BSO adds Popular Artist concerts to Tanglewood 2025 schedule

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has updated the 2025 Tanglewood schedule with four additional concerts on the roster of Popular Artists. Nas, a hip hop artist, makes his Tanglewood debut June 27 in a performance with the eternally hip Boston Pops Orchestra. The pianist and composer John Batiste returns to Tanglewood the next night in support of his eighth studio album,?Beethoven Blues (Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1). On August 30, Lynyrd Skynyrd makes its first appearance in the Koussevitsky Music Shed, more than fifty years since the legendary Al Kooper catapulted them to global stardom. Along with his band, John Legend will perform on Sept. 5, in support of the re-issue of his twenty year old debut album Get Lifted.

A Prairie Home Companion returns to the Berkshires

The most intriguing item on the calendar of summertime musical entertainment in the Berkshires is the return of the lanky, droll Minnesotan Garrison Keillor, the ambassador (without portfolio) from Lake Woebegone, who was one of NPR’s most powerful audience magnets until the police+judge+jury of MeToo sentenced him to radio death.

• A Prairie Home Companion (June 21)
• Nas with the Boston Pops (7PM – June 27)
• Jon Batiste (7PM – June 28)
• John Mulaney (6PM – June 29)
• James Taylor with special guest Tiny Habits (8PM – July 3 & 4)
• Barenaked Ladies, Sugar Ray, Fastball (7PM – July 8)
• Emmylou Harris & Graham Nash (7PM – July 29)
• Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! (8PM – Aug. 28)
• Lynyrd Skynyrd (7PM – Aug. 30)
• Bonnie Raitt, Jimmie Vaughan & The Tilt-A-Whirl Band (7PM – Aug. 31)
• John Legend (7PM – Sept. 5)