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31 things to do in Mass., one for every day in January, from snow tubing to winter farmers markets to music festivals.

Best Bets: Its a busy week on Cape Cod with choral and chamber music, learning to plant, exploring watercolors and brunching with true-crime writers.

Things to do on Cape Cod this weekend include listening to or playing jazz, a dance party, a new play and Celtic songs and spoken word.

The Cape Cod Jazz Trio will perform an afternoon of jazz standards at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis on Sunday, January 29, at 3:30 PM. The trio

Highlights include a Cape Symphony concert with Broadway actors, Hispanic art and music, a cranberry day, a jazz stroll, and a soup kitchen benefit.

The Cape Cod Museum of Art will present "A Century of Jazz" by the Bart Weisman Smooth Jazz Group on Sunday, June 5, from 3 to 4:15 PM. The afternoon

After a new-album release during the pandemic, the Payomet center brings longtime musician Bob Gould back to Provincetown on an ambitious solo tour.

This weeks highlights include an arts festival, comedy, dining out, an author talk, Pride in Provincetown, live music, theater and a plant sale.

How we can entertain ourselves this summer is becoming clearer, as two more Cape Cod theaters, music festivals in Orleans and Provincetown, and a Marthas Vineyard book festival are among the latest groups releasing their plans for the season. And this entertainment is all live, all in person. (Remember when that wasn’t even a question?) Some of the events are indoors, most outdoors. Take a look:  Provincetown Theater Provincetown Theater patrons will spend late June through September outdo...

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...