A series of public meetings from end to end of the Napa Valley — including fast-growing American Canyon and the mountaintop community of Angwin — has given more than 150 people a voice in planning the county’s cultural future.

Touring together for the first time, Solid Blues brings together all-star cast of Mavis Staples, Charlie Musselwhite, the North Mississippi Allstars and New Orlean’s-style piano and organ wizard Joe Krownfor a Southern-tinged, soul-stirring performance celebrating the blues tradition for one night at the Napa Valley Opera House.

The Rimsky-Korsakov String Quartet from St. Petersburg, Russia, comes to the Lincoln Theater in Yountville Saturday for one performance.

A self-taught guitarist, heartland-raised Roni Benise had a life-altering experience a decade ago when he heard flamenco music wafting from a radio in his Los Angeles neighborhood.

“Moon Proof Madness,” the di Rosa Preserve’s benefit art auction takes place Oct. 20, 5 p.m. to midnight. The beautiful landscape and galleries of the di Rosa Preserve set the stage for this lively event, which raises funds to support cultural and educational programs at the Preserve.

This weekend, anyone with a hankering to step onstage can try out for an entire season of plays at Napa’s award-winning Dreamweavers Theatre.

This week “Our Town,” Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece about life and love in small town America in the early 20th century opens at Napa Valley College.

For the last five years Kasandra Weinerth has been immersed in the Napa River.

Legendary singer, songwriter and three-time Grammy award winner Kris Kristofferson performs in concert Sunday at Lincoln Theater in Yountville

African-American revivalist string-band trio, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, performs Oct. 26 at Napa Valley Opera House.

It only makes sense that the images in the “Feast of Fine Art” currently at Copia celebrate the outdoors in gorgeous diversity. The plein air works from six Northern California artists will be auctioned at the end of this month as part of the annual Feast of Eden fundraiser for the Land Trust of Napa County.

Eric Nelson, long-time executive director of the Napa Valley Museum, will be leaving that post Nov. 1. He’ll be leaving the valley as well, to become director of Seattle’s Nordic Heritage Museum at the beginning of next year. There he’ll be overseeing that museum’s anticipated rise to national prominence as it moves and expands.

Napa composer Louise Canepa helped gather the forces for 90 minutes of varied musical programming this past Sunday at Yountville’s Lincoln Theater.

Ten years ago Robert Dubac figured out what women want. He popped open a Corona and invited us into his lopsided brain to witness his hilarious thought process known as “The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?” This one-man show became a worldwide phenomenon as it proved that humor between the sexes is understood in any language.

Jimmy Lyons, the late co-founder of the Monterey Jazz Festival, used to say he was throwing a big party each year on a September weekend. A 50th anniversary is certainly cause to celebrate, and Lyons would have been proud to see that his successor Tim Jackson has carried on the tradition.