T-Pain performed at Boston Calling on Friday night.Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
Cowboy (and rain) boots were the attire du jour for Boston Calling on Friday, as the wettest day of the fest collided with its country-heavy billing.
The first night also brought faithful Fenway vibes as fans joined a “Sweet Caroline” singalong during a rain-soaked intermission while waiting for headliner Combs to perform. The short delay before his set proved to be worth the wait, as the country star charged up the Green Stage and “didn’t let up for an hour and a half,” according to Globe reviewer Marc Hirsh.
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Boston Calling crowd shows up in full country attire for day one of festival
Scores of cowboy hats, boots, and bandanas could be seen in the crowd at Boston Calling Friday, with country acts Luke Comb and Megan Moroney headlining. (Olivia Yarvis/Globe Staff)
The “When It Rains It Pours” singer’s set featured a cameo by fellow country star Megan Moroney, who performed earlier in the night on the Green Stage. She rocked a personalized Red Sox jersey while joining Combs for a rendition of his song “Beer Never Broke My Heart.” Combs noted in an Instagram post that Moroney had beenan extra in the song’s music video and asked her to jump in on Friday night when he saw they “were playing the same festival.”
Other highlights from the day included Sheryl Crow, rewarding fans who weathered the late-afternoon rain with crowd-pleasing hits like “Soak Up The Sun.” She offered a small bit of political commentary too, at one point shouting out, “I don’t know, Bruce Springsteen for president?” while wearing a T-shirt featuring the rocker.
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Poncho-clad fans took in a performance by Sheryl Crow at Boston Calling on Friday.Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
Meanwhile, singer-songwriter Max McNown played up to the New England crowd by performing the Noah Kahan’s “Stick Season,” calling the Vermont crooner, “one of my greatest inspirations.” Over on the Blue Stage, rapper T-Pain showed off his dance moves and kept the party going with nostalgic bangers like “Buy You A Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” and “All I Do Is Win.”
T-Pain performed at Boston Calling on Friday.Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
Boston band Dalton & the Sheriffs served as a last-minute replacement for TLC. The R&B group dropped out “due to an unexpected medical circumstance,” the fest announced early Friday afternoon.
Read Globe correspondent Marc Hirsh’s day one review here and check out more photos from Friday below.
Luke Combs performed at Boston Calling on Friday.Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
Luke Combs performed at Boston Calling on Friday.Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
Fans cheered for a performance by Luke Combs at Boston Calling on Friday.Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
Fans sang along while “Sweet Caroline” played before Luke Combs’ performance at Boston Calling on Friday.Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
T-Pain performed at Boston Calling on Friday.Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
Megan Moroney performed at Boston Calling on Friday.Alive Coverage for Boston Calling
Sheryl Crow performed at Boston Calling on Friday.Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
Megan From Work performed at Boston Calling on Friday.Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
Singer Josh Lane performed with Thee Sacred Souls at Boston Calling on Friday.Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
Infinity Song performed at Boston Calling on Friday.Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
Dalton and the Sheriffs performed at Boston Calling on Friday.Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
Max McNown performed at Boston Calling on Friday.Alive Coverage for Boston Calling
Future Teens performed at Boston Calling on Friday.Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
Fans took in a performance by Latrell James at Boston Calling on Friday.Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
Latrell James performed at Boston Calling on Friday.Ben Stas for The Boston Globe/The Boston Globe
Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy performed at Boston Calling on Saturday.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
Saturday’s lineup was a trip down memory lane for millennial pop-punk fans, culminating with headliners Fall Out Boy. From hits like “Thnks fr th Mmrs” to newer tracks like “So Much (for) Stardust,” the band surveyed its lengthy discography, with plenty of pyrotechnics thrown into the mix.
Fans sing along to the Fall Out Boy at Boston Calling on Saturday.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
Fans who caught Fall Out Boy’s set were treated to another “Sweet Caroline” moment, as singer Patrick Stump broke out the Neil Diamond tune during a brief piano interlude. The band also teased the opening to the Dropkick Murphy’s “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” before diving into “Bang The Doldrums.”
Avril Lavigne also brought the pyrotechnics and a heavy dose of pink pop punk aesthetics to the Green Stage with her early 2000s angsty teen anthems like “Sk8er Boi.” Lavigne later brought singer Alex Gaskarth from All Time Low out to perform their recent track “Fake As Hell.” (All Time Low performed earlier in the day on the Green Stage as well.)
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The Maine, Black Crowes, Cage the Elephant, and James Bay were also among Saturday’s lineup of performers.
Read Globe correspondent Victoria Wasylak’s day two review here and check out more photos from Saturday below.
Patrick Stump, lead singer of Fall Out Boy, performed at Boston Calling on Saturday.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
The Black Crowes performed at Boston Calling on Saturday.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
Fans sang along to the Black Crowes at Boston Calling on Saturday.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
Avril Lavigne performed at Boston Calling on Saturday.Ben Adams/Alive Co./Alive Coverage for Boston Calling
Avril Lavigne performed at Boston Calling on Saturday.Ben Adams/Alive Co./Alive Coverage for Boston Calling
Cage The Elephant performed at Boston Calling on Saturday.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
Cage The Elephant performed at Boston Calling on Saturday.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
All Time Low performed at Boston Calling on Saturday.Ben Adams/Alive Co./Alive Coverage for Boston Calling
Danya Clein, left, Ema Scollo danced to All Time Low during Boston Calling on Saturday.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
The Maine performed at Boston Calling on Saturday.Ben Adams/Alive Co./Alive Coverage for Boston Callin
Robbie Cunningham, lead vocalist of Amble, performed at Boston Calling on Saturday.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
Amber Lawson of PINKLIDS performed at Boston Calling on Saturday.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
Local band sidebody performed at Boston Calling on Saturday.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
Festival-goers take a selfie under the Boston Calling entrance arch at Harvard Athletic Complex in Boston on Saturday.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
Flavor Flav with Public Enemy performed at Boston Calling on Sunday.Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
The final day of the fest brought the best weather, along with a mix of poignant tributes and political moments on stage.
Headliner Dave Matthews Band wound back the clock to the ’90s as the group played hits like “Tripping Billies.” During the set, singer Dave Matthews shared a message of hope for fans who felt like “the world has lost her mind” while calling out “mis-leaders.” After the performance, Matthews returned to the stage holding up a pair of signs that read “Stop killing children” and “Stop the genocide,” which he has brought out at previous events.
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Dave Matthews performed at Boston Calling on Sunday.Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
On the Blue Stage, former Rage Against the Machine star and Harvard alum Tom Morello was back in his old stomping grounds. During his set, Morello reminisced with the crowd about his days in Cambridge. He also welcomed them to show with a heavy dig at the Trump administration, saying, “the last big event before they throw us all in jail.” (His stage and guitar were adorned with anti-Trump and -ICE motifs.) Morello also shouted out the Springsteen-Trump feud, adding: “Bruce draws a bigger audience,” before playing the Springsteen classic “The Ghost of Tom Joad.”
Morello also paid tribute to former Audioslave bandmate Chris Cornell with a rendition of “Like a Stone,” calling it “more of a prayer than a song” while honoring the late singer. The tributes continued on the Blue Stage with Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav and Chuck D, as the duo got the crowd to shout well wishes for recovering Celtics star Jayson Tatum. Flav also paid tribute to “Cheers” actor George Wendt, who died last week, telling the audience, “we gotta pour one out for Norm.” Chuck D and Morello teamed up for a song during the evening as well.
Other highlights from day three included Sublime, with singer Jakob Nowell honoring his late dad and the band’s former singer Bradley Nowell, as Sunday marked 29 years since his death. Amid a cloudy overcast, he added: “If you’ve got a family member or loved one who isn’t here with you tonight, I just want to let you know that they are here, man, sure as that [expletive] sun’s going to come out again.” The sun ended up breaking through the clouds shortly afterwards as the band performed, with Nowell later joking, “Yeah, we planned it.”
Jakob Nowell the lead singer with Sublime performed at Boston Calling on Sunday.Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Vampire Weekend, Remi Wolf, Spin Doctors, and more also performed on Sunday.
Check out more photos from Sunday below.
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Dave Matthews performed at Boston Calling on Sunday.Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Ezra Koenig, lead singer with Vampire, performed at Boston Calling on Sunday.Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Music fans singing along with Vampire Weekend as the band performed at Boston Calling on Sunday.Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Chuck D, Left and Flavor Flav of Public Enemy performed at Boston Calling on Sunday.Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Flavor Flav performed at Boston Calling on Sunday.Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Tom Morello performed at Boston Calling on Sunday.Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Eric Wilson the bass player with Sublime performed at Boston Calling on SundayMatthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
A fan crowd surfs while Sublime performed at Boston Calling on Sunday.Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Copilot performed at Boston Calling on Sunday.Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Remi Wolf performed at Boston Calling on Sunday.Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Griff Washburn, lead singer with Goth Babe, performed at Boston Calling on Sunday.Matthew J. Lee/Globe Staff
Globe correspondents Haley Clough and Marianna Orozco contributed to this report.
Matt Juul can be reached at matthew.juul@globe.com.
What are the Red Sox going to do with Patrick Sandoval?
The veteran left-hander has yet to appear in a big league game for the Red Sox, having missed his first season and a half with the organization while working his way back from Tommy John surgery. But after a deliberate ramp up throughout the spring and then an April setback Sandoval is now nearing a return to the big league roster.
Sandoval made the fifth start of his current rehab assignment Sunday for the WooSox, allowing one run over four innings on three hits, a walk and three strikeouts. He threw 60 pitches, a slight uptick from the 53 he threw over 3 1/3 innings his last time out on Tuesday.
Under MLB rules rehab assignments for a pitcher can last up to 30 days, which means there’s only enough time for Sandoval to make one more start before the Red Sox would have to either activate him or designate him for assignment. Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy said Sandoval might make one more start in the minors, but he acknowledged a decision will have to be made soon.
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“There’s still room to get the count built up some more,” Tracy said. “He got to 60 today and there’s probably room for another one to get it further and then we have to have a conversation after that.”
The Red Sox likely won’t want to lose Sandoval, but how he fits in roster-wise is tricky. The Red Sox starting rotation has been on a roll recently, and the most likely candidate to be optioned is rookie left-hander Jake Bennett, who has pitched brilliantly since coming up to fill Brayan Bello’s spot.
Boston could also insert Sandoval into the bullpen, but the Red Sox are likely about to get fellow left-hander Jovani Moran back off the injured list, and long reliever Ryan Watson can’t be optioned as a Rule 5 pick without being DFA’d himself.
Tracy said those will be issues the Red Sox will have to sort out, but noted that these sorts of logjams often have a way of working themselves out.
“Having depth is a good thing and it’s been tested for us, we had depth when Brayan went down and you know he’s down there and he’s got a specific purpose and mind of trying to get it right, well we’re kind of out of starting depth,” Tracy said. “So getting Sandy helps us in that way, but what we’re going to do yet we haven’t gotten that deep into it but obviously it’s looming.”
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Left-hander Jovani Moran (left elbow inflammation) made his second rehab appearance for the WooSox on Sunday, retiring all six batters he faced on just 14 pitches over two perfect innings. Tracy said the club hasn’t decided if Moran will need another rehab outing before he’s activated. … Tracy said shortstop Trevor Story (sports hernia) is continuing to make progress but likely won’t start a rehab assignment before the All-Star break. … Right-hander Kutter Crawford (right wrist surgery recovery) is in the early stages of his throwing program in Fort Myers but remains a long way off from a return.
BOSTON (WHDH) – A 20-year-old man is dead, and an 81-year-old man will face criminal charges following a wrong-way crash on Interstate 93 in Boston late Saturday night, officials said.
Troopers responding to a reported multi-vehicle crash on Route 93 northbound before Exit 15A around 11:45 p.m. determined a driver in a 2004 Cadillac Escalade got on the highway in the wrong direction and nearly struck two vehicles — a Honda Odyssey and an Audi A4 — causing both to swerve and crash into each other, according to state police.
The occupants of the Honda Odyssey, a family of four, were transported to a Boston-area hospital for evaluation.
Shortly after the initial crash, the wrong-way driver, later identified as Antone Carvalho, of Somerset, collided head-on with a Chevrolet Cruze.
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The driver of the Chevrolet Cruze, a man in his 20s from Haverhill, died from his injuries. His name has not been released.
Carvalho will be issued a summons to appear in court at a later date.
This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.
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BOSTON (WHDH) – It’s the fall of 1974 in South Boston, and four generations of the Moran family are rushing to church for baby Lila’s baptism. The moment is filled with great anticipation, and one of the most memorable images frozen in time in Constantine Manos’s “Where’s Boston” series.
Now, more than 50 years later, that photograph has taken on a new meaning.
The Boston Athenaeum has revived the landmark exhibition first shown during Boston’s Bicentennial celebration in 1976. To mark America’s 250th anniversary, the library has paired Manos’s photographs with 12 newly recorded oral histories, giving the people captured in the images a chance to tell the stories behind them.
“These images show one moment in time, but when you talk to someone and ask them to reflect on it, you learn so much more about them and their larger family history,” said Boston Athenaeum curator Lauren Graves. “Then somehow that history, too, ends up relating to a larger Boston history.”
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In their oral history, George and Carolyn Moran reflected on the social upheaval surrounding Boston’s bussing crisis, when court-ordered school integration sparked intense racial conflict across the city.
While the baptism photograph captures a day of celebration, the Moran family said it also stirs memories of another pivotal moment: their decision to leave the South Boston neighborhood they had long called home.
“Around the corner came a huge swarm of people being chased by police on horseback with clubs,” George Moran said. “Apparently earlier that day there had been a stabbing around the corner of South Boston High School, and the town was in total turmoil over that incident.”
Fearing for their children’s safety as tensions escalated, the two Boston Public Schools teachers made the difficult decision to move their family to Brookline.
“We were very careful in making our decision because we did have a strong allegiance to the schools and to education,” Carolyn Moran said. “I would say our concerns about the education of our daughters was our primary reason for making the move.”
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Many of Manos’s seemingly innocuous photographs reveal the city’s deeply segregated spaces that shaped Boston a half-century ago. An Italian religious process in the North End, young Black men unwinding at Franklin park, and a father looking lovingly at his son at a Chassidic center in Brookline each offer a glimpse into communities that rarely intersected.
But even amid turmoil and division, Manos found beauty in life’s small moments—a bride leaving a church on her wedding day, a young man absorbed in a game of chess, and a father flying a kite with his son.
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“The exhibit shows some of the terrible times of protest, but it also shows the moments of joy,” Carolyn Moran said. “They’re all juxtaposed, and that’s life—these difficult times as well as beautiful times.”
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As the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, curators hope the exhibition encourages visitors to reflect on not just how far the city has come, but also the work that still needs to be done in the coming decades.
“We thought this was a unique moment to look back at the Bicentennial, to look back 50 years and think about this recent past,” Graves said. “What do we want for Boston today? What do we want for the future? And what do we want for the future of the country itself?”
Visitors are also invited to become part of the exhibition by filling out comment cards reflecting on where Boston is today.
The Boston Athenaeum says it is still identifying people featured in Manos’s photographs and plans to continue expanding the exhibition’s online oral history collection.
“Where’s Boston” is open until December 12.
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