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Friday Afternoon Concert Series

Join us this summer for the Friday Afternoon Concert Series at Sam Adams Park.

July 11, 2025
  • 12:00pm - 2:00pm
    Repeats every other week on Friday, starting from July 11, 2025, until August 30, 2025
  • Sam Adams Park
    Boston, MA 02109
  • Contact:
    Office of Tourism, Sports, and Entertainment
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Downtown
  • Posted:
2025-07-11T12:00:49 - 2025-08-29T14:00:49

Mayor Michelle Wu and The Office of Tourism, Sports, and Entertainment present Friday Afternoon Concert Series 2025.

This concert series, a partnership between Berklee College of Music and the City of Boston, showcases the best of Boston's local music talent.

On Fridays in July and August, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., an artist or band will set up in front of the statue of Sam Adams on the Congress Street side of Faneuil Hall.

Bring your lunch and a friend or two and enjoy some great music and sunshine. This is event is free and open to the public. You can find the lineup for the concert series below:

  • July 11, 2025: Lourde Childs 
  • July 18, 2025: Simon Davis
  • July 25, 2025: Booligan
  • August 1, 2025: Pedro Secco
  • August 8, 2025: Shravana
  • August 15, 2025: Beno
  • August 22, 2025: Soldiago
  • August 29, 2025: Lilou Chance
July 11, 2025
  • 12:00pm - 2:00pm
    Repeats every other week on Friday, starting from July 11, 2025, until August 30, 2025
  • Sam Adams Park
    Boston, MA 02109
  • Contact:
    Office of Tourism, Sports, and Entertainment
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Downtown
  • Posted:
2025-07-11T12:00:49 - 2025-08-29T14:00:49
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Black Voices: Writers for a 19th Century Revolution - SPARK Boston Tour

Join SPARK Boston and Boston by Foot to learn about Boston’s Black writers who were laser-focused on the great topic of the era - slavery.

August 3, 2025
  • 4:00pm - 6:00pm
  • Museum of African American History
    46 Joy Street
    Boston, MA 02114
  • Contact:
    Sam Brenner
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Beacon Hill
    North End
  • Posted:
2025-08-03T16:00:33 - 2025-08-03T18:00:33

Come along with Spark Boston and Boston By Foot for an exploration of civic engagement and history!

Learn about the mark Black thinkers and writers made on literary and political history: David Walker and his sentinel work, Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World; novelist, playwright and editor Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins; Dorothy West and her biting satire on racial tensions, and many others.

Walk Beacon Hill as you explore where they worked, raised their families, fought injustice, and wrote. Join us Sunday, August 3 from 4 – 6 p.m. as we explore the stories of Black writers, thinkers, and revolutionaries who shaped 19th-century Boston—and American history. You can meet us at the Museum of African American History – 46 Joy Street, Boston, MA 02114.

August 3, 2025
  • 4:00pm - 6:00pm
  • Museum of African American History
    46 Joy Street
    Boston, MA 02114
  • Contact:
    Sam Brenner
  • Price:
    FREE
  • Neighborhood:
    Beacon Hill
    North End
  • Posted:
2025-08-03T16:00:33 - 2025-08-03T18:00:33
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Bike Town Pop-Up At City Hall Plaza

September 3, 2025
2025-09-03T13:30:24 - 2025-09-03T16:30:24

Located on the terrace above the playground at City Hall Plaza (pending City of Boston license approval), this two-hour drop-in event is for families and children under 12 who want to learn to ride and practice their riding skills. A variety of different sized bikes and helmets will be provided, and staff will be present to lead on-bike games and teach bike riding skills and safe riding tips and techniques.

Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.
Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.



PLAN YOUR VISIT

Individuals and families: no registration is required. We will have waivers available at the site. 

Groups and schools: please email us so that we know to expect your group! Hand out waivers to students ahead of time so they can participate. Everyone that takes part in our program must have a signed waiver to ride bikes. Teachers / group leaders are responsible for collecting bringing signed waivers to the event. 
September 3, 2025
2025-09-03T13:30:24 - 2025-09-03T16:30:24
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Bike Town Pop-Up At City Hall Plaza

August 25, 2025
2025-08-25T13:30:23 - 2025-08-25T16:30:23

Located on the terrace above the playground at City Hall Plaza (pending City of Boston license approval), this two-hour drop-in event is for families and children under 12 who want to learn to ride and practice their riding skills. A variety of different sized bikes and helmets will be provided, and staff will be present to lead on-bike games and teach bike riding skills and safe riding tips and techniques.

Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.
Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.

 

Plan your visit

Individuals and families: no registration is required. We will have waivers available at the site. 

Groups and schools: please email us so that we know to expect your group! Hand out waivers to students ahead of time so they can participate. Everyone that takes part in our program must have a signed waiver to ride bikes. Teachers / group leaders are responsible for collecting bringing signed waivers to the event. 

August 25, 2025
2025-08-25T13:30:23 - 2025-08-25T16:30:23
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Canceled:
Bike Town Pop-Up at Almont Park

Reason for cancellation: Heat advisory
July 30, 2025
2025-07-30T14:30:29 - 2025-07-30T16:30:29

Located at the Basketball Courts at Ronan Park, this two-hour drop-in event is for families and children under 12 who want to learn to ride and practice their riding skills. A variety of different sized bikes and helmets will be provided, and staff will be present to set up impermanent bike towns, lead on-bike games and teach safe bike riding skills.

Child riding on an impermanent bike town on Playstead road at Franklin Park.

Plan your visit

Individuals and families: no registration is required. We will have waivers available at the site. 

Groups and schools: please email us so that we know to expect your group! Hand out waivers to students ahead of time so they can participate. Everyone that takes part in our program must have a signed waiver to ride bikes. Teachers / group leaders are responsible for collecting bringing signed waivers to the event. 

July 30, 2025
2025-07-30T14:30:29 - 2025-07-30T16:30:29
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Bike Town Pop-Up At City Hall Plaza

August 18, 2025
2025-08-18T13:00:18 - 2025-08-18T17:00:18

Located on the terrace above the playground at City Hall Plaza (pending City of Boston license approval), this two-hour drop-in event is for families and children under 12 who want to learn to ride and practice their riding skills. A variety of different sized bikes and helmets will be provided, and staff will be present to lead on-bike games and teach bike riding skills and safe riding tips and techniques.

Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.
Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.

Plan your visit

Individuals and families: no registration is required. We will have waivers available at the site. 

Groups and schools: please email us so that we know to expect your group! Hand out waivers to students ahead of time so they can participate. Everyone that takes part in our program must have a signed waiver to ride bikes. Teachers / group leaders are responsible for collecting bringing signed waivers to the event. 

August 18, 2025
2025-08-18T13:00:18 - 2025-08-18T17:00:18
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Bike Town Pop-Up At City Hall Plaza

August 11, 2025
2025-08-11T13:00:19 - 2025-08-11T17:00:19

Located on the terrace above the playground at City Hall Plaza (pending City of Boston license approval), this two-hour drop-in event is for families and children under 12 who want to learn to ride and practice their riding skills. A variety of different sized bikes and helmets will be provided, and staff will be present to lead on-bike games and teach bike riding skills and safe riding tips and techniques.

Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.
Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.

Plan your visit

Individuals and families: no registration is required. We will have waivers available at the site. 

Groups and schools: please email us so that we know to expect your group! Hand out waivers to students ahead of time so they can participate. Everyone that takes part in our program must have a signed waiver to ride bikes. Teachers / group leaders are responsible for collecting bringing signed waivers to the event. 

 

August 11, 2025
2025-08-11T13:00:19 - 2025-08-11T17:00:19
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Canceled:
Bike Town Pop-Up at Ronan Park

Reason for cancellation: This event is canceled due to the hot temperatures in the City. Our next event is August 5 at 2:30 p.m.
July 29, 2025
2025-07-29T14:30:33 - 2025-07-29T16:30:33

Located at the Basketball Courts at Ronan Park, this two-hour drop-in event is for families and children under 12 who want to learn to ride and practice their riding skills. A variety of different sized bikes and helmets will be provided, and staff will be present to set up impermanent bike towns, lead on-bike games and teach safe bike riding skills.

Child riding on an impermanent bike town on Playstead road at Franklin Park.

July 29, 2025
2025-07-29T14:30:33 - 2025-07-29T16:30:33

Plan your visit

Individuals and families: no registration is required. We will have waivers available at the site. 

Groups and schools: please email us so that we know to expect your group! Hand out waivers to students ahead of time so they can participate. Everyone that takes part in our program must have a signed waiver to ride bikes. Teachers / group leaders are responsible for collecting bringing signed waivers to the event. 

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YouthFest 2025! Summer Showcase

A collaboration between the Boston Music Project and the Office of Youth Employment and Opportunity's SuccessLink program, where up-and-coming young artists get to showcase their talent.

August 13, 2025
2025-08-13T12:00:00 - 2025-08-13T18:00:00

At Youth Fest! 2025, youth employees across the City’s Summer Youth Jobs Program are invited to celebrate the end of the summer in this culminating event. The showcase, which highlights the artistic, musical, and cultural talents of Boston young people employed in the summer youth program, will take place this year at the City of Boston’s City Hall Plaza. futureBOS partners, youth, and young adults from across the city are invited to attend this celebratory showcase to conclude the summer youth jobs experience.

Youth Fest! 2025 will take place on Wednesday, August 13 and will include:

  • Signature Youth Performances from the Boston Music Project and SuccessLink
  • Headline Performances
  • Featured Youth Visual Artists, Jewelers, and Crafts People
  • House DJ (Pro) 
  • Youth DJs 
  • A celebration that includes youth employed at over 200 local non-profit and city agency partnership sites

 *Rain Date - Thursday, August 15th

August 13, 2025
2025-08-13T12:00:00 - 2025-08-13T18:00:00
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Canceled:
Bike Town Pop-Up At City Hall Plaza

Reason for cancellation: Heat advisory
July 29, 2025
2025-07-29T13:30:00 - 2025-07-29T16:30:00

Located on the terrace above the playground at City Hall Plaza (pending City of Boston license approval), this two-hour drop-in event is for families and children under 12 who want to learn to ride and practice their riding skills. A variety of different sized bikes and helmets will be provided, and staff will be present to lead on-bike games and teach bike riding skills and safe riding tips and techniques.

Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.
Young children riding bikes in the new City Hall Plaza bike town.
July 29, 2025
2025-07-29T13:30:00 - 2025-07-29T16:30:00

Plan your visit

Individuals and families: no registration is required. We will have waivers available at the site. 

Groups and schools: please email us so that we know to expect your group! Hand out waivers to students ahead of time so they can participate. Everyone that takes part in our program must have a signed waiver to ride bikes. Teachers / group leaders are responsible for collecting bringing signed waivers to the event. 

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