Fringe Concerts

2025 Festival | June 8–15, 2025

Fringe Concerts

The Boston Early Music Festival has begun accepting registrations for its Fringe Concert Series, presented in conjunction with the Boston Early Music Festival, June 8–15, 2025. The theme of the 2025 Festival is Love & Power.

Presented by emerging and established artists alike from across North America, and as far away as the United Kingdom, Belgium, and Germany, BEMF Fringe Concerts are artist-produced events that take place at selected venues in the heart of downtown Boston during Festival Week (June 8-15, 2025). Fringe Concerts offer hundreds of musicians the opportunity to share their talent and artistry with North America’s largest community of early music professionals and enthusiasts, while also enjoying Baroque opera performances and concerts performed by the world’s leading soloists and ensembles, and visiting the world-famous Exhibition, which features more than 100 instrument makers, music publishers, performing ensembles, schools and universities, and colleague service organizations.

Fringe Concerts are publicized by BEMF to its Festival ticket buyers and subscribers, advertised on the BEMF website, included in the Festival Program Book, and distributed with BEMF’s press package to local, national, and international media. Your concert will also receive robust promotion via our mailings, newsletters, and email blasts. Fringe artists are responsible for reserving and renting their performance venues, organizing rehearsal time, and managing ticket sales for their events.

2025 Fringe Concert Registration Form (DOC) (PDF)

2025 Fringe Concert Guidelines (PDF)

2025 Fringe Concert Suggested Venues (PDF)

We hope you will consider being a part of “the world’s leading festival of early music” (The Times, London),

by presenting a Fringe Concert as part of the 2025 Boston Early Music Festival. Please refer all questions relating to the logistics of planning and presenting a Fringe Concert to BEMF General Manager Carla Chrisfield (carla@bemf.org). The registration deadline for inclusion in Festival Program Book is Monday, April 14, 2025.