July 2 Communal reading of Frederick Douglass’s lecture “The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro” on Boston Common. www.masshumanities.org

July 6 Howie Day at the Blue Ocean Music Hall on Salisbury Beach. www.blueoceanhall.com

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July 8 Boston Pops Orchestra with Bernadette Peters at Tanglewood in Lenox. www.tanglewood.org

July 11 “How To Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular” opens at DCU Center in Worcester. www.ticketmaster.com

July 12 Boston French Film Festival opens at the
Museum of Fine Arts. www.mfa.org/film

July 13 Dennis Miller (pictured) at the Wilbur Theatre.
www.thewilbur.com

July 14 Massachusetts
Symphony Orchestra at
Institute Park in Worcester. www.masymphony.org

July 17 Revels Boston
Harbor Cruise & Sing
departs from Rowes Wharf. www.revels.org

July 20 Brian Evans at the
Wilbur Theatre. www.the
wilbur.com

July 21 Kenny Loggins at the Lowell Summer Music Series at Boarding House Park in Lowell. www.lowellsummer
music.org

July 25 Gavin DeGraw at Bank of America Pavilion.

www.livenation.com

July 26 Daughtry at Bank of America Pavilion.
www.livenation.com

Boston Opera Collaborative’s “Orpheus in the
Underworld” opens at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester

www.bostonoperacollaborative.org