It started as a way to fill a bad booking weekend in 1998, but now after more than 20 years, the campfire. festival has become the single-biggest way that Passim develops new talent and celebrates the Boston area’s amazing music scene. Originally called, “On the Cutting Edge of the Campfire,” the festival combined the idea of artists sitting around the campfire playing music with our commitment to bringing new talent to discerning listeners. Today, the campfire. festival is as much about the community as it is about the music. “In the round” performances with songwriters swapping tunes are as common as solo and band sets throughout the course of each day of the festival.
Purchase Passes
The Memorial Day ’20 festival will be announced in early spring. See below for last year’s schedule and a Spotify playlist previewing the artists.
Can’t make it to the club? Watch the live stream here!
All seating is General Admission. Please note there may be times that the room reaches capacity. If that happens, no one else will be allowed in, even if you’ve already purchased a pass. The room does not stay full for long, and generally seats will open up at the end of a set. Schedule subject to change.
All sets of the campfire. festival take place in our venue at 47 Palmer Street, Cambridge, MA.
Drinks available during all hours of the festival.
Food available Friday 5pm-10pm, Saturday 3pm-10pm, Sunday 10am-10pm, & Monday 4pm-10pm.
2019 Labor Day Weekend campfire.
Friday, Aug 30th
6pm
6:45pm
7:30pm
9pm
9:45pm
10:30pm
Saturday, Aug 31st
12pm
12:45pm
2:15pm
3pm
3:45pm
4:30pm
6pm
6:45pm
8:15pm
9pm
10:30pm
11:15pm
Beat Seeger
Sunday, Sept 1st
12pm
12:45pm
1:30pm
3pm
Naomi Sommers & Dan Tressler
3:45pm
Jinyeong So
4:30pm
5:15pm
Ava Earl
7:15pm
8:15pm
9pm
9:45pm
10:30pm
Monday, Sept 2nd
12pm
12:45pm
1:30pm
2:15pm
Queen of the West
3pm
4:30pm
5:15pm
6pm
6:45pm
7:30pm
9pm
9:45pm
