Napa Christmas Festival Plans Three 2026 Concerts
Music in the Vineyards and Aeternum will bring back Christmas in the Vineyards in Napa on December 11–12, adding a free, registration-required sing-along for children alongside two evening concerts of seasonal music. In Paris, Les Tazz will present a family concert featuring characters from Éric Coudert’s books, original songs, and audience participation at the Théâtre de la Tour Eiffel from November 29 to December 24. Thomas Dutronc and Jazz & Friends are scheduled to perform jazz standards, including music associated with Chet Baker and Django Reinhardt, at the Théâtre de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines on November 14. A theatre-and-music production about painter Suzanne Valadon will run at Paris’s Guichet Montparnasse from November 5 to 29, tracing her artistic life and relationships in Belle Époque Montmartre. Separately, a review of the Rencontres Musicales d’Évian’s 50th-anniversary season highlights its new chamber hall and performances in a Brahms cycle featuring artists including Renaud and Gautier Capuçon, Yuja Wang, and Daniel Lozakovich.
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