What to know about Maura Healey's swearing in, and inaugural party

Kinga Borondy, Telegram & Gazette
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Maura T. Healey will be sworn in as the first female elected governor of Massachusetts at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, along with the new lieutenant governor, Kim Driscoll.

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Events will begin late in the morning and continue into the night. Here's what to know:

Gov.-elect Maura Healey talks with the media with Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Driscoll, center, during their visit to the Family Table Collaborative in South Yarmouth.
Gov.-elect Maura Healey talks with the media with Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Driscoll, center, during their visit to the Family Table Collaborative in South Yarmouth.

How to watch

The morning proceedings, including the swearing in of the governor and lieutenant governor and their inaugural speeches, will be shown on WBZ-TV and there will be a livestream running on the Statehouse website.

Who will perform at the inauguration?

Jazz and R&B singer Lydia Harrell, an alumna and instructor at Boston's Berklee College of Music, is scheduled to sing the national anthem. Another Berklee College alumna – singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and disability advocate Precious Perez – will also perform.

Celebrations at TD Garden

Evening events at Boston's TD Garden will have a basketball theme: “Moving the Ball Forward.” (Healey was a star point guard at Harvard who went on to play professionally in Europe.) Six-time Grammy Award winner Brandi Carlile will headline.

Tickets for the event are $30 each (free for children 12 and younger), with a limit of six tickets per purchase. A Ticketmaster account is required to purchase tickets.

Celtics announcer Eddie Palladino will serve as emcee and Todd Angilly, the official national anthem singer for the Boston Bruins, will perform with The Spirituals Ensemble from the Boston Arts Academy, a city public high school for the visual and performing arts.

Other schools featured at the evening festivities include the Everett High School marching band; Witch Pitch, Salem High School’s award-winning a capella group; and SciTech Band, from the Springfield High School of Science and Technology Band Program.

The Boston Gay Men’s Chorus will perform, as will DJ Frenchy, of Lynn, and Abilities Dance Boston, a dance company dedicated to using dance as a tool for intersectional disability rights. Other performances include OOMPA, a Boston-born, hip hop artist.

This article originally appeared on Telegram & Gazette: Maura Healey and Kim Driscoll inauguration: How to watch