Podcasts about Club Passim

Sarah Blacker on the WATD Tiny Stage this week. Her album "In Waves" is celebrating it's 10th anniversary and you can celebrate on April 26th at Club Passim in Cambridge. Learn more at https://www.sarahblacker.com. 

Since 1958, Club Passim has hosted a plethora of folk legends like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and many more.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

We ask listeners: do you have hope that the U.S. will have honest leaders again? The Boston Celtic Music Festival runs next Thursday through Sunday, at venues throughout Cambridge and Somerville. We'll talk with Lindsay O'Donovan and Matt Smith (from Club Passim) with live performances from the band Fox River and duo Hanneke Cassel & Adam Hendey.GBH's Callie Crossley discusses the Democrats skipping Trump's inauguration & the incoming administration's comments about making Canada the 51st state.NBC10 Boston's Sue O'Connell on LA fires & Trump hush money sentencing. Plus Kelly's Roast Beef changing ownership for the first time in 70 years.Embrace Boston's Imari Paris Jeffries & former Gov. Deval Patrick join ahead of the Embrace Honors MLK Gala. Then we discuss when and how to flake from plans. 

Today:The 22nd annual Boston Celtic Music Festival kicks off Jan. 16. We talk with musician and festival organizers Lindsay O'Donovan – widow of the late, great Brian O'Donovan –  and Matt Smith from Club Passim with live performances from the band Fox River and duo Hanneke Cassel & Adam Hendey.And, Imari Paris Jeffries of Embrace Boston discusses this year's gala honoring MLK's legacy; former Governor Deval Patrick zooms in too.

In the first-ever year-end concert review show for the 'Seeing Them Live' podcast, host Charles and his panel of previous guests, including Eric Green, Jessica Catena, Doug Florzak, Steve Pothel, Summer, and Scott Patrick Wiener, review their concert experiences from 2024. The panel members take turns speaking about their most memorable shows, spanning a wide range of venues, cities, and genres, providing vivid anecdotes along the way.Eric discusses his rich year, including covering bands like Bim Skala Bim, the Dandy Warhols, and Foo Fighters. Summer shares her experiences of attending Lollapalooza and seeing Green Day at Wrigley Field among others. Jessica details her rain-soaked yet impactful experience at the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park and makes plans for 2025. Doug recounts his concert experience joining Charles and previous guest Art Gregg seeing a Led Zeppelin cover band, Led Zeppelin II, at the House of Blues in Chicago. Doug also describes a Soraia concert where Doug and Charles recorded podcast content. Steve recounts emotional concert memories, such as traveling to see Joan Jett and the Psychedelic Furs and plans for upcoming shows.The episode also highlights special 'podcast moments', where Charles meets listeners and potential guests at concerts he attended.BANDS: Afghan Whigs, Alanis Morissette, Benson Boone, Bim Skala Bim, Bridget Calls Me Baby, Cat Power, Doja Cat, Dua Lipa, Eye for an Eye, Foo Fighters, Foster the People, Friko, Green Day, Harry Styles, Infinity Song, Jack White, Jane's Addiction, Jelly Roll, Jesus and Mary Chain, Joan Jett, Kim Deal, Led Zeppelin, Life on the V, Love and Rockets, Matthew Sweet, Metallica, Nothing But Thieves, Pantera, Pearl Jam, Post Malone, Psychedelic Furs, Quicksand, Raul Alejandro, Ringo Starr, Rival Schools, Sleater Kinney, Smashing Pumpkins, St. Vincent, Stevie Nicks, The Breeders, The Cannons, The Church, The Cure, The Dandy Warhols, The Deftones, The Killers, The Pixies, The Smiths, The White Stripes, Thursday, WussyVENUES: Central Park, City Winery, Club Passim, Fenway Park, Gillette Stadium, Grant Park, House of Blues, Leader Bank Pavilion, Liars Club, Lollapalooza, Madison Square Garden, Northerly Island, Paradise Club, Park West, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Royale, Salt Shed, Soldier Field, South by Southwest, Staples Center, Summit Music Hall, The Tender Trap, Wilbur Theater PATREON:https://www.patreon.com/SeeingThemLivePlease help us defer the cost of producing this podcast by making a donation on Patreon.WEBSITE:https://seeingthemlive.com/Visit the Seeing Them Live website for bonus materials including the show blog, resource links for concert buffs, photos, materials related to our episodes, and our Ticket Stub Museum.INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/seeingthemlive/FACEBOOK:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61550090670708

Politico's Kyle Cheney talks about his reporting that former President Donald Trump will declare himself the winner on Tuesday night no matter what, and what kind of legal paths he might exploit to regain the White House. Then, mega-donors have contributed more than $2.5 billion in this election — more than twice the amount they gave in 2020. The Washington Post's Clara Ence Morse explains who the top donors are and how big money is changing elections. And, singer-songwriter Tom Paxton is playing his final tour. Here & Now's Robin Young caught up with Paxton at Club Passim in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to hear more about his life and career.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Oh how I've longed to talk to Liv Greene. Every once in a while you come across a young artist that seems older and wiser than her 26 years. Liv's been giving me that impression since I met her in 2019 when she was at Club Passim waiting tables and breaking hearts on the stage at just 21 years. Ok enough about being young. Liv's been writing, studying music and going to music camps since she was 12. Arguably she's been studying music all her life with her Americana loving parents who were filling the house with the sounds of Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris and Shawn Colvin, to name a few women In music in heavy rotation at the Greene house. Being the only of her friends that liked that kind of music, Liv attended many DC-area concerts with her mom, taking in the magic of live music at a very tender age. Speaking of tenderness, that's what Liv Greene is all about and she digs into it in our conversation. She started writing and playing shortly after she was inspired by a Taylor Swift concert. From there, she took off on the instrument and even sought out music education in camps like Miles of Music in New Hampshire. It was at that camp as well as the arts academy Interlochen High School, where she started meeting peers with similar interests. She found herself living for summers with her music camp friends. Prior to her senior year at Interlochen, Liv was a closeted queer at her all girls Catholic school mostly writing fictionalized stories into her songs because she could not deal with who she was.She attended and graduated from The New England Conservatory of Music and released her debut album (produced by Isa Burke) right in time for the pandemic in May of 2020. Shortly after that, she moved to Nashville and has spent the last several years on an intense path of self-discovery. Liv found her community, came out, wrote and self-produced her new album, Deep Feeler. On this album, you can hear the growth she's experienced and you can hear Liv thriving in her corner of the Nashville Music scene that includes the indie folk music scene. We talk about all of this including what it means to have a neurodivergent brain, music production, the roller skating community and her favorite Taurus personality traits.Follow Basic Folk on social media: https://basicfolk.bio.link/ Sign up for Basic Folk's newsletter: https://bit.ly/basicfolknews Help produce Basic Folk by contributing: https://basicfolk.com/donate/ Interested in sponsoring us? Contact BGS: https://bit.ly/sponsorBGSpods Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

links https://samwelchmusic.com/https://music.amazon.co.uk/artists/B074N2SXRM/sam-welch/https://www.boomplay.com/songs/173922636https://open.spotify.com/artist/67hWb0kt92swFcx61BdgXLThemes of spiritual transcendence and mental dysfunction aren't usual subjects for popular music, unless you are Boston's Sam Welch and you put them into the kind of techno music he is known for, or the pop of his new album, The Republic.The combination pop/alternative pop instrumentation and playful lyrics full of quirky rhymes makes even a song with a title like “My Darling Human Condition,” or “The Tenuous Affair,” a song about the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, not only interesting but fun.“I had a lot of fun creating it this year,” said Sam, who since 2017 has put out an album a year, mostly in a style he calls “transcendental techno vox.”The vox is still there in The Republic, in his play with harmonizing vocals, but this year he did something different.“I wanted to take as organic an approach as possible, trying to create some original instrumentation, combining different instruments and creating a different motif than I've done in the past.”“Linear,” for instance, a song about transcendence, a poppy tune with a swinging, rocking kind of beat with organ, brass, keyboards and something like a marimba or xylophone.I'm gonna take out a policyGonna sail on that shining sea, take out a policyAin't nothing ever free, take out a policyThe wind is blowing to the lee, don't worry about realityFour o'clock and it's time for teaTake out a policy“‘Linear' is a metaphorical thing about transcendence, basically saying that, when you think about death and stuff, it doesn't make any sense. It's not a linear progression.”Or, speaking of death, “My Room,” which he almost titled “The Mausoleum,” since the nominal subject is the decay of the grave. Soft, melodic bass and crooning vocalization turn the lyrics into something to think about rather than a horror movie.My room is filled with colored lightFor this I can't give up the fightMustiness breathes with an ugly snoreThere's more of life lying in store“I was originally going to call that one ‘The Mausoleum.' It's basically about physical decomposition. I figured ‘My Room' would be a more upbeat title.”Hobbes, the 17th-century English philosopher whose formulation of life as “nasty, brutish and short,” is the subject of “The Tenuous Affair.”Old Hobbes was speaking his mindBut he might have been unkindPardon me sir, pardon me sirYour words are making me blindThe intro is a kind of high-church vocalization, as might have been heard in the England of his time, with a swinging piano beat, tambourines and bongos and, lightly, the high notes of an organ, Hobbes' ghost, perhaps, lurking in the background.“It feeds into the transcendence thing,” he said. “I'm advocating faith in positive things as opposed to sort of the stuff that Hobbes used to write about.”“That Cat,” on the other hand, is the psychological side.“It's about what it means to have a nervous breakdown, and how there's really no definition of, or way to categorize a nervous breakdown,” he said. He himself had what was called a nervous breakdown when he was 19 and now works as a psych counselor.Death in the valley, screaming down the alleyThis just ain't no birth, but it also ain't no finaleThat cat had a nervous breakdownSet to keyboards and flute to a bump-bounce beat.“That song is basically about just using that term to label any type of problem whatsoever.”“It's a very untechno album,” he said, but it still has his vocal harmonization and themes rooted in what he calls the “Venn diagram of spirituality and mental dysfunction.” He has relied on the spirituality and experienced the dysfunction. They inform his music.The Republic is his experiment in pop, and he says that he probably won't return to it. His next album will be on the rock end of the spectrum.“I want to get back to more of an organic rock sound. I want to write more songs that I can perform live and get to a good, solid rock beat. That's the goal for the next album.”Live performances are another area in which Sam is advancing his music. He has performed live weekly for about 10 months. He is performing at the Club Passim in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 23, at the Otter River Pub in Baldwinville on July 31, the Harvard General Store in Harvard on August 9.His other scheduled appearances are on his website (link below).Another song on The Republic, the upbeat “Still Singing,” with piano, sax and Latin-vibe brass, expresses the transcendence of hope. And my ears are ringingBut I'm still singingTo all of my hopesI'm so desperately clinging“It's an important song because it's about maintaining hope about the future and life and maintaining a positive attitude.”His philosophy of music includes the idea of growth and positivity, and that includes growing from his audience.“I'd like more people to listen to my music and give me feedback. I have a website where people can email me, and I'd love to get some criticism, so I can work on my next album and try to create something new down the line.”Transcend with Sam Welch — Sam Welch from Boston — and connect with him on all platforms for new music, videos, and social posts.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/creator-to-creators-with-meosha-bean--4460322/support.

Chris Smither has released 20+ records so far in his 58 year career, had his songs recorded by the likes of Bonnie Raitt (who had a hit with his song 'Love Me Like a Man', and whom he's had a long working relationship with) and Emmylou Harris, and as you can imagine, he's seen all of the ups and downs and twists and turns in almost 6 decades of this career. We talk with him about all of this hard earned wisdom and experience, his zest for practicing, learning when to grab the reins and when to ride, his myriad hobbies including a voracious appetite for reading, and a whole lot more.Get more access and support this show by subscribing to our Patreon, right here.Links:Chris SmitherClub PassimBetsy SigginsCharles River Valley BoysBonnie Raitt'Love Me Like a Man'David GoodrichStephen BrutonCS Lewis - 'The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe'Lord of the Rings Trilogy (book)Ep 46 - Mary Chapin CarpenterClick here to watch this conversation on YouTube.Social Media:The Other 22 Hours InstagramThe Other 22 Hours TikTokMichaela Anne InstagramAaron Shafer-Haiss InstagramAll music written, performed, and produced by Aaron Shafer-Haiss. Become a subscribing member on our Patreon to gain more inside access including exclusive content, workshops, the chance to have your questions answered by our upcoming guests, and more.

Boston singer-songwriter performs on the WATD Tiny Stage to talk about her new latest singles and an upcoming show at Club Passim in Cambridge on March 29th. Learn more at https://www.lindsayfoote.com. 

Our next guest was among the first on Citywide Blackout, and so it's fitting that she joins us for our post-hiatus interview. Singer-songwriter Sarah Blacker is back with a new EP, “Horizon Line” “Horizon Line,” Sarah Blacker's new studio EP is described as a “raw, stripped down and vulnerable, just the way she wanted it to be.” Recorded (mostly) live and mixed at Boston Music Award-winning producer, Sean McLaughlin's 37' Productions studios, it was performed and co-produced by Blacker and her husband, Aaron Z. Katz (Percy Hill, the Dejas). In this interview, Curtis and Max talk about what went into this new production and her longstanding collaboration with McLaughlin, another mainstay in the Boston-area music scene. She goes into her recent release shows, including Club Passim, where she has played for years. There's some retro talk this time as we dive into promoting albums in 2024 and how Sarah has changed her strategy since releasing “The Only Way Out is Through” in 2009. Those of us born in the 80s will likely find a lot to relate to. We're opening the interview with an excerpt from the title track and closing things out with “Walk On.” 

Boston rapper Cliff Notez curated the two-night We Black Folk Festival, which features an expansive lineup of Black performers — many of them local — ranging from singer-songwriters to indie rockers.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft talks about the decision to part ways with Bill Belichick. eBay settles charges related to the harassment of a Natick couple. Celebrating Celtic music at Club Passim. 5 minutes of news that will keep you in The Loop.

Let's get folking special! We're closing out 2023 with an exclusive live recording from folk mothership Club Passim, the historic folk venue located in Cambridge, MA, celebrating the bi-annual festival campfire. and its remarkable 25th anniversary. It started as a way for the club to book a slow holiday weekend and now 25 years later, campfire. is still held every Memorial Day and Labor Day weekend and remains an extremely popular fundraiser for Passim. Cindy and lizzie host this live show featuring captivating performances by lizzie, Zachariah Hickman, Kara McKee, and Mercedes Escobar. Additionally, listeners are treated to a rare on-stage interview with Managing Director and campfire. founder Matt Smith and Club Manager and campfire. programmer Abby Altman, providing unique insights into the festival's evolution and the passion that fuels its success.The episode highlights the unpredictability of campfire., where both emerging artists and legends like Peter Wolf share the sacred stage. Matt Smith and Abby Altman's dedication shines through as they discuss their exhaustive efforts in planning, booking, and executing nearly 60 campfires, showcasing the heart and soul behind this beloved festival. Follow Basic Folk on social media: https://basicfolk.bio.link/ Sign up for Basic Folk's newsletter: https://bit.ly/basicfolknews Help produce Basic Folk by contributing: https://basicfolk.com/donate/ Donate to Club Passim: https://www.passim.org/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Jobi Riccio has only begun to scratch the surface of what they have to offer on their debut album Whiplash. The songwriting is centered around self-discovery and mourning past lives laid alongside super smart country and pop melodies. Our hero grew up an outdoor kid amongst the woods of Red Rocks Parks and Amphitheatre in Colorado. A strong bluegrass community encircled her playing from a very young age in a way that encouraged her to pursue music as a career. She spent time in Boston attending Berklee College of Music nestled in the folk community centered around the historic venue Club Passim. Then March 2020 hit.Jobi left her newfound community and found herself back in her childhood bedroom. She was “wrestling with all the complications of finding herself and her place in the world while letting go of her childhood and the sense of grounding that came with it.” Eventually, they made their way to Asheville, North Carolina to work on Whiplash. In the studio, she took her time making the album and discovered that, indeed, she had a strong sense of vision for the music. The trust of her collaborators allowed her to trust in herself and create an album that is turning heads and make Jobi Riccio one of the most exciting young songwriters of 2023. I loved talking to them about their origin, time in Boston and their continuing musical journey. Can't wait for you to hear her new album!Follow Basic Folk on social media: https://basicfolk.bio.link/Sign up for Basic Folk's newsletter: https://bit.ly/basicfolknewsHelp produce Basic Folk by contributing: https://basicfolk.com/donate/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

I recently met up with my friend and fellow songwriter Brian Seymour at the Blue Jay Restaurant at 29th and Girard in north Philadelphia, where we encountered a charming, cash-only gem of a restaurant (tax evasion anyone?), run by a kindly Greek couple, who clearly have a deep history there. From the vintage booths, to the timeworn handwritten menu hung clothesline-style behind the counter, the Blue Jay was a veritable time capsule, as charming as your great aunt's Hummel collection. Brian and I chatted about all kinds of topics - how times have changed since his days in the early 2000's singer-songwriter scene, when he would regularly play in coveted venues up and down the east coast (Berlin Under A in New York, Club Passim in Boston), fly out to LA to do shows and rub elbows with artists like Grace Potter, and become a mainstay at long-gone Philly venues like the Tin Angel and the North Star Bar (both places I knew and loved as well). Now in the post-pandemic world of 2023, Brian has a brilliant new record called "American Courage" and has jumped back into the fray with a killer collection of songs and a different outlook on his methods and motivations for sharing his considerable gifts.I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did!

Antje Duvekot confronts trauma with a newfound wisdom and fierceness on her new record, My New Wild West, her best in her 20 plus year career produced by her friend Mark Erelli. To put it plainly, Antje, who moved to America from Germany at age 13, had a really rough time as a teenager. She was transplanted to a totally new universe with a new language she barely understood with unsupportive and abusive parents. She soothed herself with music, her first love. She sang and played guitar very quietly, which has translated to the musician she has become. Her voice can be soft, child-like and playful, but it can also be strong and deep. The control is incredible. Not to mention, this woman's observation of the world is profound. In each song, she creates worlds that come to life with her poignant lyricism. It's arresting and always unexpected.This interview was different for me in that Antje and I have known each other for over two decades. That's happened before on Basic Folk, but it feels like our careers started on the exact same day and we've grown together in this messy business. The story is that we met at Club Passim (maybe it was a Gillian Welch tribute night and thanks to Matt Smith) in Cambridge, MA around 2002. It took one song and I was floored. She gave me her CD, I took it and played it over and over on the WERS Coffeehouse (the morning folk show). Every Coffeehouse DJ knew how to spell her name and would expect to field calls every time we played her music. That just doesn't happen anymore; it was right at the end of an era when radio could do that. From there, Antje's career took shape. I'll be forever grateful to her for that experience. It really felt like radio at its best: connecting a community with something really needed in an organic way. It's good to get back together in our conversation. Please excuse me if I'm a little too casual in this one! Follow Basic Folk on social media: https://basicfolk.bio.link/ Sign up for Basic Folk's newsletter: https://bit.ly/basicfolknews Help produce Basic Folk by contributing: https://basicfolk.com/donate/ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Monique Byrne and Andy Rogovin perform moving and inspirational songs that are sometimes joyful, sometimes wistful, and oftentimes, poignant, and that reflect a mutual passion for life, family and humanity. Their intimately blended vocal harmonies are mixed with an expressive and unique instrumental style that is best described as "a banjo-guitar romance." Crowes Pasture's style of intimate and soulful folk transports and connects listeners through universal experiences in their “skillfully crafted, emotional songwriting” (Chris Eastburn, award-winning composer).Crowes Pasture has made waves with two EPs and three full-length albums in just six-years time.  Their CD, "Slow It Down", was released in June 2019 at the legendary Club Passim. Since its release, the title track earned Crowes Pasture a #1 song, and the album debuted at #5 on the Folk Alliance International Charts. Since the release of their first album, "Edge of America," the duo has had eight Top 10 Songs on the Folk Charts, including "Take Back the Red White and Blue" (January 2022), their cover of Mary Gauthier's "Mercy Now" (June 2019), and the timely and topical song, "Quarantine" (January 2021).  Over the past few years, Crowes Pasture has performed at a number of renowned east coast music venues including Club Passim, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockwood Music Hall, The Bull Run, and Circle of Friends Coffeehouse and has been a supporting act for The Small Glories and The Kennedys. The duo has been twice honored with nominations as “Roots Act of the Year” by the New England Music Awards (2019 and 2022) and as “Americana Artist of the Year” by the Boston Music Awards (2019). They were named finalists for Best Group/Duo in the 2020 International Acoustic Music Awards, and for Best Group/Duo in the 2021 IAMAs, for their song “A Virtue and a Call”. The duo has toured recently throughout Southern Ontario and Quebec, and is currently recording their third full length album with award-winning producer Eric Lichter of Dirt Floor Studios. The duo takes its name from the salt marsh and tidal flats known as Crowes Pasture, hidden away on the north side of Cape Cod, where the ocean tides recede twice a day to reveal intricate patterns on the shifting sands. This recurring cycle of creation and discovery evokes their own musical journey.https://crowespastureduo.comThanks for listening for more information or to listen to other podcasts or watch YouTube videos click on this link >https://thetroutshow.com/

Some songwriters, they yearn for a mantle — they strive for the political mark. David Rovics' songs move musically in the way of the great protesters, singers and poets — the Seegers and the Guthries, Baez, early Dylan, the Anne Feenies and the Alix Olson. I've finally had a chance to talk with David. What I discovered, and what fills the next two episodes of this show, is an artist still at work on the specific and the topical and the positively protest-oriented, but I also found a person deeply embroiled in the new tides of the present. this is a story of protest, and of being protested, and it is a story of minds and souls that are searching for the paths that navigate both of those poles while staying in the light and, if were are lucky enough, offering some guiding point, some pinprick of illumination, to others.Clips in this episode: Henry Ford Was a Fascist (David Rovics, ‘Live at Club Passim' - 2000)Who Would Jesus Bomb? (David Rovics, ‘The Commons' - 2007)Hobo's Lullabye (David Rovics, ‘Live at Club Passim' - 2000)Make It So (David Rovics, ‘Make It So' - 1996)Song for Eric (David Rovics, ‘Live at Club Passim' - 2000)If I Die Tomorrow (David Rovics, ‘We Just Want the World' - 1998)

Former President Trump has been indicted for a second time. The seven counts against him include conspiracy to obstruct and willful retention of documents and false statements. Listeners called and texted in to share their reactions. We have Adrianna Boulin from the newly-formed Boston Pride For The People & Chastity Bowick former executive director of the Transgender Emergency Fund. Rick Steves is in town for his show with the Pops, he'll make an appearance. Sue O'Connell is part of the Speak Now original series where staff members of NBC Boston Stations and Telemundo share stories of LGBTQ+ pride. She'll also touch on The Ultimatum's new queer season. Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner will take a deep dive into news of Trump's indictment. Mary Gauthier joins for Live Music Friday ahead of a show at Club Passim.

Fiddler Hanneke Cassel has been a big Celtic star for decades and comes to the pod to try and teach me the difference between Irish and Scottish music. Just kidding all you Hanneke-heads! …. But seriously, she helps me keep some things straight. She's been fusing all different styles of music for a long time and her latest album Infinite Brightness weaves her signature flowing Celtic style along with traces of Americana, old time (but she tells me she's not an old time or a bluegrass player) and a hint of classical and maybe even Texas Swing, which was how she first started on the fiddle. Well, she actually started playing classical and found it hard to read music, but eventually discovered a fiddling competition and fell in love with the instrument.In our conversation, Hanneke reflects back on her youthful playing and how she decided to go to Berklee College of Music in Boston. Once there and along with Laura Cortese and Lissa Schneckenburger, she was at the forefront of a fiddle revolution that continues to this day in New England. She talks about her teachers who connected her to the music she loves most, the importance of encouragement from her peers and the inspiration for her to do the same for the next generation. Also, there are lots of Matt Smith references in this episode, so if you are not familiar: Matt Smith runs the historic Club Passim in Harvard Square, Cambridge and is the center point for many touring and New England folk musicians. There is no one like Hanneke! Her new album is a delight and I'm so happy to have her on the pod!Follow Basic Folk on social media: https://basicfolk.bio.link/Sign up for Basic Folk's newsletter: https://bit.ly/basicfolknewsHelp produce Basic Folk by contributing: https://basicfolk.com/donate/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Katie Sachs drops by and tries to get me cancelled   Listen and follow Katie Sachs https://www.katiesachs.com/ https://www.instagram.com/katiesachs_band/ https://www.facebook.com/Katiesachsmusic/   Thanks to Jack Adamant for the closing song https://jackadamant.com https://open.spotify.com/jackadamant/ https://jackadamant.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/jackadamant/ https://www.facebook.com/jackadamantofficial   Subscribe to the podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wnc-original-music/id1378776313 https://www.iheart.com/podcast/wnc-original-music-31067964/ This link has all the other places to subscribe https://gopod.me/wncom   Follow on Social Media https://www.facebook.com/wncoriginalmusic https://www.wncoriginalmusic.com https://www.instagram.com/wnc_original_music/   All music used by permission   BIO: Katie Sachs is an Asheville, NC - based songwriter, powerhouse vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, who sings from the guts and delivers a raw, urgently emotional musical experience to listeners. Through eccentric lyrics and catchy melodies, Katie reveals an inner world that is brutally honest, deeply vulnerable, and highly relatable.  Her appreciation of wide-ranging musical styles comes through in her work, and makes it hard to put a label on her.  If influences were ingredients, they would include: a base of Billie Holiday, a dash of David Byrne, a pinch of Pixies, and a flavor of Feist.  BRAGS: With a degree in creative writing, extensive national touring, and over 20 years of songwriting behind her, Katie is a seasoned performer who knows how to connect with her audience and make them cry, laugh, ponder, and fall silent.  She has performed at iconic venues such as: Club Passim in Boston, MA, Hole in the Wall, Strangebrew and the Driskill Hotel in Austin, TX, and the Threadgill stage at Kerrville Folk Festival. Co-bills include the likes of Heather Maloney, Ley Line, Peter Tork (Of the Monkees) and trading songs around campfires with a then-unknown Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief.) Katie's full catalogue of music (4 albums, from 2012 - 2021) can be downloaded on Bandcamp. Stream music on Spotify and all other online streaming platforms or catch one of her live shows!   Jack Adamant is a Italian singer/songwriter who now lives and records in Stockholm and has just released his sophomore album ”Obscure Places & Cupboards” on AR Recordings. Produced by Jack and his drummer Ged at home mainly during lockdown, the new record has a more indie-punk feel to it compared with his 2019 debut ”Unkind”.   

Presenting concerts can be about a lot more than throwing someone onstage. Matt Smith manages Club Passim in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which has been the central venue and fountain of support for 20 years—and is now the official presenter—for Boston's Celtic Music Festival.  For Matt, it's all about creating opportunities for something special and unique to happen. Learn about where this little festival has been, and where it's going, with or without your Mouse Pants! _________________ For playlists, transcripts, links to videos, companion essays, and to contribute to this project, please head to IrishMusicStories.org. ___________________ Thank you to everybody for listening. And a special thank you to this month's underwriters:  Elisabeth Carter, Mark Haynes, Michael Craine, Ron Kral, Isaiah Hall, David Vaughan, Susan Walsh, Matt Jensen, John Ploch, Tom Frederick, Paul DeCamp, Suezen Brown, Jonathan Duvick, Gerry Corr, Mike Voss,  Sean Carroll, Isobel McMahon, Lynn Hayes, Bob Suchor, Brian Benscoter, Finian McCluskey, Rick Rubin, Ken Doyle, Chris Armstrong, Ian Bittle, Chris Murphy, and the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast.

Today on Boston Public Radio: We began the show by talking with listeners about the two-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and current dysfunction in Congress. Lyndia Downie weighed in on Gov. Maura Healey's plans to support the homeless through supportive housing. Downie is the president and executive director for the Pine Street Inn. Callie Crossley talked about Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin's collapse under cardiac arrest earlier this week during the Bills-Bengals NFL game. Crossley is the host of “Under the Radar,” which you can catch Sunday nights on 89-7 at 6 p.m. She's also the host of “Basic Black,” which airs Fridays at 7:30 p.m. Her “Callie Commentaries” can be heard on Mondays for GBH's “Morning Edition. Andrea Cabral shared her thoughts on how Attorney General-elect Andrea Campbell may handle an appeal against the dismissal of criminal charges for leaders of the Holyoke Soldiers' Home, where at least 76 veterans died from COVID-19. Cabral is the former Suffolk County sheriff and secretary of public safety. Sue O'Connell talked about what Gov. Healey's historic win means for the LGBTQ+ community. O'Connell is the co-publisher of Bay Windows and South End News, and contributor to Current, on NBC L-X and NECN. Sean Smith and Summer McCall talked about the 20th anniversary of the Boston Celtic Music Festival at Club Passim. Musicians Maura Shawn Scanlin, Eamon Sefton, Simon Lace, Conor Hearn, and Adam Hendey performed in the first Live Music Friday at the Boston Public Library of 2023. Smith and McCall are organizers of the Boston Celtic Music Festival at Club Passim. The festival runs from Jan. 12-15. We ended the show by asking listeners what could convince them to switch to an electric vehicle.

It's Juliana Finch and Jess Klein! Jess Klein is an incredible songwriter-singer-performer, who has toured the world with her unbelievable music. She's been in the game long enough to know that creative cycles are normal and natural, and she approaches her process with a kind of ease that can inspire us all. Jess just finished producing an album that's coming out in the fall titled In the Arms of a Song. Do what you can to find Jess Klein and listen and have a good cry. In the meantime, enjoy this episode. https://jessklein.com/home (Jess Klein Website) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msjessklein/ (@msjessklein) BIO: Over a career that spans two decades and has won her a devoted worldwide fan base, Jess Klein—who possesses what Mojo magazine calls “one of those voices you want to crawl up close to the speakers to listen to” has pursued a remarkable creative evolution that's seen her dig ever deeper for resonant emotional insights, while continuing to refine her eloquently melodic, effortlessly accessible songcraft.  The Rochester, NY native began writing songs as a college student in Kingston, Jamaica. Jess spent eight years soaking up the live music culture of Austin, TX. Bootleg (2015) Jess's live, full band album captures the dynamism of Jess onstage, backed by some of Austin's top players. Jess was named a 2015 Finalist in the highly regarded Kerrville New Folk Competition.  In 2016, Jess and her husband, songwriter Mike June moved to tiny but vibrant Hillsborough, North Carolina where she recorded 2019's Back to My Green.  Klein has performed to rapt audiences at the Newport Folk Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Fuji Rock Festival in Japanand packed houses in notable listening rooms like Joe's Pub, NYC, The Borderline in London, Club Passim in Boston and Fogartyville in Sarasota, FL. She has appeared on Good Morning America and NPR's All Things Consideredand toured across the US, Europe and Japan on her own and with such artists as Arlo Guthrie, John Fullbright and Carlene Carter.  Jess's new album is currently in production and due out shortly. LISTEN TO ASBX AUDIO DRAMAS:https://artistsoapbox.org/masterbuilder/ (Master Builder) https://www.thenewcolossuspodcast.com/ (The New Colossus) https://artistsoapbox.org/declaration-of-love/ (Declaration of Love audio anthology) https://artistsoapbox.org/audio-dramas/asbx-shorts/ (ASBX Shorts) CONNECT AND FOLLOW: Artist Soapbox on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/artist_soapbox (@artist_soapbox) Instagram: @https://www.instagram.com/artistsoapbox/ (artistsoapbox) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/artistsoapboxpodcast/ (https://www.facebook.com/artistsoapboxpodcast/) CONTRIBUTE: Soapboxers are the official patrons of the Artist Soapbox podcast. http://www.patreon.com/artistsoapbox (Get on the Soapbox with us at Patreon )or make a one-time donation via Ko-fi at https://ko-fi.com/artistsoapbox (https://ko-fi.com/artistsoapbox) or via PayPal at https://www.paypal.me/artistsoapbox?ppid=PPC000628&cnac=US&rsta=en_US(en_US)&cust=A55YE26SQPDL8&unptid=bcec7a46-337d-11e8-9bbe-9c8e992da578&t=&cal=cb540804e2cda&calc=cb540804e2cda&calf=cb540804e2cda&unp_tpcid=ppme-social-user-profile-created&page=main:email&pgrp=main:email&e=op&mchn=em&s=ci&mail=sys (PayPal.Me/artistsoapbox.) If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation, please consider our non-profit https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/soapbox-audio-collective (Soapbox Audio Collective).

Grace Givertz, born and raised in South Florida, began writing and performing at age eleven when she got a guitar and learned to play off YouTube videos. Grace is a survivor in many ways: she manages and confronts several chronic illnesses, she survived having her Berklee scholarship rescinded due to a systematic error and lived through being struck by a city bus in 2015. The accident left her unable to play her instruments for several months. During that idle time, she reflected on how being a musician defines she who is. Her writing changed and became more open and honest about chronic illnesses. In her most recent single, "Papa," she writes about the traumatic murder of her grandfather and how he lives on in Grace.I first came across Grace working at Club Passim in the Boston area, where she currently lives. Grace's visual appearance, sense of humor and sparkling personality are undeniable. In addition to music, she's super crafty and her reputation for cute outfits, cute earrings (which she sells on Etsy) and her cute apartment (which I've seen a lot of thanks to Zoom concerts and social media) proceeds her. She surrounds herself with her adorable pets that pop up frequently on her social media. One time, my mom (unprovoked - she doesn't know Grace!) sent me a video of Grace's bearded dragon, Baby Pancake, being cuddled by her peachy cat Persimmon. Yes, I know most of her pets' names and have a Grace Givertz t-shirt with a sweet Baby Pancake design on it. I am a fan all around.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

We take your calls and talk about the future of the local music scene with Matt Smith, managing director of Club Passim, and JJ Gonson, owner of ONCE Lounge, formerly in Somerville.

Scott Metzger returns to talk about his new album, Too Close to Reason, and a classic Lester Young solo, which he plays at the end of the episode. Scott has upcoming solo shows at Club Passim in Cambridge, MA, March 30; City Winery NYC March 31; City Winery DC April 1; and City Winery Philadelphia April 2. See scottmetzger.com for more dates and details. Playlists and transcripts for all episodes are available at https://soundsoutoftime.substack.com.

Help produce Basic Folk by contributing at basicfolk.com/donateMary Gauthier's book, Saved By A Song, is a must-read for all humans with feelings that need feeling. Gauthier has been writing and recording songs since the the early 90's, but she actually started her music career relatively late at age 30. She had grown up as an adopted child in Thibodaux, Louisiana, which was something that she didn't realize had greatly impacted her until she was in her 40's. She created a concept album, The Foundling, out of that realization. Some people find that album hard to listen to, but it was deeply healing for her and for other grown-up adopted children. She found herself in the Boston area as a chef in her late 20's. She was arrested for drunk driving the night of her restaurant opening, The Dixie Kitchen. She spent a hard night in jail, got sober and started taking an interest in songwriting. Thanks to encouragement she found at open mics in the area, including at Club Passim, Mary discovered her true passion was writing songs. She stepped away from her stable career in the restaurant business and started pursued music full time. She's toured, released albums and co-written songs with music professionals for the past 30+ years now. For the past several years, she's been working with soldiers and their families on writing songs together. The process has been rewarding and challenging for her, culminating in her latest studio album Rifles and Rosary Beads. She has continued her writing with professionals and soldiers as well as teaching songwriting classes. Most recently, she's been working with health care workers to write songs in reaction to their Covid-19 experience. Her work is a gift not only to us, her listeners, but it has actually been life-changing to countless individuals and their families. She is brilliant at bringing people to their most frightening and vulnerable places because she is living proof that life is better on the other side of trauma. Thank you for you wonderful work, Mary Gauthier! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Rose Cousins joins me on the show this month to talk about her stellar recent album “Bravado”, her writing and recording process and the nurturing music scenes she came up in - both in her hometown of Halifax, and her adopted hometown of Boston and the scene at Club Passim. Enjoy, share the episode, and don't forget to leave us a review, and subscribe to the show.

**This is an edited replay of Louis Apollon's appearance on the July 17th, 2021 show.**Music From Friends can be heard live, every Saturday night, on WNTN 1550 AM, from 6-8pm.Listen online at WNTN1550am.com. Replays of the live show can be found on Spotify, iTunes, Google PodcastsInstagram for the show: @musicfromfriends, get updates and share music suggestions for future shows!!Support the show on patreon.com/musicfromfriends and get access to a video live stream from the WNTN 1550 AM studio.Spotify playlist for the show: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7bxuqAQuDxYiGQSqWK6cl6?si=sAUOC3OxS1Kttr2jVyb3rgFeatured artist's website: https://www.louisapollon.com/About Louis from my intro to the show:  Louis brings a fusion of jazz, folk, and other musical styles from many different cultures.  His childhood love of music, and formal education in it as an adult, all came tougher to make his 2017 album, “Free To Be”.  And with that one album, he has had so much success.  In 2018 he was nominated for “male performer of the year” at the New England Music awards.  He has received lots of accolades from music professionals, professors, and music magazines like Middle Tennessee Music and others in New England.  His music has been heard on numerous radio stations such as 88.9 WERS here in Boston, 90.5 WICN, and WEMF and WATP.  Lastly, he has played on countless stages across New England, New York, and even Illinois.  And when COVID took away those live shows for a time, he turned to streaming his music, and recording covers for his YouTube channel.  He is super talented instrumentally as well as with the pen.Louis is based in Brooklyn NY, and streamed into the show.  He performed two songs live, one from his 2017 album and one from the upcoming album.  No date set for the release of his next album, but he did announce that he will be playing live at Club Passim on September 13th.  We also had a good discussion about defining the Jazz and Folk music genres.Song featured in this episode:Music From Friends Theme song - Alec Sullivan“Looking For You” - Louis Apollon“I Go To The Water” - Louis Apollon“Monstre de Saint-Remy” - Louis Apollon

Cambridge based singer-songwriter Katie Jones joins us virtually on the Tiny Stage to talk about her next album Tossed being released on Friday March 5th with a special live stream from Club Passim in Cambridge. Learn more at https://www.kaitijonesmusic.com/. 

Help produce Basic Folk by contributing at basicfolk.com/donateCanadian songwriter Rose Cousins hates small talk. She'd much prefer to get down to the bone of your humanity and know about your struggle than talk about the weather. Raised in the tight-knit community on Prince Edward Island, at a young age, Cousins had the sense of helping out others and lifting up others instilled in her. She also spent a lot of time alone working to process her deepest feelings. We talk about how the piano served as a way to express herself through music, which led to playing guitar and writing. In university, Rose studied kinesiology, which has made her aware of her own body and is something she thinks about and uses everyday. At one point, she was on her way to becoming a strength and conditioning coach, but music took off for her in unexpected ways. She's thrived and grown through her musical communities, particularly through the Cambridge, MA scene surrounded by Club Passim. She credits Rose Polenzani, Jennifer Kimball, Kris Delmhorst and (of course) Passim's Managing Director Matt Smith for their encouragement in developing herself musically.Rose's latest album, Bravado, contains multitudes within the writing. She talks about how she has grown closer to her truth and being able to express that through the songs. I am particularly taken with the brilliance of "The Benefits of Being Alone" in its ability to make you laugh and cry so hard within the span of minutes. Rose has been a dear friend for a long time, so this was particularly meaningful to talk to her through this medium AND I'm so pleased that this is our 100th episode with such a special artist! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

It has been an insane few weeks, which is an understatement to say the least since that could apply to the entirety of 2020 if not the last four years. We don’t mean to lay our politics out there, but whatever your beliefs, 2020 can’t end soon enough.   Luckily, we were able to talk to the multi-talented Kemp Harris to bring a little light into this terrible year.  Kemp is a quintuple threat – actor, songwriter, composer, singer, storyteller – and we am probably missing a few other talents in there.  Kemp was a teacher in Boston for 40 years and has gone on to be a powerful presence on the stage, from your local coffeeshop to the Boch Center stage, his open armed and vulnerable approach to his work make for must watch and must listen performances.  Kemp and Chuck sat in an empty restaurant to talk about current events, storytelling, teaching, living and performing your beliefs rather than poking the bear.    That will make more sense when you listen.  As we were told by our friend Ralph Jaccodine, Kemp is the real deal. 

My guest today is a dear friend of mine, Dr. Max Klau. We met nearly a decade ago at a songwriting class at Club Passim in Cambridge, MA, when Max was studying for his doctoral degree at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He's an author, coach, speaker, scholar, leadership development consultant, and a damn good songwriter. He recently published a book called Race and Social Change: A Quest, A Study, A Call to Action.We explore Max's journey to writing this important book. We also dive into his current work with the New Politics Leadership Academy, a nonprofit dedicated to recruiting and developing military veterans and alumni of national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps to seek political office. And what a time to enter politics! I was deeply inspired to learn more about how Max and his team help people who have devoted their lives to public service step into the political arena.Max draws on a wide range of scholarship in the realms of leadership and human flourishing, weaving them together with his own experiences and research. What we ultimately arrive at is the truth that how we show up from the inside actively shapes the world around us. Max calls this "the inner flame." If you care at all about what it is to show up for the world as your best self - about igniting and sustaining your own inner flame - then this conversation is for you. The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerilla​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachEPISODE #33 NOTESRace and Social Change: a Quest, a Study, a Call to Actionnewpoliticsacademy.orgJoseph Campbellcityyear.org/aboutMilgram ExperimentStanford Prison Experimentnewpolitics.org/podcastMaxKlau.cominstagram.com/maxklau linkedin.com/in/max-klau-0319a11 twitter.com/maxklau

We are often too afraid of what the future holds when what we thought we wanted doesn’t happen, right? The disappointment and the inability to pick ourselves up and find another passion that might fulfill us in the same way as our original one palpable. Allison Shapira had always dreamed of being an opera singer from a young age, and when her dream was crushed by a teacher in college who believed ‘she wouldn’t make it in the industry’, she found it hard to pick herself up. Later she found her range was misdiagnosed, and she is discovering music in a new way. An opera singer turned keynote speaker, entrepreneur, best-selling author, and world-renowned expert on public speaking and presentation skills, she is helping others find their voice. She now has a new genre and has performed at legendary folk venues such as Club Passim and Caffè Lena, and she is a member of the two-woman band Joan & Joni, a tribute to Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell, which she performs with fellow musician Kipyn Martin.

Every once in a while we get to chat with a Boston legend.Chris Smither is one of the most distinguished and authentic singer-songwriter/bluesmen over the past 50+ years. His soulful voice and excellent finger-style guitar playing is set to a heartbeat kept in time by his signature tapping feet.Chris moved to Boston from New Orleans back in the mid 1960’s and within hours of arriving he was on stage with Eric von Schmidt in Harvard Square at Club ‘47 (now Club Passim).Hanging out with blues musicians Dick Waterman, Son House and Fred McDowell, he began to hone his songwriting chops.Also in that group of bluesmen was the incomparable Bonnie Raitt, who fell in love with his song Love You Like A Man and made it her own. His songs have since been recorded by EmmyLou Harris, Diana Krall, Josh Ritter, Loudon Wainwright III, Dave Alvin, Patty Larkin, Peter Case and Tim O'Brien.He continued to write, perform and also overcome his personal struggles to be a musical road warrior. He has put out 18+ albums, his most recent More From The Levee - a compilation of songs that didn’t make it onto his 2014 album Still On The Levee retrospective that were so good they had to be released as well.Chris is still on the road and has proven to be one of the greatest American Folk/Blues artists to grace the stage.

Ellis Paul! The one and only. This has been a long time coming. The Maine-born musician is famous for helping establish the “Boston Songwriter Sound” in the late 80's, 90's and 2000's. He grew up on a potato farm and became a national track star, which earned him a scholarship to Boston University. Ellis started learning and playing guitar after an injury sidelined him. He began seeking out open mics in the city and came across Club Passim in Harvard Square, Cambridge, where he now holds the record of the most shows played there ever. We talk about the early days, playing over 200 shows a year, Woody Guthrie, living with Dupuytren Syndrome and how that has affected his playing.He's been a favorite of mine for a long time and it was great to be able to prepared for this interview and listen to all his songs again, including his latest album The Storyteller's Suitcase.  We talk about a couple of standouts on that album including a song where he explains the afterlife to his 5 year old daughter. Oof. Ellis Paul! Thanks for listening! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Chuck drove out to Western Massachusetts to sit on Lisa’s front porch surrounded by chickens, a vocal rooster, two small children having an amazing time doing whatever small children feel like doing, bees and the occasional mouse to talk music, songwriting and Life in the Time of COVID.Lisa’s latest album How We Want To Live is a beautiful record that reflects her many life changes over the past few years.  Her songs are a musical ‘thank you’ to her grandmother who introduced her to the guitar and to songwriting, as well as a message to those in her life. The album reached #1 in Contemporary Folk on Roots Music Report, she was nominated in 2019 for Folk Artist of the Year at the Boston Music Awards and was the 2019 Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk Winner.Her honest and well crafted songwriting reflect her own personality. Lisa is a calming presence, thoughtful and very in the moment.It was appropriate to be surrounded by the wonderful chaos of life - the joyful sounds of her kids, a crowing rooster and the arrival of the Amazon delivery truck, which she hopes, one day, will deliver ice cream.

Today on Boston Public Radio: We opened our lines to talk with listeners about the return of baseball, on opening day for the Red Sox. Media maven Sue O’Connell discussed the rebuke from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to derogatory comments made by Rep. Ted Yoho, as well as news that the Hallmark Channel will include LGBT storylines in their 2020 holiday movie lineup.  Beat the Press host Emily Rooney talked about the release of President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen from jail, and read her weekly list of fixations and fulminations. Food writer Corby Kummer talked about the decision by Trader Joe's to discontinue racist branding on their ethnic food packaging, and several ways that supermarkets are repurposing space that used to be used for salad and hot-food bars.  Tech writer Andy Ihnatko discussed news that Facebook ignored research about racial biases on their platforms, and controversy around comments made on the livestream feed of the U.S. Army's Esports team.  Under the Radar host Callie Crossley discussed artist Dustin Klein's work, shining images onto a confederate monument in Virginia, and a racist comments made to 14 year-old boy in Newburyport as he was handing out free donuts.  Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lori McKenna talked about her new album, “The Balladeer,” and promoted a Friday-night livestream concert out of Cambridge's Club Passim. 

Songwriters pay tribute to Anais Mitchell in a concert recorded October 29, 2019. Peter Mulvey, Rose Polenzani, Mark Erelli, Molly Venter (Red Molly), Ali McGuirk, Liv Greene and Barry Rothman performed Anais songs at Club Passim. In between songs, I was there playing clips from Anais' interview on Basic Folk and clips from musicians and music fans talking about Anais. You'll hear thoughts about this amazing songwriter from Josh Ritter, Ani Difranco, Anthony Mason (CBS News), Josh Kaufman and Eric D. Johnson (Josh & Eric are from Bonny Light Horseman). This show was part of Peter Mulvey's yearly week-long festival at Passim called "The Lamplighter Sessions." Anais has been busy! She, of course, has her folk opera, Hadestown, on Broadway, she released an album with her band Bonny Light Horseman AND she's just given birth to her second child, Rosetta. We're releasing this episode on her birthday (March 26!). Hope you enjoy!

Songwriters pay tribute to Anais Mitchell in a concert recorded October 29, 2019. Peter Mulvey, Rose Polenzani, Mark Erelli, Molly Venter (Red Molly), Ali McGuirk, Liv Greene and Barry Rothman performed Anais songs at Club Passim. In between songs, I was there playing clips from Anais' interview on Basic Folk and clips from musicians and music fans talking about Anais. You'll hear thoughts about this amazing songwriter from Josh Ritter, Ani Difranco, Anthony Mason (CBS News), Josh Kaufman and Eric D. Johnson (Josh & Eric are from Bonny Light Horseman). This show was part of Peter Mulvey's yearly week-long festival at Passim called "The Lamplighter Sessions." Anais has been busy! She, of course, has her folk opera, Hadestown, on Broadway, she released an album with her band Bonny Light Horseman AND she's just given birth to her second child, Rosetta. We're releasing this episode on her birthday (March 26!). Hope you enjoy! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.

Stuart Babcock and Drew Zieff of the Americana/folk duo Jake Swamp and the Pine join me to talk about the folk scene in Boston and some of their favorite venues, including Toad and Club Passim. They've also got a new album in the works and they dive into some of the stories behind the songs. Following this, enjoy one of their newest tunes, “My Sister's Old Guitar.”

We spoke with the great Tom Rush in New Orleans at the Folk Alliance International conference. Have a listen to our chat, where we talk about Maine, small venues, the interaction Tom has with an audience, the great Club '47 (now Club Passim), his Harvard days and Folk as a community.Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Tom began performing in 1961 while studying at Harvard University.  He regularly performed at the Club 47 (now called Club Passim) in Cambridge.He recently release his latest album Voices (2018) and is still on the road, performing and touring the United States.

You’ve hopefully heard us talk about a new project we have in partnership with the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame – a podcast called Hallways.  If you haven’t been to the FARHOF, you should check it out. You can visit FolkAmericanaRootsHallofFame.org for information, but basically The Hall is housed in the Wang Theatre in Boston and it celebrates the history of Folk, Americana and Roots music through displays, memorabilia, artifacts, multi-media, lectures and concerts.  As much as any city in the country, Boston has been the musical birthplace for the styles and artists we celebrate, making it a fitting home.  While performing recently at the Wang Theatre, Neil Young said, “Boston is the Folk Music capital of North America.”  And who are we to argue with a recently sworn in American Citizen.  We were fortunate to talk with the wonderful Patty Griffin before her performance at Club Passim's 60th birthday event. We’d like to share this Hallways episode with you to introduce you to the new podcast and hope you will not only visit The Hall but also subscribe to Hallways on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts and to follow us on our socials.  For that matter – do the same with ATB – visit abovethebasement.com to subscribe and follow us to.   We can all follow each other.  Thanks!  Here we go… 

We first met Chuck at the Wang Theater at an event for all the board members of the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame.  But Chuck’s story starts much earlier than that.  Growing up in Dubuque Iowa, Chuck started playing guitar at a young age and never looked back. In 1963 while living in DC, Chuck was hit hard by the arrival of The Beatles.  When he finally arrived in Boston he formed the influential country group Wheatstraw.  Their two albums Last Straw and Follow the Music, drew critical praise from Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, the New York Times, Billboard, Variety and others.Later moving to Los Angeles, Chuck met The Kingston Trios John Stewart, and began a friendship and musical collaboration that continued throughout John’s life.  Over the last few decades, Chuck has devoted himself to energy and environmental policy issues, working in government and the private sector, but he never turned away from music.In 2015 Chuck was an inductee into the Massachusetts Country Music Hall of Fame and in 2017, Chuck released his album Gin & Rosewater.We met Chuck just before a performance at the legendary Club Passim in Harvard Square to talk Wheatstraw, his collaboration with John Stewart, songwriting, and last but not least the importance of have a Folk Amerciana Roots Hall of Fame in Boston. 

Hallways is proud to report that our next guest Patty Griffin has received a 2020 Grammy award! This is the third Grammy for our friend Patty Griffin, a New Englander from Maine with with a heart in Boston heritage and a love for music that goes back to her family roots in Ireland.   We caught up with Patty just before her performance at the 60th anniversary of Club Passim event at the Boch Center’s Schubert Theater.   As an artist covered by music icons from Emmylou Harris to Kelly Clarkson, it is obvious how her music resonates with so many people. All you need to do is listen to her and a guitar on stage to appreciate all she contributes, down her own Hallway of this music culture and the Folk Americana Roots Hall Of Fame.

Folkapotamus is a Boston area based folk duo consisting of Penni Hart and Tony Trites. They have been performing together since 2011 at various venues throughout New England, such as the legendary Club Passim and The Burren. Their thoughtful lyrics and flowing melodies tell stories of life, love, and family. Folkapotamus has released two albums: "Whispered Words" in 2014 and "Middle of Nowhere" in 2017. Both recordings received numerous accolades from folk radio including being named to a couple of top 10 lists for each respective year. Folkapotamus has opened for such folk icons as Vance Gilbert and were honored to be selected by Wanda Fischer of WAMC to perform in the Folk DJ showcase at the 2019 FARM folk conference in Michigan. Penni and Tony reside in Massachusetts with their rescue cat Fernando and two budgies Tyngo and Coconut.

Rachel Lynne, the highly emotive songwriter, joins us for a live episode at Club Passim! Lynne was born and raised in Georgia. She spent her young life obsessed with music, especially sad and lonesome country music. Her own music cannot be described as country, but it has a certain lonesome quality to it. If you've ever experienced any serious emotions, one listen to Rachel's music and you'll feel understood and extremely connected. Rachel shares a few songs from her catalog and talks about growing up with music, dealing with anxiety and the fascinating story of how she got her guitar. Currently living in Denver, I first met Rachel in Pittsburgh where she wowed audiences and won hearts.

Rachel Lynne, the highly emotive songwriter, joins us for a live episode at Club Passim! Lynne was born and raised in Georgia. She spent her young life obsessed with music, especially sad and lonesome country music. Her own music cannot be described as country, but it has a certain lonesome quality to it. If you've ever experienced any serious emotions, one listen to Rachel's music and you'll feel understood and extremely connected. Rachel shares a few songs from her catalog and talks about growing up with music, dealing with anxiety and the fascinating story of how she got her guitar. Currently living in Denver, I first met Rachel in Pittsburgh where she wowed audiences and won hearts. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.

Dan is making a name for himself as an important live act by selling out rooms in the greater Boston area including the famed Club Passim and The Amazing Things Arts Center. He has also had the honor of opening for such legends as John Hiatt, Richie Havens, Ellis Paul, and John Gorka.Supporting local music is another of Dan's passions. He is a co-founder, along with singer-songwriter Kim Jennings, of Worcester's Birch Beer Records, and Facebook's “I Support Local Music in Massachusetts” with over 10,000 fans. As the INsite Boston Magazine stated, “On and off stage one can be proud to be a fan of Dan and look forward to another great year from this rising star.”

Basic Folk is live at Club Passim in Cambridge with Americana songwriter Dinty Child. Member of Session Americana, Dinty is releasing his debut solo album after being a part of the Boston folk and roots community for about three decades. His record, Lucky Ones, will be out on January 17, with a release show January 16 at Oberon in Harvard Sq, Cambridge. In our conversation, we talk about growing up with loving sisters, his deep connection to Three Mile Island (not THAT one) in New Hampshire, his work with Session Americana and being able to play with musicians of all sorts of ages and stages in life. Dinty is hilarious, humble and one of the best people I know! He's always been kind, supportive and respectful of his friends' work. This solo album is a rare moment for him to step into the spotlight, so it's exciting to be able to lend him the platform that he gives nearly everyone he meets. I'm so happy to get him on the podcast especially in this format. His live performance will draw you in and make you laugh and reflect. Everyone I know loves Dinty and after listening to this episode, you will, too. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.

Basic Folk is live at Club Passim in Cambridge with Americana songwriter Dinty Child. Member of Session Americana, Dinty is releasing his debut solo album after being a part of the Boston folk and roots community for about three decades. His record, Lucky Ones, will be out on January 17, with a release show January 16 at Oberon in Harvard Sq, Cambridge. In our conversation, we talk about growing up with loving sisters, his deep connection to Three Mile Island (not THAT one) in New Hampshire, his work with Session Americana and being able to play with musicians of all sorts of ages and stages in life. Dinty is hilarious, humble and one of the best people I know! He's always been kind, supportive and respectful of his friends' work. This solo album is a rare moment for him to step into the spotlight, so it's exciting to be able to lend him the platform that he gives nearly everyone he meets. I'm so happy to get him on the podcast especially in this format. His live performance will draw you in and make you laugh and reflect. Everyone I know loves Dinty and after listening to this episode, you will, too.

Welcome to Hallways!   We are excited to talk to artists from all over the world through conversation and live performance. We will bring you the voices and artists that inspire – and continue to inspire generations of artists, musicians and music lovers, like Patti Griffin, Keb Mo, Milk Carton Kids and many more throughout this new year. But let's start with the genesis of the whole idea of this podcast – and the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame - with Boch Center CEO, Joe Spaulding.  American music history has been right below our feet in The Wang Theater in downtown Boston, a nearly 100 year old theater, once known as The Music Hall. Joe Spaulding’s longtime dream of new Hall Of Fame for the music that inspired him ever since his days of touring as a folk artist is finally here. It was Canadian artist Neil Young who pulled Joe aside to ask him - "Why wouldn’t you have the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame right here in this living breathing museum."  And that was all Joe needed to hear.   After touring with his band after college, Joe stayed in the music world, eventually running his own record label, pressing folk and blues into vinyl and recording some of American music’s greats. During the time when Boston raised folk legends and gathered musical styles from the roots of Ireland, Africa and Eastern Europe, Joe was there – at Club 47 - that would eventually become Club Passim. And it wasn’t just the music – It was and continues to be about the places that bring people together like The Wang Theater and The Hall Of Fame that lives inside.   Joe brought his own passion into an iconic building so others with a love for this music can share that same experience. History, music and physical artifact come together in one special place, for visitors and Bostonians alike, to look and listen to an American musical story.   It is fitting to sit with Joe in the heart of The Hall and look around at the music history surrounding us.   Thank you for joining us at the Hall for our first episode of Hallways with Joe Spaulding.

As a native New Englander, Ric has spent nearly half his life as an acoustic musician, visual artist, and educator. Since attending the first Cape Cod Songwriters Retreat in January of 2014 and finding a loyal community of peers, his music pursuits have led to recognition as a finalist in two national performing songwriter competitions (2017) and the 2018 CT Folk Festival audition concert (2018). Among his most noteworthy features are the Club Passim Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, and Woodstock Tribute Nights, Club Passim 2018 Memorial Day Campfire Festival, The Spire Center of Performing Arts opening for Ray Wylie Hubbard, South Shore Folk Music Club opening for Susan Cattaneo, Amazing Things Arts Center opening for Archie Fisher, the Rose Garden Coffeehouse opening for Abbie Gardner, and Off The Common Coffeehouse opening for The Boxcar Lilies, Soule Homestead opening for The LIed To's, and Titicut Green Coffeehouse opening for Daring Angels (Kathy Phipps and Wendy Sobel). He's also actively performing throughout southeastern New England at markets, galleries, eateries, wine bars, and coffeehouses. Ric uses music as navigation, discovery, and anchoring. His songs, while personal, feel intuitively familiar. The listener is guided by an ease that is steady and supportive as a mast. Whether performing solo or in collaboration, Ric's playing style gravitates toward unique voicings, percussive frailing, and meticulous fingerpicking patterns that honor his influences – early folk & blues, singer-songwriters of the 80s and 90s, and traditional Celtic and British fingerstyle players.In late 2016, Ric joined a long-time friend, touring sound engineer Brian Evans, to record his debut CD titled Take It All In which includes eight original songs and one by another friend and collaborator Joe L'Esperance. The CD features violinist Katy Boc of Sparrow Blue, singer/instrumentalist Raianne Richards, drummer Jeff Armstrong, and San Antonio guitarist Bob Charles. The mostly-acoustic songs explore themes from throughout Ric's life, but primarily from 2007 to 2017 when his most significant personal growth would happen. Milestones like the passing of his parents, birth of his daughter, diagnosis and treatment for cancer, loss of a long-held career position in the arts, and the disillusionment of a close personal relationship would plunge him into a deep well of reflection. The results of his inner 'smithing' would be this collection of songs that pay gratitude to his mentors (Take It All In, Open Book), assure those lost in doubt (See What The Morning Brings), recognize losses (Little Wren, Thieves on the Shore, Changing Tide), honor partners and healers (Soldier's Armory), and reveal the quiet hope that lives behind our challenges (Morning Drive). When not playing music, Ric remains active in the visual arts, teaching illustration at Massachusetts College of Art & Design in Boston and designing identities for the Cape Cod Songwriters' Retreat, the New Haven Folk Consortium, and the Americana band Sparrow Blue; illustrated promos for Monica Rizzio and the Vinegrass Music Festival; concert posters for the Rose Garden Coffeehouse; and CD packaging for a number of releases including Andy & Judy's 'Reflections', and David Roth's 'Think Twice', 'Practice Makes Progress', 'So Far So Good', and 'Last Day On This Earth'.

THE LIED TO'SOn his very last record, Leonard Cohen utters the words, “You Want It Darker.” The Lied To's can relate.The duo, Susan Levine and Doug Kwartler, who are set to release their new record The Lesser of Two Evils on May 11, 2018, have reason to connect with Cohen's sentiment. Both weathered bitter divorces and were left to pick up the physical, financial and emotional pieces. They met at a folk festival and after the dust settled, started working together. Soon a musical partnership evolved into a personal one.Both Kwartler and Levine are single parents to two kids each. While juggling family life, music, and their relationship can fuel inspiration for songwriting, it can also be a struggle. “Like everyone else is feeling right now, except maybe the 1%, you just go about your day looking straight ahead trying to get things done,” Kwartler says, adding, “You work, pay bills, take care of your kids, have a relationship, and deal with your past…oh, and we also try to make music. The new record covers all that.” Levine continues, “While the songs are not purely autobiographical, the emotional truths definitely come from everything we've been through.”Despite the challenges, The Lied To's have made solid headway as an Americana duo in a very crowded Americana duo scene. Their 2015, self-titled debut album made waves in Americana and Folk radio and rose to #3 on the roots music charts. They landed in the top 100 on the prestigious No Depression readers' poll and they were called, “…one of the finest contemporary guy/gal duos on the scene today,” by Boston's Metronome Magazine, who also picked their CD as a top 20 of the year. Add in successful shows at the legendary Bluebird Café in Nashville, the renowned Club Passim in Cambridge, MA and many top folk-coffeehouses in the area, and The Lied To's forged their own way and made a name for themselves

The amazing Betsy Siggins stops by WATD to talk about her non-profit, Folk New England, and her storied history in the local music community. Folk New England is committed to preserving the history of folk music in New England. Betsy was also instrumental in the success of Club 47 in Cambridge, which eventually became Club Passim. Learn more about Betsy and Folk New England at www.FolkNewEngland.org

Today on Boston Public Radio: MSNBC “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd discussed Wednesday’s impeachment hearing, and the addition of Deval Patrick to the 2020 presidential race.  We opened our lines to callers to hear your thoughts on Wednesday’s impeachment hearing.  Former Suffolk County Sheriff and Secretary of Public Safety Andrea Cabral discussed efforts to save Rodney Reed, a Texas man currently facing the death penalty. Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigrant Forum, discussed the Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision on DACA, and its potential implications for the Trump presidency.  Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick phoned in to discuss his newly announced campaign for president.  Paul Reville, former Massachusetts Secretary of Education, spoke about gun violence in the shadow of Wednesday’s shooting at a Santa Clarita high school, as well as the looming $100,000 per year cost of college tuition.  Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn discussed the failures of leadership at Boeing in the wake of a botched apology from the company’s CEO over malware that caused two plane crashes. Activist and folk singer Joan Baez, alongside Betsy Siggins, co-founder of Cambridge’s Club Passim, discussed the singer's career and the legacy of the famed folk venue on the eve of its 60th anniversary concert. 

Monique Byrne and Andy Rogovin perform original music and eye-opening covers that reflect a mutual passion, sense of discovery and celebration of life. Their tightly blended vocal harmonies are mixed with an expressive instrumental style that is best described as a banjo-guitar romance. Crowes Pasture's style of escapist folk transports and connects listeners through universal experiences in their “skillfully crafted, emotional songwriting” (Chris Eastburn, award-winning composer).In just four years time, Crowes Pasture has quickly been making waves with two EPs and three full-length albums. They have been featured on the Joe Val Bluegrass Festival Showcase Stage for four years running, performed at Club Passim, and were finalists in the 2019 and 2018 CT Folk Festival Competition. Their music has achieved airplay on over 70 stations nationwide and they've been featured on radio shows as far and wide as Tufts Freeform Radio in Boston to the national podcast, Sundilla Radio Hour. Crowes Pasture has an intimacy about their live performances. The romantic clawhammer banjo playing by Monique and expressive guitar picking by Andy are enlivened by their personal chemistry and emotionally expressive vocals. Nick Noble, host of “The Folk Revival” on WICN-FM, has praised the duo for their “lovely harmonies and a passionate approach to musical performance.”

Betsy Siggins is a folk boss in charge, and we’re beyond honored to welcome her as a guest on Basic Folk. Siggins has been an integral part of the folk music world since the late 1950’s when she and her roommate, Joan Baez, starting hanging around the Cambridge scene at Club 47. She’s work at the famous folk club until it closed in the 1960’s, where after that she worked with The Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. and also paved the way for homeless shelters catering to AIDs patients in New York City. After her tenure as Executive Director at Club Passim (formerly Club 47), Betsy worked on The New England Folk Archives that reside in Amherst, MA. Currently, Betsy is working on her memoirs that are bound to be packed with priceless stories about folk legends like Baez, Bob Dylan, Jim Kweskin, James Taylor and many more. We hear some of these fascinating stories from Siggins during the conversation. We also get a glimpse into where Betsy came from in her roots with her family life, that did include some classical music influence as well as a love for early country radio. I honestly could have talked to her for days. Hope you enjoy! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts.

I have met my tangenting match. I went into this interview, backstage at the legendary Club Passim in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a slate of questions for Steve Poltz, about his new album Shine On, about writing “You Were Meant For Me” with Jewel, about humor in music. I probably could have gotten a good hour with Steve with two or three questions. There is no telling where his mind might flash next. Just in terms of music, the conversation covered his early days with The Rugburns, Nirvana and 90s “goat music,” the Replacements, the Dead Milkmen, Mojo Nixon, Tom Lehrer, and Allan Sherman over the course of a few minutes. We talked about spirituality, Risky Business, Hyman Roth from Godfather II, Jesus, Marianne Williamson, Styx in another five-minute section. At one point, when I told Poltz the name of the podcast, he said, “We're living up to the name.” This breakneck tangenting is something you have experienced if you've seen Poltz onstage. I hadn't seen him play since he did an in-the-round show with Beaver Nelson, “Scrappy” Jud Newcomb, and Adam Carroll perhaps seventeen or eighteen years before. I certainly hadn't remembered this version of him. When he smiles, it splits his face almost completely, and he smiles a lot when he's not singing. He also jigs, which makes him seem like a Muppet version of Jimmie Dale Gilmore. The first several minutes onstage, he told stories, picked up his guitar and put it back down again, and threatened not to pick it up the rest of the show. It'll be there, he said, the audience would see it, but maybe he wouldn't use it. He played the Grateful Dead's “Althea” off the top of his head, which surprised even him. He apologized for the bad notes, but backtracked, saying, “Think of how many bad notes the Dead hit.” The new album is called Shine On, and you can find more info about that and Poltz on www.poltz.com, and find him on Facebook and Twitter under Steve Poltz. You can also find more about Club Passim at www.passim.org. And if you're intrigued by some of the music you heard in the background, that's Boston singer/songwriter Rachel Sumner, formerly of Twisted Pine, and you can find her stuff at www.rachelsumnermusic.com. I am currently putting together this year's Daily Horror Film Fest, for which I post a different short horror film every day in October. If you are a short horror filmmaker, or even if you just have a short horror film you love dearly, e-mail your suggestions to nick@nickzaino.com. And now for something completely different. Or maybe not. This week's featured track is "Comfort" from Secret Shame of Asheville, North Carolina, from their new album, out today, September 5th, called Dark Synmthetic. This new album would have sounded great in nestled somewhere in your collection with the Pixies, The Cure, and Nirvana. It's propulsive guitar rock, mixing glassy chorus and echo with heavy, distorted riffs to create this wide-open sound. From somewhere within that sound, singer Lena is trying to reach you through waves of reverb. Seven songs come in just under twenty-six minutes total. Not a note wasted. The band is kicking off a tour this week, and you can find them on BandCamp and Facebook to find out more.

This is the third and final interview I recorded at NECON 2019, which I have previously described as a mashup of a horror writers conference and summer camp with adult beverages. I attended NECON for the first time in 2018, and this week's guest, Matt Moore, was my roommate. Lucky for me, he is also a fine and thoughtful writer. His debut book is It's Not the End (and Other Lies), a collection of short stories about what Moore calls personal apocalypses. What Moore means by that is that these stories aren't necessarily about the apocalypse writ large with zombies or the annihilation of the human race, although it doesn't exclude those possibilities. They are more about a moment when a character is facing the end of their life as they have known it so far. There are elements of sci-fi, horror, and what has come to be known as speculative fiction. I would highly recommend picking it up. It is on the Toronto-based Chizine Publications, which has featured the work of some wonderful authors, including Gemma Files, Helen Marshall, Bracken Macleod, David Demchuk, Christopher Golden, Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Ed Kurtz, and many more. Moore and I took a deep dive on a few of the stories in It's Not the End, and also the craft of writing short stories. It's a magical art all its own, different from writing novels. Moore found a great quote for it, which he says in the conversation, “Short stories writers are like someone who knows how to make one cookie.” The stories in this book are concise, and they stop at exactly the moment the story is over. Which sounds obvious, but is a difficult thing to navigate in writing. Moore had another great quote for that he heard recently. “Perfection isn't when you can't add anything more, perfection is when you can't take anything more away.” Moore is currently working on a new novel, and I'm looking forward to see how he applies that to a longer work. I was happy to have gotten to read Moore's work and to have gotten to speak with him at NECON. You can hear a bit of the conference going on in the background. When we started the conversation, we were in an out-of-the-way spot where people weren't gathering. But there are giant bags of books that each attendee gets with their admission price, and people were scavenging the leftover bags behind us at one point. So you get a little bit of a feel for the festive and active atmosphere of NECON. Based on the joy of the folks around us, we got into a bit of the psychology of horror writers. You can find out more about Moore on his website at www.mattmoorewrites.com, on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook under @mattmoorewrites. You can find ChiZine Publications on their website at www.chizinepub.com. Also, if you make short horror films, we've got the Daily Horror Film Fest coming up in October, for which I present a new short horror film every day throughout the month. I am currently open for suggestions for your favorite shorts as I put together the 2019 edition. I will write about each one, and interview some of the filmmakers to give a bit more depth. Our featured track this week is “Windows of Halifax” by Steve Poltz from his new album, Shine On. I caught up with Poltz at Club Passim in Cambridge last week, and he will be the subject of next week's episode of the Department of Tangents. You will hear a bit about the background of this song in that episode. Poltz can write an earnest song or a write with a sense of humor, two things that can sometimes feel at odds, at least emotionally. There is a wistfulness in this song to start, but then you get to this kind of gonzo middle section, in which two windows are talking about their plight, and the unsavory occupants of their houses. Poltz was born in Halifax, spent a lot of time in California, and now lives in Nashville, and that means sometimes his accent changes in weird ways. You can hear that in the conversation between the windows on this song, and I am fairly sure I will never get the opportunity to write that sentence again. Find out more about Steve Poltz at poltz.com and on Twitter under @stevepoltz.  

Basic Folk is Live at Club Passim! Alisa Amador grew up in Cambridge, MA surrounded by the influence of her parents' Latin group Sol y Canto. She has managed to cultivate a warm sound that walks the line of folk, jazz, blues, soul and Latin. One thing so apparent about these laid back, warm songs is their similarities to the human that's writing and performing them.

Basic Folk is live at Club Passim with Melissa Ferrick! The indie folk songwriter genius lesbian icon joins us for our very first live recording of the podcast. We get honest conversation and live music from Melissa, who had recently moved to Cambridge, graduated grad school at Harvard and got a new teaching job at Northeastern. She played songs from her latest self-titled album as well as a new song.

Matt Smith is a living legend with his unbelievable run at Club Passim, the historic folk venue nestled in a Harvard Square basement. Currently Managing Director at Passim, Matt is the most passionate music lover I know. I met Matt while working as a student at WERS, where he was bringing in fantastic shows into a listening room filled with people who were clambering for honest music in an intimate space.

Jim Kweskin is maybe the most famous person you might not know. With The Jim Kweskin Jug band, he mixed together folk and jazz which invigorated the straight-laced Cambridge folk scene in the 1960's. A regular at The Club 47, now Club Passim, Kweskin talks about how he came to the jug band style and how his band's relaxed stage presence changed the dynamic of the live folk show in profound ways.

Singer-Songwriter Rachel Marie plays on the Tiny Stage. Check her out at Club Passim on June 18 along with Lindsey Sampson and Jim Trick. Get tickets and more information at www.Passim.org. 

Ghost Grl joins us on the Tiny Stage to talk about her music and share some songs live - check her out at Campfire Festival at Club Passim this Friday night. Learn more at https://ghostgrlmusic.com/. 

Darryl Purpose on The MindMill Podcast Darryl Purpose is a Charting Folk Singer-Songwriter and Advanced Play Blackjack Player. Today we are with Darryl Purpose, top-charting folk-singer and semi-retired advanced play blackjack master.  Darryl's story is fascinating;  his professions have taken him all over the world, and he has a plethora of anecdotes and tales to go with each adventure.  Despite traveling the globe, Darryl maintains there is no better home for him than Nederland Colorado, where we recorded this episode.  This podcast was recorded live on his property during the Ganja Guru Yoga HERE Retreat.  A huge thanks to close friend and supporter of the show, Adam Brous, for hosting this amazing retreat, and facilitating this fascinating interview.  In this episode, Darryl and I chat on the intricacies of song-writing, the not-so glamorous lifestyle of a professional gambler,  the overlooked amazing benefits of owning a trampoline, and what we love about living in Colorado. Darryl Purpose on The MindMill Podcast Singer songwriter Darryl Purpose biography When Darryl Purpose was 16 years old, his mother put a book called “Beat the Dealer” in his Christmas stocking. He interrupted a guitar major program, went to Las Vegas as a teenager, began a career as professional card player. He was soon known as the world's fastest card counter. Banned from casinos on six continents, he still calls this the “only real job I've ever had.” Years later, he took time off to walk across the country for peace, and fell in with a ‘bad' crowd – musicians & peaceniks – which culminated, improbably sharing the stage with the likes of Santana and Bonnie Raitt in the first stadium rock concert in the former Soviet Union. In 1996, inspired by his work with a traveling band of musical activists and working his way out of a brush with the law (that's another story), Darryl began to tour nationally as a solo singer-songwriter. Eight years, six CDs and a thousand-plus shows later, he was headlining venues like the Freight and Salvage, Club Passim, McCabe's, The Bluebird Cafe, The Kennedy Center, and the Kerrville Folk Festival Main Stage. Darryl Purpose on The MindMill Podcast A break and further projects In 2005, he inexplicably set down his guitar, took a 7-year sabbatical in the Rocky Mountains. He set out to “get healthy in multiple ways”. During this time, he shepherded the release of “Singer-Songwriter Heaven: the songs of Kevin Faherty”. He co-captained the “Second Strings Project” delivering over twenty thousand sets of guitar strings to those who need them all around the world. He studied with Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh; and in 2009, was inducted into the Blackjack Hall of Fame. One of 17 members was Ed Thorp, the man who wrote that book that his mother put into his Christmas stocking at 16. The music called him back in 2012 and saw Darryl record his first CD of original material in 10 years – “Next Time Around,” produced by Billy Crockett for the Blue Rock Artists label. With no formal radio promotion, the CD spent five weeks at #1 on the Roots Music Report folk chart for national radio airplay in 2013. His critically-acclaimed latest release – “Still The Birds” (co-written with Paul Zollo, also produced by Billy Crockett) twists and turns songs as unique and diverse as the stories from Darryl's kaleidoscopic life. “Still the Birds” also rose to #1 on the Roots Music Report folk chart. Darryl likes to say that luck is a residue of design — and he has been crafting his own luck for some time now. Current interests include Camp Ned, (an intimate songwriter retreat in the rocky mountains); traveling, including the occasional gig; and, inspired by the mountains, a deep dive into mindful practices and a super-healthy lifestyle. https://youtu.be/5RxGdRkMBkk SHOWNOTES Connect with Darryl Purpose Darryl's WebsiteInstagramFacebookListen to Darryl Purpose on Spotify

Multi-instrumentalist and soothing soul singer Sam Ravenna  released  his self-titled debut EP in 2017  after years as a sideman for bands including  Eric Lindell, Cas Haley, Tubby love, and Peter Joseph Burtt & The Kingtide.  A Berklee College of Music graduate the Lake Tahoe based Ravenna is a seasoned touring musician and has produced and collaborated on albums for many national acts.  His prior projects include the funk powerhouse band “Rapplesauce” and the reggae-dub project “Samily Man”. He is releasing his 14-track album Fragile featuring guests artists Rob O’Block. Scott Flynn of Odesza, Pretty Lights and John Brown’s Body, Max Ribner and Tim Snider (Nahko and Medicine for the people) contributed strings and horns and Mark Sexton (Sextones).  The album will be premiered  this Friday at La’s renowned Hotel Café. Many performers live for applause. Michelle Lewis just wants to make you cry.  She tours globally from her current home in Los Angeles, from Belgium to Wyoming. This Fall she’ll tour her new full-length album, All That’s Left, through Europe and the US. She has been a regular at The Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles, and at Club Passim in Boston. Her first full-length album release, This Time Around, arrived in 2004. She has been a longtime collaborator with producer Anthony J. Resta (Elton John, Duran Duran, Shawn Mullins), spanning their work on her EPs Broken (2009) and Paris (2011), her second full-length album, The Parts Of Us That Still Remain (2014), and her forthcoming album All That’s Left (2018).

We ended out our 13th Annual Deepwells Music Festival the same way we ended our first outdoor concert 13 years earlier – with Long Island’s most prolific band, Miles To Dayton. The M2D recipe is simple: four-part vocal harmony, clever songwriting, improvisational violin and cello, and an infectious rhythm section that stirs up the creative stew. Having built a large grass roots following of fans young and old, Miles to Dayton has headlined performances at the Patchogue Theater and sold out the Boulton Center, with notable gigs at the Paramount Theatre, Great South Bay Music Festival and the NoFo Rock and Folk Festival. They’ve been the featured artist at the Acoustic Long Island Podcast and Summer Concert, emerging artist at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, and have performed in intimate listening rooms such as Club Passim in Boston, and the Living Room in NYC. Equally at home in the acoustic or full band setup, m2d has shared the stage with the likes of The Infamous Stringdusters, Rhett Miller, The Subdudes, Jorma Kaukonen, The Dirt Farmer Band, Tom Paxton, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, and Richie Havens, to name a few. Photo courtesy of Steve Caputo.

In this episode of Mentoring for the Modern Musician Michael and Adam went to visit long time firend Matt Smith! Matt is the Managing Director/Talent Booker of Club Passim, the legendary non-profit arts organization in Cambridge, MA, and has been there since 1995. He has also worked for Young/Hunter Management and was one of the founders of FolkWeb, an online CD realtor in the mid-late 90s. Matt has been on panels, juries and committees at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Folk Alliance International, and the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance. He has worked as a tour manager, sound engineer, and stage manager/MC for various tours and festivals, as well as creating the revolutionary Campfire Series for Club Passim. He is currently enjoying a 2 year term as President of Folk Alliance International. As you will hear, Matt continues to have a passion for music, the acoustic scene, and having an active hand in helping develop its artists! As always, reach out to us with suggestions for show topics, comments, questions, or just to say hello! Head over to: https://m3artist.com/contact Make sure to share this or any episode with all of your music loving friends! You got this, we got your back!  

Husband and wife duo - The Promise Is Hope - play some songs live on WATD and talk about their newest album Every Seed Must Die. Their CD release show is June 10 at Club Passim in Cambridge. Get more information on their event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/238389703567306/. 

Thanks for listening to Back Home: A Music nova scotia podcast,This episode is brought to you in part by FACTOR, government of Canada, the province of nova scotia. Host Dana Beeler is talking about it’s Conference SEASON! Conference season that special time of year when all the music and industry conferences are happening at the same time. This episode we’re featuring some of the wonderful Nova Scotian acts performing at the East Coast Music Awards, Canadian Music Week in Toronto, Focus Wales (in Wales) , New Skool Rules in the netherlands, and The Great Escape in Brighton Uk. Dana also has a chat with Dave Sampson. Find more about Dave Sampson www.davesampson.com Thanks so much for listening to back home: A Music Nova Scotia Podcast Back Home Podcast is available on the following platforms: Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/back-home-mns iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/back-home-a-music-nova-scotia-podcast/id974018830?mt=2 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.musicnovascotia.android.scotia&hl=en Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWFlMUr-WNObZ6Nq0iPiykg www.backhomepodcast.com SHOWS   May 4th - Nicole Ariana - Toothy Moose (ECMW electronic/Hiphop stage) May 5 - Wichitaw (album release) at The Union Street May 5- Nicole Ariana - The Seahorse (ECMW Breakout Stage) May 5th - Neon Dreams - Argyle Street w/ East Coast Music Hour - (Carleton if poor weather) May 6th - shadow - The Local May 9th 10PM - Aurora, somebeachsomewhere, Brett Waye - Gus' Pub (Nova Fest) May 9th The Long War w/ Nik Field + Belia at The Carleton   May 11 - Poltz (does he count as NS?) at The Union Street May 17 - Thomas Stajcer - Paddlefest NB May 17th - Like A Motorcycle (Weaves show) - The Seahorse May 18 - Mud Creek Boys at The Union Street May 19 - Dazor - Plan B May 19 - Son Latino - The Music Room (Special Performance: Son Latino plays Buena Vista Social Club) May 19th- Sam Wilson/Andrew Jackson Duo- The Anchor May 20th Elise Besler CD Release @The Carleton May 20th, James Bradley Band The Royal Volts The Drug Rugs, Gus' Pub (Maritime Tattoo Festival) May 25 - The Idle Threats at The Union Street May 25 - Thomas Stajcer - The Shore Club May 25th - shadow - Menz (rainbow room) May25th - Alexander And The Great Ones (w/ shadow)- Menz - Rainbow room May 26 - Mo Kenney at The Union Street May 26, Willie Stratton, West Dublin Hall May 26th - Alexander And The Great Ones W/ Steve Reid- Schoolhouse Brewery - May 26th - No, It's Fine. (Hillsburn Release Show) - The Marquee May 27, Mike T. Kerr, Club Passim's campfire festival Boston, MA

Zion Rodman is a versatile musician who spends his free time singing and playing the guitar, bass, piano, and drums. He grew up in Cape Cod, MA, where he played around the cape since the age of 15 and eventually received a BA in music from the University of Massachusetts in Boston. He grew a fan base in New England and by 2017, Zion was performing at historic venues like Club Passim, Caffe Lena, and the House of Blues.

Zion Rodman is a versatile musician who spends his free time singing and playing the guitar, bass, piano, and drums. He grew up in Cape Cod, MA, where he played around the cape since the age of 15 and eventually received a BA in music from the University of Massachusetts in Boston. He grew a fan base in New England and by 2017, Zion was performing at historic venues like Club Passim, Caffe Lena, and the House of Blues. He opened for national acts that include Ellis Paul and Jeffrey Gaines. In the summer of 2017, Zion teamed up with producer Alex Katz and released his debut full-length record You're Invited. The folk-rock album received praise and local media attention following its anticipated release. Crossfader Magazine wrote that in an era of "lo-fi bedroom projects, it's refreshing to hear a young creative voice this professionally produced, fully realized, and cohesively structured around a distinct personality and energy." Less than a year later, Zion released an EP titled "Did Not Wake up Today" on January 20th, 2018. This project features heavier topics and harder rock than his debut album. Even before its release, the title track was recognized by AFROPUNK: "Rodman turns up the volume of his melodic indie pop, with his stunning voice just barely masking his anger beneath the hook." Zion currently lives in Chicago with his girlfriend and his cat. While getting settled in a new city, he is exploring folk venues and putting together a professional band to dig into the midwest rock scene. He will be touring from Chicago to Boston in early May of 2018.Click here to see all the videos from this show

Singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Kris Delmhorst sat with us at Club Passim and talked about recording her new album The Wild, her upcoming tour, her dreams of having a porch to play guitar on with her musician husband Jeffrey Foucault (who co-produced the new album with her) and whether or not to sing with your eyes open or closed. Yup - we talked about that. The wonderful Rose Polenzani co-hosted. Rose is a singer-songwriter as well and the host of the roving band of musicians Sub Rosa. She has also sung on some of Kris’s past recordings including a Cars cover album that Kris did back in 2011. Song List: Song 1: All The Way Around (The Wild) Song 2: Hollow (The Wild) Song 3: The Light In The Hall (The Wild) Song 4: You Might Think (Cars) Live songs: I Don't need To Know It All and Lonely West (The Wild)

A performance at the famous Club Passim recorded June 30, 2017 in Cambridge, MA.  Fellow Berklee College of Music grads Holly McGarry, Benjamin Burns and Chris 'Gooch' Bloniarz have a sound that is difficult to describe – it definitely has bluegrass roots but leans towards what we’ll call Porch Rock. Playing guitar, banjo and mandolin, their voices are very distinct and blend together to build an ethereal landscape of sound that surrounds you. Track 01 - Pigeons Track 02 - Canary Track 03 - Dog Song Track 04 - Large Regardless Track 05 - Constellations Track 06 - Beautiful Pain Track 07 - It's Getting Late Track 08 - Something Worth Having Track 09 - Board That Plane Track 10 - Green Line Track 11 - Catacombs Track 12 - Moonshiner

Opening our June concert was Providence-based Seamus Galligan. He draws inspiration from artists such as Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen and John Martyn. For the past several years, Galligan has done what aspiring musicians do – write and play…repeat. He’s spent countless hours working on material until he feels it’s strong enough for him to stand behind, constantly pushing himself to improve on his craft. When he felt ready to share his music, Galligan started frequenting the open-mic scene and taking local gigs wherever he could find them. His hard-work has begun to pay dividends as he recently took home the grand prize at the prestigious Lizard Lounge Challenge Main Event in Cambridge, MA. He has since opened for Ryan Montbleau at the historic Club Passim and performed at both the Sandywoods Folk Festival and the New Bedford Folk Festival.  This past May, Galligan embarked on a successful three week “DIY” tour of the UK where he opened for Tom Robinson at Club Karamel in London and performed a set at the prestigious Ruby Sessions in Dublin, IE. He is currently working on his follow-up EP. Photo courtesy of Steve Caputo.

A solo acoustic performance at the famous Club Passim recorded April 11, 2017 in Cambridge, MA.  The talented and multifaceted Austin TX musician has the unique ability to bring out the creativity in anyone, and to harness a person's own story and meld it into their song. He is a veteran songwriter with 15 albums under his belt, with frequent touring, writing and performing his mix of Americana, country and rock. Track 01 - Sierra Diablo Track 02 - Love Will Win The War Track 03 - Against The Grain Track 04 - Soul Searching Track 05 - Love Calling Track 06 - I Say A Little Prayer Track 07 - Can You See The Moon Track 08 - Angel Flight Track 09 - Nobody Knows Track 10 - Everything Track 11 - Midnight Train Track 12 - Loving Arms

  Grab Some leftovers, take a break from Holiday shopping specials, and join the Boys of OUTSpoken “After Thanksgiving Show.” World Aids Day is now on our minds more so than other with the change in political front. Today we Talk with Gaye Weiss and Kaleb Ashby about AIDS, Spokane SAN and World AIDS Day.   Camille Bloom CAMILLE BLOOM Seattle-based, Gibson endorsed musician Camille Bloom has performed at premiere venues in eight different countries including Canada, the U.S., Germany, Netherlands, England, Denmark, Belgium and Ireland. Combining percussive guitar and a voice that can “purr and wail” (Victory Review), “Camille’s music can make even the rain dance.” (Mike Galaxy – Indy Hits promotion). The powerhouse singer/songwriter has been said to sound ”like Ani Difranco dipped in maple syrup”. (Spokane Inlander). Once a high school teacher, Camille was lured out of her education career by an investor who promised her thirty to fifty thousand dollars if she would leave her job. Camille immediately applied for leave in the district and after successfully negotiating a contract set up a meeting date with the investor to sign all of the paperwork and make it official. Unfortunately, the investor never showed up to sign the contract and was never heard from again. Having already given notice at her job with a year’s sabbatical, Camille had nothing to do but give it her best shot on the road and see where it would lead. In the last eight years, Camille has had songs licensed for use in twenty one shows on a variety of channels including MTV, E! and Oxygen. Additionally, she has completed over 30 national / international tours and has had her music played on over 40 major and college radio stations throughout the U.S. and Western Europe. She also charted on the European FAR (Freeform American Roots) Charts in 2009 with other music greats Bob Dylan, Steve Earle and Iron & Wine. She won the “Best Female Indie Artist” at the Ladylake Music Awards in 2010. Camille’s last full length release Never Out Of Time was released in 2011 and she enlisted the help of star producer Martin Feveyear, whose production credits include REM, Presidents of the United States, Rosie Thomas and Brandi Carlile. The album and the artist were lauded nationally by Music Connection, The Advocate, M for Musicians and more. Her new EP Big Dreams is scheduled for a November 2013 release. Known for her incredibly dynamic voice and edgy acoustic rock, Camille’s U.S. touring has included gigs at New York City’s Bitter End, Boston’s Club Passim, Seattle’s Triple Door, Tractor, and Crocodile, Los Angeles’ The Mint and over 150 other rooms spanning the nation. She has shared the stage with numerous acts including Smashmouth, SUGARCULT, Metric, Carbon Leaf, Brandi Carlile, Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) and many more. The Seattle Gay News calls Camille “A dynamite performer who combines a mix of twisted acoustic funk rock with haunting melodies and soaring vocals.” In addition to touring full time with club dates and festival appearances, Camille takes time out of her schedule to direct a Rock N Roll camp for kids in Seattle – and she also makes regular stops at youth centers – performing and talking to kids about using positive outlets such as music to cope with life’s struggles. Camille has gained an avid and adoring fanbase with her high energy and intensely personal show. She loves touring at home and abroad and has booked herself on numerous European tours. Check out Camille’s website and learn more about her and the tours – www.hotmesssunday.com

Britt Connors is a fantastic singer-songwriter and guitarist. She came out with her first solo album in 2010 called The Bad Side of Good. She is now playing with her “yall-ternative” band comprised of some of Boston's most in-demand musicians called Bourbon Renewal. Their most recent album is called Warmer Season and was released to a sold out crowd at the venerable Club Passim. Check her out at www.brittconnors.com. See more of who we are at www.abovethebasement.com. Join us!  Learn more at www.patreon.com/abovethebasement.

Today Ken welcomes singer/songwriter/author/all around talent Marshall Crenshaw to the show. Ken and Marshall discuss how the third time is the charm, seaside music venues, Club Passim, Marshall's book "Hollywood Rock", The MTV age, the hub of hitchiking, That Thing You Do, La Bamba, Buddy Holly, the early 60s, The Adventures of Pete & Pete reunion, Beatlemania, SCTV, being surprised by Robert Gordon doing your song on your favorite show, The Merv Griffin Show, Wayland Flowers and Madame, The David Letterman Show, Detroit Rock and Soul, The MC5, The Stooges, Jackie WIlson, Jack Scott, scored due to failure, growing up in the anonymous suburbs, watching shocking amounts of television, getting a classic cinema education via TV, showing your children Citizen Kane, realizing that the Pee Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special is 30 Years old, Gilligan's Island vs. The Monkees, Jack Parr, Anglophilia, Steptoe & Son, Malcolm Muggeridge, The Beverly Hillbillies, the variety of true classic top 40, Solid Gold, no dancers but a Beach Boys' studio backing track, your children revisiting your work, Wild Guitar with Arch Hall Jr., Ray Dennis Stecklar, Psychotronic Video, Johnny Cash in Five Minutes to Live aka Door to Door Maniac, Jonathan Ross' Incredibly Strange Film Show, Night Flight, Catalina Caper with Little Richard, That Tennessee Beat, the power of documentaries, Hail Hail Rock n Roll, Let the Goodtimes Roll, MC5: A True Testimonial, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, The Blacklist, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Larry Wilmore, John Oliver, and talking to Dr. Licks.

Rob Hochschild | September 10, 2013 As talented a songwriter as student Molly Tuttle is, music fans who have seen her perform live are immediately impressed as well with her virtuosic skill as a flatpicking guitarist and her ability as a clawhammer and fingerstyle banjo player. But for Tuttle fans, it always comes back to the song and the voice. She's been performing on stage since she was 11, and recorded her first album at age 13. She’s appeared at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Strawberry Music Festival, Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival, and numerous other festivals and venues across the country. And Tuttle has won awards as songwriter, vocalist, or guitarist from a number of organizations. You can watch a video version of the song featured in this podcast, recorded in the studios at Berklee's internet radio station, the BIRN. The track features Tuttle, guitar and vocals; John Mailander, fiddle and voice; and Matt Witler, mandolin. Tuttle and Mailander perform at Club Passim on September 12, 2013, as part of Berklee's Summer in the City series.

Singer-songwriter Caleb Aronson was born and raised in Interior-Alaska. He grew up climbing mountains, fishing, and listening to his fathers records. At 14, he taught himself guitar and, inspired by a love of poetry, began writing songs. Since then, Caleb has played many venues, from festivals, clubs, coffeehouses, and stern-wheel riverboats in Alaska, to busking the subways if Boston and playing the legendary Club Passim in Cambridge, MA. He's won songwriting awards, including recognition from American Songwriter Magazine for his song "Northbound," and an Individual Artist Grant Award from the Rasmuson Foundation.

Singer-songwriter Caleb Aronson was born and raised in Interior-Alaska. He grew up climbing mountains, fishing, and listening to his fathers records. At 14, he taught himself guitar and, inspired by a love of poetry, began writing songs. Since then, Caleb has played many venues, from festivals, clubs, coffeehouses, and stern-wheel riverboats in Alaska, to busking the subways if Boston and playing the legendary Club Passim in Cambridge, MA. He's won songwriting awards, including recognition from American Songwriter Magazine for his song "Northbound," and an Individual Artist Grant Award from the Rasmuson Foundation.

CADY MCCLAIN talks about her recordings of "Club Passim" and "Blue Glitter Fish". Cady is well known for her previous roles as "Dixie Martin" on ALL MY CHILDREN and "Rosanna Cabot" on AS THE WORLD TURNS.

Dave Reiner and Andy Reiner on fiddles, and Eric Eid-Reiner on piano, live at Eric's CD release show at Club Passim in Cambridge, MA, May 2009. Learned from the Ukrainian Trembita Orchestra recording from the 1920s, transcribed by Dave Reiner and Pete Anick for Oldtime Fiddling Across America. Hear more of the CD at http://www.ericeidreiner.com

Dave Reiner and Andy Reiner on fiddles, and Eric Eid-Reiner on piano, live at Eric's CD release show at Club Passim in Cambridge, MA, May 2009. Learned from the Ukrainian Trembita Orchestra recording from the 1920s, transcribed by Dave Reiner and Pete Anick for Oldtime Fiddling Across America. Hear more of the CD at http://www.ericeidreiner.com