Saturday Afternoons at the Jazz Festival Four local tasting rooms host great local jazz to pair with their wines. Only in Healdsburg! First Weekend Saturday, May 30 Bottle Barn / Wine Annex Time: 3-5 pm | No cover Location: 340 Center Street, Healdsburg 707-433.6488 Featuring The Greg Hester Piano Trio, with Rob Wright and Lee Charlton We are proud to introduce a relatively new member of the Bottle Barn family,

Randy Weston’s African Rhythms Quintet Location: Raven Performing Arts Theater 115 North Street Time: 8 pm Tickets: $35 / $50 Gold Circle MC: Greg Bridges Event Sponsor: Horizon Air Green Room provided by Frank Howard Allen Realtors, Healdbsurg “Weston’s playing embodies the whole history of the music, dating back to the Continent. His music is so deep and fresh, but it’s not so esoteric that the audience can’t feel very

Eddie Marshall Trio Location: Hotel Healdsburg Lobby 25 Matheson Street Time: 9 pm to midnight No cover Just about every city has a first-call jazz drummer, the cat that world-class out-of-town players hire when they’re traveling without their own rhythm section. In San Francisco for the past 40 years Eddie Marshall‘s phone number has been at the top of the list. Since his days as the house drummer at Keystone

Bay Area Legends Double Bill Denny Zeitlin, solo piano John Handy and the Bay Area Melding Pot Location: Raven  Theater 115 North Street Time: 8 pm Tickets: $25 / $40 Gold Circle MC: Greg Bridges Event Sponsor: Horizon Air Green Room provided by Frank Howard Allen Realtors, Healdbsurg The 1960s was one of the most exciting periods for jazz in San Francisco, and HJF is pleased to present two musical

Rising Stars in Concert Debbie Poryes Trio Jason Bodlovich Quartet Noam Lemish Quintet Raven Performing Arts Theater 115 North Street Date: Thusday, June 4 Time: 7 pm Tickets: $10 Few things are more exciting than catching fast rising artists who are coming into their own. We’ve got a bevy of highly talented players on this program who are forging highly personal approaches to jazz. Debbie Poryes Trio A gifted pianist

Dinner shows with Lorca Hart Trio With John Nelson and Edward Livingston Palette Art Café 235 Healdsburg Ave. Phone: 707 433-2788  |  Visit on the web Date: Wednesday, June 3 Time: Two dinner shows, 6 pm and 8 pm No cover Come for the dinner, stay for the jazz. Dinner reservations recommended.  See the full menu at paletteartcafe.com Raised in an illustrious musical family, drummer Lorca Hart got serious about

Tuesday in the Plaza Montclair Women’s Big Band Ellen Seering, director Featuring Denise Perrier Healdsburg Historic Plaza Healdsburg Ave. at Matheson St. Date: Tuesday, June 2 Time: 6 – 8 pm Free public event Underwritten by Howard & Barbara Wollner of the Kismet Fund “One of the most formidable new jazz ensembles, male or female, on the West Coast. This is premium-grade big band jazz.” — All About Jazz The

Jazz & Wine Dinner Benny Barth Trio Dry Creek Kitchen 317 Healdsburg Ave. Date: Monday, June 1 Time: 7 – 10 pm Tickets: No cover A product of the small but talent-laden 1950s Indianapolis jazz scene, veteran drummer Benny Barth paid dues with the legendary jazz siblings Monk, Buddy and Wes Montgomery. A founding member of the popular Mastersounds ensemble, he’s been a Bay Area mainstay for five decades. His

Concert on the Green Stars of Brazil: A tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim Toninho Horta Trio with special guest Airto Trio Da Paz Leny Andrade with the Stephanie Ozer Quartet Location: Recreation Park at Piper and University Streets, Healdsburg Date: Sunday, May 31 Time: Doors open at Noon (ends 6:30 pm) Tickets: $25; Students and seniors (65+) $15 MC: Chuy Varela As citizens of a vast, diverse, continent-sized nation, Brazilians