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Christine Fawson Quartet in Concert
2026-03-15 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway, West Falmouth, MA, 02574, United States
Vocalist and trumpet player Christine Fawson brings her all-star trio featuring Tim Ray (piano), Marshall Wood (bass), and Casey Scheuerell (drums) to historic West Falmouth Library on Sunday, March 15 at 4 p.m. Tickets are $45 at www.FalmouthJazz.org. Co-sponsored by Falmouth Jazz and West Falmouth Library.
A two-time Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition finalist and former Berklee College of Music professor, Fawson has released four acclaimed albums blending the Great American Songbook with a fresh, contemporary voice. Don’t miss this intimate evening of swinging, soulful jazz with musicians at the very top of their game. Bring a friend.

WFL Book Club – Becoming Madam Secretary
2026-03-10 13:30 - 15:00 | West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway, West Falmouth, MA, 02574, United States
WFL’s volunteer led book club’s March selection is Becoming Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray. All are welcome to join on Tuesday, March 10 at 1:30 p.m. Annual registration is requested to receive important communications about schedule or location changes.
“Stephanie Dray brings Frances Perkins, and everyone around her, so alive you feel she will walk off the page. With an indomitable heroine for our times, Becoming Madam Secretary is destined to be a classic of historical fiction.”—Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea,

International Book Group – Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
2026-03-04 15:30 - 17:00 | West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway, West Falmouth, MA, 02574, United States
The International Book Group at West Falmouth Library is a volunteer-led group that meets on the first Wednesday of each month 3:45-5 p.m. Selections have either foreign settings or foreign authors, usually both. New members are always welcome! Annual registration is requested to receive important communications about schedule or location changes. Meetings are both in-person and on Zoom.
The Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood, a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive.
“Birnam Wood is terrific. As a multilayered, character-driven thriller, it’s as good as it gets. Ruth Rendell would have loved it. A beautifully textured work―what a treat.”―Stephen King
“Whooshingly enjoyable . . . A witty literary thriller about the collision between eco-idealism and staggering wealth.”―John Powers, NPR’s Fresh Air

A Grilled Cheese Social
2026-02-28 12:00 - 13:30 | Falmouth Public Library, 300 Main Street, Falmouth, MA, 02540, United States
A grilled cheese may seem like a simple meal! Butter on the griddle, two pieces of bread and some cheese. It is certainly a delicious choice, but that can get boring after a while! Many have found their own special remedy for the “normal” grilled cheese…but bringing it up in conversation can bring out the fire in the eye. Some folks don’t use butter at all! Why not some mayonnaise! I hear it gives an extra crunch. Or maybe an obscure mustard, bacon, or even bananas. It’s sort of like your parent’s meatloaf. That meatloaf is the only meatloaf you’ll eat!
At the Falmouth Public Library – Main Branch on Saturday, February 28, 2026 at 12:00 PM we will be making the grilled cheese sandwiches on flattop burners. We will be providing a variety of bread and cheeses. Don’t forget to bring your secret ingredient(s) and share it with your friends and other library patrons!
The event is appropriate for patrons ages 11+ unless accompanied by an adult. There will be library staff enjoying and overseeing the event. Adults and parents are more than welcome to join in on the fun! We will be having games and activities all about the Hermann Room while we cook up our glorious melted cheese and bread. The games may be a little “cheesy” (without the mess). The event is from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM. We hope to see you there!
Signing up is very much appreciated. You can access the registration page HERE on our Falmouth Public Library events page or give us a call at 508-457-2555 x 7. Please reach out if you have any questions or problems with registering!

The African American Heritage Trail of Martha’s Vineyard
2026-02-28 11:00 - 12:00
Highfield Hall & Gardens celebrates Black History Month with a talk by Elaine Weintraub on the African American Heritage Trail of Martha’s Vineyard (AAHTMV) on Saturday, February 28, from 11 AM to 12 PM.
The African American Heritage Trail of Martha’s Vineyard (AAHTMV) is a pathway dedicated to the contributions of the people of African descent to the Island. Established in 1998, the AAHTMV celebrates the community, encourages student involvement, and advocates for inclusive history.
Co-founders Carrie Camillo Tankard and Elaine Cawley Weintraub met in 1989 and recognized a common mission to introduce the history of people of color into the Vineyard schools. Beginning with just four sites, the trail has grown to more than 42 plaques today, and the expansion to Falmouth began last fall, with a commemoration of an African American scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory.
The talk is free to the public. Preregistration is requested. Please register at:https://highfieldhallandgardens.org/event/talk-with-elaine-weintraub/
Highfield Hall & Gardens is at 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA 02540

Afternoon Page Turners Book Club – Heartwood by Amity Gaige
2026-02-25 13:00 - 14:30 | West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway, West Falmouth, MA, 02574, United States
A new monthly book club at West Falmouth Library starts in February! The Afternoon Page Turners will meet the last Wednesday of each month at 1 PM at the Library. All are welcome to join! Our first selection, for the February 25 meeting, is Heartwood: A Novel by Amity Gaige.
“The best thriller of 2025.” —The Boston Globe * “Genius.” —The Washington Post
“A literary thriller of the highest order” (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Couple), Heartwood takes you on a gripping journey as a search and rescue team race against time after a woman mysteriously disappears on the Appalachian Trail.

Cape Symphony: Ragtime, Blues, & All That Jazz
2026-02-22 15:00 - 17:00, 2026-02-21 19:30 - 21:30 | Barnstable Performing Arts Center, 744 West Main Street, Hyannis, 02601
Step into a world of toe-tapping rhythms as Byron Stripling returns to the Cape Symphony stage to take you on a high-spirited journey through these iconic American genres in signature style, with plenty of entertaining and humorous vignettes along the way. The program showcases ragtime master Scott Joplin, blues legend Muddy Waters, and more, with a rousing finale you won’t soon forget. Byron is joined by Bobby Floyd of the Ray Charles, Dr. John, and Count Basie Bands.
For tickets, visit www.capesymphony.org, call the Cape Symphony Box Office at 508.362.1111, email tickets@capesymphony.org, or visit the Box Office at 2235 Iyannough Road in West Barnstable, Monday – Friday from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Tickets are discounted 20% for veterans and active military and 50% for students aged 6 – 22. Only tickets purchased on Cape Symphony’s secure website or through the Cape Symphony Box Office are legitimate and guaranteed.

Tea Time Book Club – Anxious People: a Novel by Fredrik Backman
2026-02-19 18:00 - 20:00 | West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway, West Falmouth, MA, 02574, United States
The Tea Time Book Club meets once a month on the third Thursday at 6 p.m. Each time we meet, we’ll enjoy tea and take some time to catch up and get to know each other. We’ll discuss the book of the month and everyone will have an opportunity to recommend a book for the group to vote on for upcoming months.
The selection for the February 19 meeting is Anxious People: a Novel by Fredrik Backman. Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers—including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian—discover their unexpected common traits.
“A deeply funny and warm examination of how individual experiences can bring a random group of people together. Backman reveals each character’s many imperfections with tremendous empathy, reminding us that people are always more than the sum of their flaws.” —BookPage
“The perfect balance of heartwarming and heart-wrenching, and Fredrik Backman has a way of simply yet elegantly describing relationships. We can all be idiots, but we’re still all human beings worthy of connection and love.” –NPR

Woods Hole Film Festival presents "Sorry, Baby"
2026-02-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Redfield Auditorium, 45 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
The Woods Hole Film Festival’s Dinner & A Movie series presents a screening of Sorry, Baby, on Saturday, February 14 at 7PM, at Redfield Auditorium, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 45 Water Street, Woods Hole
Doors open at 6:30 PM
Sorry, Baby is the acclaimed narrative feature written and directed by Eva Victor (USA, 2025, 103 minutes, Rated R), starring Eva Victor, Naomi Ackie, Lucas Hedges, John Carroll Lynch, Louis Cancelmi, and Kelly McCormack.
This feature comedy-drama is an acerbically funny and quietly powerful story about learning how to move forward when bad things happen.
Tickets: $18 general admission | $14 members | $10 students & military
ABOUT THE FILM
Synopsis:
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on—for everyone around her, at least. When a beloved friend visits on the brink of a major milestone, Agnes begins to realize just how stuck she’s been, and starts to find a way forward.
Shot in Ipswich, Massachusetts, Sorry, Baby is a quietly triumphant story about reclaiming one’s footing after the ground has been yanked out from under you. Unabashedly frank and unexpectedly funny, the film offers a fresh and deeply human take on living with an experience you can’t simply “get over.”
In an auspicious triple-threat debut, writer-director-star Eva Victor upends traditional narratives of trauma by focusing not on spectacle, but on the interior, often unseen act of mending oneself. As Agnes—a smart, sensitive, and wry young professor in an overcast New England college town where she was once a graduate student—Victor captures the absurdities, pleasures, confusions, and possibilities of a life just beginning, even as it is shaped by profound disruption.
With friends drifting away into distant futures, Agnes remains in the town where she once thrived and later hit rock bottom after a shocking betrayal. Eschewing formulaic postmortems of violence, Sorry, Baby unfolds as a vibrant comedy-drama that embraces complexity, resilience, and humor without turning away from the trauma at its core.
Produced by Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, and Mark Ceryak of Pastel (Moonlight, Aftersun), Sorry, Baby won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and marks the arrival of a bold and unforgettable new voice in American cinema.
ABOUT DINNER & A MOVIE
Dinner & A Movie is part of the Woods Hole Film Festival’s Winter/Spring Film Series, featuring twice-monthly in-person screenings of independent films from September 2025 through June 2026. Screenings are held at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Redfield Auditorium, located at 45 Water Street in Woods Hole.
Tickets are available in advance at www.woodsholefilmfestival.org and at the door if not sold out.
Before the screening, ticket holders may receive a discount on the meal portion of dinner at Quahog Republic Leeside Pub, 29 Railroad Avenue, Woods Hole.
UPCOMING SCREENING
MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN, Saturday, February 28, 2026
Feature documentary directed by David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin, Redfield Auditorium, Nominated for a 2026 Academy Award®
The Woods Hole Film Festival is supported in part by grants from the Woods Hole Foundation, the Falmouth Fund of the Cape Cod Foundation, the Cape Cod Foundation, the Martha’s Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation, and Cape Cod 5. The Festival is sponsored by Liam Maguire’s Irish Pub.
For more information, email info@woodsholefilmfestival.org or call (508) 495-3456.

Felted Valentines with Cheryl Flett
2026-02-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Highfield Hall and Gardens, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, MA, 02541, United States
Highfield Hall & Gardens will hold a Valentine’s Day felting class for adults, tweens, and teens with Cheryl Flett of FabFunFiber! The event takes place Saturday, February 14, from 10 AM to noon.
Discover the joy of needle felting as you create beautiful, felted sweetheart cookies. Imagine iced sugar cookies that keep forever! This is the perfect way to relax and create at the same time. Needle felting is a fun and easy pastime that’s hooking craft lovers all over the country. Instructor Cheryl Flett of FabFunFiber provides step-by-step instructions and everything you need to create charming projects to cherish or give as gifts. Whether you are an experienced felter or just starting, you can work at your own pace. Get some friends together or come with your tween/teen for a little escape to the beautiful rooms at Highfield where you can experience the fun of completing this delightful project!
All materials are provided. The fee is $35 members or $45 for non-members. Registration is required. Register online today or call 508-495-1878 ext. 2.

WFL Book Club – Crossing to Safety
2026-02-10 13:30 - 15:00 | West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway, West Falmouth, MA, 02574, United States
WFL’s volunteer led book club’s February selection is Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner. All are welcome to join on Tuesday, February 10 at 1:30 p.m. Annual registration is requested to receive important communications about schedule or location changes. Called a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two couples who move between Vermont and Wisconsin, it is a work of quiet majesty, deep compassion, and powerful insight into the alchemy of friendship and marriage.
“A superb book. . . . Nothing in these lives is lost or wasted, suffering becomes an enriching benediction, and life itself a luminous experience.”–Doris Grumbach

Online Pre-Release Listening Session: "Ba-Da-Bu Ba" by WAMPTRONICA
2026-02-09 20:00 - 20:30 | Online, 12 Constance Street, London, E16 2DQ
Poly-Groove Records invites you to an online listening party on Bandcamp celebrating Ba-Da-Bu-Ba, a project rooted in groove, improvisation, and collective listening.
The event takes place Tuesday, February 10, from 8 to 8:30 PM at Bandcamp Listening Party.
This is not a performance or livestreamed set. It is a shared listening experience: the music played front to back, in real time, with space for reflection, conversation, and presence. Listeners are invited to tune in from wherever they are and experience the project as a continuous work, rather than as isolated tracks.
Ba-Da-Bu-Ba sits at the intersection of deep rhythm, jazz sensibility, and Afro-diasporic musical traditions. The listening party creates a space outside of algorithms and playlists, returning to a slower, more intentional way of engaging with music—together.
Date: February 10, 2026
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Online — Bandcamp Listening Party
https://polygrooverecords.bandcamp.com/…/ba-da-bu-ba…
Host: Poly-Groove Records
Artist: WAMPTRONICA
Headphones encouraged.
Conversation welcome.
There is no charge to attend.
This event is open to longtime listeners, collaborators, and anyone interested in music that values musicianship, groove, and communal experience.

Fabric & Fiber Sale
2026-02-08 10:00 - 14:00 | Woods Hole Public Library, 581 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Woods Hole Public Library volunteers will be holding their eagerly awaited Fabric & Fiber Sale on Sunday, February 8, from 10 AM to 2 PM. People come from far and wide, first to donate, and later to buy fabric, yarn, notions, and much more. This one day event is a major source of fundraising for the Library’s operating budget, and the generosity of both donors and shoppers are crucial to its success.
After Falmouth’s only fabric store, Fabric Corner, burned down in 2014 leaving the town without a local place to buy material for sewing projects, Woods Hole Public Library community members hatched a plan to hold a fundraiser sale on Super Bowl Sunday at the Library. The first sale in February 2015 was a great success, and the tradition has continued and grown every year, with only a one year interruption due to Covid, making this year’s sale the 11th anniversary of this community event.
The Woods Hole Library is accepting donations for both the Fabric & Fiber Sale until February 5. If you are doing some end of the year cleaning of fabric, yarn, craft supplies, jewelry, and accessories, bring your unwanted treasures to the Library! Donating helps to keep items out of the waste stream and into the hands of eager crafters while also benefiting our community-supported village Library.
Donations for the sale have been pouring in since the beginning of January. Among this year’s treasures are a large collection of trimmings for upholstery projects, many sewing machines, tabletop looms, rug hooking materials, quilting and knitting books, vintage textiles, luxury yarns, and much more. As usual, there is an abundance of quilting cotton, decorator fabrics, and fleece of all colors and patterns. Along with notions, knitting needles, and a veritable rainbow of workhorse acrylic yarns, there is truly something to delight every crafter.
Many volunteer hours go into making this sale a well-organized, fun, community shopping experience. The Woods Hole Public Library is happy to offer this sale both as an important source of fundraising and as a way to further its mission of sharing community resources. For more information, please visit woodsholepubliclibrary.org or call 508-548-8961. Please note, free parking for this event is available just down the street from the Library in WHOI’s Challenger Lot.

Painting With Tea
2026-02-07 10:30 - 12:00 | West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway, West Falmouth, MA, 02574, United States
Saturday, February 7 from 10:30 a.m. to noon, join Becky for this unique and free activity, inspired by the artwork of Charlie Mackesy in his book The Boy, The Mole, The Fox, and The Horse. A great multigenerational activity (if bringing a child, best for ages 7+).

Metamorphoses at Cotuit Center for the Arts
2026-02-06 19:30 - 2026-02-22 16:00 | Cotuit Center for the Arts, 4404 Falmouth Road, Cotuit, MA, 02635, United States
Cotuit Center for the Arts invites audiences to immerse themselves in the breathtaking world of Metamorphoses, a spellbinding theatrical masterpiece inspired by Ovid’s ancient myths. Directed by Jason R. Mellin, this evocative production runs February 6 through February 22 and brings stories of love, loss, transformation, and redemption vividly to life.
Written by Tony Award–winning playwright Mary Zimmerman, Metamorphoses masterfully blends classical mythology with contemporary themes, using poetic language and striking visual storytelling to explore what it means to change, to grieve, and to love. Set within a fluid, dreamlike world where gods and mortals collide, the production blurs the boundary between myth and reality—creating an unforgettable theatrical experience that resonates long after the final moment.
“Metamorphoses reminds us that change is inevitable—and often beautiful, even when it’s painful,” said director Jason R. Mellin. “This play speaks to the heart in a way few stories can. It’s visually stunning, emotionally raw, and deeply human. We’ve assembled an incredible ensemble, and I truly believe this is a production audiences will feel in their bones.”
Performances will take place Fridays at 7:30 PM, Saturdays at 5:00 PM, and Sundays at 2:00 PM.
The cast includes: Lily Anderson, Amelia Burbine, Bill Farrell, Emma Fitzpatrick, Drew Frayre, Janet Geist Moore, Maeve Moriarty, Erica Morris, Avila Rudd, Sam Sewell, Pete Steedman, Rachel Walman, and Shelley West.
Generous support for Cotuit Center for the Arts’ main stage theater productions is graciously provided in tribute to John McGraw.
With its powerful performances, immersive design, and timeless themes, Metamorphoses offers audiences an opportunity to experience theater at its most transformative.
Tickets are on sale now, and early reservations are strongly encouraged.
For tickets and more information, visit cotuit.org.

International Book Group – Midaq Alley by Najīb Maḥfūẓ
2026-02-04 15:30 - 17:00 | West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway, West Falmouth, MA, 02574, United States
The International Book Group at West Falmouth Library is a volunteer-led group that meets on the first Wednesday of each month 3:45-5 p.m. Selections have either foreign settings or foreign authors, usually both. New members are always welcome! Annual registration is requested to receive important communications about schedule or location changes. Meetings are both in-person and on Zoom.
Considered by many to be Mahfouz’s best novel, Midaq Alley centers around the residents of one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo. No other novel so vividly evokes the sights and sounds of the city. The universality and timelessness of this book cannot be denied.
“Naguib Mahfouz virtually invented the novel as an Arab form. He excels at fusing deep emotion and soap opera.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Mahfouz’s work is freshly nuanced and hauntingly lyrical. The Nobel Prize acknowledges the universal significance of his fiction.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

Tea Time Book Club -
2026-01-15 18:00 - 20:00 | West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway, West Falmouth, MA, 02574, United States
Tea Time Book Club meets once a month on the third Thursday at 6 p.m. Each time we meet, we’ll enjoy tea and take some time to catch up and get to know each other. We’ll discuss the book of the month and everyone will have an opportunity to recommend a book for the group to vote on for upcoming months. The Tea Time Book Club is not meeting in December.
The selection for the January 15th meeting is The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett. A darkly comic and warm-hearted novel about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush—bringing together his adult daughter, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can predict death—by the beloved author of Rabbit Cake and Unlikely Animals.
“A miraculous novel—an actual and spiritual road trip you won’t forget.”—John Irving
An NPR And Lit Hub Best Book of the Year

WFL Book Club – The Art Thief
2026-01-13 13:30 - 15:00 | West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway, West Falmouth, MA, 02574, United States
WFL’s volunteer led book club’s January selection is The Art Thief by Michael Finkel. All are welcome to join on Tuesday, Jan. 13 at 1:30 p.m. Annual registration is requested to receive important communications about schedule or location changes. In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, Michael Finkel gives us one of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of our times, a riveting story of art, theft, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.
“Exhilarating…Finkel’s narrative thrills and electrifies, until it all barrels toward inevitable capture, two shocking betrayals, and an astonishing conclusion.”
—Adrienne Westenfeld, Esquire
“Thrilling…Finkel deftly unspools the story of Breitwieser’s improbable years-long adventure.”
—Geoffrey Gagnon, GQ

Falmouth Chamber Players’ Olenellus String Quartet in Concert
2026-01-11 16:00 - 18:00 | West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway, West Falmouth, MA, 02574, United States
West Falmouth Library and The Falmouth Chamber Players Orchestra present a concert by the Players’ Olenellus String Quartet, Sunday, Jan. 11 at 4 p.m. They will be playing Mozart’s Quartet No. 4 in C Major, Haydn’s “Emperor Quartet” Op 76 No. 3, and an assortment of Scandinavian folk tunes. Admission by donation; suggested donation of $20.
The Olenellus quartet is made up of violinists Anna Fernandez-Buehrens and Liz Maloney, violist Stephanie Burns, and cellist Paul Hall. They hail from as nearby as Falmouth and as far away as Dorchester, and have played together for about 10 years. They love playing pieces from the traditional quartet repertoire, as well as exploring modern music and non-classical arrangements.

Date Night Dance Lessons with Glen Carliss
2026-01-09 18:00 - 20:00 | West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway, West Falmouth, MA, 02574, United States
Have a wedding or event coming up? Dazzle them on the dance floor!
Starting January 9, the West Falmouth Library will offer dance lessons on for five weeks (no class on January 30) on Fridays from 6 to 8 PM. Glen Carlis will teach the skills to enable attendees to gain the confidence to hit the dance floor.
In this easygoing and a unique workshop for two, you’ll have fun learning to dance with a partner. Glen will proceed slowly and will not leave anyone behind. $250 per couple.
Dress to impress in your favorite formal wear for our last lesson on February 13 where we will debut and celebrate your new-found skills and confidence with a live band!
“Glen doesn’t just teach steps; he teaches confidence, connection and most importantly, how to have fun!”

International Book Group – The Green Road by Anne Enright
2026-01-07 15:30 - 17:00 | West Falmouth Library, 575 West Falmouth Highway, West Falmouth, MA, 02574, United States
The International Book Group at West Falmouth Library is a volunteer-led group that meets on the first Wednesday of each month 3:45-5 p.m. Selections have either foreign settings or foreign authors, usually both. New members are always welcome! Annual registration is requested to receive important communications about schedule or location changes; register below. Meetings are both in-person and on Zoom.
From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness―a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them.
“A rich, capacious story, buoyed by tender humor…. The Green Road…offers a survey of Enright’s magnificent dexterity…. There’s nothing she can’t do with perspective, tone and time.” – Ron Charles, Washington Post
“The story of an Irish family, [The Green Road] is the kind of book that refuses quick characterization: it is sprawling and intimate, anguished and hopeful, elliptical and intensely observed.” – Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker

Solstice Singers "A Solstice Hallelujah"
2025-12-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Woods Hole Community Hall, 68 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Solstice Singers presents “A Solstice Hallelujah,” a pageant of songs, instrumental music, drama and dance celebrating the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America.
Performed in colorful period costumes, the program includes pieces that could have been sung or heard at the time of our nation’s founding, both in America and in Europe. The musical selections include contemplative as well as festive pieces for the celebrations surrounding the longest night of the year.
Solstice Singers will be joined by Ensemble Passacaglia, performing on an array of period instruments, as well as the children’s chorus Les Enfants du Soleil. An original mummers play rounds out the program, in which life is struck down by forces of evil (winter), only to spring to life again at the hands of a magical healer (spring).
The two performances take place at the Community Hall in Woods Hole at 68 Water Street on Saturday and Sunday, December 20 and 21, both at 4:00 p.m. Tickets are $25, $10 students, free under age 5, and are available at solsticesingers.org.

2025-12-12 19:00 | College Light Opera Company Lucas Hall, 54 Chapoquoit Road, West Falmouth, MA, 02540, United States
This December, College Light Opera Company is excited to host a unique concert series that will take you on a fabulous journey around the world. Come celebrate an incredible concert, featuring the Cape Cod String Quartet and friends – singers Anna McEntee, Emma Fahle, Zachary Johnson and pianists Matthew Hutchinson, Talyn Imhoff and Catherine Bonnett – showcasing a mix of modern holiday hits (All I Want for Christmas, Baby It’s Cold Outside, Happy Christmas-War Is Over, Do They Know It’s Christmas, Baby Please Come Home, Run Rudolph Run, Little Saint Nick) alongside classics (White Christmas, Silver Bells, The Christmas Song-Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire, Sleigh Ride, and more).
When: Friday, December 12th 2025 – 7:00 PM
Where: Lucas Hall, 54 Chapoquoit Rd, Falmouth, MA 02540

CapePOPS! Holiday on the Cape
2025-12-07 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-07 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-12-06 19:30 - 21:30, 2025-12-06 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-12-05 20:00 - 22:00 | Barnstable Performing Arts Center, 744 West Main Street, Hyannis, 02601
Bring on the sparkle and joy! Your Cape Symphony Orchestra plays all things merry and bright at our beloved Holiday on the Cape concert. We’ll have classic carols, spirited sleigh bells, and brilliant performances by Patrice Tiedemann, the Chatham Chorale, Align Dance Company, and, appearing specially at Saturday’s concerts, the Cape Symphony Youth Orchestra. Bring family, bring friends… there’s nothing like a Holiday on the Cape.
Alyssa Wang takes the podium for the first time as Cape Symphony’s Music Director at these wonderful performances.
Patrice Tiedemann, Soprano
Patrice Tiedemann’s performance highlights include appearances as a soloist with Boston Lyric Opera as The Water in the East Coast premiere of The Little Prince, in Hansel & Gretel with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana with the Pioneer Valley Symphony, and as Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus with Opera Providence and Cape Cod Opera.
She has performed as a Holiday Pops soloist with the Boston Pops, the Cape Symphony, and the New Bedford Symphony, and as the Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music with New Bedford Festival Theatre and Theatre by the Sea, with the Boston Civic Symphony (Verdi’s Requiem), with the University Chorale of Boston College (Dubois’s Seven Last Words of Christ and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony) and nationwide in classical, sacred, and theatrical repertoire.
As Artistic Director of Seaglass Theater Company, Ms. Tiedemann produces creatively staged performances of classic vocal repertoire for Southern New England. In 2021, she served as the dramaturg and sang the role of Eliza Brock for the world premiere of Jodi Goble’s Whaling Women.
Chatham Chorale
Incorporated in 1977, the Chatham Chorale is dedicated to performing the world’s rich diversity of choral music and supporting the musical arts and artists on Cape Cod. Joe Marchio became Music Director of the Chorale in 2010.
Align Dance Company
ALIGN is a creative dance space in Sandwich, Massachusetts where students feel comfortable to learn and grow. Through 1:1 coaching, group training, and a variety of classes, Align’s dedicated professionals and educators lead dancers to success in whatever form they pursue, from strengthening their core values as they grow into confident young humans to finding a place in the professional or pre-professional dance world.
Cape Symphony Youth Orchestra
The Cape Symphony Youth Orchestra is the flagship ensemble of the Cape Symphony Youth Orchestra Program. Music Director and Conductor Mark Miller, Principal Clarinet of the Cape Symphony Orchestra, has more than 35 years’ experience working with talented youth orchestra musicians.

Woods Hole Film Festival: A Cherry Pie Christmas
2025-12-06 19:00 | Redfield Auditorium, 45 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, United States
Woods Hole Film Festival presents its Dinner & A Movie series on Saturday, December 6, with the feature documentary VIVA VERDI! by Yvonne Russo.
The screening takes place at 7 PM at Redfield Auditorium, 45 Water Street, Woods Hole. Doors open at 6:30 PM. Tickets are $18, $12 for members and $10 student/military.
VIVA VERDI! feature documentary by Yvonne Russo, USA, 77 mins., 2025, English and Italian
In 1896, famed composer Guiseppe Verdi built a unique retirement home, Casa Verdi, in Milan, Italy for musicians to live out their lives in retirement. VIVA VERDI! is an intimate glimpse into the lives of the celebrated opera singers and musicians currently living out their ‘third act’ while mentoring international music students who live among them at Casa Verdi.
From these ‘guests’ of Verdi, ages 77 to 107, comprised of international opera singers, ballet dancers, musicians, conductors and composers, we hear an extraordinary array of personal and professional stories filled with music, magic and passion, and ultimately learn why Verdi called this remarkable home his “best work.
With “little altars” to Verdi in every corner, and music and memories in every room, the cross-generational mixing of young and old, held together by an implacable commitment and relentless passion for music, creates a highly charged atmosphere where the human spirit transcends both time and space. As stories of romance, tragedy and triumph abound from these living treasures, it’s easy to see Verdi’s vision thriving – a life-affirming reminder of how music moves us at a fundamental level; how nurturing artistic expression can be life- enhancing and nourishing to the spirit at any age; and how one distinctive retirement home has reclaimed and enriched thousands of artists’ lives.
Award-winning filmmaker Yvonne Russo is the director of VIVA VERDI! She is currently serving as director/producer of RING OF FIRE: The Life of Annie Mae Aquash, a true-crime docuseries currently in production, produced by Amy Kaufman and Caroline Waterlow with Jake Gyllenhaal’s, Nine Stories. Most recently, she directed, produced and wrote the PBS animated short, MINNIE’S WAR BONNET. A producer on KELLY’S BAR, an independent feature with Casey Affleck’s Sea Change Media, Russo worked for 15 years on a diverse slate of domestic and international television and film projects for such companies as HBO, National Geographic Channel, Discovery/TLC, and the CBS/Smithsonian Channel. A member of the Academy of Television and Sciences, she is also a member of the Producers Guild of America where she formerly served on the Board of Governors. A Board Member of NYWIFT, Russo divides her time between New York and Los Angeles and is a member of the Sicangu Lakota Tribal Nation.
ABOUT DINNER & A MOVIE
Dinner & A Movie is a program of the Winter/Spring Film Series, twice-monthly in-person screenings of independent film from September 2025 through June 2026. The screenings will be held in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Redfield Auditorium, located at 45 Water Street, Woods Hole.
Tickets are on sale in advance at www.woodsholefilmfestival.org and at the door if they are not sold out in advance.
Before the screening ticket holders may receive a discount on the meal portion of dinner at the Captain Kidd Restaurant and Bar, 77 Water Street, Woods Hole and Quahog Republic Leeside Pub, 29 Railroad Ave, Woods Hole. Ticket holders must make reservations directly with the restaurant.
For more information email info@woodsholefilmfestival.org or call (508) 495-3456.
