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Saturday morning there's an Arundo removal party at Rec Park... Saturday night jazz at the Spirit Bar, in the lobby of the Hotel Healdsburg. Saturday, May 11, the Laura Klein Trio plays sparkling jazz standards, swinging bebop, deep Latin grooves and soulful ballads. This and more local events listed here...

There's always a lot going on in Healdsburg, and this time of the year things really pick up. Don't miss the Block Party on Friday, a community event for the 10th Annual AVFilm Festival. Free live music, community partners booths, with food and wine for sale from vendors. It’s Friday, May 3, from 6-9:30pm. Animated feature 'Blue Giant' screens at 8pm in the Raven Theater, 115 North St.

Lights, camera, action: the 10th annual local film festival now known as AVFest opens Friday, April 26, and continues with screenings and events through Sunday, May 5.

More than 30 wineries will participate in the 33rd annual Passport to Dry Creek taste-around, the Community Chorus appears this weekend, Brazilian jazz at the Hotel Healdsburg and other events upcoming nearby.

When the John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band—J2B2—takes the stage at the Raven Performing Arts Theater at 7:30pm on Sunday night, it won’t be a tribute band or a nostalgia act but the real thing, American music played to the hilt by four of the best musicians around.

Farmers’ Market : The Healdsburg Certified Farmers’ Market continues every Saturday until Dec. 21. Fruits and vegetables, flowers, cheeses, honey, olive oil, bread, wild fish, pasture-finished meat and fresh eggs from local vendors. From 8:30am to noon in the West Plaza Parking Lot...

Dad Country On Thursday, April 11, hear Low Cut Connie (Adam Weiner), with Fantastic Cat. This could be a show people talk about for a while. Tickets $30, 6-10pm. The Second Story stage is upstairs at Little Saint, 25 North St. City Offices Closed On Friday, April...

By Harry Duke Healdsburg’s The 222 concludes its season of professional drama with The Mountaintop, co-directed by Aldo Billingsley and Rebecca Novick. Playwright Katori Hall’s imagining of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night on Earth runs through April 14. It’s late in the evening of...

A two-person drama by Katori Hall about the last day of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., entirely set in his Lorraine Motel room the evening before his assassination. It opens April 4 and plays most days through April 14, 7:30pm. At The 222 stage, 222 Healdsburg Ave. Tickets start at $45, students free, available at www.the222.org.

You can’t get any more familiar than The Wizard of Oz. Who hasn’t seen the classic 1939 film a couple of dozen times? See it again at the Raven, this weekend and next.