Music Together to Hold Weekend Classes

WEEKEND WEATHER

Saturday: There is a 60 percent chance of rain showers. It won’t be as cool, with highs around 50. Saturday night there is a 70 percent chance of showers. There will be near steady temperatures in the upper 40s.

Sunday: Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers. Highs will be around 50. Sunday night will be partly cloudy and cooler with lows in the lower 30s.

SATURDAY EVENTS

10:15 a.m.: Music Together of Wellesley and Needham, 31 Central St., Wellesley, will hold weekend classes that give you and your family room to move, dance and play with teachers. Sing songs to chase away the winter blues, explore a wide variety of child-safe instruments and receive two CDs, a songbook and a DVD which enhance the growth and learning at home. Weekend classes begin this weekend. There is also a beginning keyboard program for children 5-8 beginning Sunday at 2 p.m. Visit www.musictogetherwellesley.com for a complete listing of class availability. For more information call Vicki at 617-823-1450.

2 p.m.: Dan Kennedy will host the McIver Lecture Series at Needham Public Library. Kennedy is an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University in Boston and a nationally known media commentator who writes for the Nieman Journalism Lab, The Huffington Post and other publications. He is a panelist on “Beat the Press,” an award-winning weekly media roundtable on WGBH-TV (Channel 2). This is the first in a series of three lectures, discussing the present and future of gathering and disseminating the news.

8 p.m. The Winter Wonderland Social Dance Party will take place at Dance Republic, 10 Prescott St.,, Wellesley. Come by yourself or with a partner and enjoy a night of ballroom and latin dancing. The night starts with refreshments and an intermediate and beginner west coast swing lessons. For more information visit www.thedancerepublic.com.

SUNDAY EVENTS

2:30 p.m.: Justin Stahl and the Mighty Wurlitzer Unit Orchestra will take you on a trip through the Great American Songbook in Knight Auditorium of Babson College. Tickets are $15 for adults and free for children with adults. Call 508-674-0276 or  visit www.emcatos.com.