We went out into Harvard Square, and the buskers there joined in with the piper. “Last year, we had an epic parade, with a piper on stilts. As people move from the opening welcome to the festivities at Passim to the Boston Urban Ceilidh (and possibly at other times during the festival) “We’ll have parades,” Heaton says. We’ll have dance and song you can join in, and performances by young musicians and older players,” Heaton says. “There will be events for small kids and older kids, and for adults of all ages. Jam sessions and participatory dance sessions open to all will be part of Dayfest as well. There will be Cape Breton song and Scottish fiddle playing. The Royal Scottish Dance Company will perform, there will be a singers in the round session, and Surf Sligo, a meeting of traditional Irish music with surf rock. The Bells will lead a time for family music, and Matt Heaton will host a sing along for kids.
All dances are taught as the evening goes along, so everyone is welcome to join in.ĭuring the BCMFest Dayfest on Saturday, there are opportunities to join in, to sit back and watch, and to bring your kids along to enjoy the music, too.
This year the festival will begin on Friday evening with a concert featuring new tunes from several of the area’s rising Celtic musicians, including Katie McNally and Eric McDonald, Bronwyn Keith Hynes, Molly Pinto Madigan, and Amanda Cavanaugh at historic Club Passim, and nearby at The Atrium, the Boston Urban Ceilidh, a high energy time of Celtic dance tunes from across the traditions. The festival is meant to reflect as much of the community as possible, to show the wealth of experiences with music people have in this community,” says Sean Smith a musician who has played at the festival and since the early years has been a member of the committee that guides the behind the scenes work it takes to put on such an event. “Community oriented and grassroots, that’s a phrase that’s often used to describe the festival, and I think that’s true. Where they are is heading into the tenth year of the Boston Celtic Music Festival, a celebration in January (this year it takes place on 11 and 12 January) which sees musicians and festival goers from the Irish, Scottish Cape Breton, and Americana musical communities of New England sharing music and dance in venues around Harvard Square in Cambridge. “I think we just started talking about that, and saying wouldn’t it be great if we could all get together and play - and I said, that’ll never happen, because we’re all so busy! Then we started thinking, what if we had a big party and from that, what if we had a big weekend, and from that, what if we had some concerts, and then what if we had a festival? And here we are, ten years later!” “I said, you know, I’m an Irish flute player and you’re a Scottish fiddle player, and yet we never play at the same sessions or do anything together musically, though our music is so similar,” Heaton recalls. They passed by The Burren, a pub known for great Irish music sessions and performances.
- JAVASCRIPT HOOK FUNCTIONS FOR GRAVITY FORMS -ĭocument.Shannon Heaton and Laura Cortese were walking through Davis Square, In Somerville, Massachusetts. In 2018, she helped to found FairPlé, an organization aimed at achieving fairness and gender balance for female performers in Irish traditional and folk music. A founding member of the acclaimed Irish-American band Solas and the lead singer for the Boston-based fiddle ensemble Childsplay, Casey has built a successful career as a solo artist and released seven solo albums, which showcase her songwriting as well as her interest in other musical forms, including jazz, blues and R&B.
Karen Casey is an Irish native with a background that includes classical and jazz as well as traditional Irish music.
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The 2021 festival will be available for viewing via the Passim YouTube site schedule information and workshop registration is available at The festival continues Saturday evening at 8:00 PM with the Nightcap concert with Irish singer-songwriter Karan Casey and the fiddle-cello duo Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas. Presented by Passim, a Cambridge-based non-profit that supports a vibrant music community through Club Passim, the Passim School of Music, artist grants and outreach initiatives, the 2021 festival will showcase Greater Boston’s deep tradition of music, song and dance from Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton and other Celtic communities. The 18th annual Boston Celtic Music Festival, known as BCMFest, returns to Club Passim January 14-18, 2021.
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