UPDATE 5:42 p.m.: New set times have been released for Day 2 of Boston Calling after today’s weather delay. KennyHoopla will perform on the Red Stage at 6 p.m., Orville Peck will perform on the Delta Airlines Blue Stage at 6:10 p.m., and EARTHGANG will storm the Delta Airlines Blue Stage at 7:30 p.m. The rest of the schedule remains unchanged. We’ll post more updates as they are announced.
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Boston Calling experienced a delay on this afternoon (May 28) due to a severe thunderstorm that rolled through the area midway through its Saturday slate. Thousands of attendees were asked to vacate the festival grounds and seek overhead shelter at nearby facilities or cross the Charles River into Harvard Square.
As gray clouds closed in above the Harvard Athletic Complex, attendees were asked to leave the festival grounds around 3:30 p.m. to take shelter in Harvard Square, gather inside Harvard Stadium, or find other secure locations away from the storm. The festival reopened its gates shortly after 5 p.m. and has announced that music would begin again at 6 p.m.
Celisse, Frances Forever, KennyHoopla, Coral Moons, Sudan Archives, EARTHGANG, and Ali McGuirk were all scheduled to perform between 3:30 and 6 p.m., but only one act has been rescheduled thus far. KennyHoopla will perform on the Red Stage at 6 p.m. As of print time, the other six artists have yet to share an update about whether or not they will still perform today.
The weather isn’t the only source of schedule changes on Saturday at Boston Calling: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will not perform this evening, due to a case of COVID-19 among the band. Their cancellation follows news that headliners The Strokes will not perform this evening, also because of a positive case of COVID-19 among the band. After a raucous headlining performance Friday night, Nine Inch Nails will perform a second set this evening as a last-minute replacement.