13 enchanting Taylor Swift Boston-area moments to don’t forget, on her birthday

December 13, 2020 | 7:13 AM

Taylor Swift turned 31 nowadays, on Dec. 13, just days soon after releasing yet another shock album “evermore” – a sister soundtrack to her handful of-months-aged album, “folklore.” The ninth, indie alt-rock, album consists of 15 tracks, co-penned with Aaron Dessner of The National and Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff it characteristics artists Bon Iver and Haim.

While some admirers experienced nevertheless to even method “folklore”or see an in-individual live performance cycle that would usually abide by an album, “evermore” introduced to fans around and significantly calming anthems of yearning, heartbreak, and lifestyle in quarantine.

At the time Swift is back again on the highway to tour, it is probably she’ll revisit a location she retains dear: Gillette stadium. Swift, who wrote a song about the eclectic heritage of her Rhode Island house, is no stranger to New England. Here’s a seem again at some of her neighborhood times in excess of the years that fans don’t forget all far too effectively.

#1 In 2008, she opened for Rascal Flatts at the Comcast Centre in Mansfield, Mass.

#2 The Fearless tour, at Gillette stadium in 2010, when she was the initial feminine to solo headline a live performance at the location.

#3, “Mine” in 2010.  A small north of Boston, Swift used section of her summer in Kennebunkport, Maine, to shoot and premiere the debut of her tunes video, “Mine.”

#4, #5, and #6 The Communicate Now tour in 2011: The notorious “rain show” performance of “Long Live” that Swift would go on to reference above the several years as one of her most memorable live performance times in her everyday living. Followed by “Sparks Fly” a tunes video which features Foxborough live performance footage from that same tour day.

#7 and #8 Crimson Tour in 2013, when Taylor Swift subsequently reminisced on the 2011 “rain show” and talked about “Boston Strong” in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing.

#9 Taylor Swift visits 7-12 months-aged Jordan Nickerson at Boston Children’s Medical center, in 2014.

#10 and 11 The 1989 tour at Gillette Stadium in 2015, that bought out within minutes.

#12 and 13, Standing tour in 2018, which she ended with her 10th stadium performance at Gillette and called again to all her prior shows and the lovers that have followed her via all.

Loverfest East, Swift’s seventh album’s Gillette stadium tour dates, at first scheduled for July and August in 2020, had been postponed to 2021 because of to the coronavirus pandemic. It’s unclear no matter if “Loverfest” will be a “folklore,” “evermore,” and a presumed third mystery album (?) cry fest jam, but just one thing’s for guaranteed, New England fans will occur out in troves for her every time it comes about.