Healdsburg Jazz Festival in Wine Country

Healdsburg Jazz Festival in Wine Country

Healdsburg itself is a charming destination and relaxing experience – but add in an incredible music festival and it quadruples the reason for a memorable vacation getaway. Sonoma County’s premier summer music event, Healdsburg Jazz Festival returns to the heart of Northern California’s internationally-renowned wine country for its 26th annual festival from June 15 – 23, 2024 featuring many…

Mixing it up with an delicious line of eco-friendly mixers
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Mixing it up with an delicious line of eco-friendly mixers

  With a name like Stolen Fruit, it sounds like the makes run into vineyards in the middle of the night and steal the fruit they use to create their delicious cocktail mixers. Actually, it is the complete opposite! The non-alcoholic mixers are made using three ingredients that most likely go to waste during the…

Festival Napa Valley Opera Gala
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Festival Napa Valley Opera Gala

  Conductor Carlo Ponti and the Festival Orchestra NAPA are joined by two of opera’s most exciting young stars – tenor Michael Fabiano and mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard – for an unforgettable night of arias and duets.  Fabiano, whom the San Francisco Chronicle called “the hardest working opera singer in show business” and a singer “with a muscular and mellifluous tenor voice,” has earned raves for…

Celebrating California Wines at Raymond Vineyard
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Celebrating California Wines at Raymond Vineyard

Did you know that 40 years ago California wines were not considered worthy by the rest of the wine world? Especially in France, who indeed, has been the epicenter of winemaking for centuries. But, one glorious afternoon in Paris, a courageous man named Steven Spurrier  decided to see which wines were actually the best. He brought in famous…