Cape Cod May News Today

With Memorial Day weekends unofficial summer launch, weve got parties to celebrate, plus music, rhododendrons, butterflies, a beach and a contest.

Highlights include concerts, a move about cats, the art shanties opening, a comedy show, a contra dance, a cocktail contest and three author events.

Highlights include a Santa convention, Atwood Museum opens, a mindfulness fest, a film fest, a Kentucky Derby party, and Cape Cod Toy Library opens.

Live music is back at Payomet Payomet Performing Arts Center will kick off the season with singer-songwriter Vance Gilbert playing two shows at its Drive-In Live outdoor venue. Gilbert, who has released 13 albums, combines classic covers and original tunes with humor. The hybrid seating options are designated lawn space for blankets and chairs, or in cars When: 4 and 7 p.m. Saturday, May 22  Where: Payomet Performing Arts Center ballfield, 29 Old Dewline Road, North Truro Tickets (advance only...

Murder mystery part of “radio hour” fundraiser In an unusual mix of eras and technologies born out of pandemic necessity, the theatrical fundraiser for the West Falmouth Library this year will be a 1940s radio play that uses 2021 Zoom virtual capabilities. The library and writer/director Lisa Jo Rudy’s Not My Monkeys company will present “The Music and Murder Radio Hour,” a nostalgic virtual variety show featuring “vintage” ads, musical acts and a murder mystery/comedy. Not able t...

Film fest screen story of cancer researcher Woods Hole Film Festival will continue its virtual screening series with the documentary “Jim Allison: Breakthrough,” by filmmaker Bill Haney and narrated by Woody Harrelson. The 2019 film is a story of one man’s quest to find a cure for cancer. Allison won the 2018 Nobel Prize for discovering the immune system’s role in defeating the disease after a decades-long struggle against medical skepticism and the resistance of the pharmaceutical indu...