Boston Harbor Sightseeing Cruise

Tickets 🎫 Adult (15-65) ticket for Boston Harbor Sightseeing Cruise 🎫 Senior (66 - 99) ticket for Boston Harbor Sightseeing Cruise General Info 📅 Date: various dates available (select when you purchase) 🕒 Times: various times (select when you purchase) 📍 Venue: Classic Harbour Line Boston 👤 Age requirement: 21+ with valid ID to consume alcohol ❓ For this event, all sales are final and tickets can’t be refunded, changed or modified. For more information, please refer to <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSVRJ1Z5-8gFm17oKLfc1rcA_HQk0tfJdZ8J4EOwBjPOBrfX-AvXaaGoq7vPNos-r2V4U4PxCfXUyar/pub">our T&amp;Cs</a> Description Enjoy this 1.5 hour cruise around Boston Harbor on classic 1920s-style Yacht Northern Lights, which is 115-feet in length, features 6 bathrooms and provides comfortable seating through the boat. Some notable sites include great views of Boston's skyline, Old North Church, Bunker Hill Monument, USS Cassin Young, and the USS Constitution along with Boston's Harbor Islands. Bring your camera! Grab a beverage from the bar (available for purchase by credit card) and relax in the climate controlled main observation cabin or from the open top deck. Small bites will be available for purchase onboard as well!

Classic Harbor Line Boston

Bonsai Workshop at Deep Cuts

Beginner workshops are perfect for you to grab your friends, grab a drink and come make tiny trees! We’re bringing the awesome art of bonsai out of the hedged in gardens and into the streets! Or at least into your favorite bars/breweries/pubs. Bonsai Bar is a night of fun you don’t want to miss. Learn the fundamental skills and techniques behind the art of bonsai while enjoying a night out with friends! Our teachers will introduce core concepts and guide your experience as you pot, prune, and design your very own bonsai tree! Our Guarantee: These tiny trees are so hardy we guarantee you can keep yours alive, or we’ll replace it. This workshop will be hosted at Deep Cuts. Starting as a pop-up in 2018, they moved to West Medford in 2021, and now have a 240-person venue in Medford Square. Their space features live music, a brewery, food, a record store by Light of Day Records, and pinball games by Our Lady of Pinball. Under 21 policy: Please contact Deep Cuts for details regarding underage entry For more about Bonsai Bar and what to expect at our classes, visit our website at: https://bonsaibar.com/products/deep-cuts Happens on the following Dates: May 27, 2025, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Timezone: EDT Jun 24, 2025, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Timezone: EDT Jul 29, 2025, 7:00pm to 9:00pm Timezone: EDT

Deep Cuts

Live Piano Every Weekend

Dive underground into Boston's Back Bay and follow the blue neon glow to the city's most interactive piano bar. Named for the 88 keys on the piano, we're serving up all requests, all the time. Grab a seat around our piano where local legends and rising stars are ready to play whatever your heart desires. Never a cover! Open Thursday - Sunday. Join us for Live Music, Cocktails and Impeccable Vibes. See the weekly lineup and more information here: <a href="https://www.eventvesta.com/event_promotions/88%20Club%20-%20Website">https://www.88club.boston/</a> <a href="https://www.eventvesta.com/event_promotions/88%20Club%20-%20Instagram">https://www.instagram.com/88club_boston</a> The 88 Club is fully accessible. This is a Weekly Recurring EventRuns from Jun 12, 2025 to Dec 28, 2025 and happens every: Thursdays:7:00pm - 1:00am Timezone: EDTFridays:7:00pm - 1:00am Timezone: EDTSaturdays:7:00pm - 1:00am Timezone: EDTSundays:7:00pm - 1:00am Timezone: EDT

The 88 Club

Bonsai Workshop at Deacon Giles Distillery

Beginner workshops are perfect for you to grab your friends, grab a drink and come make tiny trees! We’re bringing the awesome art of bonsai out of the hedged in gardens and into the streets! Or at least into your favorite bars/breweries/pubs. Bonsai Bar is a night of fun you don’t want to miss. Learn the fundamental skills and techniques behind the art of bonsai while enjoying a night out with friends! Our teachers will introduce core concepts and guide your experience as you pot, prune, and design your very own bonsai tree! Our Guarantee: These tiny trees are so hardy we guarantee you can keep yours alive, or we’ll replace it. This workshop will be hosted at Deacon Giles Distillery. We were inspired to revive the art of distilling in a town once rich in both trade and spirits, but sadly devoid of distilleries for the last 100 years. We set out to roll up our sleeves and craft something exceptional using our own hands, uniquely infused with our personalities and steeped in history. Under 21 policy: Please contact Deacon Giles Distillery for details regarding underage entry For more about Bonsai Bar and what to expect at our classes, visit our website at: https://bonsaibar.com/products/deacon-giles-distillery Happens on the following Dates: Jun 19, 2025, 6:30pm to 8:30pm Timezone: EDT Jul 10, 2025, 6:30pm to 8:30pm Timezone: EDT Aug 14, 2025, 6:30pm to 8:30pm Timezone: EDT

Deacon Giles Distillery

Piano & Strings Chamber Music

The dynamic duo of musicologists, Elizabeth Seitz and Andrew Shryock will take the audience on a musical journey through time as they explore the evolving role of the piano in string chamber music. This lecture offers an in-depth look at the rich history and background of this beloved instrument pairing, providing listeners with a deeper appreciation for its development and significance in chamber music. The lecture will focus on the iconic piano trios and quartets by Beethoven, Brahms, Fauré, and Mozart, to be performed during this year’s Rockport Chamber Music Festival. Free, reservations encouraged. Light refreshments will be served for this mid-morning lecture.

Shalin Liu Performance Center

Mozart & Brahms

Paul Huang, violin | | Alessio Bax, piano | Barry Shiffman, viola | Nicholas Canellakis, cello Four chamber music virtuosos—Paul Huang, hailed as “one of those rare artists who casts a spell” (Violinist.com), Alessio Bax, praised as “clearly among the most remarkable young pianists now before the public” (Gramophone) and Nicholas Cannelakis, described as “the superb young soloist” (The New Yorker) and Artistic Director and violist Barry Shiffman come together for an evening of masterworks by Mozart, Grieg and Brahms. PROGRAM MOZART: Piano Quartet in E-flat major, K.493 GRIEG: Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 45 INTERMISSION BRAHMS: Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8 “Huang is one of those rare artists who casts a spell and keeps the audience in his thrall.” –Violinist.com ABOUT PAUL HUANG Recipient of the prestigious 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2017 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, violinist Paul Huang is considered one of the most distinctive artists of his generation. The Washington Post remarked that Huang “possesses a big, luscious tone, spot-on intonation and a technique that makes the most punishing string phrases feel as natural as breathing,” following his recital debut at the Kennedy Center. “Huang is one of those rare artists who casts a spell and keeps the audience in his thrall.” – Diana Skinner, Violinist.com Recent highlights include an acclaimed debut at Bravo!Vail Music Festival stepping in for violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.4 with Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin; appearances with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, and Houston Symphony among others, and recital debuts at the Lucerne and Aspen Music Festivals. In Fall 2021, Huang became the first classical violinist to perform the National Anthem for the opening NFL game in Charlotte, North Carolina to an audience of 75,000. His debut album Kaleidoscope was released in October 2023 with a second album scheduled for release in January 2025. During the 2024-25 season, Huang returns to the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, San Diego Symphony and Tucson Symphony, among others, and makes his London debut at the Barbican Hall with BBC Symphony as well as with Oregon, Indianapolis, and Toledo Symphonies. ABOUT ALESSIO BAX Combining exceptional lyricism and insight with consummate technique, Alessio Bax is “among the most remarkable young pianists now before the public” (Gramophone). He catapulted to prominence with First Prize wins at both the 2000 Leeds International Piano Competition and the 1997 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition. He has appeared with over 150 orchestras, including the New York, London, and St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Orchestras, collaborating with eminent conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sir Andrew Davis and Sir Simon Rattle. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with Joshua Bell, Lucille Chung and Steven Isserlis, among many others and appears regularly in festivals such as Ravinia, Aspen and Tanglewood. Since 2017, he has been the Artistic Director of the Incontri in Terra di Siena Festival. "Alessio Bax is clearly among the most remarkable young pianists now before the public." -Gramophone "Editor's Choice" Bax’s extensive discography includes works by Beethoven, Mozart and Bach; Scriabin &amp; Mussorgsky (named “Recording of the Month … and quite possibly … of the year” by MusicWeb International); Brahms (a Gramophone Critics’ Choice) and Rachmaninov (an American Record Guide Critics’ Choice). His Baroque Reflections album was also a Gramophone Editor’s Choice. Bax is on the piano faculty of Boston’s New England Conservatory and serves as co-artistic director of the Joaquín Achúcarro Foundation for emerging pianists. ABOUT NICHOLAS CANELLAKIS Nicholas Canellakis is one of the most sought-after and innovative cellists of his generation, praised as a “superb young soloist” (The New Yorker) and “impassioned … the audience seduced by Mr. Canellakis’s rich, alluring tone” (The New York Times). "the superb young soloist" - The New Yorker Recent concert highlights include concerto appearances with numerous orchestras including the New Haven Symphony as Artist-in-Residence, and the American Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall. He performs recitals throughout the U.S. with his longtime duo collaborator, pianist-composer Michael Stephen Brown; recent appearances have included Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and Wolf Trap Performing Arts Center. As an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Canellakis performs regularly in Alice Tully Hall and internationally, including London’s Wigmore Hall and The Louvre in Paris, among others. He is a regular guest artist at many leading music festivals, including Santa Fe and Ravinia. He is the artistic director of Chamber Music Sedona and was recently appointed to the cello faculty of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, his alma mater. Canellakis’s latest album (b)romance, featuring original compositions and arrangements, was released by First Hand Records in 2023 and has received over one million streams on Apple Music. ABOUT BARRY SHIFFMAN Artistic director of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival and classical music at Rockport Music, internationally acclaimed violinist and violist Barry Shiffman is well-respected as a musician, educator and administrator. He was co-founder of the St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ), and currently serves as both the Associate Dean and Director of Chamber Music at the Glenn Gould School and Dean of the Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. During his 17 years with the SLSQ he appeared in over 2,000 concerts in venues around the globe and recorded several critically acclaimed discs under an exclusive contract with EMI Classics. He has also served in numerous roles at the Banff Centre, including Director of Music Programs (2006-2010), Artistic Director of the Centre’s Summer Music Programs (2010-2016) and Executive Director of the Banff International String Quartet Competition, which he continues to direct.

Soulful Sounds in Boston

BOSTON, READY FOR A NIGHT OF SOULFUL FUN &amp; VINTAGE GLAMOUR?  Step into a world where Harlem Nights meets today’s vibe with the sensational Music &amp; Comedy of Acute Inflections!  As seen on HBO and Amazon, this NYC-based Jazzy R&amp;B duo delivers a sound fans of Erykah Badu and Billie Holiday will adore, with a fresh twist of timeless soul and modern charm.  Whether you’re in Gatsby glam or your own stylish flair, get ready for a Roaring 20s revival with a modern unplugged edge. Expect dynamic duets, clever comedy, and captivating freestyles with the chemistry of Lucy and Ricky.  And as a cute gesture, there will be complimentary snacks to enjoy throughout the show, and drinks will be available for purchase at the bar!  Over 30,000 fans have attended their sold-out shows across the U.S. and abroad, and with hundreds of five-star reviews, it’s clear this experience is striking a chord with audiences everywhere.  Tickets are selling quickly for this playful couple’s performance on Thursday, June 26th, at the Huntington Theatre.  Located in the heart of the city, this historic venue combines rich architectural beauty with a vibrant arts scene, offering the perfect backdrop for an unforgettable Harlem Nights-inspired evening of music and charm!  The venue is ADA-accessible.

The Huntington Theatre

Imani Winds & Andy Akiho, steel pan

2024 GRAMMY winner Imani Winds joins forces with Pulitzer Prize finalist Andy Akiho for an innovative program featuring works by D’Rivera, Villa-Lobos and Akiho. Hailed as “strikingly virtuosic, immaculately tight, [and] stylistically agile” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), Imani Winds brings exceptional artistry to this compelling collaboration. PROGRAM D’RIVERA: Kites (arr. Valerie Coleman) AKIHO: The Synesthisia Suite VILLA-LOBOS: Quinteto em forma de choros, W.231 AKIHO: BeLoud, Beloved, BeLonging

Moondance – Van Morrison Tribute 

Get ready to rock with the ultimate Van Morrison tribute concert - Moondance! Experience the magic of Van the Man's timeless classics like never before. From the iconic Brown Eyed Girl to the soulful Moondance, and the infectious energy of Domino, this show has it all. Join us for a night filled with unforgettable hits including It Stoned Me, Tupelo Honey, Wild Night, Into The Mystic, Caravan, and more. Don't miss out on this electrifying journey through the legendary Van Morrison's greatest hits! <a href="https://www.thelarcom.org/moondance">Thelarcom.org/moondance</a> &nbsp; On street parking or nearby parking lots Beverly, MA 01915:- On street parking or nearby parking lots&nbsp; Beverly, MA 01915

Larcom Theatre

All-Schubert Jonathan Biss, piano

Jonathan Biss, praised as “a superb pianist and…an eloquent and insightful music writer” (The Boston Globe), performs Schubert’s final sonatas, the Sonata in A Major, D.959 and Sonata in B-flat Major, D.960. Composed in the last months of Schubert’s life, these works are celebrated for their lyrical beauty, emotional depth and profound introspection. All-Schubert Program Piano Sonata in A major, D.959 Intermission Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D.960 “... a pianist whose probing, incisive, and deeply considered performances are consistently challenging and rewarding.” San Francisco Classical Voice

A Far Cry

An evening of music and memory with Jeremy Eichler, narrator &amp; Julian Rhee, violin Hosted by former Boston Globe critic Jeremy Eichler and drawn from his award-winning book Time’s Echo (History Book of the Year, The Sunday Times), this unique program blends storytelling and live performance, inviting you to listen more deeply to the history of music — and the music of history. The concert features works by Bach, Mendelssohn, and Strauss. PROGRAM J.S. BACH: Chaconne from Partita No. 2, BWV 1004 MENDELSSOHN: String Octet, Op. 20 Mvt. 4 (vsn for string orchestra) R. STRAUSS: Metamorphosen

Film: Beethoven's Nine: Ode to Humanity

Featuring an Exclusive Q&amp;A Session with: Larry Weinstein, director | Jeremy Eichler, author Steven Pinker, Harvard Professor of Psychology &amp; author | Rebecca Goldstein, Harvard Professor of Psychology &amp; author Celebrate Beethoven’s iconic last symphony with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Larry Weinstein. This compelling documentary explores the enduring legacy of Beethoven’s Ninth through the perspectives of nine individuals, from Ukrainian musicians to a deaf composer, highlighting its profound themes of struggle, hope and humanity. The evening will feature a panel discussion with director Larry Weinstein, author Jeremy Eichler and Harvard psychology professors Steven Pinker and Rebecca Goldstein.

Bonsai Workshop at Common Craft Brewery

Beginner workshops are perfect for you to grab your friends, grab a drink and come make tiny trees! We’re bringing the awesome art of bonsai out of the hedged in gardens and into the streets! Or at least into your favorite bars/breweries/pubs. Bonsai Bar is a night of fun you don’t want to miss. Learn the fundamental skills and techniques behind the art of bonsai while enjoying a night out with friends! Our teachers will introduce core concepts and guide your experience as you pot, prune, and design your very own bonsai tree! Our Guarantee: These tiny trees are so hardy we guarantee you can keep yours alive, or we’ll replace it. This workshop will be hosted at Common Craft Brewery. Experience multiple, branded beverage concepts collaborating under one roof. When you visit Common Craft, you step into a carefully curated and rotating selection of hospitality experiences without ever leaving the building. Under 21 policy: Please contact Common Craft Brewery for details regarding underage entry For more about Bonsai Bar and what to expect at our classes, visit our website at:&nbsp;<a href="https://bonsaibar.com/products/common-craft">https://bonsaibar.com/products/common-craft</a>

Common Craft Brewery

Bonsai Workshop at Trillium Brewing Co. - Canton

Beginner workshops are perfect for you to grab your friends, grab a drink and come make tiny trees! We’re bringing the awesome art of bonsai out of the hedged in gardens and into the streets! Or at least into your favorite bars/breweries/pubs. Bonsai Bar is a night of fun you don’t want to miss. Learn the fundamental skills and techniques behind the art of bonsai while enjoying a night out with friends! Our teachers will introduce core concepts and guide your experience as you pot, prune, and design your very own bonsai tree! Our Guarantee: These tiny trees are so hardy we guarantee you can keep yours alive, or we’ll replace it. This workshop will be hosted at Trillium Brewing Co. - Canton. With the Blue Hills as the backdrop, Trillium Canton features a 500+ seat taproom, restaurant, patio, beer garden, and retail experience. Under 21 policy: Please contact Trillium Brewing Co. - Canton for details regarding underage entry For more about Bonsai Bar and what to expect at our classes, visit our website at:&nbsp;<a href="https://bonsaibar.com/products/trillium-brewing-company-canton">https://bonsaibar.com/products/trillium-brewing-company-canton</a>

Trillium Brewing Co. - Canton

Finding Nemo

After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home. Finding Nemo (2003) is a heartwarming and visually stunning Pixar adventure that follows a clownfish named Marlin as he embarks on an epic journey across the ocean to find his lost son, Nemo. Alongside the forgetful but lovable Dory, Marlin faces thrilling encounters with sharks, sea turtles, and jellyfish in a story filled with humor, emotion, and breathtaking animation. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Finding Nemo became a cultural phenomenon, praised for its heartfelt storytelling, unforgettable characters, and stunning underwater world, cementing its place as one of Pixar’s most beloved films.

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Where to eat and drink in Boston? Joyraft has Boston’s newest bars, restaurants and specials. Drinks and pre fixe dinner menus. Cambridge & Somerville too.

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