Cornelia Street Café in Exile

In December of 2018, news spread quickly that the Cornelia Street Café was to close its doors after 41 years of being a signature part of the Greenwich Village arts community.  On January 2^nd, “the usual suspects of artists” who had long been part of the Café’s alumni roster, gathered for a grand farewell in the underground space that Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffman once proclaimed, “The bohemian café of your dreams.”

Since the closing, Robin and friends have kept the Café’s cultural influence alive, through what has become known as Cornelia Street Café in Exile – a series of live performances orchestrated by Robin Hirsch with the support of the long roster of artists who performed regularly at the Café.

On March 31 a gathering of Cornelia Street Café’s usual suspects from every era in the café’s history, will bring Cornelia Street Café in Exile to The Triad (158 West 72^nd Street).  Doors open at 6:30pm.  Cliff Eberhardt and David Massengill, two of the musicians who contributed to the album, Cornelia Street: The Songwriters Exchange, the first and only non-jazz album put out by the long defunct jazz label, Stash Records in 1980, will be among the featured performers.  Other musicians, writers of prose and poetry, who have signed on to appear include Daniel Cainer, Jed Distler, John Forster, Michael Harmon, Ellen Mandel (with Jessica Crandall and Melanie Haskins), John McWhorter (with Diana Bertolini and Dahlia McWhorter), Mark Mitton, Arturo O’Farrill, Cilla Owens, Jennifer Rawlings, Hannah Reimann, Nathalie Schmidt, Paul Shapiro, and a few surprise guests. Robin will host the evening and contribute to the performances.