If you're willing to drive a half-hour or 45 minutes from Worcester on I-495 (toward Cape Cod) Dave Mallett is at the Rose Garden Coffeehouse in downtown Mansfield (Orthodox Congregational Church) 8 p.m. Saturday, $10.
About the same distance on Route 146 (toward Providence) Skip Healy, a wonderful Irish flute player, has a CD release party at 8 p.m. at the Blackstone River Theater on Broad Street, Cumberland, R.I. Also $10.