The 2014 edition of the Jamaica Plain Music Festival is in the books. Residents thronged Pinebank Field despite high temps of 91 and a fast-moving storm that caused organizers to shut down the festival slightly early. The last two acts weren’t able to perform.
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I should probably run on home… scary storm hovering over #jamaicaplain pic.twitter.com/dnLiIPD98B
— Marissa Simoes (@ALittleNewsie) September 6, 2014
The National Weather Service says to move indoors as a storm moves through Boston.
You’re going to be making wry observations, taking great photos and shooting cool videos about the Jamaica Plain Music Festival. So if you Tweet, add #jpmf14 to share them. If Facebook is more your thing, here’s the Festival’s Facebook page.
It’s here! More than 20 bands, all with connections to the neighborhood you love. Here’s everything you need to know to soak up the goodness of the 2014 Jamaica Plain Music Festival.
On the day before what would have been Freddie Mercury‘s 68th birthday, the all-female Queen tribute band Gunpowder Gelatine brought a bit of bombast to the normally quiet lawn of the Loring-Greenough House.
For our Photo of the Day on Thursdays, we highlight an image of old JP.
The occupants of the storefronts along Centre Street are of course always changing. This undated photo from the Boston Public Library’s collection shows how Centre and Seaverns, the block that now contains City Feed and (starting Thursday) Hatched, used to look. At the time this was taken, the JP Branch Library was in temporary lodgings on the second floor.