Nov. 5: Comedian, actor, playwright and novelist Steve Martin is also a bluegrass banjo player and songwriter whose new CD, The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo, currently sits at the top of the Billboard Bluegrass Album Chart. Martin appears at the Napa Valley Opera House with his group the Steep Canyon Rangers tonight at 8 p.m.; $100/$125/$135, www.nvoh.org. Coincidentally, Martin’s acclaimed play Picasso at the Lapin Agile opens tomorrow at the Napa Valley College Theater: see listing for Nov. 8.
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Napa Valley Arts Week Nov. 5 – Nov. 10
Thursday, November 5th, 2009Napa Valley Arts Week Oct. 28 – Nov. 3
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Oct. 28: The Cinedome 8 in downtown Napa presents the Metropolitan Opera’s Oct. 10 performance of “Tosca,” in a high-definition TV transmission tonight at 6:30. Giacomo Puccini’s opera tells the story of three people—a famous opera singer, a free-thinking painter, and a sadistic chief of police—caught in a net of love and politics. Conductor: Joseph Colaneri; with Karita Mattila, Marcelo Álvarez, George Gagnidze, Paul Plishka. $22, (707) 257-7295.
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Napa Valley Arts Week Oct. 21 – Oct. 27
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Oct. 21: Celebrate the joy of reading at tonight’s benefit for Napa County Reads. Acclaimed author Francisco Jimenez (“The Circuit,” “Reaching Out”),will read from his work and sign books at the 7 p.m. event at the Napa Valley Opera House Café Theatre. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and wine, bid in a silent auction for 25 theme-related bookends designed by Napa Valley artists, and listen to a performance by the Vintage High School Choir, under the direction of Mark Teeters, California Teacher of the Year for 2009. $15 adults, all students admitted free. 1030 Main St., Napa.
Oct. 22: Combining singable melodies usually associated with ‘pop’ music, unexpected harmonic and tonal shifts of moderns jazz and World textures, the Atmos Trio appears at Silo’s Jazz Club in Napa tonight with vocalist
Cynthia Tarr. 7 to 10 p.m., $10; www.silosjazzclub.com
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Napa Valley Arts Week Oct. 14 – Oct. 20
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Oct. 14: How about a night at the opera, without dressing up? Take your seat for Giuseppe Verdi’s great romantic opera Rigoletto, a touching and tragic portrayal of a father-daughter relationship, in a recent production that comes to Napa directly from the Teatro Regio in Parma, Italy, via digital download with high-definition picture and Dolby Digital Surround Sound. 7 p.m. at the Jarvis Conservatory, 1711 Main St., Napa; $20,
www.jarvisconservatory.com.
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Napa Valley Arts Week, Oct. 7 – Oct. 13
Friday, October 9th, 2009
The Zoppé Italian Family Circus
Oct. 7: One of the most promising young bands to come out of Napa in
recent years is called Serf & James. With influences ranging from
Radiohead and Death Cab for Cutie to the Beatles and Billy Joel, the group brings its hard-edged acoustic sound to Silo’s Jazz Club, in downtown Napa’s historic Hatt Building, tonight from 7 to 10 p.m. $10,
www.silosjazzclub.com.
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