125+ FREE Summer Events Around Boston
By: Jim Martinho - Sunday, Jun 21, 2015 - 1:30am
Welcome back, summer. We missed you. Your long days and cool nights. Your smells: briny beach air and freshly cut grass and barbecue/lighter fluid. But most of all? We missed your free stuff to do. From film screenings, live music, and fitness series for every day of the week to all of the area’s classic street fairs and arts festivals, here’s 125 free events to keep your calendar (and your wallet) full this summer.
Festivals & Street Fairs
- 6.24 Greek Taverna Party
- 6.24 Food Truck Rally for (RED)
- 6.27 Chinatown Main Street Festival
- 7.1 Frog Pond Spray Pool Opening Day
- 7.1 Boston Harborfest 2015 (through 7.5)
- 7.11 Jamaica Plain Porchfest
- 7.14 Outside the Box Festival
- 7.17 Somerville ArtBeat Festival (and 7.18)
- 7.17 South End Festival Betances
- 7.18 Boston Urban Arts Festival
- 7.24 Revere Beach Sand Sculpting Festival (and 7.25)
- 7.25 FIGMENT Boston (and 7.26)
- 7.25 Boston Globe/WGBH Summer Arts Weekend (and 7.26)
- 7.25 Caribbean One World Expo (and 7.26)
- 7.30 Saint Agrippina di Mineo Feast (feat. All-4-One) (through 8.2)
- 8.13 Fisherman’s Feast (through 8.16)
- 8.15 West End Children’s Festival
- 8.16 India Day on the Esplanade
- 8.21 Boston GreenFest (through 8.23)
- 8.27 Boston Carnival Village (through 8.29)
- 8.28 Saint Anthony’s Feast (through 8.30)
- 9.1 Allston Christmas
- 9.5 ähts: The Boston Arts Festival (through 9.6)
- 9.7 Lawrence Bread & Roses Festival
- 9.12 Assembly Row Riverfest
- 9.12 CollegeFest at Fenway
- 9.13 Cambridge Carnival
- 9.19 South Boston Street Festival
- 9.20 Boston Local Food Festival
Live Music & Concert Series
- 6.21 Make Music Boston
- 6.21 Longfellow House Concert Series (Sundays through 8.2)
- 6.22 Assembly Row Acoustic Mondays (Mondays through 9.28)
- 6.22 Rad Castle Free Music Series at ZuZu (Mondays year-round)
- 6.23 Prudential Center Lunch Sessions (Tuesdays through 7.28)
- 6.23 Boston Harbor Hotel Soul Tuesday (Tuesdays through 9.8)
- 6.24 BPL Concerts in the Courtyard (Wednesdays and Fridays through 8.28)
- 6.24 Black Box Sounds: Bent Shapes
- 6.24 The Greenway Sessions (Wednesdays through 8.19)
- 6.24 Boston Harbor Hotel Rat Pack Wednesdays (Wednesdays through 9.9)
- 6.25 Boston Calling Block Parties (Thursdays through 9.17)
- 6.25 Summer Concerts at Summer Street (Thursdays through 8.27)
- 6.25 Summer Concerts at Kendall Square (Thursdays through 8.27)
- 6.25 Assembly Row Live Music Thursdays (Thursdays through 9.24)
- 6.25 Summer Concerts at Atlantic Wharf (Thursdays through 7.30)
- 6.25 Boston Harbor Hotel Blues Barge Thursdays (Thursdays through 9.10)
- 6.25 Club Passim Free Concert Series (Thursdays through 9.10)
- 6.25 Black Box Sounds: Cask Mouse
- 6.26 Johnny D’s We Dig Free Fridays
- 6.28 Jazz on Spectacle Island (Sundays through 9.6)
- 7.2 Tito Puente Latin Music Series (Thursdays through 8.6)
- 7.4 Boston Pops July Fourth Fireworks Spectacular
- 7.4 Rock the Fort at Georges Island (Saturdays through 8.29)
- 7.5 ZUMIX Seaport Festival
- 7.6 Regattabar Courtyard Series (Mondays through 8.31)
- 7.9 Harborwalk Sounds at the ICA (Thursdays through 8.27)
- 7.14 Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park (Tuesdays through 8.18)
- 7.15 Boston Landmarks Orchestra at the Hatch Shell (Wednesdays through 8.26)
- 7.15 Dorothy Curran Wednesday Night Concert Series (Wednesdays through 8.12)
- 7.16 Wolf’s Bastille Day A-Go-Go/Goodbye to T.T.’s
- 7.18 Radio 92.9 EarthFest
- 7.24 Lowell Folk Festival (through 7.26)
- 7.25 Caliente! A Celebration of Latin Music
- 7.26 Cambridge Jazz Festival
- 8.2 Jazz at the Fort
- 8.8 The Lawn on D Porchfest
- 8.9 GospelFest
- 8.22 Starlabfest Music & Arts Festival
- 9.12 JP Music Festival
Arts, Theater, Dance & Film
- 6.21 Dragonfly Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (through 6.28)
- 6.22 Salsa in the Park (Mondays through 8.31)
- 6.22 Monday Night Movies at Bloc 11 (Mondays through 6.29)
- 6.23 Faneuil Hall Flash Drawing Sessions (Tuesdays and Fridays through 8.28)
- 6.24 Cheers to Malcolm Rogers at the MFA
- 6.24 Free Wednesdays at the MFA (Wednesdays year-round)
- 6.24 Cinemarina: The Goonies
- 6.25 Free Thursdays at the ICA (Thursdays year-round)
- 6.26 Highland Street Free Fun Fridays (Fridays through 8.28)
- 6.26 Boston Harbor Hotel Classic Movie Fridays (Fridays through 9.4)
- 6.26 The Coolidge at the Greenway: American Graffiti
- 6.26 Friday Night Flicks at the Lawn on D: Yellow Submarine
- 6.26 Anthem Theatre Company: Romeo VS. Juliet (through 6.28)
- 6.27 Dancing in the Streets: Weber Dance
- 7.1 Cinema Somerville Outdoor Movie Series (Wednesdays through 7.29)
- 7.7 Folk Dancing by the Fountain (Tuesdays through 8.25)
- 7.7 Cambridge Arts Summer in the City (various dates through 8.27)
- 7.7 The Sinclair Summer Movie Series: The Goonies
- 7.8 Apollinaire Theatre in the Park: Blood Wedding (through 7.26)
- 7.9 “Intrude” at the Lawn on D (through 7.12)
- 7.9 Revere Beach Movie Nights (Thursdays through 8.20)
- 7.10 Dancing in the Streets: Chun Jou Tsai
- 7.10 CommShakes Fair Verona Festivals (also 7.11 and 7.17)
- 7.10 Free Friday Flicks at the Hatch Shell (Fridays through 8.28)
- 7.11 Dancing in the Streets: BoSoMa Dance Company
- 7.11 Assembly Row Summer Movie Series (Saturdays through 8.29)
- 7.11 Prudential Center Family Film Festival (through 8.29)
- 7.14 The Coolidge at the Greenway: The Birds
- 7.16 Avenue of the Arts Film Festival (through 7.24)
- 7.22 Shakespeare on the Common: King Lear (through 8.9)
- 8.1 Harvard Cultural Survival Arts Bazaar
- 8.4 The Coolidge at the Greenway: E.T.
- 8.16 Berklee Guitar Sessions
- 8.21 Brown Box Theatre: The Taming of the Shrew (through 9.20)
Sports & Fitness
- 6.21 Memorial Drive Recreation Sundays (Sundays through November)
- 6.21 Free Yoga Day Celebration on the Common
- 6.21 Piers Park Sailing Center Community Sailing
- 6.23 Sunrise Yoga at the Dock
- 6.23 North Face Mountain Athletics (Tuesdays & Thursdays all summer)
- 6.24 City Sports Outdoor Bootcamp Series
- 6.24 #WorkoutWednesday with Healthworks (Wednesdays through 9.30)
- 6.24 Asics Run Club (Wednesdays)
- 6.24 Boston Run Base Run Club (Thursdays)
- 6.27 Sunrise Yoga on the Esplanade (Saturdays through 8.29)
- 6.27 Yoga on Spectacle Island (Saturdays through 9.6)
- 6.27 Yoga at Assembly Row (Saturdays through 8.29)
- 6.27 Field Day Games at Spectacle Island (Saturdays through 9.5)
- 6.27 Republic Fitness Bootcamp on the Greenway (Saturdays through 8.29)
- 6.28 Red Sox Out of the Park
- 6.28 Sunday Parkland Games (Sundays through 8.30)
- 7.1 Boston Parks Summer Fitness Series (daily through 8.31)
- 7.9 Zumba Party with Healthworks (Thursdays through 7.30)
- 7.10 Swim Across America
- 7.12 Vintage Baseball on Georges Island
- 7.14 Zumba at the Hatch Shell (Tuesdays through 9.15)
- 7.15 Sunset Yoga on the Esplanade (Wednesdays through 9.9)
- 7.16 CrossFit on the Esplanade (Thursdays through 9.10)
- 7.18 Play Day at the Lawn on D