Music

SIP founder Patrick Davis and his wife, Lauren Jenkins, are big fans of Healdsburg, Davis said, noting that every time he visits, he is impressed by the friendliness of the locals. He was introduced to the city by Mike Brennan, board member of the Chamber of Commerce and director of sales at Mills District, Davis said.

As a recording artist, if a person hangs around long enough, they get to look back at their body of work. And if they’re really lucky they not only get to revisit their canon, they even get a shot at reinterpreting and reimagining these earlier fruits of their labor. That’s what Alejandro Escovedo has done with his latest album, Echo Dancing. It finds him using the past to shape the future.

Expect plenty of seasoned authenticity when Cyrus Chestnut and a local rhythm section, Jaimeo Brown on drums and Marcus Shelby on bass, hit the Paul Mahder Gallery stage in Healdsburg on Sunday, Oct. 11, at 7pm.

Tinsley Ellis is out driving around the country on what Alligator Records has dubbed his “Two Guitars and a Car” tour. That car brings him to Healdsburg’s Raven Theater on Friday, Nov. 21.

“Modern Mississippi music.” If you ask singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Luther Dickinson to define what the North Mississippi Allstars (NMA) create, that’s the answer he’ll give. It’s the path he and his brother Cody have been traveling down ever since NMA dropped their 2000 debut, Shake Hands with Shorty, and one the band members will share when they hit the LBC stage on May 9.

"At the root of it all is The Rolling Stones,” Will Turner said, “and the whole Laurel Canyon thing—The Mamas & the Papas, Jefferson Airplane.” “CSNY,” Georgie Fuller chimed in, citing the folk-rock super group Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

Now widely known as “The Harlem Nutcracker,” Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn wrote it for Columbia Records, along with film scores and other work. It was met with a sensational reception

Charles Lloyd will headline the Sunday, June 14, show at Bacchus Landing, marking his 10th time playing for a Healdsburg audience. In fact, festival founder Jessica Felix reminds us that his first visit was in 1997 with drummer Billy Higgins—two years before the first Healdsburg Jazz Festival.

Topo, in Fiddler on the Roof, was a Klezmer musician, “schlepping his way from shtetl to shtetl… a distinctive image of pre-war Jewish life in the Ashkenazi communities of Eastern Europe,” according to worldmusic.net.

Healdsburg is not the only town in northern Sonoma County with a regular summer music series to offer. Here, we have Tuesdays. Windsor claims Thursdays.