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VOTE RESULTS GIVE CLEAR WINS TO SOME RACES; SOME AWAIT COUNTS VICTORIES LIKELY FOR HERROD, MITCHELL; 2-YEAR SEAT TOO CLOSE TO CALL; CITY MEASURES PASS EASILY By Christian Kallen
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WIN Chris Herrod won
his race for the 4-year city council seat, and celebrated at the Elephant in the Room. For the four-year seat, incumbent Evelyn Mitchell was the top vote getter with 1,507, just ahead of first-time candidate Chris Herrod with 1,472. But that’s more than enough for both Mitchell and Herrod to claim a seat on the council for the next four years. The other two candidates, Susan Graf (933) and Linda Cade (423), fell short in their efforts. Both city finance measures were passed by voters—Measure L, which allocates 2% of the occupancy tax (TOT) for parks, easily earned passage 1,845 Yes to 691 No (at over 72%, it was ➝ Election Results, 3
Photo courtesy of Django Festival All-Stars
While final results will not become available for several days, the trend is clear in most local races— with only the two-year Healdsburg City Council seat in doubt. In that race, newcomer Ron Edwards holds to a narrow lead over former councilmember Brigette Mansell. Only 33 votes separate Edwards (1,094) from Mansell (1,061), while Matias Lopez Jr. received only 234.
GYPSIES The Django All-Stars return to Healdsburg on Nov. 19 for two shows at The 222.
Jittery Jazz Style Returns to Healdsburg ‘GYPSY JAZZ’ AMBASSADORS BRING BACK THE HOT CLUB DE FRANCE By Christian Kallen
Gypsy jazz is a category all its own, and one that has become familiar to Healdsburg audiences over the recent years. There are several local purveyors of this jittery jazz, including the Gypsy Duo (sometimes a Trio), Trio Paz, the Haute Flash Quartet (an all women’s group) and others, but like champagne, the real stuff comes from France. It’s a kind of caffeinated jazz, the hot percolating music of European
cafés, its sped-up rhythm like the train trestles, trollies and trams wending through cobbled streets. Sometimes it races, sometimes it soars, but it always keeps moving, and it always swings. It was popularized in the 1930s and ’40s by Django Reinhardt, a fleet-fingered Romani guitarist from France— Romani are also called the Roma, or gypsies. The musician gave up his first instrument, violin, when he was badly burned by a fire in his traveling caravan; it caused first- and second-degree burns over much of his body, as well as the loss of the fourth and fifth fingers of his left hand. But as a guitarist, Reinhardt was something
else. With violinist Stephane Grappelli, he formed the Quintette du Hot Club de France in Paris in 1934, and their jittery yet melodic music became hugely popular in Europe, winning many fans among American servicepersons. He played with Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins and even toured with Duke Ellington in the U.S. in 1946. He died at a relatively young 43, his career in full swing. Cut to Healdsburg, 2017. The artistic director of the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Jessica Felix, was approached about booking a French group called the Django All-Stars. “I didn’t know their music that well, but
I knew they played in New York a couple times a year,” said Felix. “They gave me the opportunity to book them on a Sunday afternoon, when they could squeeze in a date before a show in San Francisco that night.” That’s when the Django Festival AllStars made their Healdsburg debut—and those who saw them that June afternoon remember the raucous good time the six-member band brought to the stage. Despite limited English, they cracked jokes, and ended their set with the Raven audience stomping for more. This month they come back, for two shows at The 222 on Nov. 19. For the most part, it’s the
same group that showed up five years ago, though the paterfamilias of the band, Dorado Schmitt, rarely travels. His son, Samson Schmitt, takes the lead guitar seat, with Pierre Blanchard on violin, Ludovic Beier playing accordion, Michael Joseph Harris on rhythm guitar and Antonio Licusati on bass. “It’s exciting and exotic, a fun style,” said Felix, “and these are the experts, carrying on the tradition in France.”
POPULAR CAFE REOPENS IN BRAND NEW INCARNATION
bar, the Flying Goat. First in, tentative singles, then couples, then groups, the customers came in all week—perhaps drawn by the hiss of the espresso machine, or the aroma of a fresh-brewed cup, but most likely the reputation of the Goat, which has been pretty much off the downtown scene since COVID hit. “They did gangbusters over the weekend,” said Flying Goat owner and founder Phil Anaker of the new shop’s first week. “A lot of people have been waiting a long time… We’ve been fielding daily questions (about reopening) over the past two years at 419.” That’s the address of the small second Healdsburg coffee shop the Goat kept open during the pandemic, 419 Center St. It’s a
‘COFFEE IS A FRUIT,’ SAYS FOUNDER OF PLAZA’S NEW FLYING GOAT SHOP By Christian Kallen
Photo by Christian Kallen
JAVA Bob Daly waits for his Americano at the new location of the Flying Goat, 300 Center St.
At left is Priscilla Plascencia, while Tham Cook pulls the espresso.
One quiet morning last week, the long-closed corner store at Matheson and Center took down their plywood walls and threw open the doors of 300 Center St.—the newest incarnation of Healdsburg’s longtime favorite coffee
There will be two shows on Saturday, Nov. 19, at 6:30 and 8:30pm. Tickets are $55 and $95, on the 222 stage at Paul Mahder Gallery, 222 Healdsburg Ave. For tickets, visit the222.org.
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