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...appeared in these listings. I offer three excuses: her talent, the lack of alternatives this weekend, and the new club her act is opening this week. Harvard Square music lovers have grown accustomed to trekking into Boston to be ripped off at large music halls on those weekends when Passim could not satisfy their appetities. Perhaps the drought has ended. The Performance Center on the third floor of The Garage, an interesting complex of shops and miscellaneous enterprises on Boylston St., promises some fine music at relatively reasonable prices. Raitt is playing two shows each night through Sunday, offering...
...wryness, variety, a voice that can sing blues. He is, in short, talented. Like many of his cohorts who established quite a folk community here some years ago, Smither is heard in the neighborhood ever more rarely--all, the more reason to see him in the congenial atmosphere of Passim...
CHRIS SMITHER--Thurs. Dec. 13 through Sun. Dec. 16 at the Passim. Call 492-7679 for information...
Joey Ferrugia is an instructor/sculptor at the studio, currently having a show at Passim coffee house. Her works are all fired clay--some utilitarian crowd-pleasing bowls and vases, others more aesthetic and esoteric. Her work is centered on the idea that geometric shapes can grow into organic bodies. One piece looks like a horse's head resting on a three dimensional triangle; another resembles a pyramid changing into a flamingo. Though these creations were assembled especially for this presentation--most have been made since September--they nevertheless lack the group coherence and consistency that should characterize a professional show...
Ferrugia shows her work at Passim's, Jim Rippe, another Radcliffe craftsman, shows his at Hilles--each tries to drum up both economic and emotional support from a community that seems all too willing to accept superior work, but none to eager to provide for it. Teachers at the Radcliffe Pottery Studio should be recompensed for their time. Artistic exhibitions are important but artisans should not have to feel it necessary to give a show in order to peddle their wares...