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Event Series Festival Chorale: All Around The Blooming Heather

Festival Chorale: All Around the Blooming Heather

Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary 44831 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

The arrival of Spring will be lauded in song with some traditional folk songs, including "The Water Is Wide," and selections by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Johann Sebastian Bach, Aaron Copland, and more. With special guest Marcia Sloane, cello. Matthew Evans, Director; Robin Knutson, piano; Marcia Sloane, cello; Claire Armstrong, four-hand piano on "The Promise of ...

$25
Event Series Festival Chorale: All Around The Blooming Heather

Festival Chorale: All Around the Blooming Heather

Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary 44831 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

The arrival of Spring will be lauded in song with some traditional folk songs, including "The Water Is Wide," and selections by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Johann Sebastian Bach, Aaron Copland, and more. With special guest Marcia Sloane, cello. Matthew Evans, Director; Robin Knutson, piano; Marcia Sloane, cello; Claire Armstrong, four-hand piano on "The Promise of ...

$25

Volunteer Sign-Up Day 2025

Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CA

The Mendocino Music Festival is, first and foremost, a community of music lovers who collaborate to produce the Festival, create the music, and enjoy the performances. Volunteers are at the heart of our production. Over two hundred people serve as door captains, ticket scanners, ushers, and concessions workers. Many more help out at fundraising events, ...

Opera Preview Party 2025

Brian James and Shariq Yosufzai Residence Mendocino, CA, United States

Hosted by Shariq Yosufzai and Brian James in their stunning ocean view Mendocino home, this gathering will offer insights from Artistic Director Allan Pollack and 2025 opera conductor Ryan Murray. There will be a few arias to delight and astonish us. Savory and sweet courses will be circulated throughout the evening. Wine and nonalcoholic beverages ...

$200

Susan Waterfall presents: Why We Love Igor

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Susan Waterfall's biographical film on Igor Stravinsky provides an ideal prologue to the Festival's programming this year. Experience the fascinating life of the greatest composer of the 20th century, including excerpts from 25 of his works, along with compelling images and photographs. A Q&A will follow the screening.

$20

New Orleans Gala

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Enjoy a brilliant meal with friends as Fedele and Linda Bauccio sponsor an evening of color and culinary exploration dedicated to New Orleans cuisine and the art of good food and fine dining. In a spacious and secluded area on the Mendocino Grove property, party goers can mingle while enjoying exceptional wine and other libations, ...

$150

Villalobos Brothers

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

This Grammy-Award-winning family band is recognized as one of the foremost contemporary Mexican ensembles in the world. With their unique fusion of Mexican folk, jazz, and classical music, they have graced prestigious stages around the globe, including Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, and captivated audiences with their virtuosic musicianship. Hermanos Villalobos have frequently collaborated with ...

$15 – $65

Festival Orchestra 1, with soloist James D’León

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

In the opening classical concert, Allan Pollack will lead the musicians in Igor Stravinsky’s 1922 Pulcinella Suite, one of the ballets commissioned by Diaghilev. We’ll catch our breaths when the orchestra and pianist James D'León transport us to Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Manuel de Falla’s set of nocturnes for piano and orchestra. The ...

$15 – $65

Piano Series: Keisuke Nakagoshi

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi will celebrate Ravel’s 150th birthday with “Moons and Insects,” a selection of short pieces by classical and contemporary composers that celebrate the moon and some of the many bugs in the world. His selections will include Grieg’s butterfly, Ravel’s moth, Scriabin’s mosquito, and Prokofiev’s grasshopper, interspersed with some moon music, and capped ...

$15 – $40

Kelsey Waldon

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

This country singer and songwriter was raised in Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky. Waldon's family roots in the Bluegrass State date back over ten generations. She has performed with with artists of note within the country and Americana genres, including Willie Nelson, John Prine and Tanya Tucker, and she made her Grand Ole Opry debut in 2016, ...

$15 – $65

Side Note

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Side Note is an eight-person contemporary a cappella group based in San Francisco that sings top hits of all genres and eras, from classic 60s hits to mashups of the latest R&B, jazz, and musical theater chart toppers. Each singer has a different musical background, but they draw on their diversity to create a new ...

$15 – $40

Piano Series: Sergey Belyavsky

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

A carnival mood will be created by pianist Sergey Belyavsky as he plays Schumann’s lively Carnival Scenes from Vienna Op. 26 and his Carnaval Op. 9. The spirit will only grow with Liszt’s “Carnival in Pest” (aka Hungarian Rhapsody No. 9), Rosenthal’s Carnaval de Vienne, and selections from Saint-Saens’ humorous The Carnival of the Animals. ...

$15 – $65

Jackie Venson

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Heralded as one of “Austin’s rising stars” by Rolling Stone and called “an Austin legend in the making” by Forbes, Jackie Venson has established herself as one of the most commanding R&B performers to come out of Texas. An Austin native, Venson has shared the stage with icons like Gary Clark, Jr. and Melissa Etheridge ...

$15 – $65

Foxglove

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Twenty-three years ago, three members of what would soon be Foxglove gathered on stage at the Caspar Community Center to record a live album in front of a capacity crowd. This trio of multitalented musicians—Morgan Daniel, Gwyneth Moreland, and John Bush—had been building a following at small, local venues, showcasing Gwyneth’s lovely voice, Morgan’s songwriting, ...

$15 – $40

Julian Pollack Trio, with Very Special Guest

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Prepare for an evening of soul-tinged jazz and fusion, with a look to the future, sprinkled with electronica and hip-hop. Described by Timeout New York as a musician who “deftly balances virtuosity with tenderness,” Julian Pollack is well-known in these parts as an amazing pianist and keyboard wizard. He will be joined by Berklee-trained Max ...

$15 – $65

Kim Nalley, with Tammy Lynne Hall

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Kim Nalley has been a fixture in the San Francisco Bay Area—and here in Mendocino as well—as a soulful jazz and blues singer, very much in the tradition of the best vocalists of the 1940s and ‘50s. Always exciting to hear, she can go from operatic to gritty blues, with projection that can whisper a ...

$15 – $40

Festival Orchestra 2: Don Pasquale

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

In this concert version of Donizetti’s comic opera, conducted by Ryan Murray, the audience will be treated to all of the beautiful music in this bel canto masterpiece, and most of the shenanigans. Don Pasquale is generally regarded as the high point of the 19th century opera buffa tradition and five accomplished singers will lead ...

$15 – $65

Piano Series: Rachel Breen

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

American pianist Rachel Breen’s performances have been described as “truly show-stopping” (Gramophone UK) and having “a beautiful piano sound and original detail.” She has enjoyed an active and successful competition career and has performed and taught masterclasses around the world. In the first half of this concert Breen will perform a set of ten etudes ...

$15 – $40

Festival Big Band, with Maiya Sykes

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Maiya Sykes is back for her third Big Band concert and she’s ready to pull out all the stops. She’s a former back-up singer whose rendition of “Stay with Me” on The Voice in 2014 catapulted her to lead singer fame. Based in Los Angeles, Sykes is a classically trained musician who graduated from Yale ...

$15 – $65

Stravinsky: Chamber Music for the Concert Hall

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

L’histoire du soldat shows off Stravinsky’s familiarity with a wide range of musical styles: pasodoble, tango, waltz, ragtime, klezmer, and even Luther’s Ein Feste Burg. Concerto in E-flat (“Dumbarton Oaks”) is one of Stravinsky’s two chamber concertos. Stravinsky’s Octet for Wind Instruments is scored for an unusual combination of woodwind and brass. Completed in 1923, ...

$15 – $66

Charlie Torch

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Siblings Jasper Manning on mandolin and Jayna Manning on guitar are joined by their fiddler father, Chad Manning, an alum of Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands and the David Grisman Bluegrass Experience. They will be accompanied by Tyler Stegall, a versatile Bay Area banjo player, and either Mark Schatz or Paul Knight. Schatz has ...

$15 – $40

Ledford House: the Iconic Festival Dinner Party

Ledford House Restaurant 3000 CA-1, Albion, CA, United States

Enjoy a delightful evening of gourmet food and music at one of the area’s leading restaurants, with premium wines generously supplied by Husch Vineyards. Located seven miles south of Mendocino on the Pacific Coast Highway (CA-1) in Albion, California, its bluff-top location on the Albion headlands allows panoramic views of the Pacific and breathtaking sunsets.

$125
Event Series Stravinsky at Home: Music for Family, Friends, Lovers

Stravinsky at Home: Music for Family, Friends, Lovers

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

The musicians will reveal surprising new sides to Stravinsky through the years in these intimate concerts. Alexander Katsman will accompany mezzo-soprano Silvie Jensen in Le Faune, a songs composed by Stravinsky during his honeymoon. Jensen will be joined a bit later by Alexander on “Cradle Songs for a Cat.” Susan and Julian Waterfall Pollack will ...

$15 – $40

Foghorn Stringband

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Foghorn Stringband is considered one of the finest old-time string bands on the West Coast. Noted for "intense dedication to the sources" of the tradition, their music is billed as "a blend of high-spirited Appalachian dance music tying in sounds of traditional mountain fiddle tunes.” Their interpretation of “old time” is ...

$15 – $65
Event Series Stravinsky at Home: Music for Family, Friends, Lovers

Stravinsky at Home: Music for Family, Friends, Lovers

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

The musicians will reveal surprising new sides to Stravinsky through the years in these intimate concerts. Alexander Katsman will accompany mezzo-soprano Silvie Jensen in Le Faune, a songs composed by Stravinsky during his honeymoon. Jensen will be joined a bit later by Alexander on “Cradle Songs for a Cat.” Susan and Julian Waterfall Pollack will ...

$15 – $40

Festival Orchestra 3

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Festival Orchestra with guest conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong and soloist Julian Rhee. “Igor on My Mind,” Allan Pollack’s fun-loving, energetic and rhythmic piece, impishly steals motifs straight out of Igor Stravinsky’s orchestral music. Then the real Stravinsky will be heard in the Violin Concerto in D, a neoclassical piece in four movements, written in the summer ...

$15 – $65

Calder Quartet

Cotton Auditorium 500 N Harold Street, Fort Bragg, CA, United States

Hailed as “imaginative, skillful creators” by the New York Times, the Calder Quartet captivates audiences with its explorations of a broad repertoire, always striving to fulfill the composer’s vision in their performances. The group’s distinctive artistry is exemplified by the musical curiosity they bring to everything they perform. One of America’s most satisfying—and most enterprising—quartets" ...

$15 – $65

Charlie Musselwhite

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

American blues harmonica player and bandleader who came to prominence, along with Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, and Elvin Bishop, as a pivotal figure in helping to revive the Chicago Blues movement of the 1960s, Musselwhite has often been called a "white bluesman.” He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2010. At the ...

$15 – $65

Emerging Artists Recital

Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

The annual concert by the wonderfully talented young string players from the Festival’s Emerging Artists Program is anticipated by all who love hearing accomplished musicians interpret chamber music classics. CHOOSE SEATS AND BUY

$15 – $40

Skerryvore

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Three-time winners of Scotland’s “Live Act of the Year” award, Skerryvore have evolved from their humble beginnings to become one of their country’s leading Celtic rock bands. With a mix of bagpipes, fiddles, accordions, and whistles, alongside guitar and vocals and underpinned by driving bass, drums and keys, Skerryvore represent the best in contemporary Scottish ...

$15 – $65

Festival Orchestra 4

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

The final concert will open with Ad Matrem, Henryk Gorecki’s sacred work for soprano, mixed chorus, and orchestra. Based on the text of the 13th century hymn, Stabat Mater Dolorosa, this piece is almost a symphonic poem. Lux Aeterna, by Morten Lauridsen, is a choral work fashioned on texts from several different Latin sources, including ...

$15 – $65

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