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Since graduating from Harvard, singer-songwriter Pauley has been playing more than 150 shows a year in venues across the country, from New York City’s “The Living Room,” to Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis, and Cambridge’s own Club Passim, where she got her start at open-mic nights as a freshman...
...undergraduate, Pauley performed in the College’s annual Springfest—a predecessor to Yardfest—and also impressed the management at Club Passim...
Matthew W. Smith, the manager of Club Passim, said he sees Pauley as a dynamic musician whose song writing “keeps on getting sharper and sharper.” “She sells out Passim pretty easily,” he said, describing Pauley as a folk-based act with a rock sensibility. “She can pull it off with or without a band. When she’s solo, it’s just as powerful...
...well as the more charitable-minded work—Oktoberfest also featured a musical selection, including simultaneous performances from six stages across the Square.The Mass. Ave. main stage offered performances by rock bands, a hip-hop funk band and an alternative, psychedelic marching band from Portland. Club Passim showcased the club’s newest discoveries of singer-songwriters, while the Holyoke Center stage offered passers-by live jazz. Tthe HONK! Festival Parade, which ran from Davis Square to Harvard, featured 24 street bands hailing from across the country as well as Canada and Italy.Student musical groups—including...
...look back on it and it was history in the making, but who knows it’s history when you’re just doing it,” Betsy Siggins Smith says of the past 50 years of Club Passim. Opened in 1958 as Club 47, Passim has served as a launching pad for several legendary folk musicians, including Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell. Siggins Smith, the club’s artistic director, began her career at Passim as a waitress in 1959, crossing over the Charles from Boston University to Cambridge with close friend Joan...