250th Block Party Timeline 

All DAY EVENTS

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Turnpike. Community Day at the Concord Museum, enjoy free admission to the Museum to see the original lantern from Paul Revere’s midnight ride and the new special exhibition “Whose Revolution.” Family drop-in activities. Free.

11:00 AM – 7:45 PM

• Barrow Bookstore, 79 Main St.  Photo Op: Throne Chair. Flourish your camera and capture your inner loyalist spirit as you sit in the throne chair outside of Barrow Bookstore. Free
• Barrow Bookstore, 79 Main St. Outdoor Display: Concord Authors’ Revolutionary War Ancestors. Free
• Wright Tavern, 2 Lexington Rd –Open House of this historic tavern where the Militia Patriots and British Redcoats met at different times. Be in the place where history happened and is happening again. Tours, Beer Garden, & printmaking exhibition. $

11:00 AM – 6:00 PM LandVest, 24 Main St. Concord 250 Photo Booth. Pose in front of the historic site of Concord as the backdrop and with the Concord 250 logo. Free

1:00 PM – 7:45 PM   Concord Scout House, 74 Walden St.  The Concord Scout House Soirée is an afternoon and evening of stories, dance, song, and historical exhibitions with family-friendly entertainment. $

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, 399 Lexington Rd. Celebrate at “The Home of Little Women” – also a Revolutionary War “Witness House”– with costumed interpreters, games, music, presentations, “Revolutionary selfies,” Concord Minutemen, Nashobah Sagamore Strong Bear Medicine, and Louisa May Alcott herself reminiscing about the 1875 Centennial festivities. Free

ON THE HOUR EVENTS

1:00 PM  – 2:00 PM The Bandstand, Monument Square. Weather permitting. Speeches by dignitaries to kick off the Block Party. Free

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM   Concord Scout House, 74 Walden St. Wayside Inn Steppers: Dancing and Reenacting 18th century dance. $

2:00 PM – 2:45 PM   Concord Scout House, 74 Walden St. Native American Performance. Indigenous Drumming with Dr. Claudia Fox Tree $

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM   Masonic Hall, 58 Monument Sq. Wright Tavern Sing presents One-Day Choir with Kenter Davies—a joyful celebration of singing in harmony for everyone, regardless of musical experience or ability. $

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM   51 Walden Performing Arts Center,  51 Walden St. Performance by local middle schoolers. “Scenes from the Revolution – A Quarter Millennial Musical.” A series of musical numbers and historical scenes from the Boston Tea Party to the Battles of Lexington and Concord to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Free

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Coldwell Banker, 11 Main St. Concord250 Sounds: Come and listen to live music! Fabulous professional musicians playing music for the times. In partnership with New England Musicians Resource Fund. Free

2:45 PM – 3:00 PM   Concord Scout House, 74 Walden St. Wayside Inn Steppers: Dancing and Reenacting 18th century dance. $

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM   Concord Scout House, 74 Walden St. Children’s Book Reading of “Rise Up: Powerful Protests in American History” by Barefoot Books of Concord. $

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM   Masonic Hall*, 58 Monument Sq. The Wright Tavern Sing presents One-Day Choir with Kenter Davies—a joyful celebration of singing in harmony for everyone, regardless of musical experience or ability. $ *Bandstand Weather permitting

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Concord Scout House, 74 Walden St. Performance. Daughters of the American Revolution, Liberty Flag Contest Launch

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM   Concord Scout House, 74 Walden St. Performance. Broadside Ballads and Sea Shanties with David Coffin of Revels and Mara Bonde. $

51 Walden Performing Arts Center,  51 Walden St. Performance by local middle schoolers. “Scenes from the Revolution – A Quarter Millennial Musical.” A series of musical numbers and historical scenes from the Boston Tea Party to the Battles of Lexington and Concord to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Free

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM 51 Walden Performing Arts Center, 51 Walden St. Performance “Bridging Cultures”  90-minute program featuring performers from Japanese drummers to Irish step dancers, Indian dancers and actors.

Concord Scout House, 74 Walden St. Wayside Inn Steppers: Dancing and Reenacting 18th century dance. $

Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Turnpike. Forum with Doris Kearns Goodwin on the American Revolution and Its Legacy. Limited attendance via a stand-by line and livestreamed. Free.

7:30 PM – 8:30 PM Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Turnpike. Outdoor concert with the Goodwin Band, finishing with a view of a town-wide drone show. Free.