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  • Harvard’s Arts Fest 2026

    Harvard University Cambridge, MA

    From April 30 to May 3, Harvard’s campus transforms into a four-day celebration of the arts, bursting with creativity from Harvard students, staff, alums and faculty.

  • The Town and the City Festival

    Lowell keeps popping up in the headlines of clickbait articles about “top places to live.” The Town and the City Festival (named after Jack Kerouac’s semiautobiographical novel about his childhood in Lowell) is on the long list of reasons why. The multiday music festival returns every year...

  • Tunes on the Charles

    There’s a new Irish festival in town: Tunes on the Charles. Information is still trickling in. The Instagram account has only eight posts. Media inquiries have so far gone unanswered. But you know the drill. This is a traditional Irish music festival in a metro area that...

  • Somerville Porchfest

    The one, the only: Somerville Porchfest. Arguably, one of the top torchbearers of the Porchfest phenomenon nationally. Without a doubt, the leading light of the local Porchfest scene. The Somerville version divides the city into three zones, West, Central and East, and a rolling tide of music...

  • The Airwaves Belonged to the People: WBCN and The American Revolution

    Somerville Theatre 55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA

    The Airwaves Belonged to the People: WBCN and The American Revolution is an award-winning documentary about how a Boston rock radio station became both a participant in and a platform for the anti-war movement, civil rights, LGBTQ and women’s rights, and the explosion of countercultural media in...

  • Which Side?: A Protest Music Teach-Out

    The Burren 247 Elm St., Somerville, MA

    Which Side?: A Protest Music Teach-Out returns with another night of music, storytelling, and solidarity on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at The Burren Backroom in Somerville.  Launched last July as an experiment in pairing protest songs with conversation, the series has grown into a vital monthly forum where...

  • Indiefest: a CSI Launch Party & Fundraiser

    Bow Market 1 Bow Market Way, Somerville, MA

    Save the date: Indiefest (May 21 at Bow Market) Join us in Upstairs at Bow at Bow Market for a night of live entertainment in support of the Cambridge Somerville Independent, a new people-powered newsroom, dedicated to keeping our community informed, connected and engaged. The Independent is built on the belief that...

  • Gallery Talk: German Expressionism and The Blue Rider

    Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

    Since the early 1930s, the Busch-Reisinger Museum has played an important role in introducing North American audiences to German expressionism. In 1955, the Busch-Reisinger Museum was the first museum in the United States to hold an exhibition dedicated to the Munich-based expressionist group The Blue Rider (1911–14).Recently,...

  • campfire. festival

    Club Passim 47 Palmer St., Cambridge, MA

    Imagine getting to see dozens of your favorite acts all in one weekend. Not in a festival field hundreds of yards away, but in an intimate, seated space. Catch a glimpse of what it is like backstage at a big festival – artists hanging out and trading...

  • An American in Paris

    The Brattle 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA

    Winner of six Oscars, including Best Picture, this iconic musical stars Gene Kelly as a struggling artist caught in a love triangle between an affluent American woman and a French dancer.