Somerville Porchfest

Somerville, MA · Music

When: May 8, 2027
Where: Citywide, porches across Somerville · Somerville · MA
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

A free, citywide music festival where residents host local musicians on their own porches, turning Somerville's streets into a self-guided concert circuit for an afternoon. Started in 2011 by the Somerville Arts Council with about 75 bands, it has grown into one of the largest porch festivals in the country with 500-plus acts.

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Somerville Porchfestsame spot
A free, citywide music festival where residents host local musicians on their own porches, turning Somerville's streets into a self-guided concert circuit for an afternoon.
Somerville City Hall, built as the town's first high school0.1 mi
Somerville had been separated from Charlestown for ten years when it put this building up on Central Hill in 1852 as its first high school.
Winter Hill holds Burgoyne's surrendered army0.3 mi
The hill was fortified in 1775 as one of the American works in the siege line that penned the British army inside Boston.
Milk Row Cemetery, the only burying ground Somerville ever opened0.4 mi
Samuel Tufts gave the land in 1804, when Somerville was still part of Charlestown and most local families buried their dead at Phipps Street or later at Mount Auburn.
The Grand Union flag goes up on Prospect Hill0.5 mi
On New Year's Day 1776 the first flag of the united colonies was raised over the fortified hill above Union Square, six months before independence was declared.