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KRON4 did an in depth interview with Festival Napa Valley Board Chair Timothy Blackburn and Board Member Athena Blackburn, digging into the festival's history, free concerts, and 2018 events. Festival Napa Valley, the station says, is "absolutely epic and helps keep Napa’s reputation as a cultural Mecca."

OperaWire featured a lengthy interview with Nadine Sierra, who, with Bryan Hymel, opens the thirteenth season of Festival Napa Valley. “I fell in love with the festival," Sierra says, "because it celebrates and supports all existing art forms in combination with appreciative audiences and incredibly generous sponsors. This is what the classical arts need and the Festival Napa Valley gives it just that.”

In its June issue, Nob Hill Gazette profiles Festival Director of Individual Giving Tessa Edwards and singles out Festival Napa Valley for its "enticing smorgasbord of activities."

Bay Area News Group (The Mercury News, East Bay Times and Marin Independent Journal) ran a long article on the festival, "The glitz and glamour of Festival Napa Valley."

To honor their bravery and commitment, Festival Napa Valley and the Boisset Collection sponsored Wine Country Strong, a free concert and chef’s picnic honoring the region’s first responders, emergency workers, hospital staff – everyone who worked endless hours to protect the wine country community.

Festival Napa Valley raises the roof along with donations.

Mau was saved by art when he was in the eighth grade. Bored and frustrated in school, he found nothing to fire his imagination or capture his interest in any of his classes. “I was just mad all the time,” says Mau. “I felt invisible in school, like nobody cared. And I just didn’t worry about getting to class on time.”

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Stark Insider catches up with Danielle De Niese, who headlines Festival Napa's Valley Opening Night performance, and whose life as a superstar soprano keeps her traveling around the globe.

Food and wine festivals take place across the globe throughout the year, meaning it’s always a good time for a glass of the good stuff.  If you haven’t already mapped out your travel bucket list for this year, let alone this summer, you’re in luck.  We put together six wine festivals every passionate wino needs to check off her bucket list in her 20s.