Summer Concerts at Spectacle Island

Berklee artists provide live jazz performances at Spectacle Island, one of the Boston Harbor Islands. Take the ferry to hear wonderful music and explore fun options for hiking, swimming, boating, or just laying on the beach. (View map.)

There are no upcoming events at this time.

Past Events

Check out some of the great shows that have been part of the Summer in the City series in prior years.

Presented By
Summer in the City
Event Dates
Sunday / July 7, 2019 / 1:00 pm
Venue
Spectacle Island
Boston Harbor Islands
Boston
MA
United States

Sarah Marie and Gianmarco Ferri are a voice and guitar duo that draws upon Latin American and European roots to speak the common language of jazz.

Presented By
Summer in the City
Event Dates
Sunday / September 30, 2018 / 12:30 pm
Venue
Spectacle Island
Boston Harbor Islands
Boston
MA
United States

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Anton Derevyanko is a Boston, Massachusetts–raised tenor saxophonist who has studied at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute under the direction of Danilo Pérez.

Presented By
Summer in the City
Event Dates
Sunday / September 16, 2018 / 12:30 pm
Venue
Spectacle Island
Boston Harbor Islands
Boston
MA
United States

Delfina Cheb is a singer-songwriter from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Presented By
Summer in the City
Event Dates
Sunday / September 2, 2018 / 12:30 pm
Venue
Spectacle Island
Boston Harbor Islands
Boston
MA
United States

Nick Groat is a jazz drummer and composer studying drum set performance at Berklee College of Music.

Presented By
Summer in the City
Event Dates
Sunday / August 19, 2018 / 2:00 pm
Venue
Spectacle Island
Boston Harbor Islands
Boston
MA
United States

The Vlade Guigni Trio will perform arrangements of classic jazz tunes along with contemporary original pieces, blending old and new sounds.

Presented By
Summer in the City
Event Dates
Sunday / August 5, 2018 / 2:00 pm
Venue
Spectacle Island
Boston Harbor Islands
Boston
MA
United States

Tyson Jackson first discovered his love of music at age 3 in his hometown of West Palm Beach, Florida.

Presented By
Summer in the City
Event Dates
Sunday / July 22, 2018 / 2:00 pm
Venue
Spectacle Island
Boston Harbor Islands
Boston
MA
United States

Hailing from Mexico City, Mexico, Maria Vertiz is a composer, producer, songwriter, and arranger who creates music filled with ethnic sounds, atmospheric ideas, and structural concepts from different eras.

Presented By
Summer in the City
Event Dates
Sunday / July 8, 2018 / 2:00 pm
Venue
Spectacle Island
Boston Harbor Islands
Boston
MA
United States

Santanio Jackson, a native of Plymouth, Florida, is studying drum performance and education at Berklee College of Music.

Presented By
Summer in the City
Event Dates
Sunday / August 27, 2017 / 1:00 pm
Venue
Spectacle Island
Boston Harbor Islands
Boston
MA
United States

Panamanian saxophonist Samuel Batista, a recent alumnus, is in the process of recording his first album, Voices of Freedom.

Presented By
Summer in the City
Event Dates
Sunday / July 30, 2017 / 1:00 pm
Venue
Spectacle Island
Boston Harbor Islands
Boston
MA
United States

From Quito, Ecuador, Paul Sanchez is a trumpeter who began his musical career at a very young age studying at the National Conservatory and the Brass Band of Ecuador.