The Crown & Anchor in Provincetown recently released its first-ever album. The holiday album, “Provincetown Follies: Holly Folly at The Crown,” features 13 "queerly-reimagined" tracks by 15 local Provincetown artists
“Provincetown takes care of its own” is a phrase Scott Martino and Jennifer White have heard for years when people are in trouble and neighbors step up to help.
That has held true through 11 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, as residents of this small, remote town, which is heavily dependent on the devastated entertainment and service industries, have tried to pay their bills.
The Soup Kitchen in Provincetown continues to help, as it has for nearly 30 off-seasons, but in expanded, drive-thru form. It now feeds 165 people six hot lunches each week up from 100 daily in the months before COVID-19 shutdowns.
Local musicians can’t play live, but that hasn’t stopped those who typically organize benefit concerts at this time of year from helping neighbors in need.
Both the Cape Cod Christmas Cavalcade and Yule for Fuel featuring dozens of performers among them are back in a virtual way this year. Online compilations of numbers from past shows are available to watch, with hopes that you’ll also donate to help people who are having trouble paying for housing and paying fuel bills. Watch for some live online appearances and 2020 surprises.
Another online concert put together by various acts aims to help buy food for employees in the hospitality industry hit hard by the effect of COVID-19 on travel.