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Robin Baggett welcomes guests to Alpha Omega for the Chairmen's BBQ -- a cherished Festival Napa Valley tradition! Hosted by Robin together with the Festival's other past chairs, Timothy Blackburn and Darioush Khaledi, the evening features a "beef and reef" feast by the Baggett Ranch BBQ Team, acclaimed wines, and live music under the stars.

Festival Napa Valley’s annual signature tasting event comes to southern California for the first time! Joining live music with exceptional food and wine, Taste of Napa celebrates the bounties of Napa Valley and its signature Wine Country hospitality. Guests can savor pours from more than 30 wineries along with culinary creations from Paséa Hotel & Spa.

3111 St. Helena Hwy, St. Helena
Brasswood Winery Estate, established in 2016, is a renowned Wine & Food Village in Napa Valley with a winery, bar, restaurant, bakery, art gallery, and fashion boutique. Led by winemaker Angelina Mondavi, the Brasswood Cellars team produces exclusive wines from estate-owned vineyards, offering the perfect blend of luxury and rusticity.

1220 Soda Canyon Road, Napa
Roy Estate was established in 1999 by founding vintners Shirley and Charles Roy. The couple sought to produce world-class wines, working tirelessly to identify the ideal site and engaging Napa Valley’s most respected vineyard and winemaking consultants to plant vines and craft wines fully worthy of the Grands Crus de Napa Valley designation. Today, proprietors Stephany Maillery and Stephan Crétier serve as stewards of the sprawling, singular site. Together they usher in the next chapter of peerless winegrowing at Roy Estate.

Conductor Stephanie Childress has established herself on both sides of the Atlantic through her forward-thinking approach to the concert-going experience. She currently serves as Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, and her impressive debuts include those with the San Francisco Symphony and LA Philharmonic. 

Francisco J. Núñez, a MacArthur Fellow and Musical America’s 2018 Educator of the Year, is a composer, conductor, and leading figure in music education. In founding the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, Núñez created an awareness of the ability of young people to rise to unforeseen artistic heights.

Aniruddh (Ani) Patel is a Professor of Psychology at Tufts University, where he studies the cognitive, neural, and evolutionary foundations of musicality. His 2008 book Music, Language, and the Brain (Oxford Univ. Press) won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, and his 2015 lecture series for The Great Courses, titled Music and the Brain, has reached a wide audience. Renée Fleming invited him to contribute a chapter on musicality, evolution, and animal responses to music to her 2024 book Music and the Mind: Harnessing The Arts for Health and Wellness.

Dr. Indre Viskontas, MM, PhD, is a neuroscientist, musician, opera stage director and science communicator across all mediums. Combining a passion for music with scientific curiosity, she is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of San Francisco where she runs The Creative Brain Lab and is on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. 

Gary is an award-winning musician-composer-producer and a pioneer of personal and organizational transformation who bridges the worlds of business, the arts, education, and well-being. He is a leadership coach, a team-building catalyst, a designer and facilitator of multi-sensory learning experiences, and a TEDx presenter.

Chris Appleton is Founder and CEO of SocialRx, a healthcare services company providing social prescribing services to address the dual mental health and loneliness crises. Chris holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management and has spent his career innovating at the intersection of creativity, systems change, and public good.

Renée Fleming is internationally celebrated for her vocal and dramatic artistry, as well as her dedicated advocacy for the impacts of the creative arts in health. Honored with five GRAMMY® awards and the US National Medal of Arts, she is also a Goodwill Ambassador for Arts and Health for the World Health Organization.