12th Annual BCMFest

When:
Friday, Jan 09, 2015 7:00p -
Sunday, Jan 11, 2015 5:00p

Where:
Club Passim
47 Palmer St
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
$15/show

Categories:
Date Idea, Festivals & Fairs, Music

Event website:
http://www.clubpassim.org/BCMFest

Friday, January 9:
7pm: Roots & Branches Concert @ Club Passim
8pm: Boston Urban Ceilidh @ The Atrium

Saturday, January 10:
10am-5pm: DayFest - performances & sessions
7:30pm: 'Women In Trad' with Long Time Courting, our BCMFest Nightcap Concert

Sunday, January 11:
12-5pm: BCMFest Academy, classes & workshops at the Passim School of Music

About BCMFest
BCMFest (Boston’s Celtic Music Fest), a program of Passim, showcases Greater Boston’s best musicians, singers, and dancers from Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton, and other Celtic traditions. BCMFest hosts an annual weekend-long festival in January that features more than 100 performers.


Throughout the year, BCMFest organizes the Celtic Music Cruise, Boston Urban Ceilidh, and monthly Celtic Music Monday Sessions at Club Passim, which spotlight local Celtic musicians and singers.


Laura Cortese, Shannon Heaton, Leanne McNally, Jackie O'Riley, and Sean Smith head the BCMFest committee. Please contact them with any questions about the festival.

BCMFest Mission:
* To produce locally-based Irish, Scottish, and Cape Breton music and dance in an upbeat and friendly environment.
* To bolster appreciation for traditional Celtic music and dance among youth and the Greater Boston community.
* To support a living, changing tradition by encouraging cross-genre collaborations and innovations among dancers and musicians of all generations.
* To produce a variety of collaborative projects and performances for the Greater Boston community.

BCMFest was born after Laura Cortese (Scottish fiddle) and Shannon Heaton (Irish flute) realized that recently they had seen many great, traditional Celtic music acts playing it the area; they thought it would be exciting if more of the Boston-area trad players worked with local folk music venues like Club Passim, the Burren, Johnny D’s, and the Canadian American Club. Soon after their talk, Laura and Shannon began planning a weekend-long showcase of local traditional talent—a Boston Celtic Music Fest to celebrate the rich, diverse pool of traditional music and dance in the Boston area.


The festival has become a hub for generating ideas, energy, and community support for local, traditional Celtic music and dance performers. In 2011, BCMFest became an official program of Passim. Today, in addition to the annual festival in January, audiences and artists can enjoy monthly concerts at Club Passim that feature a broad selection of Boston-based Celtic music and dance acts.


As BCMFest enters its tenth year, the festival is stronger than ever, and its vision is more refined. By presenting touring professionals, tradition-bearers, and young performers, the festival offers a variety of music not found anywhere else. The list of performers and fans involved in the festival continues to grow, a sign that BCMFest is a vital addition to the Boston music community.

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