Local Events

Last weekend for the play at the Raven, final weeks for the Barrel Room, Cloverdale's Friday Night Live and the Twilight Parade and Future Farmers Fair this weekend, and more...

The 3rd annual Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience begins on Thursday, May 16, but that's not the only thing going on in Healdsburg Happenings this week. More music, meetings, farmers markets and a Fire & Safety Expo in Cloverdale...

Saturday morning there's an Arundo removal party at Rec Park... Saturday night jazz at the Spirit Bar, in the lobby of the Hotel Healdsburg. Saturday, May 11, the Laura Klein Trio plays sparkling jazz standards, swinging bebop, deep Latin grooves and soulful ballads. This and more local events listed here...

There's always a lot going on in Healdsburg, and this time of the year things really pick up. Don't miss the Block Party on Friday, a community event for the 10th Annual AVFilm Festival. Free live music, community partners booths, with food and wine for sale from vendors. It’s Friday, May 3, from 6-9:30pm. Animated feature 'Blue Giant' screens at 8pm in the Raven Theater, 115 North St.

More than 30 wineries will participate in the 33rd annual Passport to Dry Creek taste-around, the Community Chorus appears this weekend, Brazilian jazz at the Hotel Healdsburg and other events upcoming nearby.

Farmers’ Market : The Healdsburg Certified Farmers’ Market continues every Saturday until Dec. 21. Fruits and vegetables, flowers, cheeses, honey, olive oil, bread, wild fish, pasture-finished meat and fresh eggs from local vendors. From 8:30am to noon in the West Plaza Parking Lot...

Dad Country On Thursday, April 11, hear Low Cut Connie (Adam Weiner), with Fantastic Cat. This could be a show people talk about for a while. Tickets $30, 6-10pm. The Second Story stage is upstairs at Little Saint, 25 North St. City Offices Closed On Friday, April...

A two-person drama by Katori Hall about the last day of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., entirely set in his Lorraine Motel room the evening before his assassination. It opens April 4 and plays most days through April 14, 7:30pm. At The 222 stage, 222 Healdsburg Ave. Tickets start at $45, students free, available at www.the222.org.

Grammy-winning saxophonist Joe Lovano plays at The 222 on Saturday, March 30, with pianist Marilyn Crispell and drummer Carmen Castaldi in Trio Tapestry.

As AV Film prepares for its 10th annual AV Fest, from April 26-May 5, the news that the festival, school and projected Healdsburg cinema would be changing its name was a bit of a shocker.