Dropkick Murphys are coming home again. The Quincy-born Celtic punk outfit has announced five Boston shows for St. Patrick's Day week 2027, running March 12 through 17, marking the 25th year of the band's annual hometown celebration that brings together fans for multiple days of music, community and charity.
The run, reported by MassLive, will feature 12 different acts across the week. Four of the five shows land at MGM Music Hall at Fenway, a 5,007-capacity venue built directly adjacent to Fenway Park, according to Wikipedia. Its four-level layout was designed so no seat sits more than 110 feet from the stage, a detail that matters for a band whose shows have always leaned on close-quarters energy.
Per the same MassLive report, the band opens the week on March 12, 2027, at MGM Music Hall with support from Fiddlehead and Wisdom in Chains. The following night, March 13, brings a second MGM show featuring Home Front, Spiritual Cramp and Cittizins. March 14 shifts formats entirely, with an “in the round” performance at 4 p.m. featuring Fallon, Ben Nichols and Jesse Ahern.
A Matinee Built Around Giving Back
Sandwiched into March 13 is a 2 p.m. mini-concert and meet-and-greet billed as “For the Kids,” also at MGM Music Hall, with proceeds benefiting the band's own charitable foundation. The article notes that any adult ticket buyer for that show may bring up to two children under age 14 for free.
The Claddagh Fund was established in Boston in 2009 by Dropkick Murphys co-lead vocalist and bassist Ken Casey, according to Catholic Charities Boston, and works to raise money for underfunded nonprofits serving children, military veterans and addiction recovery programs across Greater Boston and Philadelphia. Casey has credited fans' grassroots efforts with raising most of the fund's money. It's not the band's first time mobilizing fans for a cause close to home — after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Dropkick Murphys released a charity EP featuring Bruce Springsteen that raised more than $65,000.
Closing Out at an Intimate Lansdowne Street Staple
The week wraps on St. Patrick's Day itself, March 17, with a show at Citizens House of Blues featuring The Amazing Royal Crowns, Red Rockers, Liberty and Justice and Restraining Order. The venue, which opened on Lansdowne Street in 2009, holds 2,425 people and sits directly across from Fenway Park, per Mugar Enterprises. Trading the Fenway venue's 5,000-plus capacity for that smaller room gives the finale a notably tighter, hometown-bar feel to close out the week.
The broader St. Patrick's Day 2027 tour kicks off November 21 in New Zealand and wraps June 26, 2027, in the Netherlands, according to MassLive's report. It supports the band's 2025 album For the People, their 13th studio release, which dropped digitally on July 4, 2025, with guest contributions from Billy Bragg, The Scratch and The Mary Wallopers, per Wikipedia. The tour also supports New England Forever, the band's joint project with rising Boston hardcore act Haywire 617 released June 26, 2026 — an eight-song split LP built from the two bands touring together in Europe, featuring three original tracks apiece plus mutual covers, according to Relix Shop.
Why Boston Still Turns Out Every March
Why Boston Still Turns Out Every March The band's Quincy roots help explain why a punk band formed in the basement of a friend's barbershop in Quincy in 1996 has turned St. Patrick's Day week into an annual homecoming rather than just another tour stop.
Dropkick Murphys' catalog includes Going Out in Style, Signed and Sealed in Blood, 11 Short Stories of Pain & Glory and Turn Up That Dial. “I'm Shipping Up to Boston,” a Woody Guthrie-penned song, appeared in Martin Scorsese's 2006 film The Departed.
Early entry ticket packages for the March 13, 14 and 17 shows go on sale at 10 a.m. Wednesday, with all remaining tickets for the full St. Patrick's Day 2027 run going on sale Friday, according to MassLive's report.
