Boston Calling returns to the Harvard Athletic Complex on Memorial Day weekend, with one of the vital musically numerous lineups within the occasion’s historical past.
The three-day occasion kicks off Friday, May 24 with headliners Ed Sheeran and Leon Bridges. Country singer Tyler Childers will headline Saturday’s performances with The Killers, Hozier and Megan Thee Stallion wrapping up the occasion on Sunday.
The British singer-songwriter Sheeran is not any stranger to performing in New England after his record-setting live performance at Gillette Stadium in July. Sheeran sang in entrance of greater than 71,000 followers in the course of the summer season, the stadium’s single-concert attendance document that had stood since U2’s live performance in 2009.
Childers, a Kentucky native, brings his neotraditional nation, people and bluegrass music combination to Massachusetts because the occasion’s first nation headliner. Childers’ breakout album Purgatory launched him into the new-age nation music scene in 2017.
The Killers are accustomed to Boston Calling, headlining the Friday evening acts in 2018. Potential rain and chilly temperatures didn’t deter music followers from displaying out to witness the band carry out a set kicked off by arguably their greatest hit, “Mr. Brightside.”
The band additionally introduced up a Cohasset High School pupil, Nick Evans, to play drums throughout their efficiency of “For Reasons Unknown.” Evans admitted in follow-up interviews that he stored observe of the band inviting folks on stage to carry out the track with them and made it a purpose to be the one chosen in the course of the pageant.
This 12 months’s iteration additionally includes a smattering of native expertise, together with Dorchester hip-hop artist Kei and America’s Got Talent alum Kieran Rhodes, who attends Berklee College of Music in Boston.
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF 2024 😆 I’M ON NECKS ALL YEAR! tremendous excited to rock out on the @bostoncalling stage in my hometown this 12 months!
YALL DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS! you should definitely seize your tickets, i’ve some huge surprises in retailer for you guys 🙂 — that is just the start 💛 pic.twitter.com/GN1mVHVlzu
— kei 🙂 (@keiweifruit) January 9, 2024
Other Massachusetts abilities embody Boston folk-rock band The Wolff Sisters, indie hip-hop artist Billy Dean Thomas, Boston indie dream rock band Paper Lady and extra.
Other notable performances embody Classic TAB, a jam band that includes Phish founder Trey Anastasio, Young The Giant, Luke Hemmings and Lovejoy.
Presale tickets for the occasion can be found now. General admission for the complete three days begin at $360, with normal admission plus beginning at $599, VIP tickets going for $1,099 and Platinum going for $2,799. General admission tickets for sooner or later begin at $175, with normal admission plus costing $299, VIP for $449 and Platinum for $1,299.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”