MUSIC FESTIVAL The Duxbury Music Festival, an intensive 17-day program of chamber music that brings world-renowned teachers and performers and aspiring young artists together, offers a series of public performances from Sunday, July 17, to July 28. Highlights include longtime Billy Joel guitarist David Brown performing in “The Piano Man: Billy Joel’’ cabaret concert Tuesday, July 19, at 7 p.m. in Assembly Hall at First Parish Church, 842 Tremont St.
The festival’s outdoor “Tent Events’’ on Duxbury Town Green open with “Motown on the Green’’ Friday, July 22, at 7 p.m. “Rhythm & Blues on the Green’’ returns with a buffet dinner dance on Saturday, July 23, at 6:30 p.m.
The award-winning “Beethoven’s Wig’’ children’s concert program takes place along with South Shore Conservatory movement, music, and arts activities Sunday, July 24, at 10:30 a.m. Also on July 24, the Sunday in the Park concert features festival student chamber performances in a free concert at 5 p.m. on the green.
See the festival website for ticket prices, reservations, and full information, www.duxburymusicfestival.org/events.html.
SUGGESTIONS OF REAL Paintings and monotype prints by Donna Ingemanson are abstract (above) with a suggestion of realism, leading viewers to create their own stories.
Paul Pratt Memorial Library, 35 Ripley Road, Cohasset, on exhibit through Aug. 31.
SUMMER COLOR South Street Gallery’s “Summer Paintings Show’’ features paintings in various mediums by regional artists who capture the colors of summer with their paint brushes.
149 South St., Hingham, opening event Friday, July 22, 6-9 p.m.; free, refreshments; continues through labor Day, www.southstreetgallery.com.
WEST AFRICAN RHYTHMS Bamidele Dancers & Drummers, educators from Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean, present “Wongai! Rhythms of West Africa, Brazil, & the Caribbean’’ at the Monday Nights at Stetson Hall music series.
6 South Main St., Randolph, Monday, July 18, 7 p.m.; www.turnerfreelibrary.org.
HARBOR MUSIC The Plymouth Harborfest continues Sunday, July 17, from noon to 7 p.m. with music on the waterfront presented by Project Arts. Divas With a Twist (five female lead singers performing pop, rock, and dance music) headline the day’s lineup.
Pilgrim Memorial State Park, Water Street; free.
ROCK CONCERTS Also on the Plymouth waterfront, Project Arts’ series of weekly concerts presents Irish Night with Inchicore and The Lindsays.
Wednesday, July 20, 6:30 p.m.; free.
SWING SET South Shore Conservatory’s Evenings Under the Stars presents “The Big Swing: The Music of the Swing Era,’’ featuring trumpeter Rob Reustle (left) leading the conservatory’s jazz/rock/pop faculty performers in the music of the swing greats.
Jane Carr Amphitheater, 1 Conservatory Drive, Hingham, Saturday, July 23, 7 p.m.; $40 pavilion, $25 lawn, www.sscmusic.org/evenings_under_the_stars.html.
BEACH DAYS Mass Audubon South Shore Sanctuaries presents Summer Programs at Duxbury Beach every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday in July and August, 9-11 a.m.
“Seashore Treasures’’ with Don Salvatore of the Museum of Science in Boston takes place Tuesday, July 19.
“Birding by Van,’’ with Sue MacCallum, Thursday, July 21.
Charts, Topographic Maps, Compasses and Orienteering, July 23.
Participants meet on the ocean side of the Powder Point Bridge; register www.massaudubon.org/southshore or by calling 781-837-9400.
MONDAY RACES Sponsored by the First Congregational Church’s Women’s Fellowship, the annual summer Rockland Races take place each Monday, 6:15- 7:30 p.m., through the last Monday in August at Bicentennial Track. Children participate in sprints and team relays.
ART DEMONSTRATION Painter Judith Brassard Brown demonstrates her craft at The Art Complex Museum. Her work is currently on exhibit at the museum.
189 Alden St., Duxbury, Sunday, July 17, 1:30-3:30 p.m.; free.
MONKEYS JUMPING South Shore Conservatory’s Wacky Wednesdays family concert series presenting Vanessa Trien (above) and the Jumping Monkeys. Drink lemonade, dance in the aisles, jump with the monkeys.
Jane Carr Amphitheater, 1 Conservatory Drive, Hingham, Wednesday, July 20, 10 a.m.; $15 adults, $5 children.
BIG BAND The town of Norwood concerts present the Roy Scott Big Band, performing traditional jazz.
Town Common, Sunday, July 17, 7-9 p.m.; click on “community’’ at www.norwoodma.gov.
WINSLOW HOUSE Families are invited to take part in a scavenger hunt across the fields and lawns of some of Marshfield’s most iconic historical sites.
634 Careswell St., Marshfield, Sunday, July 17, 1-3 p.m.; 781-837-5753.
The Winslow House also hosts representatives of the Museum of Science for an investigation of the science behind magic tricks.
Friday, July 22, 10:30 a.m.
ISLAND JOURNEY Visitors are invited to join the Duxbury Rural and Historical Society on a journey to Clark’s Island in Plymouth Bay.
Sunday, July 24, 1-3 p.m.; free, www.duxburyhistory.org/events/clarks-island-picnic.
HISTORY’S READERS The History Book Group discusses “The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis’’ by Thomas Goetz. July 21, 4 p.m.
Manomet Branch Library, 12 Strand Ave., Plymouth; www.plymouthpubliclibrary.org.
Send information about events at least two weeks in advance to Robert Knox at rc.knox2@gmail.com.
