Terri Thal and Friends, Happy Traum and Tom Paxton: A film by Veronica Vigil

Songs and stories from the hey-day of the Village folk scene – which changed music and social politics forever. With Happy Traum, Tom Paxton and Terri Thal, author of a new memoir, "My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob and Me"

Some sixty-odd years ago, around the time The Bitter End first opened its doors, Terri Thal moved to the Village from Brooklyn. She married folk and blues singer Dave Van Ronk, “the Mayor of MacDougal Street.” Tom Paxton was best man. A few days later, the newlyweds partied with friends at the White Horse Tavern as the Clancy Brothers raised the roof. Their apartment became a hive of musical and political activity, Terri managing the career not just of her husband – and later the Holy Modal Rounders, Maggie and Terre Roche – but the young Bob Dylan. It was Terri Thal who recorded Dylan at the Gaslight, tapes that she would use to help secure him out-of-town gigs at Café Lena and Club 47. Dylan would crash at their home, absorbing whatever was on offer and famously “stealing” Van Ronk’s arrangement of “House of the Rising Sun.”

"My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob and Me", Terri’s insider account of a unique and formative time – when the Village was a community, one quite unlike that portrayed in the Coen Brothers movie Inside Llewyn Davis – provides the starting point for a very special evening of songs and shared memories in the company of friends Tom Paxton, Happy Traum and others.

Terri’s host was Liz Thomson, a director of The Village Trip and the writer of the Foreword for Terri’s book.