February 26th - 8pm
February 27th - 7pm* *with panel afterward! TADA! Theatre 15 W. 28th St, between 5th and Broadway [Note: This is not a production by TADA! Theater.] |
Articulating the Arts:
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THANK YOU to all who attended for making this event a
SOLD OUT SUCCESS! Panel:
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Participants
Stephen Petrus
Historian, Curator, Author Stephen Petrus, a historian and curator, is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellow at the New-York Historical Society, where he is working on his second book, a political and cultural history of Greenwich Village in the 1950s and 60s. At the Museum of the City of New York, he curated the critically acclaimed exhibition Folk City in 2015 and was principal author of the show’s accompanying book, published by Oxford University Press. Petrus has published essays on twentieth-century U.S. urban and cultural history in Studies in Popular Culture and New York History. He received his Ph.D. in history from the City University Graduate Center and taught at Lehman College in the Bronx. Read his interview at: http://blog.mcny.org/2015/08/23/on-roots-revival-interview-with-folk-city-curator-stephen-petrus/ |
Phil Marsh
Singer, Songwriter, Performer Phil is a singer-songwriter guitarist based in New York City and Bay Area California. Past musical director and band leader of San Francisco's famous Pickle Family Circus, guitarist for Country Joe McDonald, wrote and performed with the East Bay Sharks, and for the Masked Marauders album, recorded with Folkways, co-founder of Cleanliness & Godliness Skiffle Band, Energy Crisis and Phil & Phil. Phil is still going strong, making his own quirky blend of traditional folk, country, and blues, along with his clever, offbeat originals. http://philmarshmusic.com/ |
Doug Yeager Manager, Agent, Publisher, Promoter, Stage & Film Producer.
Doug Yeager has been an integral member of the folk community for many years as an artist manager, booking agent, record producer, music publisher, concert promoter, and as a stage and film producer. Among the artists he managed through the years, include Odetta, Tom Paxton, Richie Havens, Josh White, Jr., David Amram, Oscar Brand, Bob Gibson, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Ed McCurdy, John Fahey, and Cliff Eberhard. As an agent, he booked concerts for Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, The Band, Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey, Mary Travers, Judy Collins, Tom Rush, Eric Andersen, Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, Jean Ritchie, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Mimi Farina, Buffy Ste. Marie, Dave Van Ronk, Roger McGuinn, Melanie, Happy & Artie Traum, and Holly Near, to name a few. Yeager conceived and produced theatrical productions on the lives of Josh White -- JOSH: The Man & His Music (in America), and of Paul Robeson -- PAUL ROBESON, The Man (in the Soviet Union); and the tribute touring show GLORY BOUND, honoring Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie and Josh White (which starred Odetta, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and Josh White, Jr.); and was associate producer and talent coordinator for the PBS-TV concert specials Just Folks, and Woody & Me, and for their folk concert series Ramblin. He produced the 20th Anniversary FOLK CITY Festival, the annual Bottom Line Folk Festival; and as a record producer and/or executive producer, worked with Odetta, Richie Havens, Tom Paxton, John Fahey, Josh White, Jr., Bob Gibson, Cliff Eberhardt, and David Amram. Doug was a friend and collaborator with many of the key `behind the scene’ figures in Greenwich Village who promoted the “folk revival” and maintained it into the 1970s and 1980s, including Maynard Solomon of Vanguard Records, Jac Holzman of Elektra Records, Art D’Lugoff of the Village Gate, Paul Colby of the Bitter End, Howard Solomon of the Café Au Go Go, Sam Hood of the Gaslight, Alan Pepper and Stanley Snadowski of the Bottom Line, Mike Porco, Robbie Wolliver & Marilyn Lash of Folk City, and filmmakers Jim Brown and Murray Lerner; and for years, worked with Art D’Lugoff and Paul Colby to develop the National Museum of Folk Music in Greenwich Village (a dream still to be realized). Yeager is executive producer of the documentary film DAVID AMRAM: The First 80 Years, and is developing films on the lives of Odetta, and of Josh White (Sr.). In 2015 – 2016, he was consultant to the Museum of the City of New York’s exhibition FOLK CITY: New York and the American Folk Revival (2015-2016), and to its companion book, by the same title, written by his good friends Steve Petrus and Ron Cohen. Today, he still manages the careers of Josh White, Jr., David Amram and Oscar Brand, in addition to the Estates of Odetta and of Josh White (Sr.).
Doug Yeager has been an integral member of the folk community for many years as an artist manager, booking agent, record producer, music publisher, concert promoter, and as a stage and film producer. Among the artists he managed through the years, include Odetta, Tom Paxton, Richie Havens, Josh White, Jr., David Amram, Oscar Brand, Bob Gibson, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Ed McCurdy, John Fahey, and Cliff Eberhard. As an agent, he booked concerts for Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, The Band, Peter Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey, Mary Travers, Judy Collins, Tom Rush, Eric Andersen, Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, Jean Ritchie, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Mimi Farina, Buffy Ste. Marie, Dave Van Ronk, Roger McGuinn, Melanie, Happy & Artie Traum, and Holly Near, to name a few. Yeager conceived and produced theatrical productions on the lives of Josh White -- JOSH: The Man & His Music (in America), and of Paul Robeson -- PAUL ROBESON, The Man (in the Soviet Union); and the tribute touring show GLORY BOUND, honoring Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie and Josh White (which starred Odetta, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and Josh White, Jr.); and was associate producer and talent coordinator for the PBS-TV concert specials Just Folks, and Woody & Me, and for their folk concert series Ramblin. He produced the 20th Anniversary FOLK CITY Festival, the annual Bottom Line Folk Festival; and as a record producer and/or executive producer, worked with Odetta, Richie Havens, Tom Paxton, John Fahey, Josh White, Jr., Bob Gibson, Cliff Eberhardt, and David Amram. Doug was a friend and collaborator with many of the key `behind the scene’ figures in Greenwich Village who promoted the “folk revival” and maintained it into the 1970s and 1980s, including Maynard Solomon of Vanguard Records, Jac Holzman of Elektra Records, Art D’Lugoff of the Village Gate, Paul Colby of the Bitter End, Howard Solomon of the Café Au Go Go, Sam Hood of the Gaslight, Alan Pepper and Stanley Snadowski of the Bottom Line, Mike Porco, Robbie Wolliver & Marilyn Lash of Folk City, and filmmakers Jim Brown and Murray Lerner; and for years, worked with Art D’Lugoff and Paul Colby to develop the National Museum of Folk Music in Greenwich Village (a dream still to be realized). Yeager is executive producer of the documentary film DAVID AMRAM: The First 80 Years, and is developing films on the lives of Odetta, and of Josh White (Sr.). In 2015 – 2016, he was consultant to the Museum of the City of New York’s exhibition FOLK CITY: New York and the American Folk Revival (2015-2016), and to its companion book, by the same title, written by his good friends Steve Petrus and Ron Cohen. Today, he still manages the careers of Josh White, Jr., David Amram and Oscar Brand, in addition to the Estates of Odetta and of Josh White (Sr.).