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Pop, rock, jazz schedule Tanglewood 2016

  • May 11, 2016 Article by Dave Read

Tanglewood law audience Tony Bennett Lady Gaga concert, June 30, 2015; photo:Dave ReadThe Pop, rock, jazz schedule Tanglewood 2016, also known as the Popular Artist Series, is as noteworthy and diverse as any in the venue’s long history. This year’s lineup includes many noteworthy shows. Brian Wilson, co-founder and genius composer of the Beach Boys, among the first rock bands to play Tanglewood, returns for a perofrmance of Pet Sounds June 19. A day earlier, Earth, Wind & Fire make their 2nd appearance; jazz great Chichk Corea returns for a Juky 31 concert in Ozawa Hall along with Christian McBride and Brian Blade; the earnest troubadour Jackson Browne, who set an attendance record here in the early 70s rturns June 21. Local favorite and current attendance record-setter James Taylor plays shows July 3 & 4, and, for the 17th year in a row, Garrison Keillor will return to host a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion on June 25. Since Keillor has announced his resignation as host following this season, this promises to be an especially memorable show, if not his final Tanglewood appearance.

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Tanglewood 2016 pop, rock, jazz schedule

June 17 | 7 pm Shed | Dolly Parton

June 18 | 7 pm Shed | Earth, Wind & Fire

June 19 | 2:30pm Shed | Brian Wilson’s Pet Sounds

June 21 | 7 pm Shed | Jacksone Browne

June 24 | 8pm Seiji Ozawa Hall | Chris Botti

June 25 | 5:45 pm Shed | A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood with Garrison Keillor

July 1 | 8 pm Shed | Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration

July 2 | 7 pm Shed | Bob Dylan and His Band, Mavis Staples

July 3 & 4 | 7 pm Shed | James Taylor with his All-Star Band

July 10 | 2:30 pm Shed | Boston Pops with very special guest Seth MacFarlane

July 31 | 8 pm Seiji Ozawa Hall | Chick Corea Trio featuring Christian McBride and Brian Blade

August 13 | 8 pm Shed | John Williams’ Film Night

August 23 | 7 pm Shed | Train with Andy Grammer

August 26 | 8 pm Shed | “Raiders of the Lost Ark” with Orchestra

August | 8 pm Shed | Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma

September 1| 8 pm Shed | Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!

September 2 | 8 pm Shed | The Boston Pops with the B-52s

Dolly Parton at Tanglewood June 17, 2016
Earth Wind and Fire at Tanglewood June 18, 2016
Brian Wilson performing Pet Sounds at Tanglewood June 19, 2016
Jackson Browne at Tanglewood June 21, 2016
Chris Botti at Tanglewood June 24, 2016
Garrison Keillor A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood June 25, 2016
Warren Haynes, Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration at Tanglewood, July 1, 2016
Bob Dylan Mavis Staples concert Tanglewood July 2, 2016
James Taylor and his All Star band at Tanglewood, July 3 & 4, 2016
Boston Pops with very special guest Seth MacFarlane at tanglewood July 10, 2016
Chick Corea Trio featuring Christian McBride and Brian Blade at Tanglewood July 31, 2016
John Williams' Film Night August 13, 2016
Train with Andy Grammer at Tanglewood August 23, 2016
Raiders of the Lost Ark with Orchestra at Tanglewood August 26, 2016
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me at Tanglewood September 1, 2016
The Boston Pops with the B-52s at Tanglewood September 2, 2016

About Tanglewood: box office, tickets, getting there, nearby hotels

Tickets for the 2016 Tanglewood season, $12-$124, go on sale January 24 starting at 10 a.m. through Tanglewood’s website, www.tanglewood.org, SymphonyCharge at 888-266-1200, and at the Symphony Hall Box Office at 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston MA. Tanglewood brochures with complete programs and information on how to order tickets will be available in early February by calling 617-638-9467. For further information, please call the Boston Symphony Orchestra at 617-266-1492 or visit www.tanglewood.org. 2016 Tanglewood schedule – PDF.

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Getting around the Tanglewood campus

The Tanglewood campus, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood Music Center comprises several hundred acres in the towns of Lenox and Stockbridge. It is the location of the Koussevitsky Music Shed and Ozawa Hall, where hundreds of thousands attend concerts and a variety of events, including picnics. We always advise new visitors to arrive early and take their daily walking exercise wandering the beautiful Tanglewood grounds.

Here is a dynamic map of the Tanglewood grounds, with photos and information for such points of interest as Aaron Copland Library, Highwood Manor House, The Glass House, and The Lion’s Gate.

Epic rock concerts at Tanglewood

Epic rock concerts at Tanglewood

While Tanglewood, established in the 1930s by Boston Symphony Orchestra music director Serge Koussevitsky, is first and foremost about classical music, in performance, education, and training, since 1968, it also has hosted folk, jazz, rock, and pop concerts. Established during Erich Leinsdorf’s tenure as a way of broadening the Tanglewood audience, the initial performers – Judy Collins, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ravi Shanka, and The Association were followed the next year by Janis Joplin, Iron Butterfly and the start of two years of productions by legendary promoter Bill Graham, dubbed The Fillmore at Tanglewood. Triple bills such as The Who, Jefferson Airplane and B.B. King gave Tanglewood status beyond the blue-stockin longhair set, but so aroused the neighbors that something had to be done.

And so no shows were held in 1972 and from 1973 on, bookings were limited to acts and artists that unlikely to attract a rowdy crowd. Among the effects of several lawsuits were in-concert decibel monitoring. Outright bans followed for some periods, and related controversies continued into the new century, when a hard limit of 18,500 was put on ticket sales in the wake of a James Taylor appearance with the Boston Pops in 2002 that drew 24,470 patrons.

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