Harvard Square's venerable Club Passim has a well-deserved reputation as a showcase for great singer-songwriters (think: Arlo Guthrie, Tracy Chapman, Tom Paxton, Nanci Griffith, to name a very few). But it does an awful lot to support Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton and other Celtic music -- and not just by providing a stage for it. Passim also offers instructional classes in various aspects of Celtic music, with some very impressive faculty members. This fall, for instance, you can explore the fiddle with Hanneke Cassel or Ellery Klein, or bodhran with Paddy League.
This weekend is one of the club's biggest events, its twice-a-year Cutting Edge of the Campfire Festival, which features several dozen folk/acoustic music acts. The Celtic domain is ably represented by such notables as Matt & Shannon Heaton, Flynn Cohen, Blue Moose & The Unbuttoned Zippers, Matching Orange and 5 AM. Complete schedule here, with links to performers' Web sites and MySpace pages.
And on Sept. 8, there'll be a little preview of some of the musicians appearing at ICONS; more on that later.
--Sean Smith
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