If there was any doubt: The Boston Celtic Music Fest will be online for its 18th year due to coronavirus restrictions, Club Passim has announced. Our ultimate goal is to help the performance arts flourish and thereby enrich the lives of members of our community.ĭrop us a line at with your festival preview, live show review, or live music news story.Boston fiddler Katie McNally is scheduled to part in Club Passim’s virtual BCMFest in January.
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Located in Harvard Square, Passim serves Cambridge and the broader region by featuring local, national and international artists. We cultivate a diverse mix of musical traditions, where the emphasis is on the relationship between performers and audience and teachers and students. As a nonprofit since 1994, Passim carries on the heritage of our predecessors-the historic Club 47 (1958-1968) and for-profit Passim (1969-1994). Passim does so through their legendary listening venue, music school, artist grants and outreach programs. The mission of Passim is to provide truly exceptional and interactive live musical experiences for both performers and audiences, to nurture artists at all stages of their career, and to build a vibrant music community. This perennially popular Celtic dance party features social dances from Celtic traditions, all with live music.
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Lamond, MacIsaac, and Doyle will be joined by outstanding local performers showcasing a diversity of Celtic music, from traditional to contemporary. In 2014, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship.įrom the video channel of StepAboutBoston A US champion Irish step dancer in his youth, Doyle has gone on to cultivate a career as a performer, choreographer and teacher of “close to the ground,” old-style Irish dance as well as American tap dance. Kevin Doyle is a world renowned Irish step dancer.
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Together the pair released an album, Seinn, in 2012 which won a Canadian Folk Music Award for traditional album of the year and a Music Nova Scotia award for traditional/roots recording of the year. Mary Jane Lamond is a Canadian Celtic folk musician known for combining traditional and contemporary material. Wendy MacIsaac is a renowned fiddler from Cape Breton recognized as one of the “old school” style of players who has kept the traditional sound going and has a deep respect for it. This year, the festival will include performances by renowned Cape Breton duo Mary Jane Lamond and Wendy MacIsaac, and traditional Irish step dance virtuoso Kevin Doyle. The festival will feature more than 60 performances spread out across four days at Club Passim and the Sinclair. Presented by Passim, the festival will showcase greater Boston’s deep tradition of music, song and dance from Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton, and other Celtic communities. The 17th annual Boston Celtic Music Festival, known as BCMFest, brings some of the most talented celtic musicians in the Northeast to Harvard Square January 16-19, 2020. Passim Announced Lineup for Boston Celtic Music Festival, Harvard Square, January 16-19, 2020