Walnut Creek Downtown Weekend Features Tea Workshop, Vinyl Music Event

Rooted Coffee Co at 1321 Locust Street will host "Tea Workshop: The Spirit of Spring" on Friday, March 27, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., opening a two-night downtown Walnut Creek weekend that continues Saturday with a live vinyl music set at Main Street Kitchen & Bar.

Rooted Coffee Co sits in the heart of downtown Walnut Creek and operates as a cafe by day but an event space by night, making it a natural fit for the spring-themed workshop. The family-owned cafe specializes in a plant-based menu and locally roasted coffee. The tea workshop carries categories spanning arts, food and drink, community, health and wellness, and family-friendly, according to the Walnut Creek Downtown events calendar.

The following evening, Vinyl Junkies at Main Street Kitchen runs from 6 to 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, at 1358 N. Main Street. The event is tagged arts, music, entertainment, food and drink, dog-friendly, and family-friendly on the downtown calendar, making it one of the more broadly accessible bookings on this weekend's lineup. Main Street Kitchen is a family-owned restaurant serving farm-to-table ingredients, focusing on fresh organic, seasonal products.

The two events anchor what is a busy stretch for downtown programming. The calendar extends well into spring: ØL Beer Cafe Comedy Night runs one hour at ØL Beercafe & Bottle Shop on Thursday, April 2, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., followed by Phree Thinkers Jazz, R&B, and Soul music back at Main Street Kitchen & Bar on Saturday, April 4, from 6 to 9:30 p.m.

Barebottle Brewing Company hosts a Volunteer Open House on Thursday, April 9, from 4 to 7 p.m. The following Friday, April 10, Lesher Center for the Arts at 1358 N. Main Street presents The Wonder of Elvis from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. On Saturday, April 18, the Downtown Painted Pianos community event runs from 9 a.m. to noon at the Walnut Creek Downtown Office, the same morning as Community Service Day, held 9 to 11 a.m. at the Walnut Creek Downtown Association. Walnut Creek's painted pianos program, run in partnership with Steinway Piano Gallery, places decorated instruments at locations around the downtown core for the public to play.

Jonathan Poretz performs at Lesher Center on Sunday, April 19, from 3 to 5 p.m. A Flowers Vineyard & Winery Wine Dinner is scheduled for Thursday, April 23, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Main Street Kitchen & Bar. The California Symphony brings "Heroic Rachmaninoff" to Lesher Center on Saturday, May 9, beginning at 7:30 p.m., and the HEAD WEST Marketplace fills downtown on Sunday, May 10, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. across arts, music, entertainment, and shopping categories.

For those who prefer a Sunday ritual over weekend-night events, the Walnut Creek Farmers' Market runs year-round every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 1737 Locust Street, a few blocks from both Rooted Coffee Co and Main Street Kitchen & Bar.