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Club Passim • Making Music in Massachusetts
Club Passim has received a grant from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities for a new seven-part workshop on local musical traditions, which is part of the club's educational mission to enhance public perception about folk and traditional music. Entitled, "Making Music in Massachusetts," these workshops will feature a sampling of genres found and performed in the Commonwealth.
The series is co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council's Folk and Traditional Arts Program and is presented in conjunction with Harvard University's Department of Music and it's Archive of World Music. This workshop series is a program within the club's Archive Project.
This series will examine traditional music's contribution to the region, past and present, offering insights into the forces that created the cultural landscape that new generations will inherit and transform. Each session will be moderated by a specialist in the genre(s), with commentary and demonstrations by Massachusetts musicians. Folklorist Millie Rahn will introduce each session. Programs will be held at Club Passim on Monday nights. Call (617) 492-7679 for reservations.
Admission to the series is $7.50/ program for the general public (or $40/series). $6/program for Club Passim members (or $30 /series) and $5/program for students/seniors (or $25/series). Ten (10) free tickets will be given to local Cambridge high school students.
Monday, March 13, 7:30pm Ballads.
Presenter: Dr. Tony Barrand, folklorist, Boston University.
Performers: Lorraine Lee Hammond, one of the foremost scholars and performers of Appalachian dulcimer music in the country, and Bennett Hammond, who together combine dulcimer, banjo, and guitar with traditional ballads and broadsides.
Monday, March 27, 7:30pm Music of Atlantic Canada.
Presenters: Dave and Marcia Palmater, public radio presenters, producers and collectors who have worked with the traditions of Atlantic Canada for more than 25 years.
Performers: Cape Breton fiddler John Campbell, his daughter Pam a traditional step dancer and Gerry Robichaud, master of old-time New Brunswick Acadian fiddling.
Monday, April 10, 7:30pm Country and Bluegrass.
Presenters: Bill Nowlin and Ken Irwin, co-founders, Rounder Records.
Performers: The Usual Suspects, members of the Vinal Avenue String Band and Eric Royer, banjo player.
Monday, April 24, 7:30pm Blues
Presenter: Kevin Ball, Program Director of the International House of Blues Foundation.
Performers: Chris Stovall Brown, Weepin' Willie Robinson. As agenre, blues is not indigenous to Massachusetts, but the Bay State has become home to many blues artists and blues had a major impact on audiences in the 1960s when the club was one of the few northern venues for traditional blues from urban and rural America.
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