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Sostenuto: A Celebration of Sustainability 2014 (Home of Linda and Fedele Bauccio)
Sostenuto: A Celebration of Sustainability 2014 (Home of Linda and Fedele Bauccio)
Friday, July 11, 2014, 6-9 pm Click to Reserve Now At the spectacular oceanfront home of Linda and Fedele Bauccio. Celebrate music and the sustainable abundance of Mendocino County. Enjoy a sumptuous seasonal buffet presented at stations in the kitchens, at the grill, and throughout the gardens. Prepared and presented in the fantastic indoor and ...
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Festival Orchestra with Stephen Prutsman 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Festival Orchestra with Stephen Prutsman 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Featured wines at this performanceAudience favorite Stephen Prutsman will play the Mozart Piano Concerto in C minor in the opening Festival concert. “Conga” by Marquez will have you dancing in your seats. Conductor/composer Allan Pollack will present his piece “A Summer Evening at the Boonville Fair,” that musically evokes the many festive aspects of the ...
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Bachfest: Bach and Beer 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Bachfest: Bach and Beer 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Featured wines at this performance J. S. Bach enjoyed life enormously, and this certainly included beer drinking. He was often paid in beer. Find out more interesting and seldom considered facts in a multi-media lecture with historian Bob Winn, noted beer authority Jay R. Brooks, and scholar/pianist Susan Waterfall, covering life in early 18th century Germany, ...
Claire Lynch Band: Taking Bluegrass to New Heights 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Claire Lynch Band: Taking Bluegrass to New Heights 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Featured wines at this performanceCombining strength and purity of voice, enchanting and subtle song writing, and superb musicianship, the Claire Lynch Band takes bluegrass to new heights. The band is known for its intense sound, as well as for brilliant picking, of course. Claire Lynch was winner of the International Bluegrass Association’s award for Female ...
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Bachfest: Bach at the Keyboard 2014 (Preston Hall)
Bachfest: Bach at the Keyboard 2014 (Preston Hall)
Pianists Susan Waterfall and Carolyn Steinbuck will consider Bach’s role as father and teacher, and will explore the international influences on his music. The concert consists of the Two-Part Inventions, the Italian Concerto, the C minor Partita, and the 6-Voiced Ricercare from the “Musical Offering.” iPad/iPhone/Safari Users Click for Ticketing
Juncal Street: Homage to the Flamenco Tradition 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Juncal Street: Homage to the Flamenco Tradition 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Featured wines at this performanceSix incredible artists, all virtuosi of their art forms, draw global inspiration from contemporary art and dance. Three-time Isadora Duncan nominees for Most Outstanding Music, Ensemble, and Individual Performance, they constitute a multicultural medley of Gypsy, French, and Spanish origins. Award-winning dancers Michael Gutierrez and Fanny Ara are also featured in ...
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Bachfest: The Unaccompanied Suites 2014 (Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary)
Bachfest: The Unaccompanied Suites 2014 (Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary)
Bach’s keyboard works are often played, but there are not so many opportunities to hear the wonderful suites for other instruments, and even more rare, to hear them in the lovely setting and gorgeous acoustics of the sanctuary of the Mendocino Presbyterian Church. Jeremy Cohen will perform the much-beloved Partita for Violin in D minor, ...
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A Cappella Fever 2014 (Preston Hall)
A Cappella Fever 2014 (Preston Hall)
The Coast is home to several excellent small a cappella groups, all singing for the pure love of it while holding down their day jobs. Men’s Acafellas, women’s In the Mix, women’s trio River, and SATB Sine Nomine will sing music from four centuries, everything from do-wop, to gospel, to hit tunes from the ‘40s, ...
Bachfest: Musical Offering, and Prutsman Plays Bach 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Bachfest: Musical Offering, and Prutsman Plays Bach 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Susan Waterfall will describe the history and significance of Bach's Musical Offering. Fascinating canons and the Trio Sonata from that work will be performed by Waterfall, with Jeremy Cohen, violin; Mindy Rosenfeld, flute; Burke Schuchmann, cello. On the second half of the program, the brilliant Bach interpreter Stephen Prutsman will play and conduct the Festival Chamber ...
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Piano Series: Robert Schwartz 2014 (Preston Hall)
Piano Series: Robert Schwartz 2014 (Preston Hall)
Pianist Robert Schwartz is returning to the Festival to play Mozart Sonata in Bb Major K. 570, Mendelssohn Songs Without Words (Selected) and Brahms Sonata in F Minor Op. 5. Schwartz is an active performer and teacher, with international credits. He is often soloist with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra and ...
April Verch Band: Extravagant Step-Dancing Style from Canada 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
April Verch Band: Extravagant Step-Dancing Style from Canada 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Wines featured at this performance April Verch specializes in the hybrid heritage of her native Ottawa Valley, creating North American roots music with fantastic fiddling, great songwriting, a terrific band, and amazing step-dancing—who could ask for more? They have been a major hit with Shetland audiences for years and will set your toes to tapping. ...
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Piano Series: Paul Hersh 2014 (Preston Hall)
Piano Series: Paul Hersh 2014 (Preston Hall)
The Piano Series regulars always welcome Paul Hersh’s lecture recitals. This season Hersh will bring his son, violinist Stefan Hersh, to explore Beethoven’s last violin and piano sonatas. iPad/iPhone/Safari Users Click for Ticketing
Opera: Don Giovanni 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Opera: Don Giovanni 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Featured wines at this performance Mozart’s Don Giovanni is one of the most important operas of all time, and is an audience favorite for good reasons. An extremely dramatic work, full of intrigue, spooky ghosts, beautiful damsels, and revenge, it's based on the fictional legends of the notorious seducer, Don Juan, who carelessly abuses everyone in ...
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Kathleen Grace Band 2014 (Preston Hall)
Kathleen Grace Band 2014 (Preston Hall)
Saturday, July 19, 2014, 3:00 PM Preston Hall A favorite of the Festival as Big Band singer, Kathleen Grace returns with her own band and her own songs that fuse the musical language of jazz, rock and folk with extraordinary storytelling abilities. “Smart, alluring and evocative” (Washington Post), Kathleen Grace has traveled the world sharing ...
Festival Big Band with Kim Nalley: Homage to Aretha Franklin 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Festival Big Band with Kim Nalley: Homage to Aretha Franklin 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Featured wines at this performance The annual Big Band concert will feature vocalist Kim Nalley, former owner of the San Francisco Jazz Club at Pearl’s. She has an amazing 3 ½ octave range and is known for her striking stage presence. She will sing songs made famous by Aretha Franklin, many of which will be ...
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Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Featured wines at this performance. Chris Hillman, formerly of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, teams up with his buddy Herb Pedersen from the Desert Rose Band to play their own blend of bluegrass, folk, and country music. They have the superb blend and easy interchange that only long-time friends can achieve. They can play nearly ...
POCO: Encore Concert 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
POCO: Encore Concert 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Featured wines at this performance One of the first and longest-lasting country-rock groups, POCO will perform an encore concert on the stage of the Mendocino Music Festival. Rusty Young has announced the band’s February 2014 retirement from regular touring, but has agreed to do one more performance for the Festival as a result of the ...
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Calder Quartet 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Calder Quartet 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Featured wines at this performance Benjamin Jacobson, violin Andrew Bulbrook, violin Jonathan Moerschel, viola Eric Byers, cello. Called “outstanding” and “superb” by the New York Times, the Calder Quartet defies boundaries through performing a broad range of repertoire at an exceptional level, always striving to channel the true intention of the work’s creator. The quartet ...
Ledford House: the Iconic Festival Dinner Party 2014 (Ledford House Restaurant)
Ledford House: the Iconic Festival Dinner Party 2014 (Ledford House Restaurant)
Enjoy a delightful evening of gourmet food and music at one of the area’s leading restaurants, with premium wines generously supplied by Goldeneye Winery, and an intimate musical performance by violinist David McCarroll and pianist Miles Graber. $75 per person. This event is full.<!-- Click to Reserve Now Menu coming soon.
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Frederica von Stade 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Frederica von Stade 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Featured wines at this performance The wonder of an art song is that it tells a story, defines its characters and makes an emotional connection in just a few brief minutes. In this recital, with pianist Miles Graber, von Stade will sing songs by Ned Rorem, Louis Guy, Jake Heggie, Maurice Ravel, Virgil Thompson, Aaron ...
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Suzanna Smith and Kenny Washington 2014 (Preston Hall)
Suzanna Smith and Kenny Washington 2014 (Preston Hall)
Superheroes of the Bay Area Jazz Scene. Listen to the magic as Smith, who combines the confessional imperative of a singer/songwriter with the rhythmic acuity of a jazz chanteuse, teams up with Washington, a jazz virtuoso who thrills audiences with his soulful interpretations, seemingly limitless range, and rapid-fire scatting. Both have superb voices that glide ...
Festival Orchestra with David McCarroll 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Festival Orchestra with David McCarroll 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Featured wines at this performance Join us in a celebration of romance as you listen to the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Jean Sibelius and Symphony #2 of Rachmaninoff, both thrilling, monumental works. Julian Waterfall Pollack will premier his evocative Night Flower. Violinist David McCarroll grew up at a remote mountaintop monastery in the ...
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Poncho Sanchez and his Latin Jazz Band 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Poncho Sanchez and his Latin Jazz Band 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Featured wines at this performancePoncho Sanchez’s music is a swirl of some of the hottest colors and brightest lights to emerge from either side of the border. At every show Latin jazz, swing, bebop, salsa and other infectious grooves collide and churn with results that are no less than dazzling. Among the more prominent figures ...
Festival Chamber Players 2014 (Preston Hall)
Festival Chamber Players 2014 (Preston Hall)
The concert will consist of the Mozart Quintet in E flat Major for Piano and Winds K.452, and the Schumann Quintet in E flat Major for Piano and Strings, played by the world-class Festival Orchestra’s principal players, joined by pianists Miles Graber and Carolyn Steinbuck. Mozart wrote his only piano quintet at the height of ...
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Emerging Artists Concert 2014 (Preston Hall)
Emerging Artists Concert 2014 (Preston Hall)
This is a recital by the outrageously excellent young string players from the Emerging Artists program. The Emerging Artists have won scholarships to receive intensive training at the Festival, and an opportunity to perform with established professionals in orchestral and chamber concerts. Don’t miss this recital. These are tomorrow’s renowned musicians at the outset of ...
Irma Thomas, Queen of the Delta Blues 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Irma Thomas, Queen of the Delta Blues 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Featured wines at this performanceIrma Thomas won a Grammy in 2007 for Best Contemporary Blues Album and was chosen as one of NPR’s 50 Great Voices. Dubbed the Soul Queen of New Orleans, Thomas will warm your heart with her blend of roots and blues. She has been inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame ...
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Julian Waterfall Pollack and Natalie Tenenbaum: Duo Pianos 2014 (Preston Hall)
Julian Waterfall Pollack and Natalie Tenenbaum: Duo Pianos 2014 (Preston Hall)
Two of the most brilliantly talented pianist/composers from the New York scene team up to play the driving, rhythmic music of Adams, Reich, and their own compositions, as well as creative arrangements of popular contemporary songs. The eclectic program was drawn together by the performers' love of great music, regardless of genre, and their interest ...
Festival Orchestra and Chorus 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Festival Orchestra and Chorus 2014 (Tent Concert Hall)
Featured wines at this performance The final orchestral concert of great choral works by Haydn and Bach will provide a fitting climax to the Festival. Handel’s Royal Fireworks for orchestra alone will precede Bach’s Cantata #51 and Haydn’s Creation, sung by large choir and soloists. There is nothing as inspirational as hearing a powerful choir giving heartfelt ...