Voice Cafe, started in 1979 by members of Songs of Freedom and Struggle, carries forward the vision of
using songs and performing arts to support the struggle for peace and justice.
All are impacted by the history and ongoing practice of systemic racism in this country and the continuing
brutal murders of Black Americans by police.
We stand in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, outraged by the many faces of racism found in education,
healthcare, housing, jobs, poverty, criminal justice, and voting. All must be free to move about in the
"land of the free" without suspicion, harassment, or arrest.
Peoples' Voice Cafe stands committed to speak out, sing out, and work against racism, white supremacy, and
indifference.
LOCATION:
Tom Kastle Presents:
