Boston Calling pictures

The first annual Boston Calling music festival is underway at City Hall Plaza featuring performances by fun., The National, The Shins, and more. Check out scenes from the concert and share your photos and videos.

Ra Ra Riot singer Wes Miles and guitarist Milo Bonacci played the City Hall Stage during the second day of the Boston Calling festival.

After their original cellist left the band, Ra Ra Riot have struggled to keep new members. However, the strings certainly add the baroque element the band is known for.

Members of Young the Giant, Jacob Tilly (left) and Francois Comtois in their trailer, backstage at Boston Calling.

Members of the Icelandic rock band Of Monsters and Men in the press area at Boston Calling.

Pictured: Bad Rabbits played a rainy set Saturday afternoon.

The second day of the Boston Calling Music Festival was also sold out.

A person got a higher view point of the Boston Calling Music Festival.

Ryan Smith of South Boston with his daughter, Marion, 3, and wife Barbara Blanchard Smith enjoyed a family outing at the Boston Calling Music Festival.

Synth-pop group Youth Lagoon stopped by from Boise, Idaho.

Youth Lagoon’s lead singer Trevor Powers belted out songs on the City Hall Stage.

Youth Lagoon’s Logan Hyde performed.

Beverly-based Caspian recently completed a national tour and are back home to play Boston Calling.

Fans were happy for day two and the front row of the main stage was once again lined with screaming tween-aged girls.

Caspian frontman Philip Jamieson played guitar and keyboards

Caspian guitarist Erin Burke-Moran got into the performance.

Fans weren’t deterred by the downpour.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino addressed the crowd on the main stage .

People danced to the music of MS MR.

Marina Lambrini Diamandis, lead singer with Marina and the Diamonds performed on the side-main stage.

More Marina and the Diamonds.

Nate Ruess, lead singer with Fun, performed on the main stage.

Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino with the bandMatt & Kim performing on the main stage.

James Mercer, lead singer of the Shins, performed.

Matt & Kim fired up the crowd.

Fans stood over the warmth of an exhaust grate in the Beer Garden.

Bad Rabbits guitarist Salim Akram.

Fans packed City Hall Plaza on Saturday.

Bad Rabbits frontman Fredua Boakye.

Bad Rabbits drummer Sheel Davé.

Fans cheered for Bad Rabbits.

Bad Rabbits, who have broken out on a national level, were once a Boston band known at the Eclectic Collective.

Despite the rain, these fans were all smiles.

St. Lucia frontman Jean-Philip Grobler.

A fan danced to St. Lucia.

St. Lucia keyboardist Patricia Beranek.

Fans weathered the storm in ponchos.

Cults took the stage.

Madeline Follin of Cults, a New York City indie band.

Madeline Follin of Cults.

Matt&Kim members Kim Schifino (drums) and Matt Johnson (vocals/keyboards) went on air with RadioBDC for an interview and to record a celebrity series takeover.

Alison Kemmerer and Melissa Hyde from Ipswich were “psyched’’ to be at Boston’s first rock festival.

Pop duo Matt & Kim played the Main Stage at 4:30 p.m. and threw hundreds of balloons at the audience, instructing fans to blow them up and release them.

The balloons floated over the crowd of thousands.

Audience members danced along to Matt & Kim, and others were lifted into the air, crowd surfing across the plaza.

The rain created some flooded areas of the beer garden, where fans stood on planters and danced along to the bands.

New York City residents Rosalie Kennedy, Kate Presbury, and Sarah Spear drove up for Boston Calling and were having a great time so far.