~Photos by Claudia Ferro

More than 200 musical acts performed on porches – sometimes spilling into front yards and gardens – across Somerville on Saturday, May 11 as PorchFest 2019 unfolded across the city.

Almost every genre of music you’ve heard of (and a few you probably haven’t) was played at this year’s PorchFest, including gypsy punk, cosmic Americana and killer blues, Afrobeat, acid folk, and American space rock. There was even Porch-ioke where passersby could step up and belt out a tune with a band backing them up.

PorchFest originated in Ithaca, NY, in 2007. The first one in Somerville involved 75 acts that registered to perform in 2011