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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]
Dec 9, 2013 · While the latest Coen brothers movie, Inside Llewyn Davis, isn't a biopic, it is inspired by the life of a real person: the late Dave Van Ronk. He was a folk and blues singer and a central...
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...
Sep 23, 2013 · The new Coen brothers film is based in part on the life and times of real-life folk musician Dave Van Ronk, the Mayor of MacDougal Street. A new Dave Van Ronk compilation presents old...
Called the “Mayor of MacDougal Street,” Dave Van Ronk was a fixture in the Greenwich Village music scene for decades. He was a raconteur who was extremely well read and always ready to provide a quick quip on a subject at hand.
Feb 12, 2002 · Dave Van Ronk, the gravel-voiced, ragtime-picking patriarch of the Greenwich Village folk scene, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 65 and lived in Greenwich Village.
Feb 10, 2002 · Dave Van Ronk. A leading figure of the Greenwich village folk scene in the 60s and at one point mentor to Bob Dylan. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1950s - 2000s. Born. June 30, 1936 in Brooklyn, NY. Died.
