Boston Calling announces lineup for Memorial Day Weekend event
Boston Calling returns to the Harvard Athletic Complex on Memorial Day weekend, with one of the most musically diverse lineups in the event’s history.
The three-day event kicks off Friday, May 24 with headliners Ed Sheeran and Leon Bridges. Country singer Tyler Childers will headline Saturday’s performances with The Killers, Hozier and Megan Thee Stallion wrapping up the event on Sunday.
The British singer-songwriter Sheeran is no stranger to performing in New England after his record-setting concert at Gillette Stadium in July. Sheeran sang in front of more than 71,000 fans during the summer, the stadium’s single-concert attendance record that had stood since U2’s concert in 2009.
Childers, a Kentucky native, brings his neotraditional country, folk and bluegrass music mixture to Massachusetts as the event’s first country headliner. Childers’ breakout album Purgatory launched him into the new-age country music scene in 2017.
The Killers are familiar with Boston Calling, headlining the Friday night acts in 2018. Potential rain and cold temperatures didn’t deter music fans from showing out to witness the band perform a set kicked off by arguably their biggest hit, “Mr. Brightside.”
The band also brought up a Cohasset High School student, Nick Evans, to play drums during their performance of “For Reasons Unknown.” Evans admitted in follow-up interviews that he kept track of the band inviting people on stage to perform the song with them and made it a goal to be the one selected during the festival.
This year’s iteration also features a smattering of local talent, including Dorchester hip-hop artist Kei and America’s Got Talent alum Kieran Rhodes, who attends Berklee College of Music in Boston.
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF 2024 I’M ON NECKS ALL YEAR! super excited to rock out on the @bostoncalling stage in my hometown this year!
YALL DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS! be sure to grab your tickets, i have some big surprises in store for you guys — this is just the beginning pic.twitter.com/GN1mVHVlzu
— kei (@keiweifruit) January 9, 2024
Other Massachusetts talents include Boston folk-rock band The Wolff Sisters, indie hip-hop artist Billy Dean Thomas, Boston indie dream rock band Paper Lady and more.
Other notable performances include Classic TAB, a jam band featuring Phish founder Trey Anastasio, Young The Giant, Luke Hemmings and Lovejoy.
Presale tickets for the event are available now. General admission for the full three days start at $360, with general admission plus starting at $599, VIP tickets going for $1,099 and Platinum going for $2,799. General admission tickets for one day start at $175, with general admission plus costing $299, VIP for $449 and Platinum for $1,299.