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.
Harmony Grove (Willie 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
PLEASE NOTE:
Due to illness, Pam Parker will not be performing tonight.
We will reschedule her for next year.
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.
DuPrée & Barry Kornhauser Remembering Singer/Songwriters Whose Shoulders We Stand On
Join us in a celebration of songs created in pursuit of a better possible world by activist musicians gone too soon: Jon Fromer, Jolie Rickman, Ray Korona, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Odetta, Nina Simone and Richie Havens.
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.
"I am DuPrée, a visual and performing artist. Art and music are my tools of resistance. And so, I collaborate with multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-generational coalition builders, and with these allies I seek ways forward for peace and social justice. Together with longtime accompanist Barry Kornhauser on guitar, we look forward to sharing our interpretations of this meaningful body of work that continues to inspire us."
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
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.
Tonight's concert is supported by the Folk Music Society of New York.
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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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