The Wakefield Porchfest Committee has formally opened registration for Wakefield Porchfest 2025 will take place on Saturday, September 6, 2025, featuring 130 acts at 66 venues town-wide.

The 2025 event aims to build on the success of the inaugural event held in September 2024, which featured 105 acts that performed at 50 locations across the North Shore town. Wakefield Porchfest is coordinated by a group of volunteers who collaborate with musicians and the residents, homeowners, and small businesses who host performances.
 
The 2025 event is supported by 12 community sponsors, as well as in kind funding and support from residents across the community. 
  
Wakefield is known as one of the top communities for music education in Massachusetts and in the nation. In May 2025, the NAMM Foundation named Wakefield one of the “Best Communities for Music Education” in the United States, the 14th time the community has received that recognition. The community boasts a strong support network for performing arts and for emerging musicians, sustained by the Town of Wakefield, Wakefield Public Schools, Wakefield Music Boosters, The Wakefield Performing Arts Department, Children’s Playhouse of Wakefield, the Wakefield High School Marching Band, and other local organizations. 
  
Wakefield is one of more than 200 communities that host a Porchfest, according to organizers in Ithaca, NY, which launched the first iteration of the community-focused music event in 2007.