Relive the Iconic Greenwich Village of the 60s
Author Terri Thal (My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob, and Me) shares stories from her unique vantage point inside the burgeoning folk music scene of 1960s New York. An early manager of Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, and many others, Terri reveals what it was like in the magical decade when music and social justice took center stage.
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About Terri
Terri Thal grew up in Brooklyn. Then, in the 1960s and 70s, she lived in Greenwich Village, hanging out with and managing folk singers including Dave Van Ronk (then her husband and always a friend), Bob Dylan, the Holy Modal Rounders, and Maggie and Terre Roche. She was part of this vibrant music scene—as well as a member of socialist organizations.
Later, as a campaigner for social justice, Terri went on to work for not-for-profit organizations in New York City and New York’s Mid-Hudson Valley. Now retired, she spends her time writing and doing environmental and criminal justice reform work.
About the Book
"Terri Thal's memoir is told from the privileged position of not only having been there for the crowning, but as a woman on the cultural front lines. Her detailed recall brings a fresh perspective on the Greenwich Village folk scene of the '60s." -- Marc Eliot, best-selling author of Phil Ochs: Death of a Rebel
My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob, and Me (McNidder and Grace, 2023) is a personal story of the world of folk music in 1960s New York written by a Jewish woman from Brooklyn who, although not a musician, was an intrinsic part of this scene. Terri describes Greenwich Village as a community that was supportive, musically exciting and one in which people had fun.
Terri tells us what it was like to hang out in the Village coffee houses, to host folk singers like Tom Paxton and Phil Ochs, who spent many evenings at her apartment, and to be a manager. We hear her view and involvement of the 1960s socialist organizations, and how she later merged her professional work in not- for-profit agencies.