Mike Porco

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Mike Porco was the original owner and operator of Gerde's Folk City from its inception January 1960 until he sold it in 1980. During that period of time, Folk, Blues and Roots music had a resurgence into American pop culture and later became known as the Folk Revival of the 1960s. A constellation of recording artists were hired by Mike Porco to play Gerde's Folk City. The most notable was Bob Dylan who in 1961 asked Mike Porco to act as his legal guardian as he signed his very first cabaret card. In Bob Dylan's 2004 autobiography,^[1] he referred to Mike as "the Sicilian father that I never had." p. 64^[2]

References

↑ Chronicles: Volume One
↑ Dylan, Bob (2004). Chronicles. New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 64. ISBN 0-7432-2815-4.

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