Rock-N-Dock Festival, Dockdogs Return to Patriot Place Thursday

For the second year in a row, Team21 has teamed with Bass Pro Shops, Dockdogs and local and national sponsors to bring its second annual Rock-N-Dock Festival to Patriot Place from Thursday, May 30 to Sunday, June 2.

The festival will feature an exciting aquatic canine competition, food, vendors and fun family activities on all four days. In addition to the action-packed events scheduled at Bass Pro Shops, there will be a benefit concert on Saturday at Showcase LIVE featuring Nashville recording artist Lori McKenna.

A complete schedule of events is listed below.

The Dockdogs competition will be the main event on all four days as canines from all over the country compete in three categories of the world’s premier canine aquatics competition: Big Air, Extreme Vertical and Speed Retrieve.

All three world-record holding dogs from each of these categories will be in Foxborough for the competition. The dog with the highest combination of scores in all three categories will earn the title of “Iron Dog.”

The Dockdogs event is free, open to the public and pet friendly.

The spotlight Dockdogs event starts Friday at 6 p.m. and will feature two world record holders. The Extreme Vertical competition will be highlighted by Bo and Yeager, who currently co-own the world’s highest vertical jump at 8-feet-4-inches, while other dogs rarely top the 7-foot mark.

As the dogs are resting their paws on Saturday night, Showcase LIVE will be rocking with a benefit concert. Stoughton resident and five-time Boston Music Awards Best Folk Artist winner, singer/songwriter Lori McKenna, will perform. The concert begins at 4:30 p.m. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased at www.showcaselive.com.

Proceeds from the Rock-N-Dock Festival will benefit Team21, Children’s Hospital Boston Down Syndrome Programs, the Mass General Hospital Down Syndrome Program and the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress to help raise awareness about the importance of early intervention programs in helping children with Down syndrome live their fullest lives.

2nd Annual Rock-N-Dock Festival Schedule of Events

Thursday, May 30

• 4 p.m. - Big Air Wave #1
• 6 p.m. - Big Air Wave #2

Friday, May 31

• 9:30 a.m. - Big Air Wave #3
• 11:30 a.m. - Big Air Wave #4
• 1:30 p.m. - Big Air Wave #5
• 3:30 p.m. - Big Air Wave #6
• 6 p.m. - Extreme Vertical (All in One Finals)

Saturday, June 1

• 9:30 a.m. - Big Air Wave #7
• 11:30 a.m. - Big Air Wave #8
• 1:30 p.m. - Speed Retrieve (All in One Finals)
• 4:30 p.m. - Lori McKenna Benefit Concert (Showcase LIVE)

Sunday, June 2

• 9:30 a.m. - Big Air Wave #9
• 11:30 a.m. - Big Air Wave #10
• 1:30 p.m. - Big Air Wave #11
• 4 p.m. - Big Air Finals