Music in the Vines: Deltaphonic Brings New Orleans Groove to Gilbert Cellars

There's a specific magic to hearing a band as the light goes gold over a West Valley vineyard, a food truck line at your back and Mount Adams somewhere out past the amphitheater. That's the pitch for Gilbert Cellars' Music in the Vines series, and on Friday, July 24, the room — well, the lawn — belongs to Deltaphonic.

The particulars: Gilbert Cellars sits at 2620 Draper Road, gates open at 6 p.m. and music starts at 7. Tickets run $25 in advance, $30 day-of, with a rotating cast of food vendors on hand; this one is billed 21-and-older. It's one stop on a summer slate that also included Hard Maybe in June, Mr. Vale's Math Class earlier in July, and wraps with an all-ages Kara Hesse date on Aug. 7.

Deltaphonic is the out-of-town wild card here, and a smart booking. The New Orleans outfit trades in a sweaty, blues-soaked funk-rock that's built for exactly this kind of outdoor crowd — grooves you feel in the plastic wine cup before you consciously decide to dance. Dropped into a Yakima vineyard, that Gulf Coast humidity-in-audio form is a welcome bit of contrast to the Valley's Americana default.

The Music in the Vines series is part of a broader truth about summer here: some of the best-run stages in the Valley are wineries. Gilbert Cellars, VanArnam Vineyards' Sounds of Summer over in Zillah, the patio shows at WIT Cellars in Prosser — wine country has quietly become concert country, using amphitheaters and tasting-room lawns as venues that a lot of cities would kill for.

Why it matters: winery concerts widen the map. They pull music out to the vineyards and orchards, give touring acts a paying regional stop between bigger cities, and hand locals a reason to treat a Friday like an occasion. They also keep the Valley's music economy diversified — when downtown goes quiet, the vines are still playing.

Buy ahead; these lawns cap their numbers, and "day-of at the door" is a gamble on a warm July night. Bring a blanket and let a New Orleans band talk you into dancing in a vineyard.

Sources: Festivals, stages and parks fuel Yakima Valley's summer 2026 music scene — Yakima Herald-Republic; Gilbert Cellars