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Campfire Festival continues at Club Passim
September 6, 2026
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Club Passim's Campfire Festival continues today
Club Passim's Labor Day weekend Campfire Festival continues Sunday at 47 Palmer Street, with live music starting at 2 p.m. The lineup features more than 100 folk, bluegrass, indie and Americana artists, alternating between songwriter rounds and full band sets in the club's intimate seated room. Now in its 25th year, the festival has long served as a first stage for new artists, with past performers including Lake Street Dive, Lori McKenna and Josh Ritter.
Club Passim
Brattle marks 25 years of 'Spirited Away' with three screenings today
The Brattle Theatre shows Hayao Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away' Sunday, Sept. 6: an English-dubbed 4K screening at noon, followed by 35mm subtitled screenings at 3:15 and 6 p.m.
The Brattle
City to spray plant-based road preserver on neighborhood streets this week
Cambridge DPW contractor Indus will apply a plant-based Fog Seal preserver to more than a dozen residential streets during the week of Sept. 8, with 48-hour notice, temporary closures, and vehicles needing to be moved by 7 a.m.
City of Cambridge
MIT field hockey shuts out University of New England, 2-0
MIT field hockey defeated the University of New England 2-0 on Sept. 5 in Biddeford, Maine, with a goal and an assist from Ingrid Tomovski.
MIT Athletics
Eliot Bridge pedestrian underpass closed for deck work
MassDOT closed the Cambridge-side pedestrian underpass beneath the Eliot Bridge on Sept. 4 for bridge deck work, detouring cyclists and pedestrians to the Boston side ahead of westbound lane repaving starting Sept. 8.
Mass.gov
Library Trustees to meet Sept. 8 at Main Branch
The Cambridge Public Library Board of Trustees holds its monthly public meeting Tuesday, Sept. 8, from 5-7 p.m., in hybrid format at the Main Library on Broadway.
City of Cambridge
Public Kitchen gathers at Riverside Press Park today
Public Kitchen meets at Riverside Press Community Farm Sunday, Sept. 6, from 4-7 p.m., inviting people to grow and eat food together, with leftover produce going to the community fridge at the Cambridge Community Center.
City of Cambridge
Sunday Best comedy show returns to The Comedy Studio tonight
Host Kindra Lansburg leads Sunday Best, an 18-plus stand-up showcase at 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 6, at The Comedy Studio in Harvard Square, featuring Al Park, Joe Medoff, Pamala Zabala, and Peter Martin.
The Comedy Studio
Linear Park construction pauses for Labor Day
The Linear Park Reconstruction Project will halt work Monday, Sept. 7 for Labor Day, with installation of site furnishings, wood log elements, plants, irrigation, and electrical work resuming later in the week.
City of Cambridge
Harvard women's rugby opens season with win over Sacred Heart
Harvard women's rugby beat Sacred Heart University 26-24 on Sept. 5 at Park Ave Field in Fairfield, Connecticut, in its 2026 season opener.
Harvard Athletics
No. 8 MIT women's soccer draws NYU 0-0
Eighth-ranked MIT women's soccer tied NYU 0-0 on Sept. 5 in Newark, New Jersey, with goalkeeper Maddy Noll making nine saves.
MIT Athletics
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