Getting Ready to Rock (and Sip) at BottleRock Napa Valley

Honestly, they had me at Lizzo.

Four of my favorite things — great music, delicious wine, fabulous food, and the beginning of summer — come together for Memorial Day weekend at the annual BottleRock Napa Valley Festival, which I’ll be traveling to next weekend. With three days of live music, wine, food, and festivities on three music stages — plus a culinary stage — I’m looking forward to sharing a fun travel adventure with our readers. 

Some of the big names involved include headline artists Lizzo (yes!), Red Hot Chili Peppers, Post Malone, Duran Duran, Lil Nas X, and The Smashing Pumpkins, as well as Billy Strings, War, Leon Bridges, Carly Rae Jepson, Japanese Breakfast (coincidentally, I’m reading frontwoman Michelle Zauner’s sad but beautiful memoir Crying in H Mart right now), Wu-Tang Clan, Caamp, Sheryl Crow, Los Lobos, The Struts, and the list goes on and on. There are more than 70 bands playing over the long week, and that includes the most recent announcement of the reunion of Keanu Reeves’ grunge-era band, Dogstar, making its first public performance in more than two decades.