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Cambridge Jazz Festival

Cambridge, MA · Music

When

July 24–25, 2027

Where

Danehy Park · Cambridge · MA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

A free two-day jazz festival at Danehy Park, co-founded in 2014 by Larry Ward and Ron Savage. It has run every summer since, aside from a pandemic pause in 2020 and 2021, and now draws tens of thousands of listeners.

The history within reach

• Fresh Pond, where Boston's ice trade cut its blocks0.6 mi

  Frederic Tudor worked out how to saw lake ice into blocks, pack it in sawdust and sell it in places that had never seen any, and Fresh Pond was one of the ponds his crews harvested.

• The Harvard College Observatory and its 600,000 glass plates0.9 mi

  From the 1880s the observatory photographed the sky onto glass and hired women at low wages to measure the plates.

• The Hooper-Lee-Nichols House, second oldest in Cambridge0.9 mi

  Built in 1685 and rebuilt so many times that its frame reads like a stack of centuries, the house at 159 Brattle Street is the oldest in Cambridge but one.

• Elmwood, where the gerrymander got its name1.0 mi

  The Georgian house went up around 1767 for Thomas Oliver, the royal lieutenant governor, who lost it when the Revolution arrived.

• Radcliffe College and the non-merger merger1.1 mi

  Radcliffe opened in 1879 as the way women could be taught by Harvard's faculty without being admitted to Harvard, and became one of the Seven Sisters.