![]() “The first show that ever happened on Caffè Lena’s stage was a Jewish woman opening for an African-American man,” says Sarah Craig, Caffè Lena’s executive director of 25 years, referring to Maxine Abel and Jackie Washington Landron. Caffè Lena, opened by Lena and Bill Spencer on Phila Street 60 years ago last month, typified a decade marked by great cultural upheaval and the transformation of societal norms. McNamara Religion Rob.While New York City wrote itself into music history with its sheer volume of folk venues-The Gaslight Cafe, The Bitter End, Cafe Wha?-Saratoga Springs needed just one. Movie Music Newspaper Nixon Pacifist Paris Poetry R. Counterculture Cuban Revolution Documentary Draft board Feminist Happenings Henry Kissinger Hippie Jazz John Kennedy LSD Lyn. Follow 1960s: Days of Rage on Īllen Ginsberg Black Power Bob Dylan Books Burroughs CIA Civil Rights Mov.How the CIA Tricked the World’s Best Writers.Nu Yorica! Culture Clash In New York City: Experiments In Latin Music 1970-77.Bernardine Dohrn Was Called The Most Dangerous Woman In America.Tom Clark in conversation with Beat Scene editor Kevin Ring.The Limits of Absurdity By Robert Zaretsky.Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings – Grateful Dead.Change: #1, Fall/Winter 1965: Archie Shepp.Towards an African Revolution: Fanon and the New Popular Movement (Hirak) Engulfing Algeria.Patrons at the gaslight, 116 McDougal St. The Story of the Gaslight Café, Where Dylan Premiered ‘A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall’ So then the audience couldn’t applaud they had to snap their fingers instead.’ Brian Fallon, the lead singer and guitarist of The Gaslight Anthem, has said that the band’s name came from The Gaslight Cafe as he had heard it was one of the first places that Bob Dylan had played and liked the sound of the word and the imagery it brought about. In the Folk Music Encyclopedia, Kristin Baggelaar and Donald Milton wrote ‘The Gaslight was weird then because there were air shafts up to the apartments and the windows of the Gaslight would open into the air shafts, so when people would applaud, the neighbors would get disturbed and call the police. Live at The Gaslight 1962 (2005), a single CD release including ten songs from early Dylan performances at the club, was released by Columbia Records. Also nearby was the Folklore Center, a bookstore/record store owned by Izzy Young and notable for being a musicians’ gathering place and center of the New York folk-music scene. Folk musician and actor Gil Robbins worked as the club’s manager in the late 1960s. The club was next door and down the stairs from the street-level bar, the Kettle of Fish, where many performers hung out between sets, including Bob Dylan. The club was run by Betty Smyth, mother of Scandal lead singer Patty Smyth, and blues guitarist/performer Susan Martin until it closed in 1971. Ed Simon, the owner of The Four Winds, reopened the Gaslight in 1968. John Moyant bought the club in 1961, and his father in law Clarence Hood and his son Sam managed the club through the late 1960s. Opened in 1958 by John Mitchell, the Gaslight showcased beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso but later became a folk-music club. The Gaslight was originally a ‘basket house’ where unpaid performers would pass around a basket at the end of each set and hope to be paid. Also known as The Village Gaslight, it opened in 1958 and became notable as a venue for folk music and other musical acts. “ The Gaslight Cafe was a coffeehouse in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.
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