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The Down Home Up Here Festival is back for the 11th year on April 15th and 17th. The festival, held annually on Patriots' Day Weekend, will feature more than a dozen Bluegrass and Old Time acts performing live on the Passim stage. There will also be classes for musicians looking to get into Bluegrass and Old Time music and a Bluegrass brunch on Sunday morning.
Passim has awarded $40,000 to 23 musicians through its Iguana Music Fund. The Iguana Music Fund provides these grants annually to musicians for career building projects and for projects that provide community service through music.
Passim has awarded $40,000 to 23 musicians through its Iguana Music Fund. The Iguana Music Fund provides these grants annually to musicians for career building projects and for projects that provide community service through music.
Memories of Border Cafe come flooding in as word spreads that it has closed for good âThe whole notion of them being gone is disorienting,â mourns one Cambridge regular. So many others seem to feel the same. By Kara Baskin and Janelle Nanos Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff,Updated February 11, 2021, 6:41 p.m. Email to a Friend Firefighters responded to a fire at the Border Cafe in Cambridge on Dec. 1. 2019. That fire was the start of the restaurant's troubles. Then COVID hit.Nic Antaya for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe When the news broke on Wednesday that the Border Cafe in...
Passim awards grant to Roslindale singer Community Content Passim recently awarded $40,141 in grants to 24 musicians through its Iguana Music Fund, including Roslindale singer and multi-instrumentalist Sadie Gustafson-Zook. The Iguana Music Fund awards grants annually to musicians for career building projects and for projects that provide community service through music. Established in 2008 after an anonymous donor approached Passim with the idea to start a program to support local artists’ career growth, the fund provides grants from $500 to $2,000 for musicians with a “strong New Englan...