Club Passim’s Campfire Festival Returns

I was lucky enough to be a teenager in Massachusetts in the late 1980s, when the folk music scene there was exploding. It seemed that every coffeehouse and café had live music, and even the open mic nights boasted some fantastic talent. I spent a lot of time at the Old Vienna in Westborough and the Coffee Kingdom in Worcester, and of course Passim in Cambridge, where the folk music tradition really lived and thrived. Club Passim has kept that going all these years, and for the last couple of decades has celebrated Boston folk music with its annual Campfire Festival. Last year because of the pandemic, the festival was done remotely, but this year it is back at the venue, and people are able to attend. This is the festival’s 23rd year, and it runs from September 3rd through September 6th. Yes, four days of great music, each day from 4:30 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. The lineup this year includes Jim Trick, Chris O’Brien, Doctora Xingona, Sol Y Canto, Danielle Durack, Elsie Eastman, Olivia Wendel, Rachel Sumner, Lloyd Thayer, Joy Clark, Louise Mosrie, Charissa Hoffman, Nate D’Angelo, Ava Simone, Anxiety Superstar, Kate Kim, Lindsay Foote, Dirty Child, Talia Rose and many others. Visit the Club Passim website for the complete lineup and ticket information.