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Covid-19 policy (subject to change as conditions evolve):
Required: Mask (we will provide one if you don't have one)
Strongly Recommended: Everyone should be fully vaccinated, boosted, and recently tested.
Risk Statement:
While no one precaution is guaranteed to prevent covid infection, a combination of precautions will contribute greatly to everyone's
safety at the PVC. Although we expect that people who have symptoms of covid will stay home, we recognize that there are still
risks when entering any public space. The PVC is therefore taking the follow steps:
We offer KN95 or other high quality masks to everyone entering.
We use three HEPA air purifiers within the Assembly Hall.
We have suspended the sale of food or drink, and there should be no eating on the premises.
We limit total attendance to 70 persons.
We offer livestream shows whenever possible.
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Announcement:
We were informed that a volunteer at PVC on Saturday, January 21, 2023 has since then tested positive for COVID.
If anyone has symptoms, please get tested.
If you had close contact with the volunteer and no symptoms, the CDC recommends testing 6 days after, which is Friday, January 27.
If you have any questions, you can contact the volunteer coordinator
Sally Campbell at 646-489-4175 or scampfriend@gmail.com
Help Save the Peoples' Voice Cafe!
A recent cybertheft has left PVC without resources.
Can you help out?
Clink on the link above.
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Saturday, February 4, 2023, at 8pm:
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Black History Month Celebration
Join us for a celebration of Black History, with storytelling, poetry, singing, and music, featuring storyteller Thelma Ruffin
Thomas and special guests.
Thelma is the artistic director of Pearls of Wisdom, a touring ensemble of elder storytellers. She has brought her lively,
spirited, authentic presentations to Tanzania, Brazil, Ghana, Costa Rica, The Gambia, South Africa, Russia, Australia, Kenya,
Cameroon, and India, continuing the tradition of elder folk art stories. Guests include:
Atiba Wilson - flautist and drummer
Owusu Slater - drummer and storyteller
Akil Dasan - guitarist, singer and poet
JinJi Nicole - storyteller
Lynnette Braxton - storyteller
Joyce Parr - storyteller
Devon Cormack - singer
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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
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:
$20 suggested contribution -- more if you choose, less if you can't; no one turned away.
For PVC subscribers, Judson members, Folk Music Society of NY members, students,
and youth, the suggested contribution is $12.
ACCESSIBILITY:
Wheelchair accessible (including bathrooms). For info call 212-787-3903.
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Saturday, February 11, at 8pm:
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Heather Wood
Heather Wood has been singing mainly traditional songs from the British Isles since the Sixties, when Girls Did Not Lead Sea
Shanties, and is happy to note this has now changed. She believes traditional music should be enjoyed, not enshrined. As one third
of the Young Tradition (with Peter Bellamy and Royston Wood), she toured extensively in the UK, US, and Canada, and has performed
solo and in various duos and trios since. Heather occasionally writes songs, some of which others have recorded.
aheatherwood.com
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The Ranzo Boys
The Ranzo Boys are Lafayette Matthews (he/him) and Jules Peiperl (they/them). They have been singing together since
2013. They are dedicated to honoring the tradition of the songs they sing while making the folk community a more inclusive and
welcoming space for all people. Their repertoire includes buzzy English harmonies, Appalachian ballads, sea chanteys, and any trad
song that can be remotely construed as queer.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073359734051
"The Mariner's Hymn"
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Saturday, February 18, 2023, at 8pm:
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Rod MacDonald
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 Sailors Prayer," "Every Living
Thing," and "White Buffalo," also recorded by numerous other artists. He has 13 solo CDs and 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 second novel, The American Guerillas, was published in 2021.
rodmacdonald.com
facebook.com/rodmacdonaldmusic
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Joe Jencks
Joe Jencks is a 22-year veteran of the international Folk circuit, an award-winning songwriter and a celebrated
vocalist based in the Chicago area. He is known for his performances of musical beauty, social consciousness and
spiritual exploration. Joe delivers engaged musical narratives filled with heart, soul, groove, and grit.
Blending well-crafted instrumentals and vivid songwriting, Jencks serves it all up with a lyric baritone voice
that has the edgy richness of a good sea-salt caramel. Co-founder of the harmony trio Brother Sun, Jencks has
penned several Number One folksongs including the ever-relevant "Lady of The Harbor." From Carnegie Hall to
Lincoln Center to festivals across the US and Canada, Jencks has become a fan favorite throughout North America
and beyond. Joe is also a dual US-Irish citizen and has served as a Cultural Ambassador with the US State
Department.
joejencks.com
"Martin"
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Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 8pm:
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Twa Corbies
Twa Corbies is a duo of Alison Kelley (of the Johnson Girls, New York Packet, Ida Red, and NexTradition) and Anayis "AJ" Wright
(Mystic Seaport, Norumbega Harmony). They embrace musical traditions spanning from the 12th century up to Gilbert and Sullivan.
You'll find grim stories, resilient women, hysterical happenings, and darkly comic tales. They frequently sing a capella, sometimes
accompanied by Anayis on concertina or Alison on the banjo. Dulcimers, guitars, banjoleles, dumbeks, vielle, and cello have been
known to pop up as well. When not performing, they spend their time serenading an assortment of dogs and garden vegetables.
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Geoff Kaufman
Geoff is best known for his time at Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut, but he has maintained a wide
ranging repertoire from 60s favorites to songs collected in the Catskill Mountains where he grew up, and from his time as a
Sloopsinger with the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and Pete Seeger. Songs of the sea, songs of the earth, songs of the heart and the spirit -
all of these are in Geoff Kaufman's ditty bag. Ancient ballads, work songs, love songs, poignant songs of people in struggle,
humorous glimpses of human foibles, and insights into history - all of these are likely to be woven into one of Geoff's concerts.
geoffkaufman.com
facebook.com/geoff.kaufman.3
"Fair Stood the Wind" & "America, It's You"
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And coming up...
| Mar 4: | International Women's Day Celebration with Lydia Adams Davis + Sue Jeffers
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| Mar 11: | The Brooklyn Stoop Singers + Heather Lev
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| Mar 18: | Hudson Valley Sally + Mike & Aleksi Glick: Generations
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| Mar 25: | Young Women Singer Songwriters Night
with Lenna Pierce + Charley Bea Baker + Emma Graves
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| Apr 1: | Pete & Woody: an Unlikely Friendship:
multimedia presentation with Pat Lamanna, Steve Suffet, and Richard Mattocks (PVC benefit)
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| Apr 15: | Ray Korona Song Night
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| Apr 22: | Save the Peoples' Voice Cafe Fundraising Concert
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| Apr 29: | Steff Reed + Marie Mularczyk O'Connell & the Mountain Maidens
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| May 6: | Gene Glickman Memorial Night
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| May 13: | Sam Gleaves + Carrie & Michael Kline
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| May 20: | Kent State & Jackson State Memorial
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The Peoples' Voice Cafe is supported in part by the generosity of
Judson Memorial Church
Community Church of New York Unitarian Universalist
The Puffin Foundation
The Folk Music Society of New York
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PVC Solidarity Statement Against Racism
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.
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