To preserve, honor and showcase New England’s rich musical heritage.

The roughly nine months Van Morrison spent living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1968 were elemental in his then-unprecedented transformation from British Invasion-era pop star to legendary musical maverick, evidenced by his second solo album, Astral Weeks.

Boston radio station WBCN revolutionized rock radio with
its freewheeling format and political activism in the late
1960s and 1970s.