Club Passim
Club Passim is a folk club in Cambridge (Massachusetts ), in which many musicians started their career or occurring in the course of their career.
History
The Club Passim in 1958 by the present director Joyce Chopra - opened (including Criminal Intent Criminal Intent ) and Paula Kelley as Club 47 for jazz and blues music. The name Club 47 went back to the original address.
In the very first month the club was closed down by the police because it was then banned, food and beverages for sale next to ( Blues ) music in the same location. We skirted the law by one was a private club without admission. After a second time the club should be closed, this was circumvented by allowing held official music festivals here until the press and the people were on the club side.
In 1963, the site, but the club retained until 1969 his name. Only then does the club name was changed and Passim Club Passim in 1994. The name Passim is here based his own words on the technical term Passim.
In the sixties, the club participated in the folk revival and gave many new folk and folk rock bands perform the way. Thanks to various performances by well-known and emerging bands the club was awarded a special role in the folk movement in Cambridge. The journalist Scott Alarik described the club in book about the folk community as the time Deep trendy / select club for folkies.
Today, the Club Passim includes a music and culture school for children and adolescents and a restaurant. Betsy Siggins Schmidt, a fellow student of Joan Baez, the club now manages.
Occurred musicians
Soon after opening in 1958, the then-unknown Joan Baez appeared and gave her first concert.
1961 occurred the folk singer Carolyn Hester. During her performance of newcomer Bob Dylan was in the audience, which occurred during their break and promised them a contract.
Muddy Waters was one of the earliest established blues musicians, the Chicago Blues aufführte Club. His performance was interrupted by the police, because the music was too loud.
The folk singer Bill Staines mentioned his appearance at Club 47, which he entered at the beginning of his career in 1962 for the first time, in his autobiography, describing him as a club in which many folk musicians started their career in the sixties.
The mid- sixties came to the newly formed band The Lovin ' Spoonful.
The rhythm and blues singer Bonnie Raitt only reason 1967 enrolled as a student at Radcliffe College, as the club was near. She also gave performances here.
Other musicians who appeared in the club, including Bruce Springsteen, Tom Rush, Shawn Colvin, Suzanne Vega, Peter Wolf, Taj Mahal, Judy Collins and Nanci Griffith.