Healdsburg Jazz Festival

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Thanks to the Healdsburg jazz community

Volunteers, members, local businesses and service providers, and of course our sponsors all worked together to make the 11th annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival a stimulating and uplifting and artistic success. We’d like to thank you all with a big hug and a kiss, but since this is the web you can:

• Visit our Community Connection 
• See our 2009 Committees page
• Read Volunteers give the festival its heart

Festival Syrah still available!

We keep saying it, jazz and wine go together. That’s why we’re in Healdsburg, after all! And thanks to Artiste Winery, you can still enjoy a special blend created for the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, a 2007 Russian River Syrah. The wine is a classic Rhone blend of 75% Syrah and 25% Grenache, from Russian River estate vineyards. And 50% of the net profits benefit our organization.

Best news of all? The retail price tag on the wine is a modest $24, but the discount code and coupon deal has been extended. So you can still get 10% off your purchases, even without buying a case. To learn more about this special Festival wine offer, visit this page online.

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(Check out these pix from the Festival on JazzWest!)

Latest e-newsletter now online

Who’s playing where in July? Check out the latest e-newsletter for schedules at Palette Art Cafe, Murphy-Goode Tasting Room and the Hotel Healdsburg Lobby. (Don’t get the newsletter by e-mail? Join Our Email List in the box to the right on this page.)

First Lady Supports Jazz Education

Jazz fan Michelle Obama

Jazz has a big fan in the White House — Michelle Obama. The First Lady proved her affection for and committment to what she called “America’s indigenous art form” (where have we heard that before?) by hosting a Jazz Studio at the White House on Monday, June 15, where she called jazz “America’s greatest artistic gift to the world.”
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Murphy-Goode for Weekly Jazz

The Murphy-Goode tasting room just off the Healdsburg Plaza is the latest place to hear real jazz on a weekly basis. Starting Friday, June 19, a 9-week series of early evening jazz takes place between 5 and 7:30 pm on the open-air deck of the Alexander Valley winery’s new hospitality center, at 20 Matheson Street (just west of the Healdsburg Bar & Grill).  For more details on these “Goode Friday” events, check out this page .

Online Festival Music Store Now Open

It’s here, at last: the place to order CDs by the many artists performing at the 11th annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival. Just add the music you want to enjoy at home, in your car or at a party to purchase with this secure Amazon e-store, right on this site. Shop on, brothers and sisters!
» Click here to visit

Play your part: Become a member

In a sentimental mood? Take five and send us pennies from heaven, you won’t regret it — your support is what makes the Healdsburg Jazz Festival possible. Membership starts as low as $35 a year and helps nuture local artists, provides music education in our schools, funds jazz clinics and scholarships, underwrites our live music programs and many more of your favorite things.

Remember, you can join anytime. Even if it’s ’round midnight.

» Become a Jazz Festival Patron It’s through the generosity and involvement of our friends that the annual Festival and its programs are possible. Plus, as a Patron, you will have “inner circle” access to the concerts and artists throughout the 10-day event. What’s not to like?

» Visit our Volunteer page The Healdsburg Jazz Festival is run entirely on the energy of its volunteer staff. We are seeking help in all aspects of festival management. Please contact us now if you can help with the 11th annual Festival.