The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #52169   Message #797748
Posted By: GUEST
06-Oct-02 - 03:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Cambridge,MA, coffee houses 1963-66?
Subject: RE: BS: Cambridge,MA, coffee houses 1963-66?
>Oh to have been around at that time. Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton ....and all for free.

Well, not quite free. As I recall, admission -- if you could get in -- ran about $2.00 per show. To get in to Club 47, you also had to have a membership card. Making the 47 a "private club" was a way of skirting the Cambridge entertainment licensing regulations.