A Sunday art and music series starts at high noon on March 30 at the Capp Heritage Vineyards Tasting Room and Vintage d’ Elegance Lounge in Napa, with artist Carolyn Ferris presenting original paintings and Moonalice singer/songwriter Roger McNamee performing original songs from 3pm to 5pm.

Everyone attending the 30 March show will receive a free poster created by Carolyn to mark the event. Steve Parish, Road Scholar to Moonalice and confidant of Jerry Garcia will be present to add his special brand of humor during Roger's solo performance.

The Carolyn Ferris Art Show will run from March 30 to April 30. Four additional Sunday only shows in May and two in June with other artists are also scheduled.

The just-opened Capp Heritage Vineyards Tasting Room and Vintage d’ Elegance Lounge, at 1245 First St. at Randolph, is owned by Dan and Marguerite Capp, longtime Napa County residents, and is managed by artist-musician Gary William Koehler, the former general manager and national sales director for Dutch Henry Winery.

Dan Capp is the great-, great-grandson of Napa Valley pioneers David Hudson and wife, Francis Griffith. Traveling by wagon train, they crossed the Sierra Nevada, settled in the Napa Valley in 1845 and planted the first vineyard in St. Helena.

The Capp Family has been growing grapes and making wine the Napa Valley for more than 40 years. The opening of the tasting room and lounge marks a return to downtown for Capp, whose grandfather, Emil W. Swanson, owned and operated a hardware and art supply store at 1018 Main St. during the 1920s and ’30s.

The tasting room, open daily, will offer Capp Heritage wines poured from the historical Noyes Mansion bar with vintage belt-driven fans spinning overhead. The adjacent lounge features an Art Deco decor, a copper-clad fireplace, a ten-foot-diameter stained-glass-domed ceiling light. It will host group tastings, special events, concerts and art exhibitions.

Carolyn Ferris is a surrealistic artist, living in Fairfax, California. She has worked on computer since the mid-nineties mostly with Photoshop. She began her career as a painter and illustrator in 1984. She worked with Timothy Leary over a span of about six years, illustrating for some of his books and working on inter-active paintings with him. In 1997, she created her first rock poster for Prodigy at The Warfield. Thereafter, she produced Fillmore posters as well as designed for some favorite groups such as David Nelson Band and Santana. Carolyn joined the incredible Moonalice poster artist pool in 2009; within it, she finds sanctuary with great music, adventure, and the ability to create her surrealistic worlds for a purpose. She is currently an artist and a volunteer newsletter editor for the Rock Poster Society, a non-profit all volunteer organization consisting of rock poster collectors, dealers, artists, and enthusiasts.

Roger McNamee performs more than 100 shows a year in the band Moonalice, where he is the lead vocalist and plays bass and guitar. In Moonalice Roger pioneered the use of social media in music, inventing such applications as Twittercast concerts, Moonalice radio on Twitter, live MoonTunes TM (streaming video) concerts, and the Moonalice Couch Tour TM. The band’s website (Moonalice.com) enables fans to listen to any song or show and to watch every concert on a smartphone without an app. Moonalice is renowned for the quality of poster art associated with the band. Moonalice’s single, “It’s 4:20 Somewhere” has been downloaded more than 3 million times.

Steve Parish was never one to walk the straight-and-narrow, even during his childhood growing up in Flushing Meadow, Queens. Busted as a teenager for selling acid in the summer of 1968, Parish landed in Riker's Island. The experience changed him and after getting out he did his best to stay out of trouble, securing a job moving music equipment at the New York State Pavilion. The first show he worked was a Grateful Dead concert in July of 1969 and Parish was captivated by the music. A life seemingly headed nowhere had suddenly found its calling as he fell in quickly with a band of likeminded misfits who formed the nucleus of what would be the greatest road crew in rock 'n' roll history.Parish traveled to California where his apprenticeship began. Working for the band for free and learning his craft, Parish got to know Jerry, Bobby, Phil, Billy and Mickey and through the years their relationships forged an unbreakable bond. He became very close with Garcia in particular, acting as his personal roadie and later manager for his solo performances and Garcia Band shows. He was there during times of trouble (like when a pimp held Garcia hostage at gunpoint in a New York hotel room), spending hours by his bedside when Garcia was in a coma in 1986, and performing the duties of best man at his wedding. He was also the last friend to see Garcia alive.