The Folk Collective

School of Music

• Fri Aug 28th at 7PM

  The Ego and the Oracle live streamBoston-based band Jim’s Big Ego presents an original theatrical production entitled The Ego & The Oracle – an evening of spontaneous musical divination. Part improvisational theater, part cabaret, part audience participation, The Ego & The Oracle is a live stage spectacular where shuffle play meets the I-Ching. Audience members are invited on stage to ask personal questions of The Oracle. They then spin a giant wheel containing songs by Jim’s Big Ego. When the wheel stops, the band performs the chosen song, which is then interpreted as the answer to the question by author Shawn Peters. The outcome can be humorous, inspirational and/or moving. At the end of the show, the band improvises a vamp while Jim reads and sings the unanswered questsions. It is a light hearted show about synchronicity and it brings the audience together to discover we all have similar concerns and questions.

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• Sat Aug 29th at 7PM

  Dinty Child live streamDinty plays all songs with banger choruses – sing along! I try to make every one of my shows at Passim unique in some way. At the same time, most all of my shows end with three or four of my songs that are great sing-alongs and I LOVE when the audience joins in…the louder the better. When I was thinking about what this show could be, I flashed on my family’s old ‘Sing Along With Mitch Miller’ records and the ‘follow the bouncing ball’ cartoons ‘ and thought ‘why don’t we just do a whole night of those songs’? I looked at my catalogue and found more than enough to fill the bill. We’ll have a live band and lyrics, but YOU will be in the band too. Don’t worry if you don’t know all the songs, you’ll pick them up quick. Sort of like Dinty live karaoke, or a Taylor Swift show. Yeah, just like a Taylor Swift show…only smaller…waaaay smaller.

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