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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 ]
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 5, 2013 · Inside Llewyn Davis is based only loosely on the life of folk icon Dave Van Ronk and the 1961 pre-folk boom Greenwhich Village scene he describes in his posthumous memoir, The Mayor of...
Feb 12, 2002 · Dave Van Ronk, a singer and guitarist who sat in on the birth of the 1960s folk music revival and served as a mentor to its biggest star, Bob Dylan, died Sunday in New York from colon cancer.
Dec 2, 2013 · Somewhere between idea and execution, Dave Van Ronk became the fictional Llewyn Davis, Folk City was conflated with another real-life Greenwich Village venue (the Gaslight Café), and the...
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May 21, 2020 · Inside Llewyn Davis story and eponymous character, played by Oscar Isaac, draws inspiration from Dave Van Ronk, a real-life folk singer who was known as Greenwich Village's "Mayor of MacDougal Street" during the early 1960s.
Feb 13, 2002 · HOLLYWOOD — Dave Van Ronk, a leader of the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene who influenced and befriended musicians such as Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton and Janis Ian, died Sunday at New York...
