“We’re here for the winter, and we’re bored,” says Paul Melanson, who owns Tin Pan Alley, a restaurant-nightclub in Provincetown, with his husband, Jack Kelly. “We decided this year to apply for a year-round liquor license, so we knew we weren’t going away. We thought that we’d dust off the furniture and have some fun. See our regular customers and hopefully bring some new people in, too.”

As it happens, Jon Richardson, a young musician, songwriter and producer who usually has the primo Thursday-through-Saturday piano bar berth at Tin Pan Alley, is also a year-round resident now, since he fixed up a little music studio for himself in the West End. “I did my first winter in Provincetown last year, almost as a kind of test,” Richardson says. “It’s pretty solitary, but it agreed with me.”

Melanson and Kelly approached Richardson about putting on shows in February and March. “We told him that we wanted to open some of the holiday weekends,” Melanson says. “Then we talked about doing something on a weekday night. We picked Thursday as a night when nothing is particularly happening.”

Thus the Tin Pan Alley Artist Jam was born. Starting next Thursday, Feb. 7, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., Richardson has put together a series of evenings with local musicians and performers playing together, trying out new material and blends of talent. “We’re seeing this as an opportunity for artists and musicians who are in town over the winter to be able to workshop new shows.”

Richardson and the owners have also invited local painters and photographers to put up their work in the front room for Thursdays, and they’ve even asked guest bartenders to work there, such as Jimmy McNulty of Jimmy’s Hideaway.

On Feb. 7, Richardson plans to start the evening off, then John Thomas and Laura Cappello will come on at 7 p.m. to perform a new nightclub act they have together, “Past Present.” Cappello, who lives in Wellfleet, has been performing in local theater for years, most recently in “Always… Patsy Cline,” in which she played the country music legend at the Provincetown Theater. Thomas is omnipresent as a musician and local impresario of sorts, producing 20 seasons of Great Music on Sundays @5 at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House. On the art front, local painter TJ Walton will hang some of her work up for the night.

“On Feb. 14, it’s going to be me and Peter Donnelly,” Richardson says. “It’s going to be a Valentine’s Day theme.” Donnelly is the host of the long-running Coffeehouse at the Mews, an off-season open mic night on Mondays. “I’ve found a kindred musical spirit with Peter,” Richardson says. “We like so much of the same music. I find that I can harmonize with his beautiful voice. We’re going for this Simon & Garfunkel, Everly Brothers kind of sound. It’s just two guitars, lots of harmony. We’re going to do our original songs and classic folk tunes or love songs.” The art that night will be from Jo Hay and the Carolyn Kramer Gallery.

On Feb. 21, Jim Brosseau, another piano bar stalwart at Tin Pan Alley (and Crown & Anchor), will have the whole night with friends he’s invited. “What’s fun about this series is that it’s a lot of Tin Pan Alley regulars, and we’ve given them a platform to do something special or different,” Richardson says.

A case in point is Feb. 28, when three piano bar regulars, Richardson, Gerald Goode and Todd Alsup will play together. “We’re arranging familiar songs of Top 40 radio from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s for multiple pianos and three-part harmony,” Richardson says. Goode, a Sunday night mainstay at Tin Pan Alley who also accompanies Varla Jean Merman, is psyched. “It’s going to sound amazing,” he says. “Todd has a crazy vocal range for a guy. And Jon, honestly, will try anything anywhere unrehearsed. He’s fearless like that. We’re definitely going to rehearse, but it comes together with spontaneity. Jon is really great at putting this together.”

Richardson has invited singer-songwriter Sam Talmadge for March 7, and Peter Donnelly will do a set with both of them. March 14 and March 21 have yet to be finalized. “There are going to be pop-up evenings,” Richardson says. “If it’s successful, we can extend it into April and May. There is so much opportunity to work with local musicians.”

And that pleases Tin Pan Alley’s owners. “We both have a commitment to live music and entertainment,” Melanson says. “That makes it fun. We just finished our fifth season. It’s been great, but it’s hard work. I’ve had a bunch of careers in my life, but this is definitely the hardest that I have worked. Once you’re in this business, as crazy as it is, it’s hard to do anything else, because anything else just seems boring.”