Peter Mulvey presents the Lamplighter Sessions
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| Dates: | Thursday, October 30, 2025 - Monday, November 3, 2025 |
| Hours: | 8:00 PM (7:00 PM November 2nd) |
| Ages: | Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
| Cost: | $ see below |
| Category: | Music & Concerts |
The Lamplighter Sessions at Club Passim began over ten years ago and has evolved into a multi-night, one room festival of improvisational art- music, spoken word, visual art, and theater, and always including Hallowe’en.Peter Mulvey was the initial instigator but Barry Rothman soon seized the marionette strings, or the controls of the starship, or what have you.
At this point, Mulvey fills the roles of ringmaster and televangelist, while Rothman hides in plain sight, playing his phonographs onstage while making all the secret backroom deals and delivering the occasional veiled threat.
Matt Smith, Abby Altman, and the rest of the Passim crew provide a firebox and the assembled musicians provide the fuel.
Over the years the Sessions have included Luthier expositions, a reading of Eugene Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros”, in-the-round swaps between stars and fledglings, tributes to Greg Brown and Los Lobos, string music extravaganzas, costume parties, and one consistent event: some permutation of musicians performs Tom Waits’s classic record “Rain Dogs”.
Buy a ticket to any given night: you won’t know what you’re going to hear, but that’s because the musicians don’t know either.
SEATING NOTE: For Lamplighter shows, certain tables will be removed to make room for artists off stage.
Tables 1, 2, 12, & 13 will not be available.
Thursday, October 30th, 8pm
Baseball Night: Peter Mulvey, Sean Staples, and Red Sox Organist Josh Kantor performing a repertoire of songs that reference American Baseball, like Peter’s original song “The Knuckleball Suite” and a cover of Nina Simone’s version of Chuck Berry’s “Brown Eyed Handsome Man.”
Friday, October 31st, 8pm
Halloween: Peter Mulvey, Tim Gearan, Jesse DeNatale, Jeremy Moses Curtis, and Barry Rothman.
A Halloween Party, the artists will be dressed up in costumes and the attendees are also invited to as well.
Saturday, November 1st, 8pm
RAIN DOGS: From the inside a broken clock Peter Mulvey & The Crumbling Beauties once again revisit and reinterpret Tom Waits’ eclectically groundbreaking 1985 album Rain Dogs in its booze-soaked entirety…’till you’re full of rag water and bitters and blue ruin.
For I am a Rain Dog, too!
Sunday, November 2nd, 7pm
Terra Incognita: an experimental evening of new, used, unfinished and improvised songs with frequent Lamplighter collaborators Peter Mulvey, Kris Delmhorst, Rose Polenzani, James Rohr, and Barry Rothman
Monday, November 3rd, 8pm
Into The Wild with Dinty Child
All tickets have a $3 processing fee and a $2 preservation fee.
The $3 processing fee is waived for tickets purchased at our box office.
| COST | ↑ top |
$35 / Members $33
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
passim.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0S6A000001LgS0UAK
| LOCATION | ↑ top |
47 Palmer Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138 map
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