This year’s Boston Calling music festival is set to be a game-changer.
BORN IN 2013, Boston Calling has evolved into one of the most innovative and imaginatively programmed musical festivals in the US, if not the world. On the bill for its debut, and returning this year for a third Boston Calling appearance, is The National: an outfit synonymous with the event. That’s because multi-instrumentalist band member Aaron Dessner is the festival’s co-founder and co-curator, and his express desire to create the perfect conditions for collaborative alchemy has helped build for Boston Calling (May 25-27) its unique identity.
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“A close group of friends started Boston Calling,” Dessner tells Where Boston. “It’s always been a labor of love and it has grown a lot. We just try to make it as diverse and exciting as we can.” That diversity is expressed in a line up that stirs hip-hop, political rock, folk, comedy and live movie-scoring into its daily gumbo of star-topped wondrousness. Here’s why 2018 is set to be the best Boston Calling so far.
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