New Orleans Day on the Green at Healdsburg Jazz Festival at Dry Creek Vineyard

Come festival time, Healdsburg gets its Crescent City groove on with a special outdoor “New Orleans Day on the Green” celebration. The Russian River Ramblers, formed in 1992, takes its New Orleans musical cause seriously. The band includes Carl Elze on tuba; Joel Hernandez, on guitar; Peter Martin, piano; Charles Moller, clarinet; Steve Schaffer, trumpet; and Dave Stare (founder of Dry Creek Vineyard) on banjo.

More trad jazz goodness with some modern twists will pour forth courtesy of The Dixie Giants, a newer band with banjoist Dan Charles, clarinetist Casey Jones, trombonist Jason Thor, Jesse Shantor on alto saxophone, and a rhythm section of drummer Ricky Lomeli, Nick Pulley on sousaphone, and Ab Menon on percussion (with some banjo and melodica on the side)....

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Come festival time, Healdsburg gets its Crescent City groove on with a special outdoor “New Orleans Day on the Green” celebration. The Russian River Ramblers, formed in 1992, takes its New Orleans musical cause seriously. The band includes Carl Elze on tuba; Joel Hernandez, on guitar; Peter Martin, piano; Charles Moller, clarinet; Steve Schaffer, trumpet; and Dave Stare (founder of Dry Creek Vineyard) on banjo.

More trad jazz goodness with some modern twists will pour forth courtesy of The Dixie Giants, a newer band with banjoist Dan Charles, clarinetist Casey Jones, trombonist Jason Thor, Jesse Shantor on alto saxophone, and a rhythm section of drummer Ricky Lomeli, Nick Pulley on sousaphone, and Ab Menon on percussion (with some banjo and melodica on the side).

From another corner of the day’s musical mardi gras, St. Gabriel’s Celestial Brass Band moves deeper into the tradition of New Orleans music with the modernized yet rootsy style of the Dirty Dozen and Rebirth Brass Bands. Drummer Tom Wiggins formed the band back in 1990. Band members include Willy Jordan (drums), Dwight Carrier (accordion), Washboard Mary (washboard), Alan Williams (trombone), Sonny Fairley, Paul Branin, and Ken "Snakebite" Jacobs (saxophones), Tom Wiggins (percussion), Mike Rinta (tuba), Tom Poole, and Shane Cox (trumpets).

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