Though it’s been around for 51 years, Club Passim was not a place I ever went to. I’m not sure why though I have some ideas I can share over coffee sometime. But Thursday night a dear friend Denise emailed and said, “Hey, what are you doing…want to go to a concert at Passim in Cambridge?”
Friday night commuting is a nightmare so I had to think about it for, oh, 32 seconds.
“Yeah sure I’ll go this will be fun”. And so we attended and saw these two amazing folk singing women:
Holy COW were they good. And so now the brief review…since as usual I am running late! And speaking of running late, getting to Cambridge from the South Shore was only 2.5 hours worth of commute on a Friday night. Talk about sucking. But the ride was oh so worth it.
And of course, even walking in Cambridge I got lost. I’m sure I looked like a tourist, eyes squinting, walking up one street after another in Cambridge, asking directions and only by accident stumbling into Club Passim. But find it I did.
The food at Passim is great. The restaurant that is co-located with them is called Veggie Planet. Seeing that I’m on the Cavewoman diet and actually losing weight this fare was right on target for my palate. We had the Caeser Salad on some kind of veggie pizza thing. I was good and had water to drink. And it was very good. The post-salad coffee was good too: robust, dark and soothing. And the wait staff was friendly and smiled. And for once in the past month it actually was not raining in Massachusetts…Halleluijah!
Amy was the opener (starter?) and she was the more brooding and quiet of the two in her style. An excellent voice with terrific lyrics, Amy, who had been enjoying the kind hospitality of Toronto Pearson’s Airport earlier in the day (having spent alot of time there in the past I can tell ya it’s not so bad BUT 6 hours plus in any airport will make you want to go into a coma), literally got off the plane and into Passim and was there crooning away. She’s terrific kind coffee swillers so have a peak at her site here http://www.amycampbell.ca/ and enjoy!
Natalia, a friend of my friend Denise (so now I have another friend who has famous friends, not bad!) was her own genre. First, this woman can PICK an guitar. I thought she had like 5 instruments on stage not just one and she was fabulous in making her guitar do things that I didn’t know you could with a guitar. Her vocal range is incredible and her songs, even the sad ones, are very uplifting. She’s got a great sense of humour too. I’d highly recommend getting her music or taking in her act if you can. You can read all about Natalia here: http://www.nataliazukerman.com/
The night was terrific. Many thanks to my gal pal Denise for inviting me out to share her love for folk music. She took the train in from the South Shore and, bizarrely, met neighbors at Passim. How weird is that. Denise is growing by leaps and bounds lately in her life so a big shout out of love to ya gal! …. Both Denise and I were thinking of Sonia whilst we were folkin’ out at Passim and Denise told me Sonia was out protesting (?) Okay Sonia if you are reading this what were you doing, exactly? …. Whilst dining our friend June text’d in to say she was still buried at work (on a Friday night? I thought I was the only geek doing that?) so a big Beck’s Cafe HUG and MUG to our gal June; the hardest working, rock mama executive I know. By the by, June is a big supporter of Fenway Health and she tells me that her recent tour of their new facility was amazing, impressive and welcoming. So hop on over there too if you’ve got some coffee left in your mug
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