Eliot Schoolyard Concert: Miguel Landestoy Trio

Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Date: August 14 Time: 4:00-5:30pm Venue: Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts, 24 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain Jazz pianist Miguel Landestoy is part of a generation of Boston musicians whose aim is to strengthen the interconnectivity of music to the community. He is a music educator, arts administrator, and band leader. This is part of the […]

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Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park Concerts

Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

The Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park concerts are Tuesdays at 6 pm from July 12-August 16th. Bring a lawn chair, your friends, and a picnic supper (or buy one from food trucks). Family friendly, accessible, and, free! Walk, bike, or take the T - Bus #16 or any that stop along Seaver Street. Special […]

JPHS Tour of Monument Square

Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Tour a residential area that includes a National Historic District. View architecture that spans three centuries; the oldest community theater company in the United States; and an elegant 18th-century mansion that once served as the country’s first military hospital. Learn about the monument that commemorates fallen Civil War soldiers from West Roxbury and about Pauline […]

Eliot Schoolyard Concert: Phil Sargent & Brian Friedland

Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Date: August 21 Time: 4:00-5:30pm Venue: Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts, 24 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain Guitarist Phil Sargent joins pianist Brian Friedland for jazz improvisation with a “boundary-pushing,” “modernist” bent. Jazz Review says, "Sargent’s musicality is asymmetrical parts beauty and power. He also incorporates melodic hooks into the mix, where superior technique, cunning […]

Garden Blues Concert

Minton Stable Community Garden 110 Williams St., Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Close out the summer with a beautiful night of music and dancing! Guitarist and vocalist Willie J. Laws and pianist Bruce Mattson bring a unique blend of funk, blues, and jazz to Minton Stable Garden in JP on Thursday, August 25 from 5-7PM. Local beer and wine will also be available for purchase. This is […]

JPHS Tour of Sumner Hill

Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Developed as a suburb by General William Hyslop Sumner in the mid-nineteenth century, this National Historic District includes one of the finest collections of Victorian houses in the area. The tour includes the ancestral home of the Dole Pineapple Company founder as well as the homes of progressives who were active as abolitionists and women […]

Eliot Schoolyard Concert: Trio Let’s Vamos

Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Date: August 28 Time: 4:00-5:30pm Venue: Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts, 24 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain Trio Let’s Vamos is a unique Brazilian-American musical collaboration playing Forró Pé-de-Serra, featuring rhythms such as baião, xaxado and samba. Forró became famous in the 1940s and ‘50s with tunes steeped in the stories and culture of Brazil’s […]

Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter

First Baptist Church of Jamaica Plain 633 Centre St, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Before heading into the long Labor Day Weekend, please join us for the September 1 Vigil in Support of Black Lives Matter, with speaker Mark Scott, Director of the Division of Violence Prevention at the Boston Public Health Commission and President of the Board of Directors, Massachusetts Coalition to prevent gun violence. Following his remarks […]

JPHS Tour of Stony Brook (in English y Español)

Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Jamaica Plain Historical Society Tour of Stony Brook (in English y Español) Explore a fascinating industrial area at the geographic heart of Boston that includes 19th-century tannery and brewery buildings, the homes of early German settlers, and today’s Boston Beer Company, the brewers of Samuel Adams. In the 1970s, a coalition of community groups joined […]

JPHS Tour of Hyde Square (in English y Español)

Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Jamaica Plain Historical Society Tour of Hyde Square Learn about 1840s Hyde Square when German and Irish immigrants transformed the neighborhood with their businesses, schools, and institutions. See how in the early 1960s, Hyde Square changed again when Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican immigrants transformed it into Boston’s first predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. This tour also […]

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