Now celebrating 45 years as Boston’s longest-running outdoor concert series, these performances feature exciting entertainment for music lovers of all ages. This series is presented by Mayor Walsh in partnership with the:

• Boston Parks and Recreation Department, and
• Mayor’s Office of Tourism, Sports, and Entertainment.

The title sponsor for this series is Bank of America.

Michael Dutra is a Rhode Island native, since 2002 he has been performing his tribute to Frank Sinatra all over the United States, from Las Vegas, to Miami to Boston, in supper clubs, dinner theaters, performing arts centers and corporate events and private parties.

Michael has been hailed as one of the finest interpreters of the Sinatra sound in the world, as said by Boston Globe Columnist Wesley Morris “ his sound is velour to Sinatra’s velvet, you really can’t tell the difference." Ron Della Chiesa of WPLM Boston Radio and Sinatra Guru said “Michael literally channels Sinatra."

Most of Michael’s influence comes from his dad, “dad was always singing Sinatra songs throughout the house and I would remember the lyrics and join him from time to time, even at the early age of 7."

Michael recently recorded the vocals for a “twix candy bar commercial” being viewed in South America by millions of people every day.  He has also performed at the world famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel in NYC opening for Howie Mandel.  

Michael continues to perform regularly from Maine to Miami approximately 275 nights a year in all types of venues.   His true passion comes out when he is performing with his own Strictly Sinatra Band who appear with him touring primarily in Summer season  in New England and Winter in Florida.

The events take place Thursdays in July and August at outdoor locations across Boston. The six-concert Tito Puente Latin Music Series presents a soundscape of live Latin music with a strong salsa influence in parks around the City. The series is coproduced by Berklee, City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department, and IBA Boston. Performers include:

• Berklee faculty, students, and alumni, and
• world-renowned artists.

There are free salsa lessons led by MetaMovements at select concerts.

This Puerto Rican and Cuban influenced band is reviving Latin folkloric styles like son montuno, guaracha, and salsa by combining them with the fiery rhythms of bomba. Though only consisting of 6-musicians, this conjunto makes up for size with their explosive enthusiasm. They are widely known for their improvisation that keeps audiences on their toes.

The events take place Thursdays in July and August at outdoor locations across Boston. The six-concert Tito Puente Latin Music Series presents a soundscape of live Latin music with a strong salsa influence in parks around the City. The series is coproduced by Berklee, City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department, and IBA Boston. Performers include:

• Berklee faculty, students, and alumni, and
• world-renowned artists.

There are free salsa lessons led by MetaMovements at select concerts.

Led by local star, Jesús Pagán, this nine-man band has played at some of the best Latin and Jazz Festivals in the world for nearly a decade. Performing a myriad of Latin styles, including salsa, jazz, merengue, bomba, cumbia, and more, their music has landed them on Top Ten Latin Song lists and earned them 3 award-mentions in the 2014 Latin Grammys.

Created in honor of Latin music icon Tito Puente, this series celebrates 15 years of bringing live Latin music with a strong salsa influence to Boston parks.  The series is sponsored in part by:

Berklee College of Music

• Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion
• Free salsa lessons are led by MetaMovements

See all the Tito Puente Latin Music Series dates and locations.

The events take place Thursdays in July and August at outdoor locations across Boston. The six-concert Tito Puente Latin Music Series presents a soundscape of live Latin music with a strong salsa influence in parks around the City. The series is coproduced by Berklee, City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department, and IBA Boston. Performers include:

• Berklee faculty, students, and alumni, and
• world-renowned artists.

There are free salsa lessons led by MetaMovements at select concerts.

A well-known timbalero across the Massachusetts festival scene, Eric Germán and his 12-piece orchestra bring audiences to their feet with their high energy and swinging Salsa music. A prodigious musician, Germán has been performing since age 10 with renowned artists such as Cheo Feliciano, Andy Montañez, Ismael Miranda, and Tony Vega. In 2017, he’s slated to release his debut solo album.

Join the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture for "Concrete Actions," an evening of site-inspired original works responding to the striking concrete modernist design of City Hall and the democratic ideals that continue to animate it. 

Commissioned by The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, City of Boston as part of the HEROIC ENCOUNTERS Series, "Concrete Actions" will unfold on Thursday, May 25, at Boston City Hall, from 5-9 p.m.  Thirteen Mobius artists will activate the interior of the building through a diversity of media. The civic landmark will be transformed through aesthetic experimentation in interactive performance art, video, installation, sound and movement.

The book, "Concrete Architecture and the New Boston," was written by Mark Pasnik, Chris Grimley, and Michael Kubo.

Often problematically labeled as “Brutalist” architecture, the concrete buildings that transformed Boston during 1960s and 1970s were conceived with progressive-minded intentions by some of the world’s most influential designers, including Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, I. M. Pei, Henry Cobb, Araldo Cossutta, Gerhard Kallmann and Michael McKinnell, Paul Rudolph, Josep Lluís Sert, and The Architects Collaborative. 

In 1903, Frederick Ayer and his wife Ellen Banning Ayer led a comfortable life at their Tiffany-designed mansion on Commonwealth Avenue. Preservation Advisor Jeanne Pelletier lifts the curtain on the unseen portions of the Ayer Mansion, giving a glimpse into servants’ lives using:

• an extraordinary 400-page inventory
• surviving architectural clues, and
• the annual census.

The reception starts at 6:30 p.m., and the presentation begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10, but space is limited. RSVP is required.

This event is sponsored by the Ayer Mansion.

Phillis Wheatley arrived in Boston in 1761 in what is now Chinatown. Purchased as a slave, ten years later she was an internationally famous poet.

At this event, Barbara Lewis, director of University of Massachusetts Boston's Trotter Institute, explores Phillis Wheatley's world.