Lowell's The Town and The City Festival 2025 Lineup Announced

LOWELL, MA — A popular Massachusetts music festival is set to return for 2025 after this week announcing the lineup of acts and beginning of ticket sales.

The Town and The City Festival, which stretches for three days across downtown Lowell, announced the first group of artists confirmed for the 2025 festival on Wednesday.

This year, the festival will start a day early, Thursday, April 24, with Lady Lamb and Ezra Furman performing on stage at Taffeta. The festival will continue Friday through Saturday.

Multi-day passes priced at $70 go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Single-day passes and a limited number of individual show tickets will be available in February. To get tickets, click here.

The festival takes inspiration from Lowell native Jack Kerouac, now celebrating the beat writer for the sixth year with music, comedy and literary arts.

“It’s always exciting for me to bring the festival back to my hometown,” said Festival founder Chris Porter. “Lowell is such a great place for this kind of event; it’s a very walkable town so venue hopping is very easy to do. Kerouac said ‘The only truth is music,’ and the festival gives music lovers a lot of truth to enjoy.”

The festival takes place at more than a dozen venues throughout downtown Lowell, including Taffeta, Zorba Music Hall, Warp & Weft, Christ Church United, Stewart Hall at Christ Church United, The Old Court, The Thirsty First, The Worthen Cafe, Smokehouse Tavern, Lala Books, Brew’d Awakening, Cobblestones, Koto and The Lass Stop.

Area acts booked for the festival include Couch, Ezra Furman, The Sheila Divine, Heretix, Jake Swamp and The Pine, Twisted Pine and The Chelsea Curve. Lowell’s own Senseless Optimism, The PA’s, Scott Pitman and The Deluxe Fiasco and Dead Vapor are all on the 2025 line-up.

Other performers confirmed for TATC include Lady Lamb, Jeffrey Foucault, Loudon Wainwright III, Maya De Vitry, The Ghouls, Class President, Night Visions, Deni Bonet, The Rocking Horse Music Club, The Freqs, The Peacocks, Paint By Numbers and John David.

New England acts who are also on the schedule include Hilken Mancini & Melissa Gibbs, Winkler, Lovina Falls, Girl with a Hawk, blindspot, Jennifer Tefft & The Strange, Caesura, Kid Renaissance, Gross Girls, Escape Durgin, Oddie, Stay at Home Dads, Knock Over City, Mold, Roaches, The Big Sun, Ron’s Car, Dom the Composer, Julia James, Hazel Adeline, Lekha & Friends, The Dear Abbeys and Good Karma.

Comedy at Cobblestones returns this year hosted by Frank Santorelli, with Kristin O’Brien, Greg Boggs, Steve Albert and Katie Coughlin.

Additional acts and programming will be announced in February.