Down Home Up Here bluegrass & old time festival

Passim is bringing you the 13th Down Home Up Here Fest!  Down Home Up Here is an annual bluegrass & old time festival at Club Passim, featuring the most exciting bluegrass in the area, while not adhering to strictly traditional styles. You’ll hear traditional bluegrass, but also be prepared for old time and several adjacent styles to the genre.  There will be plenty of sightings of fiddle, banjo, mando, and dobro.

Purchase Passes

Saturday and Sunday will feature afternoon workshops in our School of Music and several hours of live music in the club.  A day pass will allow you entry to the club for the whole day.  Workshops will require separate registration.

Monday features the return of a community favorite — jams!  Monday night in the club will be free to attend with a suggested donation of $15.  Performers from the weekend will lead a bluegrass jam and an old time jam that folks are welcome to join.  Come out for jams, dinner, & drinks.

 

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  • Saturday

    IN THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC

    1pm

    How to Construct Killer Solos for 3-finger Banjo with Trevin Nelson

     

    2:30pm

    Old-Time Fiddle Bowing Basics with Lucy Nelligan

     

    IN THE CLUB

    4pm

    Evan Murphy

     

    5pm
    Lucy Nelligan

     

    6pm
    Greg Liszt

     

    7pm
    The Talking Hearts

     

    8pm
    Chris Sartori

     

    9pm
    Dumpster Debbie

     

    10pm
    Hound & Handler

  • Sunday

    IN THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC

    1pm

    Getting Started on the Dobro with Lloyd Thayer

     

    2:30pm

    Beginning Clawhammer Banjo with Johanna Wacker

     

    IN THE CLUB

    4pm
    Seselia

     

    5pm
    Johanna Wacker

     

    6pm
    Berklee 21st Century String Band

     

    7pm
    Maxfield & Friends & Enemies

     

    8pm
    Noah G. Fowler

     

    9pm
    All She Wrote

  • Monday

    IN THE CLUB

    7pm

    bluegrass jam led by Trevin Nelson

     

    8:15pm

    old time jam led by Micah John & Lillian Chase

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