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...Club Passim...
...many law schoolers, prospective doctors and I-bankers does Harvard dispatch to the larger world every year? Enough. How many songwriters, singers, musicians and people pushed by chord colors into less chartered territories. You don't even know. But Wednesday night at Club Passim show-cased and marked out for future attention three out-standing singing and songwriting talents...
Showcasing some of the college's more accomplished and active singer-songwriters, the show at Club Passim was testimony to the fact that we go to school with, dine next to, walk by--and probably holler at to shut up sometimes--tomorrow's musical stars. While the Ec and Gov kids are applying to How-To-Take-Over-the-World Summer Camp and the Computer Science students are hacking into FAS, industrious, inspired fingers are picking at guitars and tripping over ivory, producing a breed of fresh, original songwriters to make us proud...
...while America has rolled around in dance clubs and hip-hop has taken the political torch, folk music has somehow maintained a high energy, doubtless made possible by clubs like Passim. Siggins Schmidt explains that the club is "one of the best places an artist can cut his or her own teeth...can find an attentive audience. Its nurturing quality has proved itself decade after decade." And Club Passim does have an "alumni" list for the past few decades twice as impressive as Harvard's: Baez, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, Shawn Colvin, Jackson Browne, Tracy Chapman...
Siggins Schmidt discusses a "vitality that doesn't seem to go away." With more folk festivals around the country now that five years before, Club Passim may be in position to facilitate another folk revival, but whatever the status of folk-Americana across the country, Club Passim seems content to go on, regardless...