Schedule

All Day Events – Rain Date Schedule, Sunday October 25

12:00pm – 10:00pm Festival! Vendors, food, live music, and giveaways on City Hall Plaza, Boston MA, at the Government Center subway stop. FREE to everyone. All day.
12:00 – 8:00pm Carnival!
  • 2 mechanical bulls
  • Giveaways
  • Facepainting
  • Temp tattoos
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  • Professional photo
  • Balloon animals
  • 3 huge inflatable
    obstacle courses
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  • Giant inflatable slide
  • “Human Bowling”
  • Velcro wall
  • and a lot more!
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    (FREE to registered walkers, or $20 student/child, $30 adult donation).

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     2:00pm – 3:30pm Zombie March A local group is organizing a march from South Station to Boston City Hall. FREE.
    NOT OUR EVENT
     6:30pm – 8:15pm Thriller dance workshop A Thriller dance workshop on the Court Street side of City Hall Plaza in preparation for Thrill the World, the world record world-wide synchronized dance of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Schedule is:

    • 6:30pm: Thriller dance workshop on the Court Street side of City Hall Plaza
    • 7:20pm: Participant registration; Pledge collection; Raffle; Prizes; Make-up on the State Street side of City Hall Plaza
    • 7:50 – 8:20pm: Complete costumed dance rehearsals on the Court Street side of City Hall Plaza
    • 8:20pm: Walk/stumble/limp over to main stage for performance!

    It’s optional but highly recommended that you check out the videos and practice the dance beforehand! See www.thrilltheworld.com/learn.



    Main Stage Events — Rain Date Schedule, Sunday October 25

    12:00pm Lifted Live music by one of New England’s new up-and-coming
    rock bands. Their tight written grooves, along with their
    “in-the-moment” spontaneity makes Lifted a must see!

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     2:30pm Costume Contest: Kids Free $18,000 in prizes for costumes and top fundraising teams. Skits by fundraising teams. Assemble for the march!

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     3:45pm Kids March Daytime kids parade. The walk is 30 minutes, goes around City Hall Plaza on the sidewalk and does not cross any streets.

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     4:30pm Costume Contest: Adults Skits and a costume contest for adults with tons of giveaways and $18,000 in prizes!

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     5:45pm Adult March Sundown. Adult charity walk goes around Boston City Hall Plaza. See and be seen! Smile for the TV crews!

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    6:15pm Ketman Boston Herald’s “Best of 2008” List, Boston Phoenix,
    “Top Ten Albums of 2008”. With jangling and jagged tunes, Ketman as band
    has been trying to peel the paint since forming at the beginning of
    2003’s long winter. We’ve got dissonant, acrobatic and frantic songs,
    shirking off the straightjackets. Inspired by robots praising the sun to
    shards of slop pop and interstellar surf.

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    7:00pm Jaggery Jaggery is an experimental art-rock collective, fronted
    by Boston-based singer/songstress mali sastri ~ whose training in the
    expressive arts discipline Voice Movement Therapy is evident in her
    global-sized voice. Their first music video (‘O Scorpio) won their
    director “Most Promising New England Filmmaker 2009” at the Boston
    Underground Film Festival.

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    7:45pm Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys “Really, any fan of the Velvet Underground, the Dresden
    Dolls, or those haunted merry-go-rounds that turn up in horror movies
    shouldn’t miss Walter and the Toys, who elegantly merge the essence of
    all three.” –Boston Globe

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    8:35pm Thrill the World It’s is an annual worldwide simultaneous dance of
    Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” that you can join! Lessons start at 6:30pm
    across the plaza, and then the dance on stage and in the audience during
    the concert!

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    9:05pm Casey Desmond

    “Casey Desmond’s sophomore disc, No Disguise (Sound Museum) is very much
    a pop record, and there’s no shame in that, with its dark shades and
    sophisticated arrangements it would still stand out as one of the more
    adventurous things on the radio. -Boston Phoenix

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    10:00pm Festival ends Please mention us when you buy from our sponsors!