Hello,
The legendary Club Passim is letting their roots show with a traditional music series the second Monday of every month. Details below and at www.clubpassim.com. Thank you, Alison Lee Freeman
Folktracks Live at Club Passim hosted by Dave Palmater of WUMB
In America, folk music found a home in church basements and unique places like Club Passim. In the British Isles, pubs were the music's home, with most folk clubs meeting in the back rooms of pubs. This created a whole different atmosphere. The music is primarily traditional, people sing along at the drop of a hat and after the "formal" performances are over there's always a ceilidh, or as they call them in Newfoundland a sing-song, where everybody gets to play a tune, sing a song or just join in.
Like the British folk clubs, some nights we'll have a feature performer, usually from abroad, who'll do two sets with a couple of "floor singers" in between. And when I say floor singers, I mean carefully selected floor singers, not just people who happen to be there the way they sometimes do at real British folk clubs.
Other nights will be "Singer's Nights," with four performers each doing 25-minute sets. January 10th will be a Singer's Night with Laura Cortese (of Halali, The Jolly Bankers, etc.), Debra Cowan (former resident singer at Sandy Bell's in Edinburgh,) well respected Irish Flute player Jimmy Noonan, and 21st Century Chantey Singer Alison Lee Freeman. Other nights will be theme nights which will feature a warm-up act and then an "in-theround" session with three performers sharing the stage and trading songs. Since the second Monday in February is Valentine's Day, we're doing a theme night: "No Requiting Allowed: Mournful Slow Airs, Dreary Laments and Songs of Lost Love." Master Cape Breton fiddler and National Heritage Award Winner Joe Cormier will open the show, and then we'll have Appalachian/Irish singer Julee Glaub, Aoife Clancy from Ireland's first family of song, and in a rare, all traditional performance Carol Noonan in-theround trading songs. And of course, every night ends with the Club Passim Intercolonial Ceilidh, so bring your instrument or a favorite song.