“The Song is Still Being Written” about the Cambridge folk scene and Club Passim opens Sept. 12 in Boston.
By Lauren Daley
September 12, 2024
Folk music, Barry Schneier wants you to know, is not dead.
“It’s well alive. Certainly in the Boston and Cambridge area,” Schneier tells me in a recent phone interview from his Plymouth home.
The title of his new photography book — and accompanying exhibit at Boston’s Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame opening Sept. 12 — says it all: “The Song is Still Being Written: The Folk Music Portrait Project.”
That song is not just by older white guys, Schneier, 74, points out: “A lot of people have this impression that folk music is old white guys with guitars. It’s not,” he said. “All music is folk music.”