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...1960s dawned, the home of folk musicians wasn’t Grenwich Village—it was Harvard Square, and more specifically Club Passim. Artists ranging from Bob Dylan to Joan Baez would play benefits for Harvard students and headline social protest rallies. Dylan’s first album even has lyrics about drawing inspiration from wandering through Harvard Square...
Club Passim has been a fixture of Harvard Square since the 1960s, when it used to host folk musicians like “Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Bonny Raitt and everyone else you can think of,” according to music operations manager Matthew H. Smith...
Founded as Club 47 in 1958 in a 125-capacity basement on Palmer Street, between Eliot and Church Streets, it was immensely important in fueling the ‘60’s folk movement. Joan Baez and Bob Dylan played their first public gigs ever at the Harvard Square joint...
DIED. MIMI FARINA, 56, folk singer and sister of Joan Baez; of complications from lung cancer; in Mill Valley, Calif. An accomplished vocalist and fixture of the '60s folk scene, Farina founded Bread & Roses, an organization that enlisted well-known artists to perform in prisons, psychiatric facilities, senior centers and homes for abused children. A talented guitar player who began singing with her sister at age 14, she married Richard Farina at 18 (novelist Thomas Pynchon was best man at their wedding) and recorded two albums with him before Richard died in a motorcycle accident in 1966. Their lives...
...Dylan, who had become Joan Baez's lover, was eyeing that place for himself. In 1965 Dylan recorded Positively 4th Street, a bitter screed that renounced the folk scene he had come from, and by extension Farina, and embraced rock 'n' roll...