village gate

The grandfather of Rock & Roll Productions that was the master of ceremonies for Woodstock, oversaw the Newport Folk Festival and has a resume full of iconic artists joins the show. 

What he designed as a youngster that McCormick purchased and how the first Wednesday of each month in 1954 became his escape and introduced him to numerous plays on Broadway. Bob Dylan wrote songs in his apartment!

Hear about Village Gate, Newport Folk Festival, Newport Jazz at same time toured with many named artists..Oh and then there is Sam Shepard! The Rolling stones in 1966 along with the music festivals at Monterey, Philadelphia, & Miami that saw the likes of Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, Judy Garland, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, and many others!

In 1969, there was WOODSTOCK! He was the lightning designer who became the emcee. Hear stories about this iconic festival that includes his famous, “Don’t take the brown acid” speech. 

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Joni Mitchel at Greek Theatre, Eric Clapton’s Derek & the Dominos premiere, and The Rolling Stones free concert with the Hells Angels. His relationship with Paul Anka in Vegas, and dealing with Yoko Ono for a John Lennon concert, handling the lighting for Elvis in Hawaii in 1973. 

He received a Tony Award Nomination for lightning design of the Rocky Horror Picture Show! Zaire Festival with James Brown during the “Rumble in the Jungle.” How his license plates caused Bette Midler to drive into his car! Then there was the Beach Boys Stadium Tour and let’s not forget the 1984 Olympics! And this is just a snippet of his career!

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Chip Monck Stage Announcements @ Woodstock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBysxN5ry-8

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Maggie speaks with Grammy-winning music historian, journalist, producer, and educator Ashley Kahn about Evenings At The Village Gate: John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones.
In 1961, the John Coltrane Quintet played an engagement at the legendary Village Gate in Greenwich Village, New York.  Coltrane’s Classic Quartet was not as fully established as it would soon become and there was a meteoric fifth member of Coltrane’s group those nights— visionary multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy. Ninety minutes of never-before-heard music from this group were recently discovered at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, offering a glimpse into a powerful musical partnership that ended much too soon. In addition to some well-known Coltrane material (“My Favorite Things”, “Impressions”, “Greensleeves”), there is a breathtaking feature for Dolphy’s bass clarinet on “When Lights Are Low” and the only known non-studio recording of Coltrane’s composition “Africa”, from the Africa/Brass album. This recording represents a very special moment in John Coltrane's journey—the summer of 1961—when his signature, ecstatic live sound, commonly associated his Classic Quartet of '62 to '65, was first maturing and when he was drawing inspiration from deep, African sources— and experimenting with the two-bass idea both in the studio (Olé) and on stage. This truly rare recording of "Africa" captures his expansive vision at the time.

Ashley Kahn is a Grammy-winning American music historian, journalist, producer, and professor. He teaches at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music, and has written books on two legendary recordings—Kind of Blue by Miles Davis and A Love Supreme by John Coltrane—as well as one book on a legendary record label: The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records. He also co-authored the Carlos Santana autobiography The Universal Tone, and edited Rolling Stone: The Seventies, a 70-essay overview of that pivotal decade. His latest book is entitled George Harrison on George Harrison: Interviews and Encounters.

Source: https://www.allaboutjazz.com/evenings-at-the-village-gate-john-coltrane-impulse-records__14009

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Source: https://tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/clive-davis-institute/1417614318


Host Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994.

Many of our listeners have asked to present more pop songs.  So we first decided to define the term “Pop Songs”.  Having established that, we’ll take you on a grand tour of decades of Pop songs ranging from the standard to the bizarre.  Ones that rock the house and ones that touch the heart -- ones that went all the way to the top of the charts and ones that never got off the ground -- but certainly should have.  And ones from famous movie scores and ones from Hit New York Musicals.  So if ya’ like Pop Songs, you’re not allowed to miss this Episode!

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Ruth 4:18 (NET) These are the descendants of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron, 19 Hezron was the father of Ram, Ram was the father of Amminadab, 20 Amminadab was the father of Nachshon, Nachshon was the father of Salmah, 21 Salmon was the father of Boaz, Boaz was the father of Obed, 22 Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of David.

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Ruth 4:13(NET) So Boaz married Ruth and had sexual relations with her. The Lord enabled her to conceive and she gave birth to a son. 14 The village women said to Naomi, “May the Lord be praised because he has not left you without a guardian today! May he become famous in Israel! 15 He will encourage you and provide for you when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, has given him birth. She is better to you than seven sons!” 16 Naomi took the child and placed him on her lap; she became his caregiver. 17 The neighbor women named him, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed. Now he became the father of Jesse - Davidʼs father!

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Ruth 4:11 (NET) All the people who were at the gate and the elders replied, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is entering your home like Rachel and Leah, both of whom built up the house of Israel! May you prosper in Ephrathah and become famous in Bethlehem. 12 May your family become like the family of Perez - whom Tamar bore to Judah - through the descendants the Lord gives you by this young woman.”

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Ruth 4:7 (NET) (Now this used to be the customary way to finalize a transaction involving redemption in Israel: A man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party. This was a legally binding act in Israel.) 8 So the guardian said to Boaz, “You may acquire it,” and he removed his sandal. 9 Then Boaz said to the leaders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I have acquired from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Kilion, and Mahlon. 10 I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, as my wife to raise up a descendant who will inherit his property so the name of the deceased might not disappear from among his relatives and from his village. You are witnesses today.”

Deuteronomy 25:8 (NET) I donʼt want to marry her,” 9 then his sister-in-law must approach him in view of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She will then respond, “Thus may it be done to any man who does not maintain his brotherʼs family line!” 10 His family name will be referred to in Israel as “the family of the one whose sandal was removed.”

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Ruth 4:1 (NET) ​Now Boaz went up to the village gate and sat there. Then along came the guardian whom Boaz had mentioned to Ruth! Boaz said, “Come here and sit down, ʻJohn Doeʼ!” So he came and sat down. 2 Boaz chose ten of the village leaders and said, “Sit down here!” So they sat down. 3 Then Boaz said to the guardian, “Naomi, who has returned from the region of Moab, is selling the portion of land that belongs to our relative Elimelech. 4 So I am legally informing you: Acquire it before those sitting here and before the leaders of my people! If you want to exercise your right to redeem it, then do so. But if not, then tell me so I will know. For you possess the first option to redeem it; I am next in line after you.” He replied, “I will redeem it.”