As winter drags on, warm up with a hot live music show this weekend

Notable charity shows on the docket

Check out Soundcheck Studios in Pembroke on Saturday night for the annual Rock the Rink affair, which is a benefit for Duxbury Youth Hockey, featuring area rock band The Waves. Also, note on Friday, Nickanee's in Providence, Rhode Island, remembers Fall River artist and designer Sarah Good, who took up guitar in her 40s and was soon fronting her own Americana band, The Goods, which had a good run, before breast cancer took her far too young a few years ago – Neal and Friends headline the list of her many musical cohorts performing at the tiny pub and saluting this indelible character.

THURSDAY, Feb. 8:  Valerie Barretto appearing in Plymouth

Americana/rocker Ryan Montbleau is in the midst of his solo run at Club Passim in Harvard Square, with shows tonight and Friday. Surf-pop quintet No Vacation plays at The Sinclair in Cambridge. South Shore chanteuse Valerie Barretto sings at Anna's Harborside Grille in Plymouth. Detroit rapper Peezy at Brighton Music Hall. Prog-metal band MachineHead headlines The Paradise Rock Club in Boston.

FRIDAY, Feb. 9: Touring songwriters coming to Spire Center in Plymouth

Forbert and Freedy? Hard to believe they're not promoting it with this monicker, but the tour pairing Americana songsmiths Steve Forbert and Freedy Johnston promises to be full of witty, heartwarming tunes that may be just a tad unconventional, at the Spire Center in Plymouth. Boston's reggae royalty The Duppy Conquerors venture out to the suburbs to help Soundcheck Studios in Pembroke celebrate Bob Marley's birthday. New England jazz treasure Greg Abate brings his quartet to the Narrows Center in Fall River. Boyz II Men grooves at MGM Music Hall in Boston. Dead 'til Friday is the band at The C Note in Hull. Fall River folksinger Mike Laureano tops the bill at the South Shore Folk Music Club in Duxbury. The British Invasion Years brings back the hits of the 1960s at The River Club Music Hall in Scituate. Boombox – the genre-busting band fronted by Grateful Dead offspring Zion Rock Godchaux – takes over Brighton Music Hall. Swedish electronic guru Eric Prydz jams at Big Night Live in Boston. Valerie Barretto sings at Tavern on the Wharf in Plymouth.

SATURDAY, Feb. 10: Swinging Steaks make Plymouth return

As of Sunday afternoon, there are but eight tickets left for the Swinging Steaks' triumphant return to the Spire Center in Plymouth, so that will be a sell out for the South Shore's country-rock icons. But there is country-rock to be had in Boston, where Cody Jinks shares the bill at MGM Music Hall in Boston with The Turnpike Troubadours. That Forbert and Freedy double-header of tunes hits Club Passim in Cambridge. Classic Vibe is the rock band at The Next Page Cafe in Weymouth. The Nields harmonize at Circle of Friends Coffeehouse in Franklin.

Suzanne McNeil sings at Break Rock Brewing in Quincy. The Void Union brings ska to the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge. The battle of the Yale and Harvard Big Bands envelops Scullers Jazz Club in Boston. The Pitfalls rock Nickanee's in Providence, Rhode Island. Americana reigns at the Narrows Center in Fall River, where Colby James and The Ramblers perform, with local songsmith Greg Loftus opening.  Mardi Gras comes to the RegattaBar when Josiah Reibstein and his Mardi Gras All Stars, with Robbie Pate on vocals, turn the Cambridge jazz club into a party. Bumpin' Uglies multi-genre rock fun at The Paradise Rock Club in Boston. There are Valentines' Day moves happening; with The Sinclair in Cambridge is hosting an Anti-Valentine's Rave; while The C Note in Hull welcomes Hull Pride's annual Valentine event.

SUNDAY, Feb. 11:  Weekly blues jam a Super Bowl alternative

Be on the lookout for the special guests at the weekly Sunday afternoon (4-8 p.m.) blues jam at Players in Rockland, hosted by the Michele Rockwell Band.

Coming attractions

MONDAY: Popster Tinashe gets down and funky at Royale in Boston.

WEDNESDAY (Valentine's Day): Squid, a British quintet offering "21st Century jazz," makes its Boston debut at The Paradise Rock Club; while groove and down-low DJ Berlioz spins the platters at Brighton Music Hall.

FEB. 15: Marblehead/Wheaton/Brown product and seductive singer Lauren Henderson returns to the RegattaBar in Cambridge for the first time in about three years; Mitski's 7th album, "The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We," brought her to new heights of chart success, and the alt-popster's show at MGM Music Hall in Boston should be packed.

FEB. 16:  A big night with terrific music everywhere:  Songsmith Curtis Stigers is at the Spire Center in Plymouth; the Narrows Center in Fall River has a two-fer of Boston-area tunesmiths with Reed Foehl and Cape Cod's Monica Rizzio; Mark Cutler and Men of Great Courage light up Nickanee's in Providence, Rhode Island; the always undervalued Tokyo Tramps shake up The C Note in Hull;  the twangy Flatland Cavalry charges into the House of Blues in Boston; and songwriter Josh Ritter and his band open a weekend at The Paradise Rock Club in Boston.

FEB. 17: The Best of Foo thunders into Soundcheck Studios in Pembroke.

Feb. 23: Sweet Baby James – an acclaimed tribute to Mr. Taylor – arrives at The River Club Music Hall in Scituate.

This article originally appeared on The Patriot Ledger: Where to see live music near Quincy and Boston from Feb. 8-11