Arts & Entertainment
Check Out Lively Summer Line-Up At Napa Valley Performing Arts, Yountville
On tap: ballet, opera, Grammy-winning Latin musicians and a superstar violinist. Even a darned good evening of cowboy poetry and songs!

NAPA VALLEY, CA -- The Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater, a comprehensive performing arts center dedicated to bringing cultural and artistic showpieces to Napa Valley and the North Bay, has a stellar and varying line-up for summer.
Performers will appeal to those who love opera, dance or violin virtuosos, and even cowboy and country!
The center is at 100 California Drive in Yountville.
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Here are listings. Enjoy!
July 16: Festival Napa Valley's Rhapsody in Blue - A sterling ensemble comprising musicians from the New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and other top international orchestras
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July 19: Festival Napa Valley: Sarah Chang in Concert - Superstar violinist and festival favorite!
July 22: Festival Napa Valley's Dance Gala: San Francisco Ballet - One of the world's great dance companies.
July 24: Festival Napa Valley's Opera Gala - An unforgettable night of arias and duets
July 30: -Grammy-winning and fully immersed in modern music, but still close to their Latin American influences and Mexican heritage. 'La Santa Cecilia' - Napa Valley Performing Arts Center Link Removed
Aug. 14: - The afternoon includes masterpieces by George Balanchine, Christopher Wheeldon, and Daniel Ulbricht. All of the pieces feature today’s top dancers from New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Stars of American Ballet: Napa Valley Performing Arts Center Link Removed
Sept. 10: - A fantastic outdoor evening of storytelling and song, an experience you'll not soon forget!
2nd Annual Napa Valley Cowboy Music and Poetry Gathering Link Removed
For full line-up, click here.
For other fun and lively events going on around the North Bay this summer, don't miss these:
July 15: Napa City Nights
July 16: Cheese + Beer: Better Together --SHED Workshop, Healdsburg
July 20: Suisun Wildlife Show at Jelly Belly, Fairfield
July 21: Calistoga Concerts in the Park
July 22- Aug. 7 :2016 Sonoma County Fair
July 22: Food Truck Mania! Dixon
July 23: Dixon Family Services: Comedy Night
July 27-31: 2016 Solano County Fair
July 28: SUPPER Taste of Place with John Ash and Baker Lane Vineyards: SHED, Healdsburg
Aug. 10 - 14: Napa Town and Country Fair
Aug. 19-20: Napa: MAIN STREET REUNION
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