Parade
Thurday, May 22Healdsburg is a town that loves to party. Whether it's lining the streets for an FFA Parade or showing up en masse for a town picture, you can count on us to bring some wine, lay down on our favorite blankets, and get down to some serious socializing. This year's FFA parade is set for Thursday, May 22. It's a great event to celebrate life and if you belong to Healdsburg, you're either in the parade or lining the street to watch it.
Healdsburg's
Tenth Annual Jazz Festival starts May 30 and continues through June
5. There's another great lineup of musicians and events
happening all over town. . The twon is 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.
The
plaza has been finished for awhile and the plantings are mellowed in, so you
can lounge in some new spots, or take advantage of the seating at the newly
re-opened Healdsburg Bar and Grill and watch
the activities from across the street. A few steps down from the corner along
Healdsburg Avenue you can duck into the Palette
Art Cafe for some great coffee and tasty art. There's a nicely sheltered
courtyard for meeting friends and taking a shopping break. You can stroll
up Healdsburg Avenue to the new offices of Healdsburg
Sotheby's International Realty at 409 Healdsburg Ave. We're two doors
down from Costeaux French Bakery (reviews),
next door to the Toad Hollow tasting
room on one side with Dovetail
Collection and their beautiful furniture and crafts on the other. It's
a great neighborhood.
I put together a little show about nine places around the Healdsburg plaza where you can grab some food. A few are a half block or so off the plaza, and there are many more I didn't have room to include.