It’s the holiday season and that means lots of events across the state. Whether you want holiday strolls, open house tours, winter carnivals or first night celebrations it’s all here in Massachusetts.
GREATER BOSTON | NORTH OF BOSTON | SOUTH OF BOSTON | CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS | CENTRAL MASS | WESTERN MASS
STATEWIDE
GREATER BOSTON
Hopkinton Center for the Arts – Holiday Events
Blink – Faneuil Hall – CANCELLED
Back Bay Ringers Holiday Handbell Concert – CANCELLED
Quincy Christmas Parade – Hancock Street, Quincy – CANCELLED
Harvard Square Holiday Fairs – Virtual
Urban Nutcracker – Streaming – November 30-December 6. December 13 and 24
Lighting of the Boston Common Menorah
Craftboston Holiday Show – Through December 31 – On line
Magic of Lights – Gillette Stadium – November 13-January 2
Annual Lighting of the Columbus Park Trellis – November 23 – Virtual
Massachusetts State House Tree Lighting – November 24
La Salette Shrine – Attleboro – November 26-January 3
Macy’s Christmas Tree Lighting & Christmas Windows Unveiled – November 27
Zoolights – Franklin Park Zoo – November 27-January 3
Mass Horticultural Society: Festival of Trees – November 27 – December 20
Copley Square Tree Lighting – November 30
Commonwealth Ave. Mall Lighting – December 3 – Virtual
Boston Common Tree Lighting – December 3
Light Up The Seaport – December 4
North End Tree Celebration – December 4
Medfield Holiday Stroll – December 4
USS Constitution Tree Lighting – December 5
The Nutcracker – Airing December 5
A Sinatra Christmas with Rich Dimare – December 5-6 – Chevalier Theatre, Medford
Boston Dance Theatre: Hanukkah celebration – MFA – December 9
Holiday Pops – Boston Pops – December 10-January 9 – Broadcast only
KISS 108 Jingle Ball – Broadcast only – December 10
Boston Early Music Festival – Tallis Scholars – December 11-25
Black Nativity – December 12
Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms Society: “A Brandenburg Christmas” – December 15 – Faneuil Hall
A Virtual Christmas Celtic Sojourn with Brian O’Donovan – December 15-19 & 20
The Gift – December 17-27 – Boston Ballet
The Christmas Revels – Sanders Theatre, Cambridge – December 18-31 – Virtual
Messiah – Boston Baroque – December 18-19
Blue Heron – Holiday concert – December 19
Virtual Teas with Santa – Gore Place, Waltham – December 19-20
Handel’s Messiah – Handel & Haydn Society – December 20
Boston Camerata: An American Christmas- December 20 & 22
NORTH OF BOSTON
Methuen Annual Festival of Trees – VIRTUAL
Holidays in Rockport – November 27 – January 2
Zoo Lights – November 27-January 3 – Stone Zoo, Stoneham
Winter Lights – November 27-January 1 – Cape Ann
Newburyport Rolling Santa Parade – November 29
Marblehead Christmas Walk – December 4-6
Annual Christmas in Salem House Tour – Virtual
A Christmas Carol – North Shore Music Theatre – CANCELLED
Essex Holiday Parade – December 20
SOUTH OF BOSTON
Edaville Railroad: Christmas Festival of Lights
Enchanted Village – Jordan’s Furniture, Avon – Closed this year
Holiday lights – Marshfield fairgrounds – November 19-December 30
Festival of Lights at the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette – Attleboro – November 26-January 3
Annual Holiday House Tour – December 5-6 – Pilgrim Hall Museum
Middleborough Festival of Lights – December 12, 13, 19, 20
Annual Historic Holiday Tour – December 12-13 – New Bedford
CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS
Christmas on Cape Cod – Visit ChristmasonCapeCod.com for a list of festive Christmas strolls, concerts, fairs, harbor lightings and parades across Cape Cod, as well as accommodations package, holiday shop-opportunities and the chance to win hundreds of dollars in Santa’s Helpers gift cards!
Christmas in Harwich – TBD
Mashpee Season of Illumination
Annual Lighting of the Pilgrim Monument – Provincetown – November 11
Glassblowers Christmas – Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich -November 14-December 30
Nantucket Noel – November 27-December 31
Festival of Trees – Nantucket – November 27-December 31
Gardens Aglow – Heritage Museums & Gardens, Sandwich – November 27-December 27
Holidays by the Sea Weekend – December 4-6 – Falmouth – All events live streamed.
Annual Festival of Trees – December 10-12 – Osterville
Brewster for the Holidays – November 23-December 24
Nantucket Christmas Stroll – Postponed to 2021
Christmas In Edgartown Festival – Edgartown – December 10-13
CENTRAL MASS
Christmas Memories at the Salem Cross Inn
Sutton Chain of Lights – CANCELLED
Night Lights – Tower Hill Botanic Garden – CANCELLED
Mendon Christmas Drive – Mendon Twin Drive In
Winter Wonderland – Southwick’s Zoo – November 27-December 30 – Drive through only
A Christmas Carol from Rochester Castle with Gerald Charles Dickens – Vaillancourt Folk Art, Sutton – November 26-December 31 – STREAMING
Christmas By Candlelight – Old Sturbridge Village – Weekends December 4-30
A Christmas Carol Reimagined – The Hanover Theatre – December 11-31
A Christmas Celtic Sojourn – The Hanover Theatre – December 16
Jim Brickman: Comfort and Joy at Home – Hanover Theater – December 18
The Hip Hop Nutcracker – December 19 – Hanover Theatre
WESTERN MASS
Holidays at the MGM Springfield
Grinchmas at the Springfield Museums – Check website for a list of dates and events
Decembers in Deerfield – Traditional, festive events all season long
Hancock Holidays – Hancock Shaker Village – Various Dates
Bright Nights at Forest Park – November 25-January 6
Annual Gingerbread Competition & Exhibit – November 27-January 3 – Springfield Museums
Holiday Shows– Berkshire Theatre Group
Festival of Trees – Mass Mutual Center, Springfield – November 27-December 13
Holiday in the Park Lights – Six Flags New England – November 27 – December 31
Merry Maple Lighting – Amherst Common – December 4
Stockbridge Main Street at Christmas – December 4-6
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