Folk City: New York and the Folk Music Revival
Exhibition includes: Lead Belly’s 12-‐string guitar,Odetta’s iconic guitar “Baby,” handwritten manuscript of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind,”Woody Guthrieand Pete Seeger letters. a celebration of the
City’s role as the cente of the folk music revival from its beginnings in the 1930s and 1940s
to its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, as well asits continuing legacy.With a wide array of memorabilia, photos, video, and sound recordings, the exhibition documents the music and
movement that helped transform Greenwich Village and spread as a majorcultural phenomenon..
The Museum is closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day.
Dates:June 17, 2015 10:00 am to January 10, 2016 06:00 pm
Address:1220 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street), New York, New York 10029, United States
Phone:212-534-1672
Contact:Museum of City of New York
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