Some of your favorite local bands are playing this weekend. Find out where

For some, the weekends are all about getting out. Let's see if we can help you find a place to go. (And in the music world, the weekend really begins Thursday night.)

The South Shore and nearby towns will be filled with live music at venues big and small.

Another packed calendar of musical events in the area, and, for some reason, an influx of Australian musicians – including Dope Lemon, Morgan Evans, Amyl and the Sniffers and Grentperez – in the Boston clubs.  Well, tie me wallaby down, sport, and let's get going!

Local favorites the Aldous Collins Band, Kier Byrnes and the Kettle Burners and Dalton & the Sheriffs will be performing locally this weekend, as will Bob Dylan, who has a three-night series of shows at Boston's Orpheum Theater for three nights, Friday through Sunday.

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Laughs are also in order with Joey Voices, Frank Santos Jr. and Alex Cooper appearing in the area.

THURSDAY, Nov. 2: Aldous Collins Band setting up shop in Pembroke

The popular South Shore-based Aldous Collins Band begins a Thursday residency at Soundcheck Studios in Pembroke (Nov. 2, 9, 16, 30). Possibly the best live rock band-with-horns you ever heard when Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes take over The Narrows Center in Fall River.

It's a jazz night at The Spire Center in Plymouth, when the quintet fronted by vocalist Debby Larkin and trumpeter Jeff Stout takes over. One of the nation's leading comedy/singer/impressionists hits Quincy when Joey Voices arrives at The Fox and Hound. Songwriter and Tik Tok star Addison Grace headliners Brighton Music Hall in Boston. Iration brings some hot reggae beats to The House of Blues in Boston. Singer/songwriter Lissie tops the bill at City Winery in Boston. Australian country-western dude Morgan Evans sings at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston. The Middle East Downstairs in Cambridge seems to specialize in metal these days, and Devil Master certainly fills the bill. Worth a trip to Scullers Jazz Club in Boston to hear Emmaline, fast-rising singer/songwriter/violinist who's opened for Chaka Khan, and whose music is in the new movie "Sweetwater."

FRIDAY, Nov. 3: C-Note in Hull hosting benefit concert

Blazing young blues-rock guitarist Dana Fuchs leads her fine band into The Spire Center in Plymouth. Colorado's superb jam band Magic Beans opens a two-night stand at Soundcheck Studios in Pembroke. Australian indie rockers Dope Lemon shake up The Paradise Rock Club in Boston. Quincy's Kier Byrnes and the Kettle Burners bring the traditional Celtic fire and rock to The Plough & Stars in Cambridge. Comedy podcaster Alex Cooper brings her stage show to MGM Music Hall in Boston.  Carbon Leaf rocks The Sinclair in Cambridge.

New Orleans songsmith Eric Lindell always fun at The Narrows Center in Fall River.  The C-Note in Hull hosts a benefit for the Rolling Wave Foundation – helping folks during the holidays – with several acts, including Sally Derbes, Keira and Walhalla. Atlanta R&B star Chase Shakur at Sonia in Cambridge. Wisconsin rock quartet Slow Pulp at Brighton Music Hall. Colombian singer Santiago Cruz at City Winery in Boston. The list of special guests is mind-boggling when Christian McNeill and Friends headline The Fallout Shelter in Norwood. Big Beantown jazz show at Scullers Jazz Club, where beloved saxophonist Myanna fronts a lineup that includes singer Cassandre McKinley and Ken Clark Organ Trio.

Bob Dylan's endless tour stops off at Boston's Orpheum Theater for three nights, through Sunday.

SATURDAY, Nov. 4: Local favorites playing in Boston

Magical Mystery Doors – a band that celebrates the music of The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and The Doors – takes over The Spire Center in Plymouth.  Guitarist Duke Robillard is a titan of New England music, from being a co-founder of Roomful of Blues, to dozens of albums that ranged from rock to blues to jazz stylings, to playing on albums with people like Bob Dylan, and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, to producing other artists at his Pawtucket studio, but tonight he holds court at The Narrows Center in Fall River. Norwell's Totem rocks The C-Note in Hull, with Dred Buffalo and Twam also on the bill.

South Shore country-rockers Dalton & the Sheriffs are arresting at The House of Blues in Boston. Post-hardcore: whatever that means, it's loud, but that's the calling card of the band Quicksand, headlining Royale in Boston. Songwriter S.G. Goodman at The Sinclair in Cambridge. Rapper Lil Darkie and the tour he calls The Collapse of Modern Society is at Big Night Live in Boston.

Afrobeats king Wizkid at MGM Music Hall in Boston. Jazz stylings from Harold Lopez Nussa at City Winery in Boston. Pianist Bill Charlap and his trio do two shows at The RegattaBar in Cambridge. German metal with Angel Dust at the Middle East in Cambridge. Power pop and punk from Australia when Amyl and the Sniffers headline Roadrunner in Boston. Grentperez is Australian and Filipino, but his music tends towards classic rock, at The Paradise Rock Club in Boston.

SUNDAY AND BEYOND – Indigo Girls coming to Plymouth

Get an early start for the 2 p.m. Sunday Funday with the Shady Roosters at The Spire Center in Plymouth; or if you want to avoid the NFL, check out the weekly 4 p.m. blues jam at Players in Rockland, hosted by the estimable Michele Rockwell Band. Sunday night, catch singer Jeremy Zucker at Roadruner in Boston; or emo-rockers Free Throw at Royale in Boston; or drag-rapper Yvie Oddly at The Paradise Rock Club in Boston.

Monday night has some tasty options, with superb Nashville songwriter Brent Cobb at The Sinclair in Cambridge; or standout blues guitarist Sue Foley at City Winery in Boston; or rock quartet Hunny at Brighton Music Hall. Tuesday there's a rowdy Americana show at Big Night Live in Boston, with Lucero, and Jason Boland and the Stragglers; or 19-year-old singer and internet sensation Gayle at Brighton Music Hall.  On Wednesday, Soundcheck Studios in Pembroke welcomes the Vermont super-trio LaMP  for jamming fun; while electronic DJ R.L. Grime takes over Roadrunner in Boston; and indie rock quintet Moon Taxi pulls into The Paradise Rock Club in Boston.

Nov. 9, look for erstwhile Steely Dan guitar ace Jeff "Skunk" Baxter at City Winery in Boston; while the band Arizona – they're actually from New Jersey and play pop-rock – hits the House of Blues in Boston. Nov. 10, you want to catch Cars member Greg Hawkes' show at City Winery in Boston with the band Eddie Japan, reprising Cars music; while that same night Louise Anderson performs at the South Shore Folk Music Club in Duxbury. Mark your calendar for Nov. 11 when comic-hypnotist Frank Santos Jr. brings the fun to The Marilyn Rodman Theater in Foxboro. Nov. 12: The 1975 plays TD Garden in Boston; while Sister Hazel rocks City Winery in Boston.

And Nov. 30 finds folk music stars the Indigo Girls taking over Memorial Hall in Plymouth.

This article originally appeared on The Patriot Ledger: Where to see live music near Quincy and Boston from Nov. 2-5, 2023