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Here’s the Boston Calling 2024 Lineup

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The Boston Calling 2024 lineup has been announced. The Music Festival returns to Harvard Athletic Complex on Memorial Day Weekend.

 

Let’s break down the headliners first. On Friday, May 24, pop master Ed Sheeran will lead a lineup that features neo-soulster Leon Bridges on the undercard. Country-folk sensation Tyler Childers headlines the Saturday, May 25 slate, with Trey Anastasio of Phish in direct support. The Killers return to close down the festival on Sunday, May 26, with Hozier leading into their set.

 

That Sunday night Killers set will likely be the highlight for fans of rock and rock-related genres. If that’s you, you’ll be stoked to know that California alt-rockers Young The Giant will feature on the Friday lineup. And on Saturday, folk punk Frank Turner returns to the Boston Calling stage with his backing band, The Sleeping Souls.

 

Here’s the Boston Calling 2024 Lineup

As has been the trend in recent years, Boston Calling is going heavy on the local acts as well. Boston indie rockers Divine Sweater will perform on Friday. On Saturday, acts like Bad Rabbits and Lowell sensation Senseless Optimism have joined the lineup. And on Sunday, you can catch Tysk Tysk Task, who were a standout last spring in the 2023 Rock & Roll Rumble.

 

Keep scrolling for the full lineup of acts to see who else is playing each day of the three-day festival. The presale for all ticket levels gets underway on Thursday, January 11 at 10 a.m. over at BostonCalling.com. Hit that website now to sign up for updates. And if you want to try your luck at winning a pair, we’ll have them on our contest page soon. Or, listen to Adam 12’s 3-Way @ 3 on Tuesday for your first chance to win.

 

As always, ROCK 92.9 will be on hand for the entire festival, broadcasting live and bringing you all the sights and sounds. Here’s a review of the 2023 Festival to get you fired up.

Boston Calling 2024 Lineup

Adam 12 is the Program Director of Boston's ROCK 92.9, heard weekdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. He's been flexing his encyclopedic rock knowledge in New England for over 2 decades, both on-air and online, at WBCN, WFNX, Boston.com, and indie617. At ROCK 92.9, he keeps you in the know on the big stories from the Boston music scene and writes about great places to eat, drink (beer), and to spend time outdoors in and around Boston.

Boston Calling Past Lineups: 2013-2023

Boston Calling Music Festival has been a mainstay for a decade. Let’s revisit Boston Calling past lineups leading up to this year’s festival.

Boston Calling launched in May of 2013, so the 2023 edition marked the ten year anniversary of the festival. But, as I’ve noted before, there have been more than ten Boston Calling Music Festivals. Because there were two per year for the first three years.

From 2013 through 2015, there was a festival in the spring and another in the fall. This was also when it all took place in Boston proper at City Hall Plaza. Two stages, right next to each other, with staggered set times. Right in the heart of the city. I loved those early years.

Boston Calling Past Lineups: Moving From Boston to Allston

In 2016, Boston Calling beefed up the lineup and went to the once-a-year model that we’re used to today: a three-day festival taking place on the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend. 2016 also marked Boston Calling’s final year on City Hall Plaza.

For me, it was bittersweet. I had worked at and attended all but the very first Boston Calling Music Festival and had some amazing musical memories of the festival in that space. All told, we ended up with seven Boston Callings at City Hall Plaza. Quite the run.

Boston Calling Past Lineups: 2013-2023

2017 marked the first festival to take place at the Harvard Athletic Complex in Allston. Bigger space, bigger lineup, bigger stages (with a third one added, then a fourth in 2022). With the two-year hiatus due to COVID, there have now been five festivals in Allston.

So even though we’re past the ten year anniversary mark, there have been a baker’s dozen of Boston Calling Music Festivals. Next best thing to 12. Let’s take a look back at some of those Boston Calling past lineups.

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