This weekend, the 10th-annual Aroma Spring Jazz Festival will be a tribute to New Orleans jazz and food, according to Paul Carman, festival producer. Carman, local saxophone and bass musician, usually goes to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. “This year I wasn’t able to go, so I decided to bring the music here,”…

Celtic sessions, informal gatherings of musicans playing together, are becoming a tradition at the Creek House. The next session will be Jan 25., and all musicians are welcome to sit in.

Gina Genis signs Volume 2 of “Everybody and Their Mother,” environmental portraits of Idyllwild people, at Cafe Aroma Saturday afternoon.

The IDYTalk series featuring Idyllwild Arts Academy students returns at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, with Musical Theatre major Benjamin Biber speaking in person in the campus’ Krone Library to academy faculty and students, and on Zoom to everyone else. Ben and his family are long-time Idyllwild residents, and he has attended both the Idyllwild…