If you’re anywhere near Boston and you’ve got US$25 in the entertainment budget, then you should check out the music at the Passim Center at 26 Church Street in Boston Cambridge this Saturday night. Mike Marshall has a couple of young geniuses playing with him. I heard these guys last night. Alex Hargreaves cracked [regarding their next number] “… it’s like bluegrass set to music.” Not that the kid doesn’t respect the art of Bill Monroe, but rather that he’s funny and supremely talented and has as much music theory as he has a feeling for the music, that feeling that turns technical virtuosity into artistic brilliance.
Oh yeah, and Paul Kowert the bass player is the same kind of prodigy. Makes me proud to say he’s from my home town, Madison, Wisconsin.
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madame l. 09.08.07 at 11:14
i used to go to passim’s when it was a few streets away, back in the day. PTO will remember what street it was on. it was one of the few places that would let 14 year olds in. believe me, you ain’t lived til (i prefer that spelling) you’ve seen martin mull playing “jesus christ football star”.
about 7 years ago (maybe more) i went to the new one with JMo to see Lori McKenna, another mother of many.
Peter (the other) 09.10.07 at 11:02
Heh? In my day that was the Club 47, ground zero for the early sixties Cambridge folk scene, turning into electric Chicago blues as the decade wore on (and I mean wore). I can’t quite pin down in the memory, where Passim moved from, perhaps Mt. Auburn st.?
madame l. 09.10.07 at 11:20
here, is why we’re calling it by 3 different names… you guys make me feel more jungian than my dr.