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Mindi Abair's WINE AND JAZZ Pre-Show Pairing

Blue Note Napa, Napa, CA
Mindi Abair

This event is 21 years and older

Hosted by Mindi Abair and wine expert Eric Guerra, you are invited to a private pre-show event  where you will be entertained and participate through a very special wine and music experience.
Pouring their company’s WINEandJAZZ.com fine wines, Eric will walk the group through an informative wine-by-wine “taste like a sommelier” master class, while Mindi then pairs each wine style with a live performance song.
Please expect 2-3 tastings.

Those persons with separate 6:30 or 9 PM show tickets will be asked to wait in line for show entry once this private wine tasting and music pairing event concludes.

BLUE NOTE NAPA is located on the 1st floor of the Historic Napa Valley Opera House. We are an intimate live music club and restaurant where you may enjoy performances of world renowned and local Bay Area artists alike.

HOUSE POLICIES*

  • All ticket prices are per person.
  • This pre show wine pairing event is for Ages 21+
  • Seating is general admission for this pre - show event
  • Patrons with a ticket to one of the shows will not be seated early, and must be checked in at show door time with other show ticket holders.
  • No infants
  • A ticket for this wine and music pairing is NOT a ticket to the 6:30 or 9 PM Show.
  • 6:30 & 9 PM Concert tickets are sold separately.
* Policies are subject to change

Please contact our Box Office with any special needs or accommodation requests.
  • No refunds / cameras/ vaping/ smoking/ outside food or drink.
1030 Main Street, Napa CA 94559
Box Office: boxoffice@bluenotenapa.com or 707.880.2300

  • Mindi Abair

    “Forget You, Who’s Your Sax Player? – Steven Tyler on American Idol

    “21st Century Sophistication, A Gritty, Raucous Spirit, And Exceptional Creative Imagination” – Allmusic.Com

    During her remarkable 24-year recording career, saxophonist/vocalist Mindi Abair garnered 2 GRAMMY nominations, recorded with some of the biggest names in music, and built a substantial following among jazz and blues audiences with her soaring melodies and powerhouse style.

    You might know her as the featured saxophonist on American Idol, sitting in with Paul Shaffer on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Roots on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, or from moonlighting on tour with Duran Duran or Aerosmith. As a solo artist, she has consistently topped the Billboard Contemporary Jazz and Blues charts. In 2018, Mindi Abair and The Boneshakers won 8 Independent Blues Awards including Artist of the Year, and an Independent Music Award for Best Blues Song Fan Award for “Pretty Good For A Girl” featuring Joe Bonamassa. They won the 2019 LA Critics Award for Best Holiday Album for All I Got For Christmas Is The Blues. And in 2019, 2020 and 2021 Mindi was nominated by the Blues Music Awards as the Best Instrumentalist: Horn.

    As creator, designer and owner, Mindi launched www.wineandjazz.com in 2019 as a lifestyle concept that brings together the worlds of wine and music through members-only exclusive wines paired with personally curated music playlists, label art and branded wine and music worldwide adventures and festivals.

    Mindi wrote the book “How To Play Madison Square Garden – A Guide To Stage Performance” and served 10 years as an LA Chapter Governor, President and National Trustee for The Recording Academy.

    Mindi has toured and/or recorded with: Aerosmith, Joe Bonamassa, Smokey Robinson, Joe Perry, Trombone Shorty, Booker T. Jones, Gregg Allman, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Fantastic Negrito, Waddy Wachtel, Bobby Rush, Keb’ Mo’, Teena Marie, Lee Ritenour, Adam Sandler, Duran Duran, Bill Champlin, Richard Elliott, Jimmy Webb, Max Weinberg, Dave Koz, Peter White, Gerald Albright, Mandy Moore, Lalah Hathaway and the Backstreet Boys.

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