Santa Rosa
Fa-la-la-mingo
The Flamingo Resort & Spa leans all the way into tropical holiday kitsch with a season-long transformation that pairs retro tiki cheer with year-end dance-floor excess. Highlights include Sippin’ Santa at the Lazeaway Club, where candy-cane mai tais, peppermint mojitos and rum-spiked hot chocolate are served amid vintage ornaments and palm-tree tinsel, and a neon-soaked Miami Vice-themed New Year’s Eve Decades of Dance Party ushering in 2026 with DJs, live performances and serious throwback energy. Add live music, cookie decorating, hot cider and more, and the Flamingo becomes a full-on winter escape—flamingos included. Sippin’ Santa runs throughout the holiday season; Miami Vice NYE party, New Year’s Eve, Flamingo Resort & Spa, 2777 4th St., Santa Rosa. Details and tickets at flamingoresort.com.
Sausalito
Solstice Sound Bath
The season turns inward with Sound of Love, a winter solstice sound bath led by Ruby Hernandez and David Gibson, inviting participants to lie down, let go and listen deeply. Using a rich array of sound-healing instruments—voice, crystal and Tibetan bowls, gongs, crystal harp, handpan, framedrum, kalimba and more—the evening is designed as a slow, immersive reset for body and mind. Hernandez brings a nature-rooted sensibility shaped by forests and sea life, while Gibson, founder of the Globe Sound Healing Institute and author of The Complete Guide to Sound Healing, anchors the experience in harmonic resonance and intention. 6–8pm, Saturday, Dec. 20, 110 Caledonia St., Sausalito. $33. Tickets via eventbrite.com.
Novato
Caroling for a Cause
Holiday cheer goes mobile as the Hamilton Arts Foundation leads a festive caroling procession through the historic Hamilton neighborhood, raising awareness for the Save Hamilton Theater project. Singers from the Golden Gate Opera and Santa Rosa Community Chorus—joined by special guest quartet Comfort & Joy—will guide the crowd through classic carols, with hot chocolate, cookies, candy canes and sheet music provided along the way. Electric lanterns and flashlights encouraged. 3–5pm, Saturday, Dec. 20, Hamilton Amphitheater, Hamilton Field, Novato. Free. More info at savehamiltontheater.org/caroling.
Rohnert Park
Holiday Songbook
Cinnabar Theater closes out the year with The Holiday Songbook, a high-energy, all-ages musical celebration that blends concert performance, storytelling and audience sing-alongs into a 90-minute holiday party. Created by Broadway and recording veterans James A. Rocco and Albert Evans, the show unwraps the stories and surprises behind more than two dozen seasonal favorites, from “Silent Night” to “Jingle Bell Rock,” with fresh arrangements and knockout vocals. 7:30pm, Friday, Dec. 19; 2 and 7:30pm, Saturday, Dec. 20; 2pm, Sunday, Dec. 21, Warren Theater at Sonoma State University (Ives Hall), 1801 East Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park. Tickets and info at cinnabartheater.org or 707.763.8920.
