Concert @ Lawn D June17

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Passion Pit to Headline First Ticketed Concerts at Lawn on D

3,000 general admission tickets are available for both shows, which are organized in partnership with Bowery Boston.

By Olga Khvan | Arts & Entertainment | May 4, 2015 5:49 p.m.

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Lawn on D, the experimental, multipurpose venue that opened in South Boston last August, will offer ticketed concerts for the first time starting this summer.

On June 17, indie folk band Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros will return to Boston after a memorable performance at Boston Calling last May, during which frontman Alex Ebert started a dance party with photographers in the photo pit before climbing over barricades and into the crowd of screaming fans packed into City Hall Plaza.

And on July 23, local favorites Passion Pit will take over the Lawn on D for a much bigger affair than their recent intimate performance at the Sinclair, part of Converse’s five-day Rubber Tracks Live series.

The Lawn on D is offering 3,000 general admission tickets for both the Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Passion Pit shows. For comparison, that’s a little more than the 2,500-capacity at the House of Blues, and a little more than half of the 5,000-capacity at the nearby Blue Hills Bank Pavilion on the harbor. Concert-goers can plant themselves anywhere inside the 2.7-acre venue—the lawn itself, which will be cleared of its regular lounge chairs, the picnic benches inside the covered tent, or even Swing Time if they want to. The bar will be open, and food and beverage provider Lincoln Tavern will offer specialty food items.

In addition to the concerts, Lawn on D will offer an array of events during its summer 2015 season, which kicks off with a celebration on May 15. Meanwhile, tickets are still available for the Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros concert, which went on sale last month.