4. Francis And The Lights and Chance The Rapper are actual dancing buddies 

You’re about to see three stellar pictures in a row, featuring the Bon Iver collaborator and potential Rice Krispie elf, Francis Farewell Starlite. In the below pictures the Francis and The Lights man is joyfully dancing through the crowd, then dancing in sync with Chance The Rapper on their recent collaboration ‘May I Have This Dance’, then giving Chance a ruddy great hug. Please enjoy:

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Note that Chance didn’t actually sing anything: he just came out onto the Green Stage several hours early to perform a single dance with Francis. That’s true friendship.

It sort of begs the question: why was Bon Iver not there to perform his and Francis’ song, ‘Friends (feat. Bon Iver)’, given that he was playing on the same day at the same festival? Maybe we’ll never know, but we do hope they’re still, uh, ‘Friends (feat. Bon Iver)’.

5. Seafood is pretty much everywhere in Boston

The city’s on the seafront, so lots of places you go to eat will offer oysters or calamari or a variety of fish. The place in this picture is called Beat Brasserie and it’s something like the jazz place in La La Land: it’s a Somerville jazz and blues bar and restaurant that serves up good vibes with every marine-influenced plate – in our case, via the bossa nova greatness of the Esperanza Spalding collaborator Nadia Washington.

6. Cousin Stizz is a local hero

Saturday on the Delta Blue Stage finds Boston rapper Cousin Stizz buoyed by his hometown crowd. This year he’s enjoyed guest features from G-Eazy and Migos’ Offset, but it’s his completely solo stuff that plays best. As he pulls out the dollar-eyed ‘Gain Green’, even the festival’s security are getting down.