— A quote by William Carey, missionary to India
(from an email that Cara just forwarded to me)

From Jenny Chang’s exhibit, My Life in the City. This was Cara’s favorite (mine too, I am trying to convince Chris to buy it!)

I mentioned Jenny Chang and her awesome photography in the last post – here’s a link to her site. In the month of March she has an exhibit at Cafe Nation in Brighton and it is AWESOME. So if you’re in Boston, go check it out.

So last night was the Club Passim show. First of all, it was packed. This place really is one of the most famous places in the northeast – if not the most famous place – for musicians to play. There were people there from Colorado, Germany, Connecticut, South Carolina…and each of them said how they couldn’t believe that they were finally playing there because it was so famous.

Cara had an amazing show. She did two songs – Send Me & Lay It Down. I got really good videos of both songs, so I’ll post those sometime in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.

The most surprising event of the night was that Jenny Chang showed up! Jenny is a friend of ours, she did the photography for the cover, as well as the layout and design. She had her camera with her – lucky for us – so hopefully I’ll be posting some amazing photos that she took soon, too.

Club Passim, before Cara’s set.

Cara’s dad Yale just gave her a really smart idea that I never thought of. I guess that he has been sending some of his friends to see the video of Cara that’s up on Vimeo, and he suggested that we add her Website address to the bottom of the video so that if people want to get back to the site, they’ll know how to.

Great idea! It’s updated now. Thanks for the suggestion – and keep them coming!

This link has lots of interesting information about this venue, including the story about Joan Baez getting her start here, Bob Dylan playing between acts, and Bruce Springsteen getting turned down for a gig here. Yikes! I am definitely not going to show Cara this stuff before tonight – it’s even making me nervous.

“It’s hard to believe that thousands of musicians consider playing in a room no larger than 30’ x 40’ that intimately seats 125 in a basement in Harvard Square as “making it.” But they do, because this brick-floored subterranean locale is Club Passim, one of the nation’s legendary cultural icons and epicenter of great folk and acoustic music. A place where musicians like Joan Baez, Tom Rush, Jackie Washington, Peter Wolf, Taj Mahal, Patty Larkin, Goeff & Maria Muldaur, Shawn Colvin, and Suzanne Vega cut their musical teeth before playing larger venues.”

— From the Club Passim Web site

Cara’s going to be playing tonight at Club Passim in Cambridge, MA. Oddly, even though I went to college in Cambridge and spent many evenings across the street from Club Passim at The Border Cafe, I have never been to this music venue, so I’m personally very excited to check it out. My understanding is that it is a really intimite venue, and is where a lot of music legends got their start, so that makes it even cooler that Cara is playing there tonight.

Me: I didn’t even really celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this year.

Cara: I never do. I didn’t even know I was Irish until last year.

Me: How did you find out.

Cara: I asked my mom. I said, ‘Mom, if I’m not Irish, where did I get this hair?’

Me: So what’s the story about your Irish heritage?

Cara: It comes from France.