#boston calling music festival

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Chappell Roan’s 2024 festival looks

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THEE STALLION AT BOSTON CALLING MUSIC FESTIVAL (2024)

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hi from boston calling

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Night energy at Boston calling. ✨🎵🎡

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whoooo got my tix for boston calling 2024!

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no longer sorry. our moms are actually really proud rn

we cannot be more excited to be a part of this year’s Boston Calling festival 💕 Check out bostoncalling.com for ticketing information

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Matt Berninger from The National winds his way through the crowd at Boston Calling

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BEST MUSIC FESTIVAL OF 2023

1.  Boston Calling  (May 26-28, 2023 Harvard Athletic Complex, Allston)

Foo Fighters taking a bow at the end of their show

My first time attending Boston Calling didn’t disappoint with loads of stages, bands, food trucks, and more. In addition to headliners Foo Fighters returning with new drummer Josh Freese and a special performance with the late Taylor Hawkins’ son Shane, there were also some awesome performances from Dropkick Murphys, The Beaches, GA-20 and more!

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BOSTON CALLING 2023 - Foo Fighters, Alanis Morisette, Paramore, & More!

BOSTON CALLING 2023 – Foo Fighters, Alanis Morisette, Paramore, & More!

FOO FIGHTERS, THE LUMINEERS, AND PARAMORE  TO HEADLINE BOSTON CALLING 2023 Single Day Tickets On Sale Thursday, January 12 At 10am ET January 10, 2023 – Boston, MA – With great excitement, Boston Calling, the acclaimed annual three-day music festival taking place Memorial Day Weekend, May 26 – 28, 2023 in Allston, MA, announces its 2023 lineup today. Headlining the festival on Friday, May 26th…

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Luke performing @ Boston Calling Music Festival - 24 May 2024

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Juneteenth is a Black American holiday. 

We call Juneteenth many things: Black Independence Day, Freedom Day, Emancipation Day, Jubilee Day. We celebrate and honor our ancestors. 

December 31 is recognized as Watch Night or Freedom’s Eve in Black American churches because it marks the day our enslaved ancestors were awaiting news of their freedom going into 1863. On January 1, 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. But all of the ancestors wouldn’t be freed until June 19, 1865 for those in Galveston, Texas and even January 23, 1866 for those in New Jersey (the last slave state). (It’s also worth noting that our people under the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations wouldn’t be freed until April 28, 1866 and June 14, 1866 for those under the Cherokee Nation by way of the Treaties.)

Since 1866, Black Americans in Texas have been commemorating the emancipation of our people by way of reading the Emancipation Proclamation and coming together to have parades, free festivities, and later on pageants. Thereafter, it spread to select states as an annual day of commemoration of our people in our homeland. 

Here’s a short silent video filmed during the 1925 Juneteenth celebration in Beaumont, Texas:

(It’s also worth noting that the Mascogos tribe in Coahuila, Mexico celebrate Juneteenth over there as well. Quick history lesson: A total of 305,326 Africans were shipped to the US to be enslaved alongside of American Indians who were already or would become enslaved as prisoners of war, as well as those who stayed behind refusing to leave and walk the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma. In the United States, you were either enslaved under the English territories, the Dutch, the French, the Spanish, or under the Nations of what would called the Five “Civilized” Native American Tribes: Cherokee, Creek (Muscogee), Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminoles. Mascogos descend from the Seminoles who escaped slavery during the Seminole Wars, or the Gullah Wars that lasted for more than 100 years if you will, and then settled at El Nacimiento in 1852.)

We largely wave our red, white and blue flags on Juneteenth. These are the only colors that represent Juneteenth. But sometimes you may see others wave our Black American Heritage flag (red, black, and gold).

Juneteenth is a day of respect. It has nothing to do with Africa, diversity, inclusion, immigration, your Pan-African flag, your cashapps, nor your commerce businesses. It is not a day of “what about” isms. It is not a day to tap into your inner colonizer and attempt to wipe out our existence. That is ethnocide and anti-Black American. If you can’t attend a Black American (centered) event that’s filled with education on the day, our music, our food and other centered activities because it’s not centered around yours…that is a you problem. Respect our day for what and whom it stands for in our homeland. 

Juneteenth flag creator: “Boston Ben” Haith 

It was created in 1997. The red, white and blue colors represent the American flag. The five-point star represents the Lone State (Texas). The white burst around the star represents a nova, the beginning of a new star. The new beginning for Black Americans. 

Black American Heritage Flag creators: Melvin Charles & Gleason T. Jackson

It was created in 1967, our Civil Rights era. The color black represents the ethnic pride for who we are. Red represents the blood shed for freedom, equality, justice and human dignity. Gold fig wreath represents intellect, prosperity, and peace. The sword represents the strength and authority exhibited by a Black culture that made many contributions to the world in mathematics, art, medicine, and physical science, heralding the contributions that Black Americans would make in these and other fields. 

SN: While we’re talking about flags, I should note that Grace Wisher, a 13-year-old free Black girl from Baltimore helped stitched the Star Spangled flag, which would inspire the national anthem during her six years of service to Mary Pickersgill. I ain’t even gon hold you. I never looked too far into it, but she prob sewed that whole American flag her damn self. They love lying about history here until you start unearthing them old documents. 

In conclusion, Juneteenth is a Black American holiday. Respect us and our ancestors.

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Hozier performing at the Boston Calling Music Festival.

❝ Be still, my foolish heart, don't ruin this on me - hozier

so many bucket list shoots checked off my list sunday, still emotionally and physically recovering 💔 I'm getting really good at since and dancing my heart out while I'm taking photos. ❞

📸: faithwinphotos

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where i most want to be

steddie | 17k | explicit for @hfcsteddie for the @steddiesummerexchange 💕

“I want to go on a road trip to Max and Lucas’ wedding,” Eddie says as soon as Steve picks up the phone. “Hello to you too. I’m doing good, how are you?” Steve asks sarcastically. “Yeah, yeah, we can skip the pleasantries. Road trip.” Eddie has barely contained excitement in his voice like Steve's already said yes. “Why, exactly, do you want to go on a road trip to the wedding?” Steve asks, readying himself for a monologue. “Because, dear Steven, none of you have ever gone on a road trip with me. Argyle and Jonathan got to roadtrip with the youngins during the whole Vecna thing. Nancy and Jon road tripped to Boston. You and Robbie road tripped to Vegas before and you didn’t even invite me—” “I don't think Jon and Argyle would call their road trip fun. And you were working a music festival when Rob and I went to Vegas! You couldn’t have come!” Steve says in an exasperated voice. “It still would have been nice to be invited,” Eddie says and Steve can imagine the pout on his face. “That’s not the point. The point is, everyone in our group of friends has gone on road trips together at some point, but not me. And I’m starting to feel like it’s a little personal. Do you not want to go on a road trip with me?”

read on ao3!

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FLETCHER performing "Shh... Don't Say It" at the Boston Calling Music Festival