How a Mt. Auburn Street coffeehouse became Club Passim
from the here-and-there-and-everywhere dept.
A short, affectionate history of the Cambridge room where the folk revival got a lot of its early practice. Dylan sneaking in between sets and old blues masters being brought north are the famous bits; the more charming one is how a gift shop slowly turned back into a stage.
The Crimson traces Club 47 from its 1958 opening on Mt. Auburn Street, through its move to Palmer Street and its 1968 closure, to its rebirth under new owners as Passim, named for the Latin word for here and there. It ends with the club as a nonprofit still running open mics and concerts.
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