Cuban Quartet at Partake by K-J When: Tuesday, June 3 Where: Partake by K-J, 241 Healdsburg Ave., Healdsburg Time: 8 – 10:00 pm Reservations recommended: (707) 433-6000, partakebykj.com At last year’s Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Cuban conga ace Carlitos Medrano and his band Sabor de Mi Cuba worked the crowd into a dance frenzy, so by popular demand they are returning this summer. Since he emigrated from Cuba in 2008, Carlitos has been a mainstay of
Jazz at the Healdsburg Plaza When: Tuesday, June 3 Where: Healdsburg Plaza, Healdsburg Ave. @ Matheson St. Time: 6 – 8:00 pm | FREE One of the highlights of the summer in Healdsburg are the Tuesdays in the Plaza, free two-hour concerts by artists from bluegrass to jazz, country to ethnic. For the past decade-plus the first Tuesday in June has been reserved for artists from the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, and
Mission Gold Jazz Band and the New Horizon Stompers When: Tuesday, June 2 Where: Costeaux French Bakery & Café, 417 Healdsburg Ave. Time: 7:00 pm Price: $30 (includes cookie from Costeaux) Winery Sponsor: Dry Creek Vineyards Dixieland is not a genre that makes it into the magazines very often, but the people who love it are fanatical about it, and in Northern California these folks are legion. There just isn’t
Kai Devitt-Lee Trio at Dry Creek Kitchen When: Monday, June 2 Where: Dry Creek Kitchen, 317 Healdsburg Avenue, Healdsburg Time: 7:00 – 10:00 pm Reservations: (707) 431-0330 | charliepalmer.com The word “prodigy” can be applied to any artist of talent too young to drive, and it probably creates unfair expectations. Grow into it, though, and you can be somebody. Healdsburg’s Kai Devitt-Lee was a guitar prodigy who moved to the Big Apple, where there’s a lot of seasoning. Now he’s just a virtuoso. On
Jazz Meets Blues: Charlie Musselwhite and Joshua Redman When: Sunday, June 1 Where: Jackson Family Theater, 4400 Day School Place, Santa Rosa Time: 7:30 pm Tickets: $75 | $55 | $45 (Reserved seating) Wine Sponsor: Roth Winery As practically every jazz musician will tell you, their work is grounded in the blues. For its 16th annual event, The Healdsburg Jazz Festival goes straight to one of the sources, honoring blues harmonica legend