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Despite the weekend’s rain, Corazón Healdsburg’s ninth annual Día de Muertos celebration brought around 2,500 community members into the heart of downtown Healdsburg for a vibrant and heartfelt tribute to loved ones who passed during the past year.

The boundary-breaking Carpe Diem ensemble has earned widespread critical acclaim for its performances of traditional repertoire, new music, genre-bending collaborations and community engagement. At The 222 on Sunday Nov. 9, and other Healdsburg Happenings this week...

Malian musicians Awa Sangho (The Golden Voice of Mali) and kora master Yacouba Sissoko will take the audience on a musical journey to West Africa on Saturday Sept. 27 on The 222 stage, 222 Healdsburg Ave.

"Macbeth stomped about the stage more concerned with his manly swagger than any of the events taking place in the play. If his desire was to make Macbeth a raging, petulant symbol of toxic masculinity, then Witthaus was quite effective. I hope this was the intention," says critic Caitlin Strom-Martin

While in normal times cooking a big meal at home is possible if not enjoyable, this year’s ballooning guest list makes it all but essential to call in reinforcements and pick up a Thanksgiving meal in advance, in order to be ready for the holiday.

Photographer and world traveler Andy Katz introduces a gallery of his prints at CraftWork on Wednesday Nov. 5, starting at 5:30pm. With Aperture wine and hors d’oeuvres, $60 for the event, half-price for members and friends of CraftWork, 445 Center St., craftworkhbg.com.

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.

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.

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's annual Turkey Trot got underway on schedule Thursday morning at 8am, as competitors raced though town for the Drew Esquivel Scholarship fund. The 2025 winners were Vincent Friesen (Castro Valley), Antony Cortes (Petaluma) and Kaeden Anderson (Healdsburg); top women's finisher was Rebecca Wheeler (8th place, San Francisco).