The Next Generation Clamors For More Acoustic Guitar And Jazz; Yippies Here To Help; Standup Comedy, Too!

The Yippie Museum and Coffeehouse makes its raucuous debut:

They were a countercultural movement springing out of the Youth International Party (Y.I.P.), embracing many of the ’60s most colorful characters, including political activists Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin.

Now, The Yippie Museum and Coffeehouse at 9 Bleecker St. is set to celebrate that culture — perhaps even revive it for a new generation that’s fed up with politics and war.

Dana Beal, a self-described “second-wave” Yippie, part of a younger generation of Yippies who got involved after the movement’s beginnings, and the original owner and resident of 9 Bleecker St., announced plans for the museum, coffeehouse, gift shop and counterculture comedy club in February.

While the museum is not fully completed, the coffeehouse and venue were inaugurated this past weekend with the sounds of acoustic guitar and jazz.

“It was real,” said Steve Stollman, of the Steve Stollman Experience, who performed on Saturday. “It was quite nice, quite relaxed. I think the place is going to fly.”