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Hot Trax: Live music coming to MBTA subway cars during late-night service this weekend

Long after the rock clubs announce last call this Saturday night, live music in Boston will continue in the most unlikeliest of places: your subway car home.

The MBTA booking bands? This could open up a whole new demographic for Keytar Bear.

According to a report in Boston Magazine, musicians will serenade riders of the T as part of Boston Idea Week, “a five-day celebration of creative thinking that will feature panel discussions and exhibits challenging ‘the everyday normal,’ passengers making use of the new late-night weekend train services will be greeted by performing artists as they travel between stops.”

The plan was hatched by MassDOT Secretary Richard Davey last month.

This will not end well.

The scoop from BoMag:

Called “Trax on the Tracks,” a selection of tunes will ring through the train cars on Saturday, June 14, from 1 a.m. to 3 a.m., opening up the stage for local musicians and buskers that are usually bound to station platforms and stops. “They will actually be in the train cars,” said Kristin Phalen, one of Boston Idea Week’s organizers and planners. “They will start at Ashmont, Jackson Square, and Downtown Crossing stations.”

A full list of the artists participating in the series hasn’t been released.

The idea of bringing musical acts onto the transit lines stems from a conversation Davey had with art experts during an informal meeting at District Hall in the Seaport area in May. After inviting a select few people versed in the public arts sector to the roundtable meeting, Davey floated a list of potential projects that he hoped would make the MBTA not only a service that ships residents and riders between two destination points, but also a spot that they could enjoy, creating a vibrant, interesting place to be.

Let’s just hope they don’t book these guys…

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