Boston Calling Music Festival

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Boston Calling Music Festival
Fall 2014
DatesMay
26–28 May 2023
Location(s)Harvard Stadium, Boston, Massachusetts
Years active2013–2019, 2022–
Attendance40,000
Websitebostoncalling.com

Boston Calling Music Festival is a Boston-based music festival. The festival debuted in May 2013 and previously took place twice a year, May and September, at City Hall Plaza. The festival reportedly attracted 20,000–22,000 fans with its earlier editions, eventually drawing roughly 40,000 festival goers in 2017.[1][2] In May 2016, Boston Calling announced it would move to the Harvard Athletic Complex in Allston in May 2017 and transition to one festival per year, with the new space allowing the addition of more music stages and the inclusion of stand-up comedy performers.[3]

Boston's Calling's line-up is co-curated by

Airborne Toxic Event, Disclosure, Clairo, Eminem, Twenty One Pilots, Travis Scott, Tame Impala, Nine Inch Nails and Metallica
.

Mass surveillance

The city of Boston spent $650,000 to test IBM software that monitored concertgoers from existing security cameras in May and September 2013. Videos from the test were later found online by DigBoston, which reported on it in August 2014.[4] Though the city decided not to buy the software, it was criticized for not notifying concertgoers.[5] Participants in the test were reportedly able to search for people by head color, skin tone, clothing texture, and baldness. The program could monitor the number of persons at the event and whether anyone was in a restricted area.[4]

Lineups

Boston Calling was previously held twice a year in May and September. The festival's first two editions were two-day events. In its second year, Boston Calling expanded to three days.[6]

Spring 2013

The first Boston Calling, held May 25 and 26, 2013 featured:

Youth Lagoon, MS MR, St. Lucia, Caspian, and Bad Rabbits
.

Fall 2013

The second Boston Calling, held September 7 and 8, 2013 featured:

Okkervil River, Flume, Lucius, Big Black Delta
, You Won't, and Bearstronaut.

Spring 2014

The third Boston Calling, held May 23, 24 and 25, 2014 featured:

Walk Off the Earth, Warpaint, Cass McCombs, Maxïmo Park, The Districts, Tigerman WOAH!, and Magic Man
.

Fall 2014

Boston City Hall illuminated, Fall 2014

The fourth Boston Calling, held September 5, 6 and 7, 2014 featured:

The National, Lorde, The Replacements, Nas x The Roots, Neutral Milk Hotel, Childish Gambino, Spoon, Girl Talk, The 1975, Volcano Choir, Twenty One Pilots, The War on Drugs, The Hold Steady, Lake Street Dive, Bleachers, White Denim, Sky Ferreira, Future Islands, San Fermin, S. Carey, CliffLight, and Gentlemen Hall.

Spring 2015

The fifth Boston Calling, held May 22, 23 and 24, 2015 featured:

Marina and the Diamonds, Jason Isbell, Gerard Way, Tove Lo, Chet Faker, Run the Jewels, The Lone Bellow, Sharon Van Etten, Jungle, MØ, ILoveMakonnen, DMA's, The Ballroom Thieves
, and Krill.

Fall 2015

The sixth Boston Calling, held September 25, 26 and 27, 2015 featured:

Father John Misty, Sturgill Simpson, MisterWives, Gerard Way and the Hormones, Daughter, Twin Shadow, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Fidlar, Doomtree, Gregory Alan Isakov, Grizfolk, Bully
, Dirty Bangs, and Grey Season.

Spring 2016

The seventh Boston Calling, held May 27, 28 and 29, 2016 featured:

BØRNS, Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires, The Vaccines, Vince Staples, Battles, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Christine and the Queens, Lisa Hannigan and Aaron Dessner, Lizzo, Palehound
, and Michael Christmas.

2017

The eighth Boston Calling, held May 26, 27 and 28, 2017 for the first time at the Harvard Athletic Complex, featured:

Mondo Cozmo
.

2018

The ninth Boston Calling was held on May 25, 26 and 27, 2018 at the Harvard Athletic Complex. The headliners were Eminem, The Killers and Jack White.

Line-up

2019

The tenth edition of the festival. Boston Calling was held on May 24, 25 and 26, 2019 at the Harvard Athletic Complex. The headliners this year were Twenty One Pilots, Travis Scott, and Tame Impala.

Line-up[8]

2020

On March 31, 2020, it was announced that the 2020 Boston Calling Festival would be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[9] The organizers offered refunds for tickets, as well as the option to roll tickets over to the 2021 festival. When the 2021 festival was also cancelled, the same options were available.[10]

2022

The eleventh edition of the festival. Boston Calling was held on May 27, 28 and 29, 2022 at the

The Foo Fighters and The Strokes after the latter cancelled due to COVID-19
). The festival was evacuated for approximately two hours on Saturday due to nearby lightning in accord with Live Nation's weather policies.

Friday Line-up[11]

Saturday Line-up[11]

Sunday Line-up[11]

2023

The twelfth edition of the festival. Boston Calling was held on May 26, 27 and 28, 2023 at the Harvard Athletic Complex. The main headliners this year were Foo Fighters (in their first major concert since drummer Taylor Hawkins' death the previous year), The Lumineers and Paramore, with co-headlining slots taken by Alanis Morissette and Queens of the Stone Age.

Friday Line-up[11]

Saturday Line-up[11]

Sunday Line-up[11]

2024

The thirteenth edition of the festival. Boston Calling is scheduled to be held on May 24, 25 and 26, 2024 at the Harvard Athletic Complex. The main headliners this year will be Ed Sheeran, Tyler Childers, and The Killers, with co-headlining slots taken by Leon Bridges, Trey Anastasio, and Hozier.

Friday Line-up[11]

Saturday Line-up[11]

Sunday Line-up[11]

References

  1. ^ "So Boston Calling Got A Lot Bigger ... And Other Thoughts". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  2. ^ Buchman, Riana (2019-03-14). "Boston Calling may be losing local roots as it keeps growing". The Huntington News. Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  3. ^ "Boston Calling is moving to Allston and nixing its September '16 edition".
  4. ^ a b "Boston Trolling (Part I): You Partied Hard at Boston Calling and There's Facial Recognition Data to Prove It". 7 August 2014.
  5. ^ "City used high-tech tracking software at '13 Boston Calling - the Boston Globe". The Boston Globe.
  6. ^ "Past Lineups". Boston Calling. Crash Line Productions. Archived from the original on 2015-07-29. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  7. ^ "Oh damn Mike D of the Beastie Boys just got added to Boston Calling". Vanyaland. 9 May 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
  8. ^ "Past Lineups". Boston Calling Music Festival. Archived from the original on 2019-11-10. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
  9. ^ "COVID-19 Update". Boston Calling. Boston Calling. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020. we have made the difficult decision to cancel Boston Calling 2020 due to the ongoing pandemic
  10. ^ "Boston Calling Cancels 2021 Music Festival Due to Pandemic". NBC10 Boston. NBC10 Boston. 22 February 2021. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Interactive Lineup".
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