A little poor weather didn’t stop the NEMPAC party at this Thursday’s Summer Concert Series event; we brought the parade indoors to the Boston Public Market, with help from the Hilary Noble Jazz Duo and the Dirty Water Brass Band! Enjoy the photos below, and join us next Thursday night on the Prado at 6 Read More…
https://www.facebook.com/bostonballet/videos/10154868085047607/ If you were out and about in the North End / Waterfront this week you may have witnessed a dancing bear enjoying some summer fun! Boston Ballet’s bear from Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker zoomed across ‘The Z’ in celebration of Nutcracker tickets going on sale for the 2017 holiday season. Watch a video of the Read More…
The 2017 annual procession was held for Madonna delle Grazie on July 9th in Boston’s North End. This year, the St. Joseph’s Society hosted the group at their Hanover Street club before heading out to the neighborhood streets. The society to honor Madonna Delle Grazie of Avellino, Italy was founded in Boston in 1903 from San Sossio Read More…
At the end of June, Boston Harbor Now launched “Boston Harbor [re]creation”, a visual arts program featuring the works of selected artists-in-residence and sculptors displayed on Spectacle and Peddocks Island. This is part of a series of events on the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park this summer that will demonstrate the many benefits of supporting, Read More…
Getting a jump on the July 4th weekend fun, Friends of Christopher Columbus Park (FOCCP) continued its tradition of celebrating Independence Day with a family-friendly, free day of events at the park. Ann Babbitt, chair of the event and FOCCP vice president said, “This is a particularly exciting event because it coincides with Boston HarborFest’s activities.” Boston Harborfest Read More…
Boston Harborfest 2017 kicked off with its iconic cake-cutting at Faneuil Hall on Friday, June 30th. The patriotic opening ceremony featured the 215 Army Band leading the crowd. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and U.S. Coast Guard District Commander RADM Steven Poulin spoke at ceremony before the cutting of the Harborfest cake, the largest in the city Read More…
The 36th annual Boston Harborfest kicks off at Faneuil Hall Marketplace on Friday, June 30 at 11:00 a.m. with events running through the July 4th holiday weekend. Boston Harborfest is a multi-day festival with activities celebrating American Independence, honoring the city’s colonial roots and showcasing Boston’s vibrant harbor. Over the years, Harborfest has grown from a local Read More…
The North End Music and Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) is thrilled to announce that their annual Summer Concert Series, in partnership with the City of Boston, will return to the Prado this summer to offer free outdoor concerts each Thursday in July. Main stage concerts will begin at 6:00 p.m. and run until 7:30 Read More…
Devotees of Saint Padre Pio from St. Leonard Church held the 7th annual procession on Sunday afternoon in honor of the relatively new saint. The statue of St. Pio was carried after an Italian Mass and walked through the neighborhood streets where devotees pinned donations on ribbons. The procession was accompanied by the North End Marching Read More…
Now in its 6th year, the Opera Project by North End Music and Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) continues to dazzle. This year, NEMPAC and the Boston Opera Alliance brought Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, to The Great Hall stage at historic Faneuil Hall. The masterfully staged performance with a full orchestra was sung in German with English Read More…
The NEMPAC Opera Project celebrates its 6th Anniversary Season with a free semi-staged concert version of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” at Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park on Sunday, June 25th. Sponsored by the Friends of Christopher Columbus Park, the free community performance is an annual tradition, representing the project’s mission of bringing accessible opera to urban Boston. “I Read More…
In this era of biennials, The Venice Biennale, the vast international art festival begun in 1895, is the grandmother of them all. While Venice is revered for it’s great Renaissance and earlier art, the Biennale has always managed to feature avant-garde and contemporary art, and somehow the contrast enlivens both worlds. I attended the first Read More…