PONDSIDE—The preliminary line-up for the first annual JP Music Festival has been set. Bands slated to perform at the Aug. 20 fest at Jamaica Pond Park all feature at least one Jamaica Plain resident. They include: the Angelic Slugs (rock),…
Category: Sights and Sounds
Bromley-Heath history film re-released
JACKSON SQ.—A 1978 documentary named after Mission Hill, but with a large focus of the Bromley-Heath Housing development and Jackson Square neighborhood, was recently re-released on DVD by the Watertown-based non-profit Documentary Educational Resources. The film “Mission Hill and the…
New music fest to rock the pond
PONDSIDE—The first annual JP Music Festival will rock Jamaica Pond Park on Aug. 20 with about two-dozen local bands in a free concert. The festival has been established as a nonprofit organization with the intention of making it an annual…
Girls rock out at camp
HYDE SQ.—Girls Rock Camp Boston (GRCB) is not a camp for the timid. During one week in July and August, campers are expected to learn an instrument—guitar, bass, drums, vocals or keyboard—write an original song and perform it in a…
Band’s songwriting is documented
By Benjamin Colb A camera crew packed into a Forest Hills apartment on May 23 to document a local indie-rock group making beautiful music together. The band, Aloud, was one of five ensembles selected to take part in the Banded/PULSE…
Museum brings youth art to JP
By Rishi Sidhu The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is exhibiting artwork created by Boston area youth in the studios of the Northeastern University affiliated African American Master Artists-in-Residence Program (AAMARP) at 76 Atherton St. through June 27. The exhibit, titled…
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Lantern Festival returns to Forest Hills
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Flaherty Pool to get rehab
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Rozzie midwife helps people out
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