Love was in the air Friday night at Festival del Sole.

If you’ve ever wanted to hear all 17 of Beethoven’s string quartets performed in Napa Valley wineries, the 13th season of Music in the Vineyards offers the perfect opportunity.

Festival del Sole featured more than music, art and food in its second season.

The Wine Country Film Festival continues this week in Napa opening with a culinary doubleheader at Frazier Winery Thursday night.

The 27th Napa Valley Writers’ Conference begins this weekend and continues through Aug. 2.

The art of song became part of the rich musical mix at this year’s Festival del Sole, and never more so than at Saturday afternoon’s concert at the Napa Valley Opera House starring soprano Danielle de Niese.

Ashley Wheater, ballet master and assistant to the artistic director of the San Francisco Ballet, will be on hand into introduce this week’s Friday Night Flick at Copia.

As if audiences hadn’t been thoroughly challenged and dazzled a-plenty by a week of exceptional concerts, Festival del Sole served up a double-barreled musical blast at Yountville’s Lincoln Theater Sunday night.

The Napa Valley College Glade was transformed this weekend into the Forest of Ardenne. That is, the Forest of Ardenne complete with lawn chairs and the crinkling of baguette wrappers.

Artists from around the valley gathered last Friday to celebrate the opening of the new Artists of the Valley gallery on First Street in Napa.

The athletic ballet displayed by hotshot Italian conductor Nicola Luisotti and incomparable American violinist Joshua Bell set the tone for Wednesday’s exceptional Festival del Sole concert at Yountville’s Lincoln Theater.

It’s not so much what they do, it’s how they do it. That’s the mantra for a Los Lobos concert.

Playing Franz Liszt’s “Transcendental Etudes” is no picnic.