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Thursday, March 5
6 p.m. March 5
Museum of Natural History’s Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Baldwin neighborhood, Cambridge.
Benjamin Franklin, Frankenstein and the Age of Revolution
Free but RSVP. To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence, Harvard’s Joyce E. Chaplin discusses Ben Franklin’s scientific pursuits, showing the central role of science in the revolutionary era. She will also discuss how Franklin’s reputation lived on in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.”
7:30 p.m. March 5
Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square.
Natalie MacMaster, Donnell Leahy and the Celtic All-Stars
$48. Natalie MacMaster, fiddle virtuoso Donnell Leahy and their daughter Mary Frances perform with all-stars of the Celtic world, including Capercaillie vocalist Karen Matheson and Ross Ainslie from Scotland, Lúnasa’s Tim Edey of England, and We Banjo 3’s banjoist Enda Scahill from Ireland.
Friday, March 6
7 to 10 p.m. March 6
Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave., Spring Hill, Somerville.
Theatre@First presents: A Night of One Acts
$10 suggested donation. This all-volunteer community theatre presents four one-act plays.
8 to 11 p.m. March 6
The Lizard Lounge, 1667 Massachusetts Ave., in the Baldwin neighborhood between Harvard and Porter squares, Cambridge.
Delta Generators Live
$15. Performing together since 2008, the band has put out four albums fusing their mixture of blues, roots, R&B, Americana and rock music.
Saturday, March 7
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 7
Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave., near Union Square, Somerville.
Somerville Maple Boil Down
Free. Each February, a team of volunteers taps a swath of maple trees on the Tufts campus, collecting gallons of sap. At this event, it’s boiled it down into 100% hyper-local maple syrup. Coordinated by the Somerville Community Growing Center.
1 to 4 p.m. March 7
King Open/Cambridge Street Upper School & Community Complex, 840 Cambridge St., Wellington-Harrington, Cambridge.
Rollin and Summer Resources Community Event
Free. Cambridge families with children in grades K-8 are invited to explore 40-plus local summer camps and programs. Food, music, a live DJ and roller skating is also available.
2 to 11 p.m. March 7
Lilypad, 1353 Cambridge St., Inman Square, Cambridge.
A Musical Celebration of the Life and Work of Alex Lemski
$25. Alex Lemski founded the Creative Music Series in 2015 and was its artistic director until his death in December 2025. This musical event, including Fully Celebrated Orchestra, Chalangra, Blink, New Language Collaborative and Ellwood Epps Quartet, honors his memory.
1 to 2:00 p.m. March 7
Brattle Street (between Eliot and Church Streets).
18th Annual Taste of Chocolate Festival
Free to enter. The centerpiece of this weekend is the free Chocolate Tasting Event with more than a dozen local stores and groups participating. Plus, the Brazilian percussion group Grooversity will perform.
Sunday, March 8
11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 8
Lou’s, 13 Brattle St., Cambridge.
Josiah Reibstein & The Hubtones featuring Anne Linders
Free admission. Josiah Reibstein & The Hubtones tap into Boston’s finest traditional jazz musicians, delivering swinging, high-energy sets rooted in New Orleans-style jazz.
Noon to 3 p.m. March 8
McCarthy’s, 1920 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge.
Scottish Brunch Sunday Session with Adam Hendey and Friends
Free admission. Local professional musicians gather around the session table to fill the room with the lively sounds of reels, jigs, strathspeys and airs.
2 p.m. March 8
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., near Harvard Square, Cambridge
Spotlight Tour: In the Blink of an Eye, with Jade Xiao
Free. On this tour, Jade Xiao, Ho Family Student Guide and editor-in-chief of the Harvard Undergraduate Art Journal, explores how art captures the fleeting nature of time. The tour stops are “Vanitas” (c. 1525), a boxwood sculpture by an artist from the School of Conrad Meit; the painting “The Vanity of the Artist’s Dream” (1830) by Charles Bird King; and “Blossoming Plum with Moon and Snow” (late 18th–early 19th century), a pair of hanging scrolls by Goshun.
Monday, March 9
7 p.m. March 9
Somerville Museum, 1 Westwood Road, in the Spring Hill neighborhood.
Tavern Talk: Snowbound! The Blizzard of ’78
$15 to $20. Revisit the devastating Blizzard of ‘78, which dumped a then-record 27 inches of snow in Greater Boston and 40 inches on the South Shore, paralyzing the region for the better part of a week and becoming the measuring stick for subsequent winter storms.
8 p.m. March 9
Club Passim, 47 Palmer St., Harvard Square, Cambridge.
Passim Monday Discovery Series
$20. This month, singer-songwriters Joe Gorka and Colin Cutler. Discovery Series is a monthly event sponsored by Nine Athens Music to bring new artists into the Passim community.
Tuesday, March 10
6 p.m. March 10
Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge.
Dr. Anjana Khatwa talks on “The Whispers of Rock: The Stories That Stone Tells About Our World and Our Lives”
Free. The earth scientist and advocate for diversity in the geosciences and nature shows how rocks have always spoken to us. She intertwines Indigenous stories of Earth’s creation with our scientific understanding of its development, showing how our lives are intimately connected to time’s ancient storytellers.
7:30 p.m. March 10
Cantab Lounge, 738 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square, Cambridge.
Songwriter Showcase
Free but 21-plus. Includes an hour open mic slot during which any musician can show up and perform a couple of songs.
Wednesday, March 11
8 p.m. March 11
First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St., Harvard Square.
The Harvard Krokodiloes and Princeton Tigertones in Concert
$20. The Krokodiloes, Harvard’s oldest a cappella group, and the Tigertones, Princeton’s men’s a cappella group, perform together.
9:30 p.m. March 11
The Lizard Lounge, 1667 Massachusetts Ave., in the Baldwin neighborhood between Harvard and Porter squares, Cambridge.
Duke Levine & The Super Sweet Sounds of The 70’s-Late Show
$35. Duke Levine (guitar) Kevin Barry (guitar and lap steel), Mike Rivard (bass), Paul Schultheis (keys), Yahuba Garcia-Torres (congas and percussion) and Dean Johnston (drums) perform instrumental arrangements of a bunch of tunes you know and a couple you maybe never heard.
Thursday, March 12
6 to 7:30 p.m. March 12
Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge.
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
RSVP. To mark the 250th anniversaries of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States, a coalition of local nonprofits and government agencies present Washington in American Memory, a seven-part speaker series. Retrace George Washington’s post-inaugural journeys and explore how he sought to unite a fragile new nation.
7 p.m. March 12
The Burren, 247 Elm St., Davis Square, Somerville.
School of Rock Burlington’s Adult Band
$20 to $25. “REEL ROCK!” is a celebration of rock music featured in your favorite films and television shows.
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