GERDE'S FOLK CITY DOC- Official Trailer 2024

The film has been completed. A decade has past since this OG trailer.
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THE DEFINITIVE STORY ABOUT MIKE PORCO
and
NEW YORK’s CENTER OF FOLK MUSIC
GERDE'S FOLK CITY
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🤞🏼🕰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 (Bob Porco) 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
POSITIVELY PORCO is the definitive documentary film being made about New York City's first Folk Music cabaret, GERDE'S FOLK CITY.
Filmed to enlighten even the most staunch Folk Revival enthusiast and historian, POSITIVELY PORCO is the story of Mike Porco and the club a thousand musicians called HOME.
MIKE PORCO was instrumental in, literally, setting the stage for the music revolution of the '60's.
During Mike Porco's stewardship (1960-1980) the club hosted early performances by a constellation of Folk, Roots and Blues music stars. Many American radio standards and Civil rights anthems were ofttimes heard by the public at Gerde's Folk City for the first time.
Folk City's distinctive fraternity of aspiring young artists and legendary recording stars borders on myth.
They were all teenagers and 20-somethings when they got there, and decades later, they're still doing 'what they do'.... that is-
PLAY MUSIC.
But not just any kind of music.
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Mike Porco's legendary claim to fame was that he co-signed 19 year old Bob Dylan's first cabaret card as his legal guardian. In her memoir, A Freewheelin' Time, former Bob Dylan girlfriend Suze Rotolo said that Gerde's was where "the cross-fertilization of different styles and musical eras forged important links in the chain of American musical history." For certain, such a collection of personalities crossing paths under one roof shall never happen again.
Bob Porco, Mike's grandson, undertakes an ardent personal odyssey, seeking out and sitting down with those living treasures that launched a global music paradigm shift from a street corner in Greenwich Village.
It's an inspiring tale of an Italian immigrant- and the musicians around him- who answered their calling to be a part of the 1960's Folk and Blues Revival together.
The stars themselves tell the astounding history of Gerde's and Positively Mike Porco.
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Watch it twice. Be astounded twice!
Rated E for Every human being on Earth.
If you loved Inside Llewyn Davis, you'll love POSITIVELY PORCO.
If you didn't love Inside Llewyn Davis, you'll REALLY love POSITIVELY PORCO.
(File under: NON FICTION)
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Bob Porco- Writer, Producer, Camera
Sarah-Rose Meredith- Film Editor
Jonathan Levin- Camera
David Peller- Special Assistant
Cliff Fagin- Consultant

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The Documentary on my grandfather Mike Porco and his illustrious Greenwich Village cabaret IS AVAILABLE HERE
bobporco86.substack.com/p/doc...
THE DEFINITIVE STORY ABOUT MIKE PORCO
and
NEW YORK’s CENTER OF FOLK MUSIC
GERDE'S FOLK CITY
📱💻🖥
✅Make a Substack account
✅Subscribe to Bob Porco’s Substack
✅Subscribe for paid to watch the GerdesFolkCityDoc!!!

[@claudeboni3622]

I met him in Manchester in 1980! Such a nice man always smiling, as I could not speak very fluently in English we were speaking in Italian! What a good memory!❤

[@cybergal99]

This is such great news! I am an NYC Tour Guides and I do tours that begin and end at Folk City, I was told about it by Allan Pepper who owned the Bottom Line because he used to work as a booker there. I only knew about the one on 3rd Street, I didn't know about the original location on Mercer and 4th. Anyway, I'm so glad this movie is finished! I will tell all my customers to watch it! That corner is where both Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen launched their careers and there is not ONE sign, plaque, anything to tell the world how important both Folk City and The Bottom Line were to American music history! Maybe we can do something about that!