A report on Phil Ochs, Joan Baez and Greenwich Village

Baez playing at the March on Washington in August 1963

Bob Gibson was a major influence on Ochs's writing.

453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District

The cover of Ochs's 1969 album, Rehearsals for Retirement

The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets

Phil Ochs rewrite of his song "Here's to the State of Mississippi" into "Here's to the State of Richard Nixon". Typed at the apartment of Chip Berlet in 1974 prior to Ochs's performance of the song at Impeachment Ball. Copy sent to his brother Michael Ochs for registration. Original at Chicago History Museum.

Street signs at intersection of West 10th and West 4th Streets

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.

Bob Dylan, Baez, and Carlos Santana, performing in 1984

Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place; the street's name refers to a colonial family, not the LGBT character of Greenwich Village

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival 2005 at Golden Gate Park

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.

Joan Baez concert in Dresden, Germany, July 2008

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.

The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is the world's largest Halloween parade.

Baez with Bob Dylan at the civil rights March on Washington, 1963

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.

The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of Greenwich Village and nearby New York University

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

Washington Mews in Greenwich Village; an NYU building can be seen in the background

Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument

Jefferson Market Library, once a courthouse, now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library.

90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends

Baez's acclaimed songs include "Diamonds & Rust" and covers of Phil Ochs's "There but for Fortune" and The Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down".

- Joan Baez

Ochs arrived in New York City in 1962 and began performing in numerous small folk nightclubs, eventually becoming an integral part of the Greenwich Village folk music scene.

- Phil Ochs

Other performers at the 1963 folk festival included Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Tom Paxton.

- Phil Ochs

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

Baez first met Dylan in April 1961 at Gerde's Folk City in New York City's Greenwich Village.

- Joan Baez

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Underwater atomic test "Baker", Bikini Atoll, Pacific Ocean, 1946

Counterculture of the 1960s

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Anti-establishment cultural phenomenon that developed throughout much of the Western world between the mid-1960s and the mid-1970s.

Free Speech activist Mario Savio on the steps of Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 1966

King's "I Have a Dream" speech, given in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington

Three radical icons of the sixties. Encounter between Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre and Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Cuba, in 1960

Yellow Power activist Richard Aoki at a Black Panther Party rally.

Herbert Marcuse, associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory, was an influential libertarian socialist thinker on the radical student movements of the era and philosopher of the New Left

Eugene McCarthy, anti-war candidate for the Democratic nomination for the US presidency in 1968

A sign pointing to an old fallout shelter in New York City

The cover of an early Whole Earth Catalog shows the Earth as seen by astronauts traveling back from the Moon

Frisbee and alternative 1960s disc sports icon Ken Westerfield

A small part of the crowd of 400,000, after the rain, Woodstock, United States, August 1969

The Jimi Hendrix Experience performs for the Dutch television show Fenklup in March 1967

The Doors performing for Danish television in 1968

Recording "Give Peace a Chance". Left to right: Rosemary Leary (face not visible), Tommy Smothers (with back to camera), John Lennon, Timothy Leary, Yoko Ono, Judy Marcioni and Paul Williams, June 1, 1969.

The plaque honoring the victims of the August 1970 Sterling Hall bombing, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

A small segment of the "Wall" at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial listing the names of the nearly 60,000 American war dead

Jerry Rubin, University at Buffalo, March 10, 1970

The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.

Joan Baez (born 1941) (musician, activist)

Phil Ochs (1940–1976) (protest/topical singer)

Gerde's Folk City

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Gerdes Folk City, sometimes spelled Gerde's Folk City, was a music venue in the West Village, part of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, in New York City.

Gerdes was where Bob Dylan debuted "Blowin' in the Wind" and was also the place where Joan Baez and Dylan met for the first time.

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