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The New Penelope was the name of a coffeehouse and concert venue which operated in Montreal, Canada in various locations between 1965 and 1968. | |||
It first opened under the name The Fifth Amendment in November, 1964, -- November 3, 1964, <ref>{{Cite book |last=Publications Board of Sir George Williams University |url=https://archive.org/details/the-georgian-vol-28-no-7-1964-11-03 |title=The Georgian - Volume 28, Number 7 |date=1964-11-03}}</ref> after owner Gary Eisenkraft took over an existing coffeehouse called The Fifth Dimension. It was located at 1455 Bleury St. until it closed in the spring of 1965. Eisenkraft then opened a coffeehouse called The Penelope on Bishop St. in the summer of 1965. | |||
The New Penelope was a ] and concert venue that operated in ], Canada from 1966 to 1968. Originally located on ]., it moved to ] in 1967. | |||
“I opened the place because I figured teenagers have nowhere to go,” he said. “They are pushed around and mistreated when they go out somewhere but we treat them with respect here.” October 9, 1965, ''The Gazette'' newspaper. <ref>{{Cite web |title=The Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive Search |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Fr8DH2VBP9sC&dat=19651009&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |access-date=2024-12-21 |website=news.google.com}}</ref> | |||
The owner of the New Penelope was Gary Eisenkraft, a musician born in Montreal. He started learning the ropes of running a business at age 17 in 1964, when he took over The Fifth Dimension coffeehouse at 1455 Bleury St. and subsequently renamed it The Fifth Amendment.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=McCormick |first=Christy |date=14 September 1974 |title=That man from the New Penelope is back and this time with both feet on the ground |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/421781043/?match=1&terms=%22New%20Penelope%22 |access-date=8 January 2025 |work=The Gazette |pages=43}}</ref> <ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Publications Board of Sir George Williams University |url=https://archive.org/details/the-georgian-vol-28-no-7-1964-11-03 |title=The Georgian - Volume 28, Number 7 |date=1964-11-03}}</ref> ], ], ], and ] were among the folk and blues acts who performed at this venue.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bailey |first=Martin |date=8 December 1964 |title=Greenbriar Boys at 5th |url=https://archive.org/details/the-georgian-vol-28-no-12-1964-12-08/page/n9/mode/2up |journal=The Georgian |volume=28 |issue=12 |pages=10 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=B.N. |date=29 January 1965 |title=folk |url=https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-mcgill-daily-v54-n069-january-29-1965-11054/page/n9/mode/2up?q=Hammond |journal=The McGill Daily |volume=54 |issue=69 |pages=10 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bailey |first=Martin |date=8 December 1964 |title=At Fifth Amendment |url=https://archive.org/details/the-georgian-vol-28-no-12-1964-12-08/page/n9/mode/2up |journal=The Georgian |volume=28 |issue=12 |pages=10 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> | |||
This in turn was followed just a few months later by The New Penelope, a larger coffeehouse and concert venue located on 1432 Stanley St. from November, 1965 until November of 1966. <ref>{{Cite book |last=McGill University |first=Daily Publications Society |url=https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-mcgill-daily-v56-n053-december-09-1966-11226 |title=The McGill Daily Vol. 56 No. 053: December 9, 1966 |date=1966-12-09 |publisher=Montréal : McGill University, Daily Publications Society |others=McGill University Library}}</ref> | |||
The Fifth Amendment closed in the spring of 1965.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=13 September 1965 |title=The Nocturnal Scene |url=https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-mcgill-daily-v55-n001-september-13-1965-11084/page/n7/mode/2up?q=%22Fifth+Amendment%22 |journal=The McGill Daily |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=8 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> That summer, Eisenkraft opened a new coffeehouse called The Penelope on Bishop St.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Clifford |first=Carole |date=27 August 1965 |title=New Coffee Shop Hopes To Draw Folksinging Set |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/742792173/?match=1&terms=Penelope |access-date=8 January 2025 |work=The Montreal Star |pages=20}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> The Penelope lasted only five months but was followed shortly after by The New Penelope, a larger coffeehouse and concert venue that operated at 1432 Stanley from spring to December of 1966.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Allnutt |first=Peter |date=22 July 1966 |title=Bright Spots In a Desert Of Night Life |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/741245462/?match=1&terms=%22New%20Penelope%22%2C%20%22Eisenkraft%22 |access-date=9 January 2025 |work=The Montreal Star |pages=12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |date=12 September 1966 |title=Montreal after dark |url=https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-mcgill-daily-v56-n001-september-12-1966-11174/page/n3/mode/2up?q=%22New+Penelope%22 |journal=The McGill Daily |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=5 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> | |||
⚫ | While the Penelope and Fifth Amendment |
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⚫ | While the Penelope and the Fifth Amendment had primarily presented acoustic blues, folk and bluegrass acts, the New Penelope on Stanley St. hosted concerts by rock and roll and electric blues bands. Among those who performed there were the ], Canadian folk-pop acts ] and ], as well as local rock bands like The Sidetrack<ref name=":2" /> and The Cavemen. | ||
The New Penelope was very popular with young people, in part due to its all-ages policy, serving no alcohol, only non-alcoholic beverages such as coffee, tea and hot chocolate. This meant that people too young to be admitted into licensed concert venues could see performances by these acts when they played at The New Penelope. It was also located just a few blocks from the two main Universities, Sir George Williams and McGill, attracting many of their students to its concerts. | |||
By the |
By the winter of 1967, Eisenkraft had moved The New Penelope to 378 Sherbrooke St. W.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=6 January 1967 |title=The New Penelope Has A New Location |url=https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-mcgill-daily-v56-n054-january-09-1967-11227/page/n5/mode/2up?q=%22New+Penelope%22 |journal=The McGill Daily |volume=56 |issue=54 |pages=7 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> and hired the young artist Francois Dallegret for its interior design. The minimalist layout consisted of bleacher-type seating with long wooden planks arranged over metal pipe scaffolding.<ref>{{Cite book |title=God & Co |publisher=AA Publications |year=2011 |isbn=9781907896187 |editor-last=Dallegret |editor-first=François |location=London |language=English |editor2-last=Ponte |editor2-first=Alessandra |editor3-last=Stalder |editor3-first=Laurent |editor4-last=Weaver |editor4-first=Thomas}}</ref> | ||
The first band to |
The first band to perform at the new venue was the emerging ] and ], who played there every night for two weeks.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rodriguez |first=Juan |date=13 January 1967 |title=Mothers of Invention Here At New Penelope |url=https://archive.org/details/the-georgian-vol-30-no-27-1967-01-13/page/n7/mode/2up?q=Zappa |journal=The Georgian |volume=30 |issue=27 |pages=8 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> This appearance was notable since the band’s first album, '']'', had been just released that summer. | ||
The New Penelope’s Sherbrooke St. location had a capacity of over 200 people,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Regenstreif |first=Mike |date=28 December 2004 |title=His folk clubs rocked |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/425832270/?match=1&terms=Eisenkraft |access-date=8 January 2025 |work=The Gazette |pages=51}}</ref> albeit not every concert saw such turnout. The first appearance of ] at the café in 1967 was sparsely attended, but by the spring of 1968, Mitchell was returning to host several shows there. <ref>{{Cite news |last=Rodriguez |first=Juan |date=28 April 2007 |title=1967 Our Summer of Love |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/425997142/?terms=%22Joni%20Mitchell%22%2C%20%22New%20Penelope%22 |access-date=9 January 2025 |work=The Gazette |pages=57}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Lanken |first=Dane |date=30 June 1969 |title=Joni Mitchell sings and plays at Place des Arts |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/421497151/?match=2&terms=%22Joni%20Mitchell%22%2C%20%22New%20Penelope%22 |access-date=9 January 2025 |work=The Gazette |pages=19}}</ref> | |||
The New Penelope’s Sherbrooke Street location held over 200 paying customers, although this does not mean that every concert saw attendance in the hundreds. A case in point is the first appearance of Joni Mitchell at the New Penelope in 1967. Barely a dozen people are reported to have attended this concert, but by the spring of 1968 Mitchell was returning to host several nights to a packed house of fans. Mitchell was not the only singer-songwriter considered to be in the “folk-rock” style to play The New Penelope around that time. There were also concerts by Tim Hardin, Tim Buckley and Richie Havens. The singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester began his career playing regularly at The New Penelope, shortly after moving to Montreal in 1967 in part to avoid the draft that obliged many young American men to report to the Armed Forces to fight in the Vietnam War. | |||
Mitchell was not the only singer-songwriter of the ] to play the New Penelope around that time. ], ] and ] also gave concerts and singer-songwriter ] played there regularly.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brownstein |first=Bill |date=13 June 2016 |title=Calm Waters |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/493706040/?match=3&terms=%22Richie%20Havens%22%2C%20%22New%20Penelope%22 |work=The Gazette |pages=13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Rodriguez |first=Juan |date=24 July 1968 |title=Jesse Winchester at the New Penelope |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/421444202/?match=2&terms=%22Jesse%20Winchester%22%2C%20%22New%20Penelope%22 |access-date=9 January 2025 |work=The Gazette |pages=18}}</ref> | |||
Owner Gary Eisenkraft’s mission to bring blues music to the youth of Montreal continued at the Sherbrooke Street location. Among the blues performers who played there in 1967 and 1968 were Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, James Cotton and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. Notable rock groups that also played there include The Linn County Blues Band, The Fugs and The Young Ones. | |||
Among the blues performers who played at the New Penelope in 1967 and 1968 were ],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Whitzman |first=Peter |date=20 October 1967 |title=Muddy Waters...Classic Blues |url=https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-mcgill-daily-v57-n020-october-20-1967-11287/page/n13/mode/2up?q=Muddy |journal=The McGill Daily |volume=57 |issue=20 |pages=20 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> ],<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Burrowes |first=Jon |date=8 March 1968 |title=happenings |url=https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-mcgill-daily-v57-n092-march-08-1968-11355/page/n11/mode/2up?q=junior+well |journal=The McGill Daily |volume=57 |issue=92 |pages=9 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> ],<ref>{{Cite journal |date=26 September 1967 |title=James Cotton Blues Band at the New Penelope |url=https://archive.org/details/the-georgian-vol-31-no-4-1967-09-26-p-1-12/page/n11/mode/2up?q=James+Cotton |journal=The Georgian |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=12 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> and ] and ]. Notable rock groups that also played there include The ],<ref>{{Cite journal |date=20 September 1968 |title=Linn County Blues Band at the New Penelope |url=https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-mcgill-free-press-v02-n002-september-20-1968-11409/page/n5/mode/2up?q=linn+county |journal=The McGill Free Press |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=6 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> ],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Penfield |first=Wilder |date=13 September 1968 |title=Rock 'n' roll: rise and fall |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/741567812/?match=2&terms=%22The%20Fugs%22%2C%20%22New%20Penelope%22 |access-date=9 January 2025 |work=The Montreal Star |pages=32}}</ref> and The Young Ones.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lanken |first=Dane |date=12 July 1968 |title=Young Ones at Penelope |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/421436957/?match=4&terms=%22Young%20Ones%22%2C%20%22New%20Penelope%22 |access-date=9 January 2025 |work=The Gazette |pages=16}}</ref> | |||
⚫ | The New Penelope found itself in financial difficulty by the summer of 1968. Despite various fundraising efforts and benefit concerts, it closed its doors for good in November, 1968. |
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⚫ | The New Penelope found itself in financial difficulty by the summer of 1968. Despite various fundraising efforts and benefit concerts, it closed its doors for good in November, 1968.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bist |first=David |date=9 November 1968 |title=Complacency has killed The Pen |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Fr8DH2VBP9sC&dat=19681109&printsec=frontpage&hl=en |access-date=9 January 2025 |work=The Gazette |pages=43}}</ref> | ||
== References == | == References == |
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The New Penelope was a coffeehouse and concert venue that operated in Montreal, Canada from 1966 to 1968. Originally located on Stanley St., it moved to Sherbrooke St. West in 1967.
The owner of the New Penelope was Gary Eisenkraft, a musician born in Montreal. He started learning the ropes of running a business at age 17 in 1964, when he took over The Fifth Dimension coffeehouse at 1455 Bleury St. and subsequently renamed it The Fifth Amendment. The Reverend Gary Davis, The Greenbriar Boys, Eric Andersen, and John Hammond were among the folk and blues acts who performed at this venue.
The Fifth Amendment closed in the spring of 1965. That summer, Eisenkraft opened a new coffeehouse called The Penelope on Bishop St. The Penelope lasted only five months but was followed shortly after by The New Penelope, a larger coffeehouse and concert venue that operated at 1432 Stanley from spring to December of 1966.
While the Penelope and the Fifth Amendment had primarily presented acoustic blues, folk and bluegrass acts, the New Penelope on Stanley St. hosted concerts by rock and roll and electric blues bands. Among those who performed there were the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Canadian folk-pop acts Ian and Sylvia and Gordon Lightfoot, as well as local rock bands like The Sidetrack and The Cavemen.
By the winter of 1967, Eisenkraft had moved The New Penelope to 378 Sherbrooke St. W. and hired the young artist Francois Dallegret for its interior design. The minimalist layout consisted of bleacher-type seating with long wooden planks arranged over metal pipe scaffolding.
The first band to perform at the new venue was the emerging Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, who played there every night for two weeks. This appearance was notable since the band’s first album, Freak Out!, had been just released that summer.
The New Penelope’s Sherbrooke St. location had a capacity of over 200 people, albeit not every concert saw such turnout. The first appearance of Joni Mitchell at the café in 1967 was sparsely attended, but by the spring of 1968, Mitchell was returning to host several shows there.
Mitchell was not the only singer-songwriter of the “folk-rock” style to play the New Penelope around that time. Tim Hardin, Tim Buckley and Richie Havens also gave concerts and singer-songwriter Jesse Winchester played there regularly.
Among the blues performers who played at the New Penelope in 1967 and 1968 were Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, James Cotton, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. Notable rock groups that also played there include The Linn County Blues Band, The Fugs, and The Young Ones.
The New Penelope found itself in financial difficulty by the summer of 1968. Despite various fundraising efforts and benefit concerts, it closed its doors for good in November, 1968.
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- Publications Board of Sir George Williams University (1964-11-03). The Georgian - Volume 28, Number 7.
- Bailey, Martin (8 December 1964). "Greenbriar Boys at 5th". The Georgian. 28 (12): 10 – via Internet Archive.
- B.N. (29 January 1965). "folk". The McGill Daily. 54 (69): 10 – via Internet Archive.
- Bailey, Martin (8 December 1964). "At Fifth Amendment". The Georgian. 28 (12): 10 – via Internet Archive.
- "The Nocturnal Scene". The McGill Daily. 55 (1): 8. 13 September 1965 – via Internet Archive.
- Clifford, Carole (27 August 1965). "New Coffee Shop Hopes To Draw Folksinging Set". The Montreal Star. p. 20. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
- ^ Allnutt, Peter (22 July 1966). "Bright Spots In a Desert Of Night Life". The Montreal Star. p. 12. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- "Montreal after dark". The McGill Daily. 56 (1): 5. 12 September 1966 – via Internet Archive.
- "The New Penelope Has A New Location". The McGill Daily. 56 (54): 7. 6 January 1967 – via Internet Archive.
- Dallegret, François; Ponte, Alessandra; Stalder, Laurent; Weaver, Thomas, eds. (2011). God & Co. London: AA Publications. ISBN 9781907896187.
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- Rodriguez, Juan (28 April 2007). "1967 Our Summer of Love". The Gazette. p. 57. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- Lanken, Dane (30 June 1969). "Joni Mitchell sings and plays at Place des Arts". The Gazette. p. 19. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
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- "Linn County Blues Band at the New Penelope". The McGill Free Press. 2 (2): 6. 20 September 1968 – via Internet Archive.
- Penfield, Wilder (13 September 1968). "Rock 'n' roll: rise and fall". The Montreal Star. p. 32. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- Lanken, Dane (12 July 1968). "Young Ones at Penelope". The Gazette. p. 16. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- Bist, David (9 November 1968). "Complacency has killed The Pen". The Gazette. p. 43. Retrieved 9 January 2025.