A report on The Clancy Brothers, Greenwich Village and Bob Dylan

The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in the 1960s (left-to-right: Tommy Makem, Paddy Clancy, Tom Clancy and Liam Clancy)
Dylan at Azkena Rock Festival in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, in June 2010
Tommy Makem (group member, 1956–69, 1984–85) playing a bodhrán in 2005, two years before his death
MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village
Dylan at Azkena Rock Festival in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, in June 2010
Finbar Furey (backup musician, 1969–70) playing the uilleann pipes in 2012
453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District
The Zimmerman family home in Hibbing, Minnesota
Robbie O'Connell (group member, 1977–1996) and his cousin, Aoife Clancy, the daughter of Bobby Clancy (group member, 1969–1970, 1977–1998), at the Cape Cod Celtic Festival in 2007
The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets
Dylan with Joan Baez during the civil rights "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom", August 28, 1963
Liam Clancy (group member, 1956–76, 1984–85, 1990–96) performing with Odetta in 2006
Street signs at intersection of West 10th and West 4th Streets
Bobby Dylan, as the college yearbook lists him: St. Lawrence University, upstate New York, November 1963
Finbarr Clancy (group member, 1995–1998) performing in 2011 during a High Kings concert
Map of old Greenwich Village. A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made ca. 1766 for Henry Moore, royal governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than 2 miles (3 km) from the city.
The cinéma vérité documentary Dont Look Back (1967) follows Dylan on his 1965 tour of England. An early music video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues" was used as the film's opening segment.
Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place; the street's name refers to a colonial family, not the LGBT character of Greenwich Village
Dylan in 1966
Whitney Museum of American Art's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street; currently home to the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
Bob Dylan and the Band commenced their 1974 tour in Chicago on January 3.
The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.
Bob Dylan with Allen Ginsberg on the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975. Photo: Elsa Dorfman
The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is the world's largest Halloween parade.
Dylan performing in the De Kuip Stadium, Rotterdam, June 23, 1978
The Stonewall Inn, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement.
Dylan in Toronto April 18, 1980
Blue Note Jazz Club
Dylan in Barcelona, Spain, 1984
The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of Greenwich Village and nearby New York University
Dylan performs during the 1996 Lida Festival in Stockholm
396-397 West Street at West 10th Street is a former hotel which dates from 1904, and is part of the Weehawken Street Historic District
Dylan, the Spectrum, 2007
Washington Mews in Greenwich Village; an NYU building can be seen in the background
Bob Dylan performs at Air Canada Centre, Toronto, November 7, 2006
Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument
Dylan and the Obamas at the White House, after a performance celebrating music from the civil rights movement (February 9, 2010)
NYPD 6th Precinct
Dylan performing at Finsbury Park, London, June 18, 2011
West Village Post Office
President Obama presents Dylan with a Medal of Freedom, May 2012
Jefferson Market Library, once a courthouse, now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library.
Dylan mural in Minneapolis by Eduardo Kobra
Robert De Niro
Robert Downey Jr.
Hank Greenberg
Emma Stone
90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends

The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem significantly influenced the young Bob Dylan and other artists, including Christy Moore and Paul Brady.

- The Clancy Brothers

Arriving in Greenwich Village in Manhattan in 1951, Tom and Paddy established themselves as successful Broadway and Off-Broadway actors.

- The Clancy Brothers

From February 1961, Dylan played at clubs around Greenwich Village, befriending and picking up material from folk singers there, including Dave Van Ronk, Fred Neil, Odetta, the New Lost City Ramblers and Irish musicians the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.

- Bob Dylan

Village resident and cultural icon Bob Dylan by the mid-60s had become one of the world's foremost popular songwriters, and often developments in Greenwich Village would influence the simultaneously occurring folk rock movement in San Francisco and elsewhere, and vice versa.

- Greenwich Village

This list includes Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, Jackson Browne, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Richie Havens, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Ian, the Kingston Trio, the Lovin' Spoonful, Bette Midler, Liza Minnelli, Joni Mitchell, Maria Muldaur, Laura Nyro, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Carly Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, Nina Simone, Barbra Streisand, James Taylor, and the Velvet Underground.

- Greenwich Village
The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem in the 1960s (left-to-right: Tommy Makem, Paddy Clancy, Tom Clancy and Liam Clancy)

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