Roadtrips

We didn't even know there was a Ukulele Hall of Fame Museum, let alone that it was housed over in Duxbury, of all places. But sure enough, the museum is sponsoring Uke Expo '97 down at AS220 (401-831-9237) in Providence, a full day that includes screenings of film shorts featuring 1920s uke troubadour Roy Smeck, a book signing by Jim Beloff, author of The Ukulele: A Visual History, and a concert featuring Maine's the Pinetones, Providence's Henry Hampel, California's Cool Hand Uke and Jumpin' Jim Beloff, and others. There'll be an extensive display of ephemera, plus uke dealers, performance workshops, and a video presentation celebrating that patron saint of ukuleles, the late Tiny Tim.

Out hawking his latest, the film-music compilation I Like To Score (see "Off the Record," on page 47), Moby returns to techno and the clubs (after a brief rock jaunt that at least earned Mission of Burma some well-deserved alterna-rock royalties) with Juno Reactor at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel (401-272-5876) in Providence on December 9 and Axis (617-262-2437) in Boston on December 10.

His dad's in town playing a sold-out club gig this week (at Avalon on the 9th). Meanwhile, Jakob Dylan and the Wallflowers are visiting some of the places they haven't played yet, which included a high-school fieldhouse in Beverly last Wednesday. On Thursday the 4th they're at the Providence Performing Arts Center (401-421-2787). A couple of Boston rock gals, Paula Cole and Jen Trynin, are out in South Hadley at Mount Holyoke College (800-477-6849) on the 9th. And the Iron Horse in Northampton and the Somerville Theatre trade folkies this week. Revered Canadian folk sisters Kate & Anna McGarrigle are at the Somerville on December 6 (331-2211) and the Iron Horse (413-584-0610) the next night. Meanwhile, Jane Siberry is at the Somerville on the 5th and the Iron Horse on the 6th.