Boston Celtic Music Festival Returns to Club Passim for Fourth of July Weekend

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Club Passim will present free and ticketed performances featuring Carroll Sisters Trio, Leland Martin, and more.

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The Boston Celtic Music Festival (BCMFest) will return to Harvard Square Sunday, July 5. The festival will celebrate Greater Boston's rich Celtic music traditions with talented local musicians and will feature both free and ticketed shows.

The free daytime shows will kick off at 2:00 PM and feature sets from The Carroll Sisters Trio and Erin Shea Hogan & The Kind Strangers. The evening show will begin at 7:00 PM and feature Isabel Oliart Trio, Torrin Ryan & Amy Law, and Leland Martin. All of the shows will be at Club Passim in Harvard Square.

About the artists:

The Carroll Sisters Trio is most known for their traditional and contemporary tunes from the Irish, Scottish, and Cape Breton traditions and their original arrangements on fiddle, cello, and piano. Their music reveals both their old soul connection to the musical traditions they come from, their deep connection to the New England music scene, and their youthful energy and creative arrangements. They've performed in intimate settings such as pubs, farm festivals, house concerts, as well as at larger events like Sober St. Patrick's Day in New York City (2018), the Boston Celtic Music Festival (2022-2024), and the Longs Peak Scottish Irish Highland Festival in Estes Park, CO (2024-2025). Their 2022 debut album (Daybreak, produced by John Whelan) has been critically acclaimed and featured in Irish Music Magazine, Celtic Life International Magazine, The Irish Echo, Boston Irish Magazine, and Irish and Celtic Music Podcast. Their second critically-acclaimed album (Radiance, produced by Katie McNally) came out in August 2025.

The Kind Strangers is the solo project of Boston-based singer and educator, Erin Shea Hogan (of Forsyth and The Adam Hendey Band). The project centers on intimate and imaginative reworkings of traditional and contemporary ballads. Drawing on a wide-ranging background in vocal and sacred music, Hogan brings a deeply personal and genre-fluid approach to song interpretation, blending elements of both folk, and devotional music traditions. With sensitivity and curiosity, Hogan invites listeners into her musical world, influenced by artists such as Paul Brady, Keith Murphy, Eva Cassidy, Sam Amidon, Sandy Denny , June Tabor, and Joni Mitchell .

Isabel Oliart is a fiddler from Boston and has been playing the violin since she was 3 years old. She started taking fiddle lessons with Anne Hooper in 2009. Isabel is the current U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion of 2025 and has competed in Scottish fiddle competitions many times in the US. She has played all over the Boston music scene and has recently debuted a new trio with Elizabeth Anderson and Elias Cardoso at the New Hampshire Highland Games in 2025. Sammy Wetstein is a multi-instrumentalist, cross-genre musician from Boston. He is part of many bands, including Catfish in the Sky and the Carroll Sisters. Anne Hooper is a renowned fiddler and teacher who helped Isabel win the US Nationals in Scottish fiddling. Together, the trio brings a mix of traditional and original Scottish fiddle music.

Based in the Boston area, Torrin Ryan (uilleann pipes, flute, whistle) and Amy Law (fiddle) are a duo united by a deep respect for the heritage of traditional Irish music. Blending over two decades of individual experience, their playing is rooted in the pure drop, older style of the genre. Together, Torrin and Amy perform extensively across New England at gatherings dedicated to traditional music including the Winter Boston Celtic Music Festival (BCMFest) . the Maine Celtic Celebration, West Coast Tionól, Blackstone River Theatre, and Patsy Touhey Weekend.

Leland Martin has been playing in the Boston area for over a decade and is known for his passion for the Cape Breton style of fiddle playing. Some of his Cape Breton fiddle influences include Troy MacGillivray, Kimberley Fraser, and JP Cormier. Leland's projects include his album Moonlighter, released in 2022, and an online library of videos playing through Ryan's Mammoth Collection-- a Boston-based tune collection which also has deep roots in the Cape Breton tradition. Leland is also a well-known session leader at many venues, including Boston States Fiddle Camp, and he currently runs an open session at The Luthier Collective in Cambridge, MA.

The festival is tailored after the winter BCMFest, held each January to celebrate Greater Boston's richness of music, song, and dance from the Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton, and other Celtic traditions.

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_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/boston/article/Passims-Annual-Summer-BOSTON-CELTIC-MUSIC-FESTIVAL-to-Return-For-Fourth-Of-July-Weekend-20260520)._