Larkspur
A Joyful Billie Holiday
San Francisco vocalist Kim Nalley brings her formidable voice and stage presence to the Lark Theater with A Joyful Billie Holiday, a 90-minute tribute to the jazz legend. Nalley, celebrated for a style that blends sass, soul and intelligence, developed the performance after portraying the young Holiday in the stage production Lady Day in Love. Rather than imitation, Nalley offers something richer: an artist meeting another artist across time. With dramatic command and a voice capable of both power and velvet intimacy, she revisits Holiday’s songbook through reverence, swing and lived-in feeling. Presented by Marin Jazz, the concert also supports kids’ after school theater programs in Marin schools, adding a grace note to an already elegant afternoon. 3pm, Sunday, April 26, Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur. $65 general admission; $75 VIP.
Marin City
Flea Market Returns
A beloved community institution gets a fresh chapter when the Marin City Flea Market returns under the stewardship of the newly forming Rotary Club of Marin City. Beginning this month and continuing every fourth Saturday, the parking lot of Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church will transform into an open-air bazaar filled with arts, crafts, food, vintage finds, collectibles, furniture, home goods and the timeless category known simply as “stuff.” Long remembered as both a market space and gathering place, the flea market aims to uplift local vendors, celebrate cultural diversity and create an accessible space where entrepreneurship and neighborhood connection can flourish. In other words: commerce with soul. For bargain hunters, browsers and lovers of community color, it’s a welcome revival of one of Marin’s most distinctive grassroots traditions. 8am–2pm, Saturday, April 25, and every fourth Saturday of the month, Saint Andrew Presbyterian Church parking lot, 101 Donahue St., Marin City. Free admission.
Healdsburg
We The Sculptors
Sculpture has a way of making itself unavoidable. It occupies space, casts shadows and often declines to be mere background décor. That spirit animates We The Sculptors, a weekend gathering at T Barny Gallery & Sculpture Gardens celebrating International Sculpture Days with the work of 10 Sonoma County artists. The materials alone suggest range and attitude: ceramics, stone, steel and even zip ties. But the deeper theme is what organizers call “defiant dissidence”—the idea that art can provoke, question and stand visibly in the public square. In that sense, the exhibition joins a long tradition of artists using form and presence to challenge norms and imagine other possibilities. Set amid the gardens of the Pine Flat Road venue, the event invites visitors to wander among works that speak loudly or quietly, but rarely politely. Consider it a free weekend of three-dimensional resistance, or simply a fine excuse to look at interesting things in a beautiful place. 11am–4pm, Saturday–Sunday, April 25–26, T Barny Gallery & Sculpture Gardens, 4370 Pine Flat Rd., Healdsburg. Free.
Napa
Cello ShotsNapa will get a sonorous supernova of sound when virtuoso cellist Rebecca Roudman brings Dirty Cello’s high-octane blend of blues, rock and Americana to the Native Sons of the Golden West Grand Hall in Napa. A classically trained symphony player who long ago traded formal restraint for amplified swagger, Roudman fronts a group that treats the cello less like an orchestral instrument and more like a lead guitar with better manners. Dirty Cello’s sets can veer from Jimi Hendrix to Charlie Daniels, alongside originals delivered with improvisational energy shaped by the room. Expect virtuosity, irreverence and the kind of musical detour best experienced live. 7pm, Friday, May 1, at Native Sons of the Golden West, 937 Coombs St., Napa. $25. More information at dirtycellonapa.eventbrite.com.
