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Folkways. David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City 's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street ". [1]
Dec 20, 2013 · From the 1963 album Folksinger
Jun 30, 2016 · Dave Van Ronk, who was known as the Mayor of MacDougal Street, would have been eighty today. I met the monumental figure of the nineteen-sixties Greenwich Village folk scene in 2000, at Caffe ...
Dec 9, 2013 · While the latest Coen brothers movie, Inside Llewyn Davis, isn't a biopic, it is inspired by the life of a real person: the late Dave Van Ronk. He was a folk and blues singer and a central...
Dec 5, 2013 · Dave Van Ronk, whose presence in the Greenwich Village folk-music scene was overshadowed by some who followed him, is earning new attention thanks to “Inside Llewyn Davis.”
Feb 12, 2002 · Dave Van Ronk, the gravel-voiced, ragtime-picking patriarch of the Greenwich Village folk scene, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 65 and lived in Greenwich Village. The cause...
Called the “Mayor of MacDougal Street,” Dave Van Ronk was a fixture in the Greenwich Village music scene for decades. He was a raconteur who was extremely well read and always ready to provide a quick quip on a subject at hand.
Sep 23, 2013 · Before You Go See Llewyn Davis, Go Inside Dave Van Ronk. The new Coen brothers film is based in part on the life and times of real-life folk musician Dave Van Ronk, the Mayor of MacDougal Street
Dec 7, 2013 · With 'Inside Llewyn Davis' opening in theaters, we take a look at folksinger Dave Van Ronk, who is rumored to be the film's inspiration.
Jan 16, 2014 · By David King Dunaway In the late 1950s, Dave Van Ronk was walking through Washington Square Park in New York’s Greenwich Village on a Sunday afternoon. This Trotskyist-leaning jazz enthusiast from Queens thought the crowds huddled around guitars and banjos “irredeemably square.”.
