🎂🎼Will You Still LOVE Folk City when it’s Sixty Four?🎼🎼🎹
The four (4) hour ‘director’s cut’ of the FOLK CITY documentary POSITIVELY PORCO AKA the GerdesFolkCityDoc will be on Substack. Free enrollment gets you free content. Subscribe for occasional exclusive content. The GerdesFolkCityDoc will be pay-what-you-wish and will be found here on June first.
You’ve already found me here at BOB PORCO’S SUBSTACK so please have a look at the following email/post and share Substack with those Folkies who are familiar with Gerde’s Folk City.
It’s only been eleven years!!
Actually, I entered the Greenwich Village scene 15 years ago right before the Folk City 50th anniversary concert!!
The first of June 2024 will be FOLK CITY’s 64th Anniversary. From January 1960 to late May, Izzy Young ran the stage. After being closed to music for a few days, my Grandpa Mike Porco took over in June 1960.
🤌🏼 👀 I want you to read this email so that you get the main idea about what the GerdesFolkCityDoc is all about.
🤌🏼Do ya love Rock and Roll?
🤌🏼How about Folk Rock?
🤌🏼How about The Blues?
🤌🏼Americana?
🤌🏼Singer songwriter???
🎼🎼 Ever wonder where all that came from?
Try imagining a place where it was always safe and warm for the stray musician during the Folk Revival of the 1960s.
Gerde's Restaurant was an Italian eatery situated East of Washington Square and MacDougal Street yet it became the unlikely epicenter of a musical movement.
In his autobiography, Bob Dylan called Gerde's "the preeminent Folk club in America." Mike Porco, an opportunist who was never one to turn away a crowd, was instrumental in, literally, setting the stage for the music revolution of the 1960s.
What began as a book project about my grandfather became a film project. I started it 3 presidential admins ago! That’s why some consider the project unfinished; THEY’VE NEVER SEEN IT. Truth is, “it” existed on my lap top for many years. I only wanted TOP SHELF production and fanfare. I held the film closely until the ink was dry on BIG contracts. 🥂
⏳The contract hasn’t come, but I never stopped working on making the GerdesFolkCityDoc. I called it POSITIVELY PORCO for many years and I think the story still answers to that name.
Instead of the Opera House Folkie Overthrow, ‘it’ be released digitally on Substack AS IS.
🛎🎁🎉📅JUNE FIRST.
Between you reading this NOW and June 1st, the GerdesFolkCityDoc will be undergoing one hot and heavy LAST edit and get uploaded ‘completed’ or not.
🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼
🌎Substack is popular with writers and content creators who have daily essays and videos to distribute to their readers and subscribers. I never gave it a thought to upload the GerdesFolkCityDoc to a writers’ subscriber page…WTF
It was always the ‘plan’ to get my final product the GerdesFolkCityDoc out to everyone through the Internet of things.
In my dreams I had visions of selling individual digital views of the GerdesFolkCityDoc.
BUT HOW???
Eleven years later, I discovered a way. 🤞🏼
I need to share it for a very affordable price since everything is digital these days. The COSTS, really, are only for Substack to incur. My 15 years of sweat equity was from a labor of love❤️
NOW
All I need for the documentary to FINALLY get out is for everyone to have-a
✅ Clean signal
✅ Electricity and
✅ Substack subscription to The GerdesFolkCityDoc
It will be found here the FIRST of JUNE 2024!!!
It’s only been eleven years!! What’s the rush??? I’ve been planning this release for several weeks now and I’d love to see-a wha-comes out of it, as Mike would say.
This is folk music. The GerdesFolkCityDoc needs to be accessible to all People.
Acoustic music is supposed to be automatic for the People. EVERY musician hustles for their own benefit, but no one really over-charges, as a rule. The Show must be accessible to entire families.
I’m relying on Substack to work smoothly so people all around the world can watch 24/7/365 worldwide.💫
Countless hours have been spent on the material and I finally want to share it.
🤞🏼🕰POSITIVELY PORCO will become known as the definitive document of the rich history of Gerde’s Folk City. Using first-person testimony, archival footage and authentic recordings, the movie will demonstrate the profound affect the music emanating from the Village had on the collective consciousness of a generation.
The interviews that I conducted in 2013 and 2014 include
BRUCE LANGHORNE
JOHN P. HAMMOND
ARLO GUTHRIE
TERRE ROCHE
BARRY KORNFELD
DOMINIC CHIANESE
VINCE MARTIN
IZZY YOUNG
BOB PORCO SR.
ANGELO PORCO
GEORGE GERDES
SONNY OCHS
PEGGY DUNCAN-GARNER
LARRY ‘RATSO’ SLOMAN
ROB STONER
ROD MACDONALD
HAPPY and JANE TRAUM
ERIK FRANDSEN
ERIC ANDERSEN
JOSÉ FELICIANO
DELORES DIXON
DAVID MASSENGILL
📡I’m giving you the GerdesFolkCityDoc for a pay as you want price.
If you happen to recognize the great contributions that Gerde’s and the musicians gave to American music itself,
Pay a few bucks more. It’s up to you and
I’m grateful for what you give..
⚖️Substack will send you all the information you need to pay and PLAY THE GERDESFOLKCITYDOC.
It will be a SUBSCRIPTION ONLY VIDEO.
I need to get the word out now!!!
🎪🎖I’ll be sharing other clips and shorts to Facebook and where ever hoping you’ll find the DOC from one direction or another. PLEASE SHARE ‘Bob Porco’s Substack’ to find the GerdesFolkCityDoc.
If you gave a shit about Folk City then, then you’ll probably take some interest in Gerde’s Folk City today.
🏆My very noble grandfather gave a lot to the scene.🏆
Please spread the word! This always has potential to blossom into more tributes.
Come on over and subscribe for other content in the future.
Pass it along to your folkie buddies. Substack will keep you in the loop through emails.
For years I kept telling people this film is coming, It’s coming, IT’S COMING‼️Now we have a date.
On June 1st you’ll have your chance!
Get Folked,
Bob
https://bobporco86.substack.com/p/gerdes-folk-city-doc-to-be-released