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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.
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, April 1, at 8pm:
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In Person Tickets
Livestream Tickets
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Pete & Woody: An Unlikely Friendship
with Pat Lamanna, Steve Suffet, and Richard Mattocks
A PVC Benefit
Created by folksingers Pat Lamanna and Steve Suffet, Pete & Woody: an Unlikely Friendship is a multimedia
presentation that
explores the relationship between Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. Comprising 14 songs performed live by Pat and Steve, 18
historic slides, and a 3,500 word narration read by Richard Mattocks, Pete & Woody starts with this premise:
When they first met
in 1940, Woody Guthrie became Pete Seeger's mentor, inspiration, and guide who set him on a journey that continued to
the day Pete died in 2014. Over time, however, their relationship changed, and after about ten or twelve years Pete Seeger
became Woody Guthrie's champion, helping to promote Woody's songs and story even as Woody's mental and physical health began to
deteriorate. Pete continued to play the role of Woody's champion after Woody passed away in 1967 at the age of 55, and much of
Woody's worldwide popularity today is a result of Pete's efforts. This presentation will be
followed by a Q&A and discussion.
patlamanna.com
stevesuffet.com
Tonight's show is co-sponsored by The Folk Music Society of New York.
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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)
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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, April 8, 2022:
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Closed for Holidays
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Saturday, April 15th, at 8pm:
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In Person Tickets
Livestream Tickets
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Ray Korona Song Night #5
Written with passion, humor and love, Ray's songs help us confront life's challenges and come out on top! Ray told powerful
personal stories, including "Joe Homeless," who "got sick for a while, lost his pay." On a global level, Ray's nuclear warning in
"Free Harbors" is crucial now: "Beware of the ships that would melt down the sea, with bombs that can make all life cease."
Ray also wrote songs about the environment, war and peace, Social Security, jobs, health care, water, prisons, women's rights, and
much more. Perhaps Ray's greatest gift was his ability to inspire people to fight back. Tonight's program includes Ray's favorite,
"The People Are In Charge!"
Please join us for our fifth celebration of Ray Korona songs since he passed away, as we continue to keep his music alive. This year
the Ray Korona Band - Ivice, Barry Kornhauser, Ellen Davidson, Gina Tlamsa and Sharon Abreu - will be augmented by
Laura Liben and Chris "Oledude" Owens, with guest performances
by Emma Graves, Jenny Amanda Hurwitz / Talbot Katz / SamiRose Katz, Joel Landy, Adele Rolider, Ben Silver, Lydia Adams Davis,
Mercy Van Vlack and Lindsey Wilson.
We are excited to present a special environmental guest set by Irthlingz (Sharon Abreu and Michael Hurwicz)!
raykorona.com
Flyer (with more info and photos)
"Rotten to the Root"
Donna Stein on Ray, Eco-Logic 12/31/22
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Saturday, April 22, at 8pm:
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In Person Tickets
Livestream Tickets
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Mario Cancel-Bigay
Bev Grant and Carolann Solebello
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Save the Peoples' Voice Cafe
Fundraising Concert
Last September, online thieves stole $24,000 from the Peoples' Voice Cafe's bank account. We have launched a GoFundMe campaign
which has raised over $8,000. We've also received more than $3,000 in gifts and grants outside the GoFundMe campaign.
With this help, we are no longer
in immediate danger of closing, but we are still out $13,000, which makes our long term survival uncertain. This special
fundraising concert will feature five longtime friends of PVC:
Mario Cancel-Bigay
Bev Grant
Charlie King
Carolann Solebello
Lindsey Wilson
All of them are accomplished artists in their own right, and they are
generously donating their time and their talent. Please join them in helping to save this precious venue that presents artists
who have something important to say and the voice with which to say it.
GoFundMe
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Charlie King
Lindsey Wilson
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Saturday, April 29, at 8pm:
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In Person Tickets
Livestream Tickets
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Steff Reed
Steff Reed is a a singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and activist. By sharing his story, Reed shows
others that they are not alone. He inspires audiences with his spiritual, uplifting energy, blending folk rock, alternative,
and pop to culminate in humanitarian messages of resilience, healing, and self-betterment. Reed has gained national acclaim
as a producer and songwriter, working with Trey Songz, Jhene Aiko, Eric Roberson, Swizz Beatz, Kenny Lattimore and Gordon Chambers
on songs that made it to the Billboard Charts. In 2013, he was nominated for the GRAMMY Music Educator Award. Reed is currently
building a Brooklyn-based non-profit, Power of Love, in partnership with Judson Memorial Church.
iamsteffreed.com
soundcloud.com/IAmSteffReed
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Marie Mularczyk O'Connell & the Mountain Maidens
Three dynamic voices blended in splendid ancient and modern harmonies that will lift your spirit, excite your senses and warm your
heart. They sing ballads, folk songs, Medieval, Irish Traditional music, love songs, country and gospel songs including themes of
social justice. Marie plays guitar, banjo, mandolin, dulcimer, Irish Bouzouki, dumbec,
bones and spoons, and sings British and American folksongs and Jewish music. Candice (Candy) Baranello is a member of the
Long Island group Wild Ginger. She plays dulcimer, washboard, and bodhran and sings traditional, Old Timey, classical and gospel.
Lorraine Berger is a member of the Huntington Choral Society, plays guitar and flamenco castanets, and sings in a beautiful
alto. Check out their CD Mountain Maidens.
facebook.com/groups/738007577599212
Tonight's concert is co-sponsored by The Folk Music Society of New York.
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Saturday, May 6, at 8pm:
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Ben Silver
Whether in singer/songwriter mode or doing McFerrinesque vocal improvisations, Ben Silver's music slides through folk,
R&B, funk, jazz, and back again. A passionate singer with buku chops and a wide vocal range, Ben is also an inspired vocal arranger,
Vocal Improv teacher and performer. His songs have been published in Carry It On, Sing Out Magazine, The Washington Post,
and the book Hearing Everyone's Voice.
facebook.com/bensilver1
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Brie Kelly
Brie Kelly is an enormously talented unaccompanied singer whose vast repertoire includes both traditional and contemporary
folk songs. You might just find her at the Exceedingly Good Song Night, the Sunnyside Folk Club, or one of the other singers'
sessions in and around New York City.
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Saturday, May 13, at 8pm:
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Sam Gleaves
Sam Gleaves played for four years with the Berea College Bluegrass Ensemble. After graduating, Sam performed and taught in a variety
of settings, including festivals, colleges, universities, and public schools. With five studio recordings to his credit, Sam has
shared music in the U.S., Canada, Italy, Ireland, England, and Japan. Appalachian author Lee Smith called Sam, "courageous as hell
and country to the bone--the best young songwriter around." Sam currently serves as
Bluegrass Ensemble Director and Appalachian Instruments Instructor at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky.
samgleaves.com
samgleaves.bandcamp.com
"Ain't We Brothers"
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Carrie & Michael Kline
Michael and Carrie Kline perform country harmony duets from coal mining songs to gospel, family songs and front porch music.
Listeners may find themselves dancing a waltz to "Fiddler Jones," the song that celebrates the role of music and old-time fiddlers
in our lives and our communities, those who play for family and friends or local dances, or those who play for no one at all.
Carrie and Michael's voices carry the songs with truth and authenticity, and their guitars and haunting harmonies
get you where you live, evoking the times that really matter, time with family and friends, wrapped in a patchwork quilt of
vivid imagery. Kitchen songs. You can smell the biscuits baking.
folktalk.org
Tonight's concert is co-sponsored by The Folk Music Society of New York.
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Saturday, May 20, at 8pm:
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Kent State & Jackson State Memorial
Featuring Magpie
Terry Leonino & Greg Artzner met and began singing together in Kent, Ohio in 1973. In the intervening 50 years
Terry & Greg have entertained, uplifted and inspired audiences around the world with their amazing versatility,
powerful voices in harmony, and provocative, captivating songs, many of their own composition, on guitars, harmonica, mandolin, and
dulcimer.
Terry was a witness and survivor of the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University, and that tragic event had a major impact
on her and her soon-to-be life partner. Motivated to resist any attempt at repression of dissent and free speech, Greg & Terry
became even more committed to activism in numerous struggles including peace, liberation, freedom of speech, the environment, and
worker's rights. In commemoration of the 53rd anniversary of May 4th, this special program will feature songs from the movement
to end the war in
Vietnam, setting the context for the many demonstrations that took place in the spring of 1970 including Kent State,
weaving those songs together with essays by Kent State survivors and others closely associated with the Movement and KSU.
magpiemusic.com
facebook.com/MagpieGregArtznerTerryLeonino/
"I Stand Before the Morning Sun"
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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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