Club Passim aims to open some doors
Yet the subject of race largely didn't come up between the two of them.
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'[Moock] says he didn't feel that he had the language to take on those topics in those years,' Harris explains. 'We knew each other for 20 years, and enjoyed knowing each other, and yet that vast reservoir of powerful topics went unchecked in our relationship.'
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That would change around 2020, when Moock initiated the kinds of conversations they had never previously shared. Moock's conversations with Harris would lead to him co-founding the
This Saturday, that mission comes to Passim for
The afternoon's performers are accustomed to fostering these kinds of conversations.
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Topics of barriers and biases aren't new to Passim, either. The club launched the
'Music is a lubricant, [it] tends to loosen people up, help bring gates down,' Moock notes. 'We use the music to tell our personal stories, to talk about our political feelings — the way we're processing the world individually.'
Harris sees those lived experiences as a strength when discussing and dismantling social barriers. Growing up in Philadelphia the 1950s and 1960s, the artist was raised in a community that was focused on integration and cementing voting rights; he would go on to be mentored by artist-activists like Pete Seeger and Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon.
Moock, on the other hand, has used his prominence in the world of children's music to amplify Black artists within the genre. Following his nomination for 'Best Children's Album' at the 56th Grammy Awards, he would go on to co-found the anti-racist organization
Through the Opening Doors Project, the two artists merge their similar but distinct areas of expertise. On Saturday at Passim, the varied experiences of the audience and performers will expand the project's work and mission even further.
'There's so much to work on, and there's so many places where we get distracted,' Harris concludes. 'Our ability to stand and work together and listen to each other — and observe what each other brings to the table — also helps each of us to heal in a different way, and move forward in a world that is constantly evolving.'
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