HeyJaredBob Porco's Substack
It’s a Substack featuring Mike Porco’s club Gerde’s Folk City. POSITIVELY PORCO tells the remarkable tale of New York City's first Folk Music cabaret Gerde's Folk City and its enigmatic owner Mike Porco.
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(Part 3 of 4)🚨FOLK CITY Handwritten🖖🏽 Including THE FIFTH PEG at Gerde’s 1960🍺 Gerde’s Runs on 🍺🍺🍺 beer and guitar🏆New York’s Center of Folk Music (opens the original)
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A work in progress. It’s for future display in my own Hall of Fame.I can’t call it THE BOB museum. Somebody else already uses that name.Let’s dive a little deeper into one or two highlighted segments of the 1/4 size scanned artifact.L00K deeply~~~~left»to»right» 1960-1965 (it’s a full fold out tablecloth size piece of paper +fold) {{Five years X 4= 20 years; 6 month long list margin before the fold; 50 week latitude}}<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" h
Sunny Hostin licensed herself to an AI company to combat “gatekeeping” in Hollywood & get Black and Brown stories on screens (opens the original)
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I finally found a good use for my recently found BLACKNESS. I’m Blackish, according to Ai, and I’m finally gonna get some recognition and MINORITY grants for my BLACK & BROWN Ai film MIKE & BOB.This Hostin story is relevant to Folk blogging because I happen to be creating a future film, set in the past, using voice match and likeness match of 50 musicians via Ai tools about NEW YORK’S CENTER OF FOLK MUSIC in 1961-63. It’s Casablanca-beauty for Folk Music at 11W4th.https://variety.com/2026/biz/ne
🔮Ask NOT what YOU can do for Ai... (opens the original)
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What’s not to love???<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1092" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!t5ZS!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa2d35094-041a-
🎙🏆 Mike Porco’s Folk Cabaret 11 West 4th Street: Where American Music History Pivoted (opens the original)
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Mike & Bob: Jurassic Park for Folk City #artofishal #aifilm<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1504" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jA_5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com
(Part 2 of 3 or 4) 🏆 Gerde’s Folk City handwritten bookings chart 🚨Partial segment of 20 year chart🚨 (opens the original)
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If you want you mind BLOWN clean off, L00k closely! There is not, nor ever was, nor shall eva be a solitary cabaret that had or may have this roster of alumni.Double bills of Van Ronk and Pete Yarrow; Carolyn Hester and John Lee Hooker; Lonnie Johnson and Victoria Spivey; Stevens Gospel Singers and Ramblin’ Jack; Clarence Ashley and Hedy West; ADD all the solo sets from José Feliciano, Cisco Houston, The Greenbriar Boys, The Clancy Brothers, Brother John Sellers, Jesse Fuller, Jean Ritchie, Jean
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