WBRU Summer Concert Series
Every summer the station puts on the WBRU concert series. The shows usually feature a popular band and a few local acts opening up. Initially, there were about 10 shows per year which were free to the public and paid for by sponsor booths, but in recent years the station has started charging for these concerts and has reduced the number of shows to 3 per year. In 2010, the station resumed free single artist Summer Concert Series concerts in addition to the multiple band for-pay concerts. Past concert series include:
- 1996: The Cardigans
- 1997: Our Lady Peace; Echo & the Bunnymen; The Seahorses
- 1998: Candlebox and Fastball; Soul Asylum; Save Ferris and Gruvis Malt; Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
- 1999: Silverchair and Dovetail; The Flys and Fountains of Wayne; The Verve Pipe; Sponge; Beth Orton; Fuel and Vertical Horizon
- 2000: Guster; Eve 6 and SR-71; Vertical Horizon and 3 Doors Down; Catherine Wheel, Wheatus and Amazing Crowns; The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Sum 41; Everclear; Silverchair; Caviar(band)
- 2001: Gruvis Malt and Poe;Better Than Ezra; Rustic Overtones and Bob's Day Off; Stroke 9
- 2002: New Found Glory and Goldfinger; Better Than Ezra and Maroon 5; Custom and Gruvis Malt; Pete Yorn and Sense Field (moved indoors to Lupo's due to rain); Trik Turner; Ash and Unwritten Law (moved indoors to Lupo's due to rain); Doves
- 2003: Guster and ZOX; Third Eye Blind and Hot Hot Heat; Brand New and M-80
- 2004: Lit, Local H and Finger Eleven; New Found Glory, The Living End and The Lingo; Lostprophets, Midtown and Monty's Fan Club
- 2005: The Bravery and Hot Hot Heat; Finch, ZOX and the Rx Bandits; My Chemical Romance, Alkaline Trio, and Monty Are I
- 2006: Guster and Blizzard of '78; Hawthorne Heights and Yellowcard; Dropkick Murphys, Madball and The Sleazies
- 2007: Plain White T's, The Academy Is... and Arcadia Landing; The Bravery, Shiny Toy Guns and Triangle Forest; Guster and Hello Mahalo
- 2008: Death Cab for Cutie and Amanda Palmer; ZOX, Badfish, Someday Providence, Hello Mahalo and Scotty Don't; Paramore, Jack's Mannequin, Phantom Planet and Paper Route; Ben Folds and Missy Higgins
- 2009: Third Eye Blind and Wild Light; The Airborne Toxic Event, Metric, Cage the Elephant and The Nightwatchman; The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Ida Maria and Catch-22
- 2010: AFI, Violent Soho and New Politics; Fanfarlo; Civil Twilight; Sit Down Baby; Fairhaven; Constellations; Santa Mamba; The Wandas (canceled); Sarah Potenza and the Tall Boys; OK Go; Coheed and Cambria, The Dear Hunter and Manchester Orchestra
- 2011: Santa Mamba, Young the Giant, Deer Tick, Sleeper Agent, Viva Brother, VulGarity, The Wandas
- 2012: Grouplove, Delta Spirit, White Rabbits, Walk the Moon, The Tower and the Fool, The Silks, The Rice Cakes
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