Outside the Box festival

Outside the Box: No Endowment — But the Festival will return in 2018

The free Outside the Box arts festival is taking the year off, but its head vows that it will return next year.

Boston will not have a large-scale free music and arts festival in 2017.

This is Boston, not Austin.

The Outside the Box Festival going to need much more substance to justify its new 3-figure price tag.

Get your maps and open up your calendar app—it’s time to plan your summer of jazz in New England.

Boston’s Outside the Box festival falls far short of its stated mission to be “revolutionary” or “world class.”

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