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Joan Baez, best known for her folk hit “Diamonds and Rust,” got her start in the legendary Harvard Square folk venue Club 47, reincarnated as Club Passim. Her early recording of the Child Ballads, a collection of English and Scottish folk songs, is also representative of the area’s long-standing role in the folk music genre—the ballads were compiled by Harvard English professor Francis James Child...
Until last year, Club Passim maintained an archive of folk memorabilia, cataloguing photos and videos of the folk music scene in Harvard Square. But when the financial crisis hit and Club Passim could no longer actively support the archive, former executive director Betsy Siggins founded NEFMA, a nonprofit dedicated to keeping the Harvard Square folk tradition alive...
...Club Passim will be featuring different artists every night this month, and its Executive Director Daniel A. Hogan said that he thinks that the extra publicity has helped the club. He is currently working with the HSBA to create more promotion opportunities...
Laura Marling is, you know, cool—hot, indie. So I thought I’d find other Harvard kids at the concert. But they weren’t (and if you were there, I’m sorry, I didn’t see you). In Club Passim, I felt like an interloper, like I was somewhere I wasn’t meant to be. But then Laura Marling walked on stage, and I thought I might have found an ally...
...moment I pretended that I wasn’t just a Harvard student, I pretended that I lived in Boston and did things like go to Club Passim instead of finals clubs. That between the essays and midterms and endpapers, I took advantage of the destinations listed in Boston guidebooks. Because I forget sometimes, stuck in the so-called Harvard Bubble, that I am in the midst of so much more, so much history and culture...