Like many a musician, for Irish flute player and vocalist Shannon Heaton and her husband Matt, playing music has never been

At the height of the Covid quarantine, playwright-composer Alex Bechtel was separated from his partner.  She was in Boston; he was in Philadelphia. The isolation, the longing, and the waiting weighed heavily on them both.

Cambridge nonprofit Passim recently announced the full round of this year’s recipients of the Brian O’Donovan Legacy Fund grants, which support Celtic music and dance artists.