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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nGet to know Laurence Louie of Quincy, a finalist on Bravo’s ‘Top Chef’<\/p>\n
Laurence Louie, owner of Quincy’s Rubato, is in the running for $250,000 and other prizes in the Season 23 finale of ‘Top Chef’ on Monday, June 8.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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With the warmer weather comes outdoor music, parades, festivals, fairs and fun on the South Shore.<\/p>\n Winter came with a vengeance this year as we were battered by two snowstorms with significant snowfall and long stretches that saw the mercury barely clear the freezing point.<\/p>\n So, let’s talk summer.<\/p>\n Here are nine things you might want check out. Have a great summer!<\/p>\n This year\u2019s parade steps off from Hancock and Coddington streets in Quincy Center, heads north along Hancock Street, turns onto Merrymount Parkway and wraps up at Vietnam Veterans Drive and Adams Field. A flag-raising ceremony and musical performance at Pageant Field will follow the parade, and the night culminates with fireworks over Black\u2019s Creek starting around 9 p.m. This year\u2019s parade, the 75th edition, will feature floats honoring America’s 250 anniversary, specialty units, public safety and veterans\u2019 color guards, a fleet of classic cars, and more than 1,000 flag-waving youngsters. Bands scheduled to perform include the Quincy\/North Quincy Marching Band, Crusaders Senior Corp., North Star Alumni Drum and Bugle, 7th Regiment Drum and Bugle, Conn Hurricanes Drum and Bugle, Branches Steel Band, New Magnolia Jazz Band and the Conn Alumni Drum and Bugle.<\/p>\n Are you a fan of pickles and fermentation in general? This festival is for you. The Plymouth Pickle and Fermentation Festival will feature a variety of pickled and fermented foods as well as drinks, music, classes and the chance to make your own sauerkraut.<\/p>\n Held on Father’s Day weekend, this year’s Arts Festival, the South Shore Art Center’s 71st annual exhibition, features nearly 100 craft exhibitors from across New England selling their creations for the 14,000 attendees the festival typically attracts. In addition to the art, the festival will feature live music, a beer garden and food from several vendors. Confirmed food vendors include Del\u2019s Lemonade, Mom on the GO, Plazita Mexico Tacos and Sufr Dogz.<\/p>\n Benn & Company kicks off the Duxbury Music Festival on June 26 with a free night of live music and dancing under the tent on Duxbury Town Green, Washington Street and Harden Hill Avenue, starting at 7 p.m. Admission is free.<\/p>\n The festival shifts to timeless American favorites on Saturday, June 27, at 3 p.m. on Town Green with the A Swingin’ Affair Big Band playing the best of Frank Sinatra. Tickets for this concert are $40. Sunday, June 28, is Family Day on Town Green from noon to 3 p.m., with music-themed crafts, drums circles and food.<\/p>\n Later on Sunday, at 6 p.m., the festival shifts to the Ellison Center for the Arts, 64 St. George St, for the Opening Faculty Concert, featuring performances of Mahler, Debussy and other late-Romantic composers, alongside selections from the jazz canon. Tickets for that performance are $40.<\/p>\n After a day off, the festival moves to The Art Complex Museum, 189 Alden St., at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, June 30, for “From Paris to New York,” a performance that explores the musical link between France and the United States. Tickets for that performance are $40.<\/p>\n The festival moves to Duxbury Bay Maritime School, 457 Washington St., on Wednesday, July 1, for an evening of 1920s-style Dixieland band music starting at 6 p.m. featuring Dukes of Winsor’s. Tickets for that performance are $40.<\/p>\n On Thursday, July 2, at 6 p.m., the festival returns to Ellison Center for the Arts for a jazz cabaret evening featuring Duxbury Music Festival students and faculty in a collaborative performance. Tickets for that performance are $40.<\/p>\n The festival wraps up Friday, July 3, at 6 p.m. at the Ellison Center for the Arts for the finale show, bringing the festival to a close with a culminating concert featuring all students and faculty, uniting the entire festival community on one stage. Those tickets are also $40.<\/p>\n Originally launched in Quincy’s Wollaston Hill neighborhood in 2016, increased interest from homes in Squantum and Merrymount led to those neighborhoods being added to the festival. The event focuses on local musicians, but artists from all over are welcome. Registration for both bands and volunteer porches is open through May 31 at porchfestquincy.org<\/a>. Attendees are welcome to bring food and beverages, but public alcohol laws are in effect during Porchfest. Event organizers often recruit food trucks for the event also. The event is rain or shine.<\/p>\n July 4th is always a big deal. Add in the significance of the country’s 250th anniversary, and you’ve got a tall order. Weymouth ordinarily marks the 4th on the night before but were unable to find a sufficient contractor to put on the display that night, so the festivities will instead be held on Sunday, July 5.<\/p>\n This two-day music festival is a staple of the South Shore outdoor summer music scene that draws known national acts to the fairgrounds. Music fills the air for two full days as concertgoers take in art, shop local vendors and enjoy food and drink from the corral of food trucks between music acts. The concert lineup offers something for everyone, and this year’s roster features well-known names like Alanis Morissette, Ziggy Marley, Caamp, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue as well as local favorites like The Elovaters.<\/p>\n\n
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