Ten Reasons to Attend the Healdsburg Jazz Festival Sure, there are lots of good serious reasons to come to Healdsburg – historic venues and intimate settings, new stars and living legends, cross-cultural interaction and jazz education. But let’s face facts: most of us come here for the food, the wine, the music — the good times in the sun. Which brings us to… Reason Number 1: Let’s have some fun!
Reason # 2: See New Stars The Healdsburg Jazz Festival is just around the corner, and we’re planning to work steadily from now until Friday night at the Raven, when Mark Cantor brings Jazz Night at the Movies to the screen. There are a million things to do to make sure this year’s Festival is the best ever — and we think it can be, if you help us by
“Jazz Masters” another reason to come to Healdsburg It’s a term that’s kicked around a lot, “jazz masters” – one thinks of Carnegie Hall, the Village Vanguard, the Blue Note label. Louis, Bird, Miles, Dizzy, Trane, Ella. The names are few but everyone knows them. These legendary jazz artists are just that, legends – and few and far between. But there’s another class of “jazz master” whose repeated listening brings
Ten Reasons to Attend the Healdsburg Jazz Festival With the Healdsburg Jazz Festival just a week away, don’t think we’re running out of reasons to join us! Local talent, intimate settings, historic venues and the return of old friends – these are a few of the reasons to show up this year for the 12th annual festival. And as always, supporting jazz education remains a key priority for the friends,
Yet Another Reason to Attend the Jazz Festival Just a week to go before the Festival begins! And already we’re halfway through our series of Ten Reasons to attend events in this year’s 12th Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival. Reason No. 5: Intimate Settings One of the core tenets of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival is personal contact – that jazz artists and their audience need to meet each other, to know
Another Reason to Attend the Jazz Festival Less than two weeks left before the Festival! As what the San Francisco Chronicle calls “probably the best small jazz festival in the country” nears, we continue in our series of Ten Reasons why you will want to attend events in this year’s lineup, along with updates and offers to get you as excited as the 12th Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival as we
Only two weeks left before the Festival! As what the San Francisco Chronicle calls “probably the best small jazz festival in the country” nears, we continue in our series of Ten Reasons why you will want to attend events in this year’s lineup, along with updates and offers to get you as excited as the 12th Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival as we are. Reason No. 7: Learn Music Saturday, June
The Countdown Continues… 10 Reasons to Attend the Jazz Festival The Healdsburg Jazz Festival kicks off officially on Friday June 4, and continues for a week and two weekends with headliners and sidelights, events large and intimate. Some of our stars are flying in from the Big Apple, some from L.A., but some are our friends and neighbors. Which brings us to another of 10 Reasons to Attend the Healdsburg
The Countdown Continues… 10 Reasons to Attend the Jazz Festival The Healdsburg Jazz Festival is fast approaching — it all kicks off officially on Friday June 4 with Jazz Night at the Movies in Healdsburg’s historic Raven Theater. Host for this unusual evening of archival film is Mark Cantor, a Bay Area film historian who has joined us several times before, including at the second Healdsburg Jazz Festival in 2000.
The Countdown Begins… The Healdsburg Jazz Festival starts less than three weeks from today, on Friday June 4. (Keep an eye on our home page for the daily countdown!) As what the San Francisco Chronicle calls “probably the best small jazz festival in the country” nears, we’ll be sending out a series of reasons why you will want to attend one or more events in the this year’s lineup. Ten