Want to perform? The Public Arts & Culture Planner oversees the Summer Concert Series. Interested performers should fill out the Summer Concert Series Performer Application. Question about the concerts? Contact Liz Helfer.

• June 26: Non-Conformists
  The first and only transgender/non-binary Orchestra in the USA. The orchestral quintet with entertain with traditional and cutting-edge new music performed by brave, creative people who journey toward self-actualization. This concert is underwritten by the Watertown Free Public Library!
• July 3: HYE Fusion
  Comprised of trio Mal Barsamian, Harry Bedrossian, and Charles Dermenjian who perform the music of all of the Middle East integrated with Western jazz standards, resulting in a dynamic synergy of melodies and rhythms, employing both current and traditional instrumentation.
• July 10: Southern Rail
  Southern Rail's music is upbeat, exuberant Bluegrass, featuring powerful instrumentals, stunning harmonies, and a world of onstage fun. Two of the band's members, guitarist Jim Muller and bassist Sharon Horovitch, were recently inducted by the Rhode Island Bluegrass Alliance into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame. 
• July 17 (postponed to September 4): Squeezebox Stompers
  The Squeezebox Stompers are a Boston area Americana Roots band. They have performed Cajun, Zydeco, Blues, Folk, and originals all over New England for the past 20 years. Members of the band have received Boston Music Awards and Songwriting Awards. They are noted for their step-lively up-beat music inspiring audiences to get up and dance.
• July 24: Fun with Ukulele - bring your uke or borrow one!
  Anne Ku hosts ukulele instructional sessions on Zoom. She is an active member of the New England Guitar Orchestra who trained as a classical pianist on Okinawa and at Duke University. Anne discovered the ukulele while teaching music at University of Hawaii Maui College. Publishing her MA in Music dissertation on ukulele song sheets led her to giving classes for the Boston Public Libraries, resulting in Fun with Uke Book, an illustrated compilation of ukulele arrangements of nursery rhymes. Anne believes this small, light four-stringed instrument is the fastest way to making music and staying connected.
  Andrea Gaudette is a K-8 music specialist in Cambridge, MA who wears many musical hats as an educator, pianist, ukulele player, and composer. She is the author of Ukulele! and the Classical Ukulele Fingerpicking series and has also performed and recorded extensively with Boston-area rock bands.
  Paul Sedgwick has been playing music for most of his life. He plays 5-string banjo, guitar, and ukulele, as well as a variety of other rootsy instruments. He attended South Plains College in Levelland, Texas and earned his A.A. in Bluegrass Music in 1985. He has been playing banjo and ukulele regularly with Wayne Potash and the Music Fun band (a children’s band) since 1991, and he plays banjo and ukulele with The Lemonshiners, an indie-Americana band. Paul’s goal on the ukulele is to explore and expand technique, to acquire divergent skills systematically, which, when integrated, free up the player to discover fresh ideas and approaches to accompany any given song.
• July 31: 90-Mile Portage
  Jamie Kallestad and Ben Cosgrove began performing as 90-Mile Portage in order to catch a break from their day jobs: Jamie is a singer/songwriter (jamiekallestad.com) and Ben is a nationally touring pianist/composer (bencosgrove.com). The collaboration was born in 2011 with a handful of recording experiments conducted via email. The duo has since released an EP of original and traditional folk songs and toured across New England and the Midwest.
• August 7: Phil and the Flying Leap
  Phil and the Flying Leap twists and re-imagines music across multiple genres of classic American song spanning Vaudeville to Nashville to Somerville and everywhere in-between. Songwriter Phil Berman's melodies and lyrics usher the Great American Songbook into the 21st century, while lush arrangements and virtuosic musicianship from violinist Rachel Panitch and bassist Forrest Pettengill offer vibrant live performances full of heart, joy, and rich vocals.
• August 14: The Love Dogs and The Puppeteers Cooperative
  The Love Dogs are a high energy 6-piece swing/R&B band with two horns, rockin' piano and three vocalists. It's a fun, family friendly show with lots of funny, clever original songs and some recognizable favorites.
  The Puppeteers Cooperative brings a collection of artist-made giant puppets for everyone to dance, parade, and have fun!
• August 21: The Sandy Ridge Boys
  The Sandy Ridge Boys play traditional, straight-ahead bluegrass, along with interesting twists on some familiar old favorites. With the standard assemblage of instruments, featuring banjo, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, dobro, and bass, they recreate and improve on the sounds of many of the contemporary bluegrass bands playing today.
• August 28: The Fatal Flaw
  Who says pessimism can't be catchy as hell? Boston's The Fatal Flaw combines a playful juxtaposition of biting cynicism and shameless pop sensibility earning them distinction of a band worth watching.
• September 4 (postponed from July 17): Squeezebox Stompers
  The Squeezebox Stompers are a Boston area Americana Roots band. They have performed Cajun, Zydeco, Blues, Folk, and originals all over New England for the past 20 years. Members of the band have received Boston Music Awards and Songwriting Awards. They are noted for their step-lively up-beat music inspiring audiences to get up and dance.