{"id":7201,"date":"2018-05-09T16:51:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=7201"},"modified":"2018-05-11T06:20:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T10:20:27","slug":"porchfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2018\/05\/09\/porchfest\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Bands To Check Out At Somerville\u2019s PorchFest This Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somerville\u2019s annual PorchFest<\/a> is part hootenanny, part a giant open studios for bands. Some 300 bands acts are scheduled to perform on porches, in backyards and in parks from noon to 6 p.m. this Saturday, May 12<\/del> (raindate: May 13).<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> “Porchfest is moving to rain date: Sunday, May 13,” the Somerville Arts Council<\/span> reported on Thursday, May 10. “Because the weather looks dicey for Saturday, we are switching Porchfest to its rain date, Sunday, May 13th. Times will be the same – noon until 6 p.m. We understand that some bands won’t be able to play on Sunday. We will do our best to update the Porchfest site by tomorrow evening to reflect this.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The schedule<\/a> groups bands by neighborhood, so bands west of Willow Avenue play from noon to 2 p.m., folks between Willow Avenue and Central Street play from 2 to 4 p.m., and east of Central Street artists perform from 4 to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

Inspired by an event in upstate New York, PorchFest exploded locally when the Somerville Arts Council first copycatted it here in 2011. There are now several versions around greater Boston.<\/p>\n

This year is heavy in Americana and indie rock, though you can also find Honk-style brass bands, jazz, classical, Tibetan sounds, the Brazilian folk music forr\u00f3, and a thereminist who performed on the television program \u201cAmerica’s Got Talent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Below are some bands worth checking out, listed in order of when they\u2019ll be performing. My criteria were not absolutely musically rigorous. Other things sometimes sway me, like a music video featuring romance with an elephant, a rendition of the \u201cStar Wars\u201d cantina band song, or professing to play \u201cother people’s music, barely passably performed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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