The Cantab Lounge will reopen either the week before or after Thanksgiving, returning the Central Square mainstay to public life after being closed some 20 months. When the Cantab reopens, it will pick up where it left off – with The Chicken Slacks performing every Thursday.

Club Passim’s twice-yearly music festival returns Friday through Monday for the Labor Day Weekend, with more than 50 artists performing live and remotely.

Fans of jazz and free-form music continue to be well served by the Creative Music Series and organizer Alex Lemski, which has a few upcoming dates and events to be aware of.

Somerville and Cambridge celebrate the return of live music with an all-local Saturday music festival cutely titled Nice, A Fest. “It’s just like, ‘Nice, we’re having a festival,’ or ‘Nice, we get to do this again,’” organizer Alex Prickett said.

A gift for Victoria Heitzmann’s birthday this year is easy: Just help crowdfund the album being produced by the recent CRLS grad before she heads off to study biochemistry in California.

Passim is celebrating Bob Dylan’s 80 birthday in advance by getting dozens of artists together Wednesday to sing his greatest hits; before that comes a Saturday class called “Tangled Up in You: Interpreting & Imagining Bob Dylan in the 21st Century.”

The return of warmer weather means the return of the free Creative Music Series to Saturdays at Assembly Square, starting with an Easter Weekend concert led by Boston musician and composer Eric Zinman.

Cambridge’s resident celebrities are low-key, but renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma has popped up lately in a flurry of charitable work – and with an impromptu performance Saturday after getting vaccinated.

A space for aspiring electronic music artists and studio producers called Subcentral launches this weekend in Central Square – just steps from where The Mmmmaven Project operated with a similar mission until April 2019.

Sea chantey TikTok somehow became the music that sang goodbye to 2020 and ahoy to the new year. Folk musician and chantey expert David Coffin will tell you all about those videos you’ve been loving and lead a free, virtual Sea Chantey Sing on Feb. 19.