Healdsburg Jazz Festival

Welcome to the Healdsburg Jazz Festival - Celebrating our 10th Year!

10th Anniversary Healdsburg Jazz Festival

The 10th Annual 10th Anniversary 2008 Healdsburg Jazz Festival
May 30 - June 8, 2008

Festival Program available for download <click here>
Tickets are on sale now!

The 10th Annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival is ALMOST HERE, May 30 - June 8, 2008! We are celebrating a decade of great jazz with a fantastic line-up of new and familiar names for this 10th Annual / 10th Anniversary Healdsburg Jazz Festival, including Charles Lloyd, Zakir Hussein, Cedar Walton, Charlie Haden, Billy Hart, Joshua Redmond, George Cables, Julian Lage, Pete Escovedo, Eddie Palmieri ... and so many more! Ten great days of jazz to celebrate ten great years of jazz in Healdsburg. <more>

Jazz Masters Concert Series
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Toninho Horta In Concert
Location: Palette Art Café - intimate setting, seating VERY limited.
Time: Two Shows: 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m.
Tickets: $25 General Seating. Tickets can be purchased online, through the Healdsburg Jazz Festival office, or at Palette Art Café only. No tickets will be mailed; your name will be added to the guest list at the door upon purchasing tickets.

Toninho Horta is a virtuoso electric and nylon-string guitar player with his own Brazilian-influenced personal style. His compositions are marked by beautiful harmonies and rich melodies often with surprisingly virtuoso right hand grooves. Besides being a strong composer and player, he worked many years as arranger or/and guitarist for many of the biggest stars in the Brazilian pop music scene such as Elis Regina, Milton Nascimento, Maria Bethania, João Bosco, Airto Moreira, Edu Lobo, Nana Caymmi, Flora Purim, Gal Costa, Sergio Mendes, Chico Buarque, Flávio Venturini, Joyce, Johnny Alf, Wagner Tiso, Francis Hime, and Beto Guedes to mention but a few.

His beautiful compositions and original guitar playing has influenced a whole generation of musicians in Brazil. Pat Metheny, who considers him to be "one of the world's great players on nylon-string guitar (called a violão in Brazil)", comments, "He (Toninho) plays such great voicings with such a cool time feel ... In short, Toninho Horta is an incredible musician, the rare guitarist who understands harmony in its most intimate ways ... ."

Jazz Benefit Concert & BBQ
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Julian Lage In Concert
Donors: Ruth Maher, Julian Lage, Family Wineries, Jim DeMartini, Costeaux Bakery, Love Farms Certified Organic, and many more …

... have organized a concert to help raise money for our music education programs! Only 50 tickets are sold, and over HALF are gone from being sold at our Gala. Don't hesitate to help us out and have a great time hearing one of our local heroes, eating fabulous foods, and relaxing in a spectacular hillside paradise in the hills above Healdsburg. <more>

Read the latest issue of the Grapevine Rag!

Spring, 2008
Latin Jazz on the Green
Are You a Member?
Jazz Appreciation Class - The Roots of Latin Jazz
Percussion, Song and Dance Workshop for Children with Tacuma King

Live Jazz Weekly in Healdsburg!
Did you know that there is LIVE JAZZ every week here in Healdsburg?!? There are HJF produced events throughout the year. View our schedule of upcoming concerts.

Every Thursday Night:
Jazz at the Palette Art Café
The Healdsburg Jazz Festival and Palette Art Café present the Thursday Night Café Jazz Series at the Palette Art Café. Palette Art Café is located behind the La Crema Tasting Room. Call 707.433.2788 for more information or visit www.paletteartcafe.com. No cover - 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Come for dinner, stay for the jazz!! Click here for this month's schedule.

Every Friday & Saturday Night:
Jazz at the Hotel Healdsburg
The Healdsburg Jazz Festival and Hotel Healdsburg present jazz in the hotel lobby every Friday and Saturday night. Call 707.431.2800 or visit www.hotelhealdsburg.com. No cover - 7:30 to 11:00 p.m. Come relax and enjoy a warm brandy or glass of wine while listening to some of the Bay Area's finest jazz musicians now in duo and trio combinations! Click here for this month's schedule.

Nostalgic? T-shirts & tanks from the 2006 and 2007 Healdsburg Jazz Festival are available! T's are $20.00 each, and tanks are $10.00. Call 707-433-4644 or email info@healdsburgjazzfestival.org to order! Limited availability.

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Volunteers needed! The Healdsburg Jazz Festival is run entirely on the energy of its volunteer staff. We are seeking help in all aspects of festival management.