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What’s music to the ears? A season finale that simultaneously supports, energizes, and inspires the ethos of Festival Napa Valley. This closing private jazz and bluegrass concert by the celebrated violinist Tessa Lark with pianist/accordionist Sam Reider and bodacious barbecue at Robin and Michelle Baggetts’ beauty of a winery, Alpha Omega, promises just that.
The Baggetts believe that a wine’s sense of place comes from the soil, but that it also relies on the sense of hospitality a winery affords. Their warmth, enthusiasm, and welcoming nature infuses every experience at Alpha Omega. So, while you might step onto the Baggetts’ stunning ranch-style estate feeling like a guest, when you leave you’ll feel like family. Today’s delicious fare will be replete with Alpha Omega’s phenomenal wines—and of course the Baggetts’ down-home approach to appreciating the finer things in life.
Performers
Violinist Tessa Lark is one of the most captivating artistic voices of our time, consistently praised by critics and audiences for her astounding range of sounds, technical agility, and musical elegance. In 2020 she was nominated for a GRAMMY in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category and received one of Lincoln Center’s prestigious Emerging Artist Awards: the special Hunt Family Award.
Sam Reider is a pianist, accordionist, composer, and educator from San Francisco, California. His work brings together various streams of American music, from jazz and folk tunes to popular song and contemporary composition. He has appeared as a bandleader and soloist at major festivals and venues around the world and his performances and original compositions have been featured on NPR, PBS and the BBC. Reider has performed, recorded and collaborated with a range of artists including Jon Batiste, Jorge Glem, Sierra Hull, Laurie Lewis, and Paquito d’Rivera. As Mark Corroto writes in All About Jazz, “Reider has a knack for writing new music that has a familiar sound. Let's say he has an old soul encased in some sprightly fingers.”
Venue
Alpha Omega
Alpha Omega, a family-owned, boutique winery in the legendary appellation of Rutherford, in the heart of Napa Valley, began its journey in 2006 to be recognized as one of the great wine estates in the world. Handcrafting wines from historic vineyards throughout Napa Valley, Alpha Omega’s world-renowned winemakers combine Old World vineyard practices with New World technology to create world-class wines that uniquely express the essence of this famous wine region.
