A major outdoor music festival in Boston’s city center? When people first caught wind of May 2013’s inaugural Boston Calling, reactions ranged from majorly psyched to cautiously skeptical. A fest of this nature is usually held in a rolling field somewhere bucolic and, you know, fest-y—not in a concrete office-plex like Government Center. However, Boston Calling went off with nary a hitch, and has since evolved into a biannual three-day-party drawing thousands of people and some seriously major national talent—The National, fun. and Passion Pit, to name a few—to City Hall Plaza. Who needs Coachella when you can a hop the T to a huge-ass music fest in your own backyard?
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