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For more than 50 years, Club Passim has been known as a premier national venue presenting new and established traditional, folk, and acoustic musical performers. In all its incarnations, from the original Club 47 (1958-1968) to Passim (1969-1994) and finally as its present Club Passim, the club has been a special place for both artist and audience member. Probably more than any other single site, Club 47 can claim to have produced a generation of performers, record producers, festival organizers, and managers who remain a great influence on today'92s music industry. Club 47 may have been the most influential club of its kind during the 1960s folk boom, even more so than clubs in New York and Berkeley. The venue's role in America's musical and cultural history is still being assessed in books, recordings, television documentaries, articles, and autobiographies.

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    Club Passim

    47 Palmer Street
    Cambridge, MA 02138

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      02/09/12

      Brooks Williams, Matt Borrello opens Club Passim Brooks Williams, Matt Borrello opens Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 9, 2012 Named one of the Top 100 Acoustic Guitarists, with over 17 recordings to his name and 23 years on the road, this Statesboro Georgia (USA) native and Cambridge (UK) resident is one of the premier singer/guitarists on the Roots n’ Blues scene. From Belfast to Boston, London to Austin, Toronto to Istanbul, Brooks Williams has been wowing audiences worldwide with his silky voice and rockin’ acoustic and resonator slide guitars, every night delivering the deepest and most intense...

  • • Upcoming Events

      02/10/12	Kris Delmhorst Club Passim Kris Delmhorst Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 10, 2012 Kris Delmhorst's arresting new album Shotgun Singer began as an act of solitary creation. Holed up in a rural cabin with minimal recording gear and a houseful of instruments, Delmhorst recorded her new songs alone and off the clock, in late night sessions that yielded layers of intimate vocals combined with nylon string and electric guitars, cellos, keyboards, and percussion. The result is collection of songs fully realized and even lush at times, but retaining a hushed intensity, a spirit...
      02/11/12	Laura Veirs & The Hall of Flames Club Passim Laura Veirs & The Hall of Flames Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 11, 2012 Laura Veirs grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she often spent summers camping with her family, which gave her much of her songwriting inspiration. Veirs has said that she didn’t seriously listen to music until she was in her 20s; instead, she just heard what was in her environment. She listened to folk, country, classical and pop music around the house and on the radio during her youth. Veirs’ seventh album, July Flame, was released in January 2010 on her own record...
      02/11/12	Laura Veirs & The Tumble Bees Club Passim Laura Veirs & The Tumble Bees Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 11, 2012 Tumble Bee, the first children’s record from the prolific Laura Veirs (whose last release, July Flame, was dubbed “a perfect Sunday afternoon record” by The Oxford American and “sweet and irresistible” by Rolling Stone) inspires listeners to lean in close and hit replay. The youthful innocence in Veirs’ voice lends itself well to the jaunty spirit of the album. The recording covers a wide range of folk songs, from early 20th century work songs to the...
      02/12/12	Darrell Scott CD Release Club Passim Darrell Scott CD Release Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 12, 2012 Much of the commentary about Darrell Scott’s career has focused on the songs he’s written that have been recorded by famous names and voices – those known in music industry parlance as “artists.” But then there’s the actual word artist, whose definition has nothing to do with radio hits and red carpets. We refer of course to those who create artifacts of aesthetic and intellectual contemplation and wonder, built from experience, skill, reflection and...
      02/13/12	BCMFest Celtic Music Monday Club Passim BCMFest Celtic Music Monday Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 13, 2012 Neil Pearlman (innovative Scottish/Cape Breton-style keyboardist) and Friends. More details TBA http://www.bcmfest.com/
      02/14/12	Sweethearts’ Night Out Club Passim Sweethearts’ Night Out Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 14, 2012 Darol Anger & Emy Phelps, Lissa Schneckenberger
      02/15/12	Dirk Powell & Riley Baugus: Dirk Powell & Riley Baugus Club Passim Dirk Powell & Riley Baugus: Dirk Powell & Riley Baugus Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 15, 2012 Dirk Powell has expanded on the deeply rooted sounds of his Appalachian heritage to become one of the preeminent traditional American musicians of his generation. In addition to acclaimed releases on Rounder Records, he’s recorded and performed with artists such as Loretta Lynn, playing several instruments on her Grammy-winning release “Van Lear Rose.” Dirk founded the Cajun group Balfa Toujours with his wife Christine Balfa and is currently Artistic Director of the...
      02/16/12	Eric Stepanian Club Passim Eric Stepanian Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 16, 2012 Eric Stepanian’s Goodnight Scarlett, produced by Malcolm Burn, fits that narrative of music, which is relevant, immediate and powerful. Shorthand? Goodnight Scarlett is timeless, pure, American rock music, influenced by Stepanian’s twin heroes of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, tempered by ‘70s AM radio fare and personalized by the singer-songwriter’s unique history. http://www.ericstepanian.com/
      02/17/12	Väsen Club Passim Väsen Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 17, 2012 Olov Johansson and Mikael Marin started playing together as teenagers around 1980. During the early 1980's they would regularly visit Curt and Ivar Tallroth and Eric Sahlström, older musicians who lived nearby in the Uppland region, where they would play and learn traditional music from them. In this way they became a link in the living tradition that Swedish folk music has enjoyed through the centuries. "The sound may be traditional, but the attitude is completely modern, mixing...
      02/18/12	The Cat’s Pajamas Club Passim The Cat’s Pajamas Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 18, 2012 The Cat’s Pajamas makes very cool music for kids, bringing a musical comedy twist to high-octane kid-rock. The Cats put on more than a concert—they invite the audience from the very first note to enter a wild, wonderful world of stories, dance, puppets and props, all backed by a band making great music that just happens to be for kids. Up and down the East Coast, The Cat’s Pajamas captures the imagination of children while thoroughly engaging their families. "The Cat's...
      02/20/12	Massmouth Story Slam Club Passim Massmouth Story Slam Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 20, 2012 http://massmouth.ning.com/
      02/22/12	Marco Benevento Club Passim Marco Benevento Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 22, 2012 Pianist and composer Marco Benevento blends electronic music with traditional jazz. On his new record, Between the Needles and Nightfall, he borrows sounds from an assortment of toy instruments, including old Casio keyboards and other toy trinkets. http://www.marcobenevento.com/home.html
      02/23/12	Anais Mitchell CD Release Show, Rachel Ries opens Club Passim Anais Mitchell CD Release Show, Rachel Ries opens Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 23, 2012 From her current home base in a 200-year-old farmhouse in rural Vermont, Anais (“uh-NAY-iss”) Mitchell writes songs that are as intimate as conversations and as rich in detail as short stories. She is the rare musician who is equally comfortable wielding an acoustic guitar alone onstage, sharing a disc’s worth of alt-country duets, or scripting a vast operatic journey into the underworld. She’s a fearless explorer, and her world just keeps getting larger....
      02/24/12	Lucy Kaplansky Club Passim Lucy Kaplansky Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 24, 2012 She started out singing in Chicago bars. Then, barely out of high school, Lucy Kaplansky took off for New York City. There she found a fertile community of songwriters and performers - Suzanne Vega, John Gorka, Bill Morrissey, Cliff Eberhardt, and others - where she fit right in. Kaplansky's voice continues to remain in high demand by her peers. She teamed with Dar Williams and Richard Shindell to form supergroup Cry Cry Cry, the three choosing to celebrate the amazing revitalization in...
      02/25/12	Anne Heaton CD Release Club Passim Anne Heaton CD Release Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 25, 2012 Heaton grew up in Chicago, lived in New York and now lives in Somerville, MA, the home of Q Division Studios, which -- only a bike ride away from her home -- is where she now records most of her music including her sophomore release “Give In” produced by Mike Denneen (Aimee Mann and Fountains of Wayne). Both “Give In” (released on Q Division Records) and Heaton’s independent debut album “Black Notebook” received national critical acclaim. Performing...
      02/26/12	What Time is It Mr. Fox, Mali Sastri, Sarah Rabdau, and Mary Bichner Club Passim What Time is It Mr. Fox, Mali Sastri, Sarah Rabdau, and Mary Bichner Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 26, 2012 What time is It Mr. Fox like to pretend they live in a circus in the woods. They enjoy fireplaces, dusty books, mystics, fiddles, soul music, carnivals, putting on make-up, taking off make-up, and making up stories. http://www.whattimeisitmrfox.com/when_%26_where.html “Torture chamber pop.” “Darkwave jazz.” “Siren rock.” These are a few of the many attempts to describe the sound of Jaggery, an art-rock collective which...
      02/28/12	Berklee American Roots Music series Club Passim Berklee American Roots Music series Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 28, 2012 Jen Starsinic is an emerging, young singer-songwriter hailing from Pennsylvania. Informed largely by her background as an old-time fiddler and singer, her songs are built like wooden cabins containing crooked melodies and unspoken memories. And with a voice described as "beautifully human", and fiddle playing said to be "driving, charismatic, and elegantly focused", she isn't afraid to follow her intimate, yet grounded, original songs with raging fiddle tunes from a...
      02/29/12	Whitehorse (featuring Melissa McClelland & Luke Doucet) Club Passim Whitehorse (featuring Melissa McClelland & Luke Doucet) Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 29, 2012 Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet tie the musical knot with the debut of their new band, Whitehorse. Gutsy and resolute in their pursuits of sound and substance, Luke and Melissa’s fusion of the person and professional brings to mind the road-tested romance of Johnny and June. Individually, Luke and Melissa have been recognized with awards and nominations from the Juno Awards, the Canadian Folk Music Awards, the Hamilton Music Awards, the Independent Music Awards and the Polaris...
      03/02/12	Rose Cousins CD Release Club Passim Rose Cousins CD Release Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 2, 2012 Rose Cousins finds insight in solitude and strength in numbers. Supported by a thriving Halifax music scene and welcomed by an equally vibrant Boston community, her new album We Have Made A Spark was made in the spirit of community and collaboration. We Have Made A Spark follows Cousins’ two multi-award-winning albums The Send Off (2009) produced by Luke Doucet and If You Were For Me (2006) produced by CBC in Halifax. Yet another collection of stunning songs by Rose Cousins, her third...
      03/05/12	Duke Special Club Passim Duke Special Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 5, 2012 http://www.dukespecial.com/
      03/07/12	PJ Pacifico, Kristen Cifelli & Shelly Fraley Club Passim PJ Pacifico, Kristen Cifelli & Shelly Fraley Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 7, 2012 Singer-songwriter P.J. Pacifico delivers a confident, upbeat collection of road-tested rock/pop music, on his Viper Records release, Outlet. With a radio-friendly sound that evokes Gin Blossoms and Matthew Sweet, and a storyteller’s cadence that has been compared to James Taylor, Pacifico appears poised for mainstream success with the new album, his third. P.J. has shared the stage with Crosby, Stills & Nash, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sugarland, and Hank Williams Jr.
      03/08/12- 03/09/12	Audrey Ryan & Will Dailey Club Passim Audrey Ryan & Will Dailey Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 8-March 9, 2012 Audrey Ryan is a one-man-band multi-instrumentalist whose music is quirky and genre-bending. She tours regionally, nationally, and internationally supported by Folkwit Records (UK) . She has opened for Suzanne Vega, They Might be Giants, Josh Ritter, Ra Ra Riot, Grace Potter among many others http://www.audreyryan.org/
      03/09/12	Air Traffic Controller & Sarah Blacker Club Passim Air Traffic Controller & Sarah Blacker Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 9, 2012 Serving in the US Navy as a real-life air traffic controller, singer/songwriter Dave Munro sent home 4-track demos he had written and recorded during his deployment. With his enlistment up, Munro returned to hometown Boston and discovered an impressive number of fans, prompting the genesis of the aptly-named rock band Air Traffic Controller. WERS Radio calls Air Traffic Controller “One of Boston's finest independent bands” and during the height of its radio campaign the...
      03/10/12	Mary Fahl Club Passim Mary Fahl Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 10, 2012 Blessed with a magnificent range, Fahl is an expressive, emotional singer/songwriter who first achieved fame as lead singer and co-founder of the mid-1990s cult band October Project, an East Coast folk-rock/adult alternative outfit that recorded two poetic albums for Epic: its self-titled debut album of 1993; and its 1995 encore effort, “Falling Farther In“. In a review of October Project’s first release, Allmusic.com dubbed Fahl the “lovechild“ of Stevie...
      03/10/12	Ashley Jordan Club Passim Ashley Jordan Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 10, 2012 In October of 2011, Ashley released her second CD titled Liquid Words with her new unique mix of country/pop folk-rock music at a CD release concert held at the legendary Club Passim in Cambridge, MA. Her newest album met once again with rave reviews and Ashley’s music has been getting radio play on stations such as WATD FM (“Almost Famous Show” and "Twilight Showcase") and on WMBR Radio in Cambridge, MA. Ashley continues to play her guitar and give powerful vocal...
      03/13/12	The Earth Stringband Club Passim The Earth Stringband Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 13, 2012 The Earth String Band combines bluegrass and old time Appalachian music with contemporary acoustic music, achieving synergy with soulful songwriting and musicianship. Fiery and improvisational, The Earth String Band creates pulsing earthy grooves and melodious hooks that form a unique, infective vibe. http://www.earthstringband.com
      03/14/12	Bruce Molsky and Ale Möller Club Passim Bruce Molsky and Ale Möller Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 14, 2012 Bruce Molsky stands today as the premier old-time fiddler in the world, the defining virtuoso of Appalachia's timeless folk music traditions. That must feel odd for a former engineer from the Bronx, who didn't begin a music career until he was forty. But folded into those strange facts is the secret to his unique genius. In addition to a prolific solo career, performing on fiddle, guitar, and banjo, Molsky frequently joins genre-busting supergroups, like the Grammy-nominated Fiddlers Four,...
      03/15/12	Maeve Gilchrist and Matt & Shannon Heaton Club Passim Maeve Gilchrist and Matt & Shannon Heaton Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 15, 2012 Non-members: $15/ Passim members $13 Based in New York City, Maeve Gilchrist is currently performing with her own duo and trio which blends her Scottish roots with the colors of jazz, creating a unique and multicultural sound. She performed regularly in the prestigious performance centre in shows such as Singers Showcase, The International Folk Festival, The Commencement concerts and The Stevie Wonder tribute show. The Irish Music Magazine says that, “Both as a singer and a harp...
      03/16/12- 03/17/12	Paul Kelly Club Passim Paul Kelly Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 16-March 17, 2012 Paul Kelly has recorded seventeen studio albums as well as several film soundtracks (Lantana and the Cannes 2006 highlight, Jindabyne) and live albums, in an influential career spanning more than thirty years. He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 199. Songs From The South, a selection of his popular songs first assembled in 1997 and expanded to a double album in 2008,contains many of his songs now lodged deep in the Australian psyche. http://www.paulkelly.com.au/
      03/18/12	Mariel Vandersteel CD Release Club Passim Mariel Vandersteel CD Release Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 18, 2012 Inspired by her summers spent studying traditional music in Ireland and across the United States, Mariel Vandersteel decided to study traditional music in Norway after graduating from Berklee. She studied the Hardingfele and Norwegian folk music at Høgskolen i Telemark Rauland. While in Norway, she performed at outdoor festivals and in the local elementary school where she taught children about American folk music. Mariel has taught at Alasdair Fraser’s Sierra Fiddle Camp, has...
      03/20/12	Hapa Club Passim Hapa Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 20, 2012 Often encapsulated as the “Sound of Maui”, HAPA’s music evokes a place that many people at different times have referred to as heavenly. The overriding quality of their music is one of beauty and serenity, found in the majestic tones of the oli (chant), mele (song), the elegant movements of the sacred dance known as hula, and the exhilarating innovative sounds of virtuoso slack key guitar. HAPA’s self entitled debut CD released in 1993, swept the 1994 Na Hoku Hanohano...
      03/21/12	Duncan Wickel with Maeve Gilchrist, Josh Hari and Nick Falk Club Passim Duncan Wickel with Maeve Gilchrist, Josh Hari and Nick Falk Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 21, 2012 Violinist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Duncan Wickel is a “Considerable talent…[he] is as persuasive in a traditional Irish ballad as he is country fiddling or ripping through cascading classical flourishes or atonal double stops” –The Boston Globe. A former native of Asheville, NC, now living and working in the heart of Boston’s thriving music scene, Duncan’s reputation has been growing quickly on a national level as a wildly diverse and highly...
      03/22/12	The Vespers Club Passim The Vespers Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 22, 2012 The Vespers is two sisters, two brothers, four friends, 10 instruments, one fun little folk band. However you do the math, The Vespers are a force to be reckoned with. In the spring of 2010, the newly formed group released their debut album, Tell Your Mama, which has been received greatly by critics and fans alike. The indie release even managed to sneak on to a few top 20 lists before the year’s end. The critics have hailed the band as “magnificently unforgettable” and...
      03/23/12	Sarah Jarosz Club Passim Sarah Jarosz Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 23, 2012 The best and brightest in the acoustic world move the music forward with an awareness of what came before them; that is certainly true of Sarah Jarosz. On her second album for Sugar Hill Records, Follow Me Down, she pays homage to her musical roots while pushing beyond those sometimes limited boundaries, taking us on a journey both dark and mystical. For this, Jarosz has a simple yet telling explanation: “I’m influenced by the older, and the contemporary, and the new.” Her...
      03/24/12	Parkington Sisters, Francesca Blanchard opens Club Passim Parkington Sisters, Francesca Blanchard opens Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 24, 2012 Born to each other, a band raised from the beginning, the Parkington Sisters create an aural experience that is both magnetic in its delivery and genuine in its emotional impact. Seeded from a generation of musicians, Rose, Nora, Sarah and Ariel Parkington were raised in a wildly musical household where every room sounded with a spark of song, naturally inspiring their individual hearts and hands to find their own instrumental avenues. Highlights of 2011 included performing at the Bonnaroo...
      03/25/12	Della Mae Club Passim Della Mae Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 25, 2012 http://heyheydellamae.com/
      03/26/12	Becca Stevens Band Club Passim Becca Stevens Band Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 26, 2012 The North Carolina-bred, New York-based singer/composer/guitarist’s status as a lifelong music-maker is more than apparent on the Becca Stevens Band’s Sunnyside debut Weightless. Although she’s already won significant acclaim for her membership in Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra and her prestigious collaborations with such esteemed musicians as Taylor Eigsti and Brad Mehldau, the sparkling 12-song set reveals the accomplished young songstress to be a startlingly...
      03/30/12	Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem CD Release Club Passim Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem CD Release Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 30, 2012 The Boston Globe described Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem as "neo old-timey with cosmopolitan splashes of contemporary pop and jazz." It's an exuberant mix of musical idioms, held together by superb musicianship, impeccable taste, and the band's charismatic vocals. A stage show dips into country blues, vintage swing, modern songwriter fare, and Appalachian fiddle tunes and songs. It's a bracing fusion: listen to Arbo deliver Bessie Jones' version of "O Death" accompanied by...
      03/31/12	Jeffrey Foucault Club Passim Jeffrey Foucault Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 31, 2012 Jeffrey Foucault grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. His father played a plywood guitar and his mother liked to sing. Winter Sundays were for church or ice fishing, which are not so different when you think about it. He went to college and dropped out, took a job on a fruit farm and started writing songs about a girl from Iowa. He finished school, roofed houses, drove a snowplow, and home-schooled the son of the local bar owner in exchange for beer. He cut his first album in the winter of...

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    02/09/12

    Brooks Williams, Matt Borrello opens Club Passim Brooks Williams, Matt Borrello opens Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 9, 2012 Named one of the Top 100 Acoustic Guitarists, with over 17 recordings to his name and 23 years on the road, this Statesboro Georgia (USA) native and Cambridge (UK) resident is one of the premier singer/guitarists on the Roots n’ Blues scene. From Belfast to Boston, London to Austin, Toronto to Istanbul, Brooks Williams has been wowing audiences worldwide with his silky voice and rockin’ acoustic and resonator slide guitars, every night delivering the deepest and most intense...

  • Upcoming Events

    02/10/12	Kris Delmhorst Club Passim Kris Delmhorst Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 10, 2012 Kris Delmhorst's arresting new album Shotgun Singer began as an act of solitary creation. Holed up in a rural cabin with minimal recording gear and a houseful of instruments, Delmhorst recorded her new songs alone and off the clock, in late night sessions that yielded layers of intimate vocals combined with nylon string and electric guitars, cellos, keyboards, and percussion. The result is collection of songs fully realized and even lush at times, but retaining a hushed intensity, a spirit...
    02/11/12	Laura Veirs & The Hall of Flames Club Passim Laura Veirs & The Hall of Flames Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 11, 2012 Laura Veirs grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she often spent summers camping with her family, which gave her much of her songwriting inspiration. Veirs has said that she didn’t seriously listen to music until she was in her 20s; instead, she just heard what was in her environment. She listened to folk, country, classical and pop music around the house and on the radio during her youth. Veirs’ seventh album, July Flame, was released in January 2010 on her own record...
    02/11/12	Laura Veirs & The Tumble Bees Club Passim Laura Veirs & The Tumble Bees Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 11, 2012 Tumble Bee, the first children’s record from the prolific Laura Veirs (whose last release, July Flame, was dubbed “a perfect Sunday afternoon record” by The Oxford American and “sweet and irresistible” by Rolling Stone) inspires listeners to lean in close and hit replay. The youthful innocence in Veirs’ voice lends itself well to the jaunty spirit of the album. The recording covers a wide range of folk songs, from early 20th century work songs to the...
    02/12/12	Darrell Scott CD Release Club Passim Darrell Scott CD Release Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 12, 2012 Much of the commentary about Darrell Scott’s career has focused on the songs he’s written that have been recorded by famous names and voices – those known in music industry parlance as “artists.” But then there’s the actual word artist, whose definition has nothing to do with radio hits and red carpets. We refer of course to those who create artifacts of aesthetic and intellectual contemplation and wonder, built from experience, skill, reflection and...
    02/13/12	BCMFest Celtic Music Monday Club Passim BCMFest Celtic Music Monday Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 13, 2012 Neil Pearlman (innovative Scottish/Cape Breton-style keyboardist) and Friends. More details TBA http://www.bcmfest.com/
    02/14/12	Sweethearts’ Night Out Club Passim Sweethearts’ Night Out Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 14, 2012 Darol Anger & Emy Phelps, Lissa Schneckenberger
    02/15/12	Dirk Powell & Riley Baugus: Dirk Powell & Riley Baugus Club Passim Dirk Powell & Riley Baugus: Dirk Powell & Riley Baugus Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 15, 2012 Dirk Powell has expanded on the deeply rooted sounds of his Appalachian heritage to become one of the preeminent traditional American musicians of his generation. In addition to acclaimed releases on Rounder Records, he’s recorded and performed with artists such as Loretta Lynn, playing several instruments on her Grammy-winning release “Van Lear Rose.” Dirk founded the Cajun group Balfa Toujours with his wife Christine Balfa and is currently Artistic Director of the...
    02/16/12	Eric Stepanian Club Passim Eric Stepanian Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 16, 2012 Eric Stepanian’s Goodnight Scarlett, produced by Malcolm Burn, fits that narrative of music, which is relevant, immediate and powerful. Shorthand? Goodnight Scarlett is timeless, pure, American rock music, influenced by Stepanian’s twin heroes of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, tempered by ‘70s AM radio fare and personalized by the singer-songwriter’s unique history. http://www.ericstepanian.com/
    02/17/12	Väsen Club Passim Väsen Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 17, 2012 Olov Johansson and Mikael Marin started playing together as teenagers around 1980. During the early 1980's they would regularly visit Curt and Ivar Tallroth and Eric Sahlström, older musicians who lived nearby in the Uppland region, where they would play and learn traditional music from them. In this way they became a link in the living tradition that Swedish folk music has enjoyed through the centuries. "The sound may be traditional, but the attitude is completely modern, mixing...
    02/18/12	The Cat’s Pajamas Club Passim The Cat’s Pajamas Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 18, 2012 The Cat’s Pajamas makes very cool music for kids, bringing a musical comedy twist to high-octane kid-rock. The Cats put on more than a concert—they invite the audience from the very first note to enter a wild, wonderful world of stories, dance, puppets and props, all backed by a band making great music that just happens to be for kids. Up and down the East Coast, The Cat’s Pajamas captures the imagination of children while thoroughly engaging their families. "The Cat's...
    02/20/12	Massmouth Story Slam Club Passim Massmouth Story Slam Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 20, 2012 http://massmouth.ning.com/
    02/22/12	Marco Benevento Club Passim Marco Benevento Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 22, 2012 Pianist and composer Marco Benevento blends electronic music with traditional jazz. On his new record, Between the Needles and Nightfall, he borrows sounds from an assortment of toy instruments, including old Casio keyboards and other toy trinkets. http://www.marcobenevento.com/home.html
    02/23/12	Anais Mitchell CD Release Show, Rachel Ries opens Club Passim Anais Mitchell CD Release Show, Rachel Ries opens Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 23, 2012 From her current home base in a 200-year-old farmhouse in rural Vermont, Anais (“uh-NAY-iss”) Mitchell writes songs that are as intimate as conversations and as rich in detail as short stories. She is the rare musician who is equally comfortable wielding an acoustic guitar alone onstage, sharing a disc’s worth of alt-country duets, or scripting a vast operatic journey into the underworld. She’s a fearless explorer, and her world just keeps getting larger....
    02/24/12	Lucy Kaplansky Club Passim Lucy Kaplansky Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 24, 2012 She started out singing in Chicago bars. Then, barely out of high school, Lucy Kaplansky took off for New York City. There she found a fertile community of songwriters and performers - Suzanne Vega, John Gorka, Bill Morrissey, Cliff Eberhardt, and others - where she fit right in. Kaplansky's voice continues to remain in high demand by her peers. She teamed with Dar Williams and Richard Shindell to form supergroup Cry Cry Cry, the three choosing to celebrate the amazing revitalization in...
    02/25/12	Anne Heaton CD Release Club Passim Anne Heaton CD Release Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 25, 2012 Heaton grew up in Chicago, lived in New York and now lives in Somerville, MA, the home of Q Division Studios, which -- only a bike ride away from her home -- is where she now records most of her music including her sophomore release “Give In” produced by Mike Denneen (Aimee Mann and Fountains of Wayne). Both “Give In” (released on Q Division Records) and Heaton’s independent debut album “Black Notebook” received national critical acclaim. Performing...
    02/26/12	What Time is It Mr. Fox, Mali Sastri, Sarah Rabdau, and Mary Bichner Club Passim What Time is It Mr. Fox, Mali Sastri, Sarah Rabdau, and Mary Bichner Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 26, 2012 What time is It Mr. Fox like to pretend they live in a circus in the woods. They enjoy fireplaces, dusty books, mystics, fiddles, soul music, carnivals, putting on make-up, taking off make-up, and making up stories. http://www.whattimeisitmrfox.com/when_%26_where.html “Torture chamber pop.” “Darkwave jazz.” “Siren rock.” These are a few of the many attempts to describe the sound of Jaggery, an art-rock collective which...
    02/28/12	Berklee American Roots Music series Club Passim Berklee American Roots Music series Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 28, 2012 Jen Starsinic is an emerging, young singer-songwriter hailing from Pennsylvania. Informed largely by her background as an old-time fiddler and singer, her songs are built like wooden cabins containing crooked melodies and unspoken memories. And with a voice described as "beautifully human", and fiddle playing said to be "driving, charismatic, and elegantly focused", she isn't afraid to follow her intimate, yet grounded, original songs with raging fiddle tunes from a...
    02/29/12	Whitehorse (featuring Melissa McClelland & Luke Doucet) Club Passim Whitehorse (featuring Melissa McClelland & Luke Doucet) Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim February 29, 2012 Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet tie the musical knot with the debut of their new band, Whitehorse. Gutsy and resolute in their pursuits of sound and substance, Luke and Melissa’s fusion of the person and professional brings to mind the road-tested romance of Johnny and June. Individually, Luke and Melissa have been recognized with awards and nominations from the Juno Awards, the Canadian Folk Music Awards, the Hamilton Music Awards, the Independent Music Awards and the Polaris...
    03/02/12	Rose Cousins CD Release Club Passim Rose Cousins CD Release Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 2, 2012 Rose Cousins finds insight in solitude and strength in numbers. Supported by a thriving Halifax music scene and welcomed by an equally vibrant Boston community, her new album We Have Made A Spark was made in the spirit of community and collaboration. We Have Made A Spark follows Cousins’ two multi-award-winning albums The Send Off (2009) produced by Luke Doucet and If You Were For Me (2006) produced by CBC in Halifax. Yet another collection of stunning songs by Rose Cousins, her third...
    03/05/12	Duke Special Club Passim Duke Special Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 5, 2012 http://www.dukespecial.com/
    03/07/12	PJ Pacifico, Kristen Cifelli & Shelly Fraley Club Passim PJ Pacifico, Kristen Cifelli & Shelly Fraley Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 7, 2012 Singer-songwriter P.J. Pacifico delivers a confident, upbeat collection of road-tested rock/pop music, on his Viper Records release, Outlet. With a radio-friendly sound that evokes Gin Blossoms and Matthew Sweet, and a storyteller’s cadence that has been compared to James Taylor, Pacifico appears poised for mainstream success with the new album, his third. P.J. has shared the stage with Crosby, Stills & Nash, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sugarland, and Hank Williams Jr.
    03/08/12- 03/09/12	Audrey Ryan & Will Dailey Club Passim Audrey Ryan & Will Dailey Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 8-March 9, 2012 Audrey Ryan is a one-man-band multi-instrumentalist whose music is quirky and genre-bending. She tours regionally, nationally, and internationally supported by Folkwit Records (UK) . She has opened for Suzanne Vega, They Might be Giants, Josh Ritter, Ra Ra Riot, Grace Potter among many others http://www.audreyryan.org/
    03/09/12	Air Traffic Controller & Sarah Blacker Club Passim Air Traffic Controller & Sarah Blacker Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 9, 2012 Serving in the US Navy as a real-life air traffic controller, singer/songwriter Dave Munro sent home 4-track demos he had written and recorded during his deployment. With his enlistment up, Munro returned to hometown Boston and discovered an impressive number of fans, prompting the genesis of the aptly-named rock band Air Traffic Controller. WERS Radio calls Air Traffic Controller “One of Boston's finest independent bands” and during the height of its radio campaign the...
    03/10/12	Mary Fahl Club Passim Mary Fahl Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 10, 2012 Blessed with a magnificent range, Fahl is an expressive, emotional singer/songwriter who first achieved fame as lead singer and co-founder of the mid-1990s cult band October Project, an East Coast folk-rock/adult alternative outfit that recorded two poetic albums for Epic: its self-titled debut album of 1993; and its 1995 encore effort, “Falling Farther In“. In a review of October Project’s first release, Allmusic.com dubbed Fahl the “lovechild“ of Stevie...
    03/10/12	Ashley Jordan Club Passim Ashley Jordan Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 10, 2012 In October of 2011, Ashley released her second CD titled Liquid Words with her new unique mix of country/pop folk-rock music at a CD release concert held at the legendary Club Passim in Cambridge, MA. Her newest album met once again with rave reviews and Ashley’s music has been getting radio play on stations such as WATD FM (“Almost Famous Show” and "Twilight Showcase") and on WMBR Radio in Cambridge, MA. Ashley continues to play her guitar and give powerful vocal...
    03/13/12	The Earth Stringband Club Passim The Earth Stringband Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 13, 2012 The Earth String Band combines bluegrass and old time Appalachian music with contemporary acoustic music, achieving synergy with soulful songwriting and musicianship. Fiery and improvisational, The Earth String Band creates pulsing earthy grooves and melodious hooks that form a unique, infective vibe. http://www.earthstringband.com
    03/14/12	Bruce Molsky and Ale Möller Club Passim Bruce Molsky and Ale Möller Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 14, 2012 Bruce Molsky stands today as the premier old-time fiddler in the world, the defining virtuoso of Appalachia's timeless folk music traditions. That must feel odd for a former engineer from the Bronx, who didn't begin a music career until he was forty. But folded into those strange facts is the secret to his unique genius. In addition to a prolific solo career, performing on fiddle, guitar, and banjo, Molsky frequently joins genre-busting supergroups, like the Grammy-nominated Fiddlers Four,...
    03/15/12	Maeve Gilchrist and Matt & Shannon Heaton Club Passim Maeve Gilchrist and Matt & Shannon Heaton Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 15, 2012 Non-members: $15/ Passim members $13 Based in New York City, Maeve Gilchrist is currently performing with her own duo and trio which blends her Scottish roots with the colors of jazz, creating a unique and multicultural sound. She performed regularly in the prestigious performance centre in shows such as Singers Showcase, The International Folk Festival, The Commencement concerts and The Stevie Wonder tribute show. The Irish Music Magazine says that, “Both as a singer and a harp...
    03/16/12- 03/17/12	Paul Kelly Club Passim Paul Kelly Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 16-March 17, 2012 Paul Kelly has recorded seventeen studio albums as well as several film soundtracks (Lantana and the Cannes 2006 highlight, Jindabyne) and live albums, in an influential career spanning more than thirty years. He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 199. Songs From The South, a selection of his popular songs first assembled in 1997 and expanded to a double album in 2008,contains many of his songs now lodged deep in the Australian psyche. http://www.paulkelly.com.au/
    03/18/12	Mariel Vandersteel CD Release Club Passim Mariel Vandersteel CD Release Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 18, 2012 Inspired by her summers spent studying traditional music in Ireland and across the United States, Mariel Vandersteel decided to study traditional music in Norway after graduating from Berklee. She studied the Hardingfele and Norwegian folk music at Høgskolen i Telemark Rauland. While in Norway, she performed at outdoor festivals and in the local elementary school where she taught children about American folk music. Mariel has taught at Alasdair Fraser’s Sierra Fiddle Camp, has...
    03/20/12	Hapa Club Passim Hapa Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 20, 2012 Often encapsulated as the “Sound of Maui”, HAPA’s music evokes a place that many people at different times have referred to as heavenly. The overriding quality of their music is one of beauty and serenity, found in the majestic tones of the oli (chant), mele (song), the elegant movements of the sacred dance known as hula, and the exhilarating innovative sounds of virtuoso slack key guitar. HAPA’s self entitled debut CD released in 1993, swept the 1994 Na Hoku Hanohano...
    03/21/12	Duncan Wickel with Maeve Gilchrist, Josh Hari and Nick Falk Club Passim Duncan Wickel with Maeve Gilchrist, Josh Hari and Nick Falk Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 21, 2012 Violinist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Duncan Wickel is a “Considerable talent…[he] is as persuasive in a traditional Irish ballad as he is country fiddling or ripping through cascading classical flourishes or atonal double stops” –The Boston Globe. A former native of Asheville, NC, now living and working in the heart of Boston’s thriving music scene, Duncan’s reputation has been growing quickly on a national level as a wildly diverse and highly...
    03/22/12	The Vespers Club Passim The Vespers Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 22, 2012 The Vespers is two sisters, two brothers, four friends, 10 instruments, one fun little folk band. However you do the math, The Vespers are a force to be reckoned with. In the spring of 2010, the newly formed group released their debut album, Tell Your Mama, which has been received greatly by critics and fans alike. The indie release even managed to sneak on to a few top 20 lists before the year’s end. The critics have hailed the band as “magnificently unforgettable” and...
    03/23/12	Sarah Jarosz Club Passim Sarah Jarosz Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 23, 2012 The best and brightest in the acoustic world move the music forward with an awareness of what came before them; that is certainly true of Sarah Jarosz. On her second album for Sugar Hill Records, Follow Me Down, she pays homage to her musical roots while pushing beyond those sometimes limited boundaries, taking us on a journey both dark and mystical. For this, Jarosz has a simple yet telling explanation: “I’m influenced by the older, and the contemporary, and the new.” Her...
    03/24/12	Parkington Sisters, Francesca Blanchard opens Club Passim Parkington Sisters, Francesca Blanchard opens Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 24, 2012 Born to each other, a band raised from the beginning, the Parkington Sisters create an aural experience that is both magnetic in its delivery and genuine in its emotional impact. Seeded from a generation of musicians, Rose, Nora, Sarah and Ariel Parkington were raised in a wildly musical household where every room sounded with a spark of song, naturally inspiring their individual hearts and hands to find their own instrumental avenues. Highlights of 2011 included performing at the Bonnaroo...
    03/25/12	Della Mae Club Passim Della Mae Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 25, 2012 http://heyheydellamae.com/
    03/26/12	Becca Stevens Band Club Passim Becca Stevens Band Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 26, 2012 The North Carolina-bred, New York-based singer/composer/guitarist’s status as a lifelong music-maker is more than apparent on the Becca Stevens Band’s Sunnyside debut Weightless. Although she’s already won significant acclaim for her membership in Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra and her prestigious collaborations with such esteemed musicians as Taylor Eigsti and Brad Mehldau, the sparkling 12-song set reveals the accomplished young songstress to be a startlingly...
    03/30/12	Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem CD Release Club Passim Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem CD Release Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 30, 2012 The Boston Globe described Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem as "neo old-timey with cosmopolitan splashes of contemporary pop and jazz." It's an exuberant mix of musical idioms, held together by superb musicianship, impeccable taste, and the band's charismatic vocals. A stage show dips into country blues, vintage swing, modern songwriter fare, and Appalachian fiddle tunes and songs. It's a bracing fusion: listen to Arbo deliver Bessie Jones' version of "O Death" accompanied by...
    03/31/12	Jeffrey Foucault Club Passim Jeffrey Foucault Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 31, 2012 Jeffrey Foucault grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. His father played a plywood guitar and his mother liked to sing. Winter Sundays were for church or ice fishing, which are not so different when you think about it. He went to college and dropped out, took a job on a fruit farm and started writing songs about a girl from Iowa. He finished school, roofed houses, drove a snowplow, and home-schooled the son of the local bar owner in exchange for beer. He cut his first album in the winter of...

• Past
  Events

  • Past Events

    03/11/12- 02/03/12	The Sweet Remains and Jesse Terry Club Passim
    02/08/12	Willow Flute Ensemble Club Passim
    02/07/12	Open Mic Night Club Passim
    02/06/12	Open Mic night Club Passim
    02/05/12	Nicolay & The Hot at Nights Club Passim
    02/04/12	Kaiser Cartel Club Passim
    02/04/12	Brittany Haas & Lauren Rioux Club Passim
    02/03/12	Cuddle Magic with Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi Club Passim
    02/03/12	Teitur, Maurit Larsen opens Club Passim
    02/03/12	Swing Caravan Club Passim
    02/02/12- 01/19/12	Tomn with Olinde Mandell (CD Release), Moses Atwood opens Club Passim
    02/02/12	Tomn with Olinde Mandell Club Passim
    02/01/12	Chad Perrone Club Passim
    02/01/12	Chad Perrone at Club Passim Club Passim
    01/21/12	Hannah Read Band CD Release Show with Tamsin Club Passim
    01/06/12- 01/07/12	Boston's Celtic Music Fest Club Passim
    12/30/11- 12/31/11	Ellis Paul Club Passim
    12/29/11	Jewmongous Club Passim
    12/28/11	Marshall Crenshaw Club Passim
    12/23/11	Aine Minogue Club Passim
    12/22/11	F*ck That! Erin McKeown's Anti-Holiday Show Club Passim
    12/20/11- 12/21/11	Guggenheim Grotto Club Passim
    12/18/11	Lori McKenna (solo), Dean Fields opens Club Passim
    12/17/11	Lori McKenna Band, Dean Fields opens Club Passim
    12/14/11	Vandaveer Club Passim
    12/13/11	"Cold As Elf" tour with Jake Hill, Jim Hanft, Will Knox, & Alec Gross Club Passim
    12/12/11	BCM Fest Celtic Music Monday Club Passim
    12/11/11	The Dan Trueman and Brittany Haas Band Club Passim
    12/11/11	Jennifer Kimball's Harmonic Celebration of Wintery Songs Club Passim
    12/10/11	Fox & Branch Family Show Club Passim
    12/10/11	Session Americana Year in Review Club Passim
    12/09/11	Garnet Rogers Club Passim
    12/08/11	Utah Phillips tribute Club Passim
    12/07/11	The Sweetback Sisters Christmas Show Club Passim
    12/06/11	Amber Rubarth CD Release Show Club Passim
    12/04/11	David Wilcox Club Passim
    12/04/11	4 Toads in a Basket Club Passim
    12/03/11	Edie Carey, Patrick Fitzsimmons opens Club Passim
    12/02/11	Winterbloom Club Passim
    12/02/11	Winterbloom Club Passim
    11/30/11	Kara Kulpa CD Release Show with Beth Colegrove & Dan Blakeslee Club Passim
    11/29/11	Triborough Trio Club Passim
    11/27/11	Mark Mandeville & Old Constitution with Maggie Mackay featuring The Whiskey Boys Club Passim
    11/26/11	Nic Gareiss & Kellen Zakula Club Passim
    11/21/11	Massmouth story slams Club Passim
    11/20/11	Billy Novick & Guy Van Duser Club Passim
    11/19/11	Alastair Moock’s Pastures of Plenty Club Passim
    11/19/11	Wayne Potash & The Music Fun Band Club Passim
    11/18/11	David Maxwell Club Passim
    11/17/11	Seth Glier & Liz Longley Club Passim
    11/16/11	Chris O’Brien, Chelsea Lee opens Club Passim
    11/15/11	Porch Party Mamas, Liz Cook opens Club Passim
    11/14/11	BCM Fest Celtic Music Monday Club Passim
    11/13/11	Rik Emmett & Dave Dunlop Club Passim
    11/12/11	Les Sampou Club Passim
    11/11/11	Christopher Williams CD Release Club Passim
    11/08/11- 11/10/11	Girlyman Club Passim
    11/07/11	Alessi’s Ark & Caitlin Canty Club Passim
    11/06/11	Passim School of Music Ensemble Showcase Club Passim
    11/06/11	Nervous But Excited & The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library Club Passim
    11/05/11	Cliff Eberhardt Club Passim
    11/05/11	Amy Black Club Passim
    11/04/11	Bill Staines Club Passim
    11/03/11	Guy Davis Club Passim
    11/01/11- 11/02/11	Richard Shindell Club Passim
    10/31/11	Peter Mulvey In-the-round w/ Tim Gearan, Sean Staples and more Club Passim
    10/31/11	Simon and Garfunkel retrospective performed by AJ Swearingen & Jonathan Beedle Club Passim
    10/30/11	Peter Mulvey with The Suitcase Junket and more Club Passim
    10/29/11	Peter Mulvey with The Crumbling Beauties Club Passim
    10/28/11	Peter Mulvey: in the round with David Goodrich, Melvenr Taylor & Carsie Blanton Club Passim
    10/27/11	Della Mae Club Passim
    10/26/11	Pokey LaFarge & The South City Three Club Passim
    10/25/11	Anthony da Costa & Anna Vogelzang CD Release Club Passim
    10/24/11	Ollabelle Club Passim
    10/23/11	Red Molly Club Passim
    10/22/11	Nerissa & Katryna Nields Family Show Club Passim
    10/22/11	Nerissa & Katryna Nields Club Passim
    10/21/11	Barnstar CD Release Show Club Passim
    10/20/11	David Jacobs-Strain, Catherine MacLellan opens Club Passim
    10/19/11	Rebecca Pronsky & Lucy Roche Club Passim
    10/18/11	Jess Klein, Noelle Hampton, & Andre Moran Club Passim
    10/17/11	Massmouth Story Slams Club Passim
    10/16/11	Randall Kromm and Tom Smith Club Passim
    10/16/11	Rumer Club Passim
    10/15/11	Mark Erelli, Grace Pettis Club Passim
    10/15/11	Jeremy Lyons & Deltasilly, Family Show CD Release Club Passim
    10/14/11	John Fannon Club Passim
    10/13/11	Pesky J. Nixon, Barnaby Bright opens Club Passim
    10/12/11	David Berkeley Club Passim
    10/11/11	Sub Rosa. Songs From Three Mile Island: The Sequel. Club Passim
    10/10/11	BCMFest Celtic Music Monday Club Passim
    10/09/11	Ashley Jordan CD Release Concert Club Passim
    10/08/11	Susan Werner Club Passim
    10/07/11	Susan Werner Club Passim
    10/06/11	Expedition Quartet Club Passim
    10/05/11	Hot Club of Cowtown Club Passim
    10/04/11	Hot Club of Cowtown Club Passim
    10/02/11	Ember Swift and Rachel Sage Club Passim
    10/01/11	Joy Kills Sorrow Club Passim
    09/15/11	Book Release Music Bash for "Revival": A Folk Music Notel by Scott Alarik Club Passim