Like America’s other great pastime, the jazz world relies on a farm system of sorts. Young musicians, with an interest, desire and ability to carry on the traditions that began in the Afro-American communities of the South around the turn of the last century, form the basis for the future of jazz music.

The Napa Valley Symphony Orchestra’s mid-winter programs this weekend in Yountville’s Lincoln Theater have been scaled back to a chamber music concert.

For one night, on Feb. 1, the Napa Valley Opera House takes its audience time-traveling back to the heyday of the two-reel comedy, with three short films featuring the classic clowning of Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin.

Two years ago, Vintage High School students dazzled Napa audiences with their performance of “Les Miserables.” Now students are mining both experience and imagination to recreate the chaotic world of Southeast Asia in the 1970s as they prepare their upcoming musical, “Miss Saigon.”

Nothing pleases Zuill Bailey more than turning people on to his music.

The Napa Valley Opera House has scored a coup in booking cutting-edge, controversial singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright for his only Bay Area appearance this year — a solo show scheduled on Sunday, March 9.

With more and more natives of the Aloha State relocating to the mainland and a growing interest in all things Hawaiian, it should not have been a surprise to find that Copia had posted a “sold out” notice for its Community Spotlight series concert last Saturday night.

In celebration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 252nd birthday, Napa Valley Music Associates present the 14th Mostly Mozart in Napa Valley gala concert on Sunday, Jan. 27 —Mozart’s birthday — at 3 p.m. This year the concert will take place at Copia.

We’ve all received one of those e-mails.

Rob Becker’s “Defending the Caveman” is a worldwide, blockbuster theatrical hit that has played in more than 30 countries in 15 different languages.