Local Events

Tucked into the calendar between the haute cuisine of the Healdsburg Wine & Food Experience and the musical mélange of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, another lifestyle festival hits town: the BloodRoot Ramble.  It’s conceived by Noah and Kelly Dorrance, the owners of the BloodRoot Wines...

Graduation Day Healdsburg High School seniors graduate on Friday, June 9, in a 7pm ceremony to be held at the high school’s athletic field. Congratulations to all graduating seniors.  Play Ball! Prune Packers baseball continues its 2023 season with games at Rec Park, June 8-11 against various...

A Wednesday night “reveal” party was held at the Raven Theater last week, but the answer didn’t come in pink or blue. Rather, it was the lineup for the next season of productions planned for the venerable community Performing Arts Theater on North Street. “Many...

New Stage  The 222 is beginning a live-theater series with “Chapatti,” a play by Christian O’Reilly, to run from June 1 to June 11 (various times). It features Ashland veterans Michael Elich and Robin Goodrin-Nordli in a two-person drama at the Paul Mahder Gallery, 222...

Sure the climate is racing toward the 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels that portends disaster for our civilization—but it won’t get there this summer. Here are activities that will bring some joy in the face of catastrophe. Windsor Summer Nights on the Green A collaboration between...

First let’s get the name right: It’s the Healdsburg Future Farmers Country Fair, taking place for its 74th year, once again at Rec Park on Piper and University. Though its first day was Wednesday of this week for families involved in Future Farmers and...

Twilight Parade The annual Healdsburg Future Farmers Twilight Parade will take place from 6 to 8pm on Thursday, May 25, as a prelude to the HFF County Fair. Route is down Matheson to Center, north on Center to Piper, north to Fitch and back toward...

Eccentric families have long been a source of humor for popular entertainments, from TV’s Addams Family to film’s Royal Tenenbaums.  Kaufman and Hart’sYou Can’t Take It with You may be the preeminent stage production on the subject and has become one of the most produced...

Familiar faces, new bands and old friends will fill the Healdsburg Plaza on Tuesday nights from 6 to 8 for the 2023 season of free concerts, Tuesdays in the Plaza, presented by the city’s community services department.  The weekly summer concerts at the downtown Plaza...

Notice: Farmers’ Markets Change The Healdsburg Farmers’ Market this Saturday, May 20, will be held at the Healdsburg Plaza and not the West Plaza parking lot, 8:30am to noon, due to a special event at the parking lot. The Farmers’ Market will return to the...