Paul’s Picks – July 7 – 12, 2025
Festival Napa Valley Summer Season continues until July 20. Daytime concerts are held most days at the CIA and are free. Many of the major events including Taste of Napaand Arts for All Gala are sold out. See https://festivalnapavalley.org.
Tuesday, July 8
2024 IDOL NV Winner and 2025 Amplifi Artist Andrea Barrera will headline the first Amplifi-sponsored Sound Space Session: Local Edition at The Garden at 3:30 p.m. It’s a free live bilingual music experience, EP Capítulo No. 1 release party and happy hour. It will be streamed digitally on TuneIn. 1500 First St., Napa, tannerybendbeerworks.com
Wednesday, July 9
The American Canyon Chamber of Commerce brings back Meet Me in the Streets from 5 to 8 p.m. with a food truck rally, business tables, live music, kids’ activities, wine and beer, corn hole and a custom/classic car show. W. American Canyon Road between James Road and Elliott Drive. www.americancanyon.gov
The St. Helena Summer Concert Series presents Andre Thierry with accordion soul music from 6 to 8 p.m. in Lyman Park. In addition to music, they have food and family activities. 1498 Main St., St Helena. See www.cityofsthelena.gov
Festival Napa Valley welcomes the LMR Jazz Orchestra to CIA at Copia at 6:30 p.m. They will perform jazz standards plus the world premiere of the newly expanded Napa Valley Suite by multiple Grammy Award-winner Tom Scott. Food, wine, beer and nonalcoholic beverages will be for sale. 500 First St., Napawww.festivalnapavalley.org
Thursday, July 10 and Sunday, July 13
Yountville Certified Farmers Market is held on from 8 a.m. to noon and Sundays from 7:30 a.m. to noon in the parking lot of Ranch Market Too. It offers produce, prepared foods and artisans. 6498 Washington St., Yountville, www.instagram.com
Thursday, July 10,
The Iron Shaker Finals will be an showdown where Napa’s top bartenders go head-to-head in a battle of creativity, flavor and flair from 6 to 10 p.m. First Street Napa, 1300 First St., Napa. $45 at Iron Shaker 2025.
Sacred Fire plays at Calistoga Concerts in the Park, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sacred Fire is a Santana tribute band that brings the fiery fusion of Latin rock, blues and soul to life in Pioneer Park. Lawer Estates will sell wines. 1308 Cedar St., Calistoga. www.VisitCalistoga.com
The Blue Note welcomes the Ronkalunga Band at 8 p.m. Ronaldo Rodríguez Hernández or Ronkalunga is a Cuban singer-songwriter whose sound maintains a distinctive style that has earned him recognition in the Cuban musical scene. 1030 Main St., Napa, www.bluenotejazz.com/napa
Nikki Perez performs at Vintage House in Yountville from 5 to 9 p.m. Enjoy indie-pop acoustic bringing songs from the ‘80s and ‘90s to life. 6541 Washington St., Yountville, www.theestateyountville.com
The Priest Ranch Tasting Room in Yountville presents Thursday Night Live with Sean Carscadden from 6 to 9 p.m. with food from The Kitchen at Priest Ranch and wine for sale. 6488 Washington St., Yountville, thekitchenatpr.com
Friday, July 11
Jason Weeks brings innovative acoustic arrangements to life with live looping at Vintage House in Yountville from 5 to 9 p.m. Enjoy fresh takes on Top 40 hits from the ’60s to today, blending pop, rock, R&B, and country. 6541 Washington St., Yountville, www.theestateyountville.com.
Clay Bell performs at Villago in Yountville from 5 to 9 p.m. blending fingerstyle guitar and soulful vocals for reinvented hits, custom sets and crowd requests. 6481 Washington St., Yountville, www.theestateyountville.com.
The Blue Note presents guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli at 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Pizzarelli is one of the prime contemporary interpreters of the Great American Songbook and has expanded to include the music of Paul McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Antônio Carlos Jobim and the Beatles. 1030 Main St., Napa, www.bluenotejazz.com/napa
Napa Friday in the Park community concerts feature Johnny Tsunami & The Hurricanes and Tommy Odetto in Veterans Park from 6 to 9 p.m. Third and Main streets. Napa, donapa.com/event
Tonewood and Courage presents Napa’s Rivertown Blues Society at 8 p.m. Rivertown Blues Society was formed to bringing the buttoned-up fun and fury of great electric blues music to Napa Valley. $15. 1300 First St., #212, Napa, tonewoodandcourage.com
Saturday, July 12
Women For WineSense celebrates 35 years from 4 to 7 p.m. with a summer hat party at Tres Sabores Winery in Rutherford. 1620 S. Whitehall Lane, Rutherford. womenforwinesense.org
Descarga Cubana, an exhibition of work by 15 contemporary Cuban visual artists that reflects the political and cultural complexities of life in Cuba, opens at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art with a reception from 6 to 7 p.m. $10. 5200 Sonoma Highway, Napa. dirosaart.org
Singer-songwriter Max Minardi comes to the Vintage House in Yountville on Saturday, June 12, from 5 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Minardi creates folk-pop rooted in storytelling. 6541 Washington St., Yountville, www.theestateyountville.com.
The Duo Sonics play and sing at Villagio in Yountville on Saturday, June 12, from 5 to 9 p.m. The acoustic duo features Amy Rose on vocals and Adam Molinar on guitar. They cover a diverse musical catalog ranging from standards to modern hits. 6481 Washington St., Yountville, www.theestateyountville.com.
The Blue Note features Acoustic Alchemy from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Acoustic Alchemy was one of the founding fathers of smooth jazz. 1030 Main St., Napa, www.bluenotejazz.com/napa
Fleetwood Macramé, a tribute to Fleetwood Mac appears at the Uptown Theatre at 8 p.m. with show-stopping renditions of Fleetwood Mac’s greatest hits. 1350 Third St., Napa, www.uptowntheatrenapa.com
Goosecross Cellars will show the film Knives Out with dinner from local food truck Imagination on Fire and a glass of Goosecross wine in a vineyard setting at 7:30 p.m. $40. 1119 State Lane, Yountville, www.goosecross.com/events
Valley Players’ 2025 Summer Staged Reading Series continues with An Institution by Dan Takács at 4 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Napa. An Institution is a gripping new play that pulls back the curtain on a university theatre department in crisis. When an acting student reports misconduct by a respected professor, the faculty scrambles to contain the damage, revealing the lengths institutions will go to protect their reputations. $15. 1240 Pearl St., Napa, www.valley-players.com
Saxophonist Patrick Lamb comes to the Blue Note at 6:30 p.m. Blue Note, 1030 Main St., Napa, www.bluenotejazz.com/napa
People of Earth is the featured band at the Yountville Summer Concert Series from 5 to 7 p.m. in Veterans Memorial Park in Yountville. Taco Addiction food truck will sell food. 6465 Washington St., Yountville
Blue Note’s outdoor Summer Sessions at the Meritage Resort features the acoustic punk band Violent Femmes at 7 p.m. 850 Bordeaux Way, Napa, www.bluenotejazz.com/napa
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