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Larry Groce is Passims' offering this week, Tuesday through Saturday. He doesn't sound like outstanding Passim fare, but just a quiet, friendly folkie, solid but no star. He's playing with Mary McCaslin, who's supposed to be a great singer...
Dave Van Ronk is the other great one giving a local performance during the weekend, playing at Passim's until Sunday night. Van Ronk has been a dominant figure in folk for the past 15 years, and he's good at just about everything--old spirituals, jugband, political songs, love ballads and funning-around ditties. His voice is not the most esthetic thing around, it's sort of gravelly and rough, but his act is so smooth that you tend to forget and even to like the roughness of his utterances...
Dave Van Ronk is coming back to town this week after a long absence, and he'll be at Passim's in the Square starting Thursday. Van Ronk must be pushing 45 or so by now; he's the oldest and best folksinger around, a dominant if little-known figure for 15 years. He's good at everything--old spirituals, jugband stuff, political songs, love songs, even messing-around songs, and is a master of the acoustic guitar without being a showoff about it. Van Ronk is playing with June Millington, formerly of Fanny, and the show looks like easily...
Spider John Koerner is making a longawaited return to Cambridge at Passim's this week. Spider John, so named because he's so long and thin, is a superb guitarist who plays all kinds of folk and acoustic blues. He's a local boy who got his start here and has been away of late. It should be a good show; Spider John is a real crowd-pleaser. Through Sunday...
Spider John Koerner, so named because he's long and thin, is at Passim's this week, from July 17 to 21. Spider John is a local boy and a longtime veteran of the blues-jugband-rag scene around here. He hasn't been in town for a while, and deserves a warm welcome back...