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The Village Trip FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19 SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 28 2025 An annual festival celebrating Arts and Activism across Greenwich Village and theEastVillage REMEMBERING PETER YARROW Liz Thomson founder of The Village Trip recalls Peters encouragement and enduring contribution to the Festival In June 2015 six months into my active quest to set up a festival celebrating Greenwich Village I found myself at the Museum of the City of New York for the launch of Folk City the exhibition which chronicled the New York folk revival. Doug Yeager who would become a great buddy invited me having heard from Janis Ian about this weird British obsessive who wanted to be there. It was a terrific exhibit curated by Stephen Petrus who cowrote the accompanying book with Ronald Cohen and its opening was celebrated with a concert. It seemed as if the entire folk scene joined hands for the finale Oscar Brand and Fred Hellerman Izzy Young Tom Paxton David Amram Noel Paul Stookey and Peter Yarrow.