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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.

The Allegro Pass is a curated Festival Napa Valley experience created for a new generation of patrons ages 25-45, taking place July 9–11, 2026. Designed for culturally engaged tastemakers and emerging supporters, Allegro offers Patron-level concert access paired with intimate gatherings, private dinners, and elevated hospitality throughout the year.

From San Francisco to Monterey, Oakland to Napa, the Bay Area loves an outdoor music-food-drink situation. Live jazz, pop, reggae, punk, and classical music are warm-weather traditions that never gets old—especially when the musical acts are H-O-T.

Workshop: Working in Concert
Gary Muszynski  |  Founder & CEO, Orchestrating Excellence
Session III  |  11am – 12pm  |  Private Dining Room 1 & 2
Through the power of music, this hands-on/ears-on workshop gives participants the opportunity to be part of a synchronized and adaptive ensemble, building a sense of trust, collaboration, innovation, and community.

How I See Music is an educational program produced as part of Festival Napa Valley’s Arts for All initiative. Conducted as a free, on-site workshop at schools, senior activity centers, and community centers, How I See Music combines “ears-on” and “hands-on” learning to explore symphonic music for listeners ages 5 to 95, teaching deep listening skills and the concept of abstraction in the visual arts.

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.

Each year, more and more music festivals are joining the lineup, expanding and diversifying the event circuit in the United States. To find the best, our panel of music festival aficionados nominated essential festivals from coast to coast, where music fans can enjoy several artists (and even genres) in one place. Then, readers voted to crown the winners. 

OLIVIA DECKER POWER OF MUSIC SERIES
Extraordinary harpist Bridget Kibbey illuminates the expressive range and power of this ancient instrument in a program set inside Neiman Marcus' chic event space, Penthouse On Five, at their San Francisco Union Square store. Through her own adaptations of JS Bach, Claude Debussy, and Isaac Albeniz — and paired with newly commissioned works by a set of international composers — Kibbey shares a preview of her newest work, Crossing the Ocean, her debut album with Pentatone Records to be released October 13th.

Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Ray Chen return to Festival Napa Valley for their debut duo recital, uniting two internationally acclaimed virtuosi. Chen joins Thibaudet, renowned for his distinctive artistry and wide-ranging repertoire, in an evening celebrating the expressive power and musical dialogue of violin and piano.

Festival Napa Valley partners with Napa Valley College throughout the year to bring local public school students to the Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center to experience live concerts in professional theater.