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  • Calder Quartet 2017

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

    Back for a fifth year of insightful and moving playing, the Calder will perform the Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op.13; and the Beethoven String Quartet No. ...

    $12 – $40

  • The House Jacks 2017

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    Featured wines at this performance Describing themselves as a “rock band without instruments,” The House Jacks have been leaders in the contemporary a cappella world for 25 years. Their arrangements ...

    $12 – $50

  • The House Jacks Workshop 2017

    Matheson Performing Arts Center Cahto Street and Ford Street, Mendocino, CA
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    Watch the House Jacks singers work their magic on several local a cappella groups. FREE TICKETS

    Free

  • Side Note 2017

    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    Hip. Imaginative. Fun. Funky. Fresh. Side Note is a group of seven twenty-somethings, each from a wildly different musical background, who draw on their diversity to create an all-new sound. ...

    $12 – $30

  • Festival Orchestra 1, featuring Jeremy Cohen 2017

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

    Soloist Jeremy Cohen Featured wines at this performance Event Sponsor The season opens with the exotic rhythms and sinuous melodies of Gershwin’s Cuban Overture; Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires; ...

    $12 – $50

  • In Bocca al Lupo 2017

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

    A concert of medieval and Renaissance music. Featuring Shira Kammen, Allison Zelles Lloyd, Peter Hallifax and Julie Jeffrey. Shira has spent well over half her life exploring the worlds of ...

    $12 – $30

  • Laurie Lewis, Rita Hosking 2017

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    A key figure in bluegrass, traditional and folk music circles, Berkeley’s Laurie Lewis has established herself as one of the finest and most diverse talents in music today. A winner ...

    $12 – $40

  • Stenberg/Cahill/Winant Trio Celebrates Lou Harrison 2017

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

    In celebration of maverick composer Lou Harrison’s 2017 centennial, violinist Kate Stenberg, pianist Sarah Cahill, and percussionist William Winant will perform a concert of Harrison’s music spanning half a century ...

    $12 – $30

  • Kathleen Grace 2017

    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    “Smart, alluring and evocative” (Washington Post), Kathleen Grace has traveled the world sharing her country, folk and jazz inspired music with audiences from New York to Peru. Her latest release, No ...

    $12 – $30

  • Pine Leaf Boys 2017

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Around the World

    Featured wines at this performance Event Sponsor Four-time Grammy-nominated, the world-renowned Pine Leaf Boys have made a name presenting their own inimitable brand of music with youthful exuberance, reviving ancient ...

    $12 – $40

  • Piano Series: John Novacek 2017

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

    “A commanding presence at the keyboard” and an accomplished composer, John Novacek will perform the Beethoven Sonata No. 6 in F Major, Op. 10, No. 2; Schumann Carnaval, Op. 9; ...

    $12 – $30

  • Band of Heathens 2017

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    Featured wines at this performanceThe term "Americana" was practically invented to describe the Band of Heathens' sound, rich with lyrical content and supported by soaring guitar work and a rock-solid ...

    $12 – $40

  • Zoe Ellis with Maya Kronfeld, piano 2017

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

    Zoe Ellis's dramatic and colorful voice is well known to music fans in the Bay Area and beyond. Described by reviewers as "a resourceful and inventive vocalist," she sang for ...

    $12 – $30

  • Opera: Don Pasquale 2017

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

    Featured wines at this performanceGuest conductor Jason Sherbundy Stage director Ann Woodhead Donizetti’s effervescent opera is generally regarded as one of the greatest comic operas and a melodic masterpiece. A ...

    $12 – $50

  • ZOFO Duet 2017

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

    When you sit two acclaimed soloists at one piano, “you get something energetic and electrifying… out of this world.”  Eva-Maria Zimmerman and Keisuke Nakagoshi have electrified audiences from Carnegie Hall ...

    $12 – $30

  • Alex de Grassi with Andrew York 2017

    Hill House Inn 10701 Palette Drive, Mendocino, CA
    Jazz

    Fingerstyle guitar master Alex de Grassi and Grammy Award-winning classical guitarist Andrew York will perform solo and duo, and will also be joined by members of the Mendocino Summer Guitar Workshop in the premier of a composition for guitar orchestra.

    $12 – $30

  • Festival Big Band, featuring Kim Nalley 2017

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

    Featured wines at this performance, and sponsoring Kim Nalley's performance. Event Sponsor Kim Nalley has pipes to burn, packing a 3½ octave range that can go from operatic to gritty ...

    $12 – $55

  • Understanding Schubert: Multimedia Lecture 2017

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

    In Susan Waterfall’s multi-media exploration of Franz Schubert’s life, you will learn how the Vienna of Mozart and Beethoven changed with an increasingly large, restricted and regimented urban middle class. ...

    $12 – $30

  • Kanekoa, Joan Soriano: Double Bill 2017

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Around the World

    Featured wines at this performance Born in the rural countryside near Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, Joan Soriano fashioned his first guitar from a tin can and fishing line ...

    $12 – $40

  • Joan Soriano Workshop 2017

    Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary 44831 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States
    Around the World

    Be inspired by Joan Soriano’s work with local middle and high school students who have been participating in the Lead Guitar program. FREE TICKETS

    Free

  • Schubert Chamber Music 1 2017

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

    Susan Waterfall will play Moments Musicaux and discuss the significance of Schubert’s “character pieces,” which, like lieder, suited the Romantic goals of intimacy and fantasy. Schubert’s exceptional ability to portray ...

    $12 – $30

  • Schubert Chamber Music 2 2017

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

    The most domestic of all genres, the four-hand piano piece, attained its pinnacle with Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor, written in the last year of Schubert’s life.  It will be ...

    $12 – $30

  • Richie Goods and Nuclear Fusion 2017

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

    Featured wines at this performance Bassist Richie Goods, the youngest person ever inducted into the Pittsburgh Jazz Hall of Fame, has toured with a variety of jazz and popular artists ...

    $12 – $40

  • Babaghanoush 2017

    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Around the World

    Event Sponsor Guitarist Dimitris Mahlis, drummer Ralph Humphrey, bassist Jerry Watts and saxophonist Antti Suzuki bring life to the multi ethnic compositions of Mahlis. Mahlis’s playing style has been described ...

    $12 – $30

  • Festival Orchestra 2 2017

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

    Featured wines at this performance Our inquiry into Schubert concludes with one of his most deeply felt orchestral works, the Symphony No. 8 in B minor (Unfinished); Richard Strauss’ Burleske ...

    $12 – $50

  • Julian Pollack and J3P0 2017

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

    Featured wines at this performance Julian Pollack brings his project and band J3P0 to the Festival stage this summer. Pollack will be joined by Cale Hawkins, Justin Golder and Adam ...

    $12 – $40

  • Emerging Artists Concert 2017

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

    The annual and much anticipated recital by the enormously talented young string players from the Festival’s Emerging Artists Program is one of the season’s highlights. BUY TICKETS

    $12 – $30

  • San Jose Taiko 2017

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Around the World

    Acknowledged as one of the premier taiko ensembles in the world, San Jose Taiko has mesmerized audiences and critics alike with the powerful, spellbinding and propulsive sounds of taiko, the ...

    $12 – $50

  • Piano Series: Molly Morkoski 2017

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

    With a “refined kind of virtuosity,” Molly Morkoski will perform Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 (Moonlight); John Adams’ Phrygian Gates; and Chopin’s Ballade ...

    $12 – $30

  • Festival Orchestra 3, featuring the Festival Chorus 2017

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

    Featured wines at this performance The season closes with Verdi’s dramatic Requiem, a “mass written by an agnostic opera composer in memory of a dear friend and public hero.” Four ...

    $12 – $50

  • Soloists Together: Geoff Nuttall, Livia Sohn, Stephen Prutsman 2018

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

    Before their solo turns later in the week, this afternoon Geoff Nuttall, violin, and Livia Sohn, violin, join Stephen Prutsman, piano, to play Telemann’s Gulliver Suite, Cesar Franck’s Sonata in ...

    $15 – $40

  • The StepCrew 2018

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Around the World

    Bringing together three styles of exhilarating dance forms—Ottawa Valley stepdance, Irish stepdance, and Tap—these dancers and musicians take you on an amazing dance journey. As if dancing weren’t enough, The ...

    $15 – $50

  • Festival Orchestra 1: Shawnette Sulker, soprano; Livia Sohn, violin 2018

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

    Festival Orchestra with violinist Livia Sohn and soprano Shawnette Sulker The season opens with Bernstein’s energetic and rhythmic Candide Overture; Copland’s inspiring and melodic Appalachian Spring; Barber’s Violin Concerto; Bernstein ...

    $15 – $50

  • Business Casual 2018

    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    Formed in 2012, vocal band Business Casual is rapidly becoming a fixture in the Bay Area vocal music scene. The group explores a wide range of genres including funk, folk, ...

    $15 – $30

  • Lucia Micarelli 2018

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    Event Sponsor Violinist Lucia Micarelli journeys through many musical influences from classical to jazz to traditional fiddle music and Americana, all bound together by her trademark vulnerability and technical wizardry. ...

    $15 – $40

  • Calder Quartet 2018

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

    Welcomed for a sixth year of sensitive and eloquent playing, the Calder will perform the Beethoven String Quartet No. 10, Op. 74, The Harp; Webern's Five Movements for String Quartet, ...

    $15 – $40

  • The King: Special Benefit Screening

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

    Mendocino Area Parks Association & Mendocino Film Festival present a screening of THE KING. Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki's new ...

    $12

  • New Esterhazy Quartet 2018

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

    London, 1845: Gratitude to Josef Haydn will showcase this quartet’s core repertoire by playing four of Haydn’s string quartets: D minor, C Major, D Major, and B-flat Major. Founded in ...

    $15 – $30

  • Eric Bibb 2018

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    With a career spanning five decades, three dozen albums, countless radio & television appearances, and concerts all over the globe, Eric Bibb is one of the leading bluesmen of his ...

    $15 – $40

  • The Mattlock Duo Cabaret 2018

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

    The Mattlock Duo (husband-and-wife team Daniel Lockert and Jenny Matteucci) will transform Preston Hall into a New York cabaret with music that crosses over from favorite standards, to twentieth century ...

    $15 – $30

  • Barefoot Movement 2018

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    Heartfelt, energetic, and down home, The Barefoot Movement has been heralded by CMT Edge as “one of the most promising new bands on the bluegrass scene.” Selected as showcase artists ...

    $15 – $40

  • Clairdee: A Love Letter to Lena Horne 2018

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

    In “A Love Letter to Lena Horne,” Clairdee will commemorate the career of the groundbreaking singer, actress, and activist with fresh arrangements of songs associated with Horne from Harlem to ...

    $15 – $30

  • Pre-Concert Lecture, Erin Neff 2018

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

    Enhance your experience of this evening's opera performance with a pre-concert lecture by director Erin Neff. Mezzo-soprano Erin Neff’s dynamic performance abilities and radiant sound have earned her the veneration ...

  • Opera: Cimarosa, Il Matrimonio Segreto, Luçik Aprahämian, Guest Conductor

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

    Guest conductor Luçik Aprahämian Stage director Erin Neff The original setting is Bologna in the 1700s. Geronimo is a cranky older man with two daughters, Carolina and Elisetta. He also ...

    $15 – $50

  • Festival Chamber Players 2018

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

    Bach’s Trio Sonata in E-flat Major; Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor; and Mozart’s Quintet in A Major for Clarinet and Strings. Tammie Dyer, violin; Susan Freier, violin; ...

    $15 – $30

  • Festival Big Band, featuring Kim Nalley, Kenny Washington 2018

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

    Kim Nalley Kenny Washington The red-hot Festival Big Band plays the perennially sold-out concert, this year with two vocalists to add to the high energy.  Last year’s Big Band vocalist ...

    $15 – $55

  • Perla Batalla: House of Cohen 2018

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

    Once a Leonard Cohen back-up singer, singer-songwriter Batalla launched her solo career with Cohen’s encouragement. The Grammy-nominated Batalla has recorded seven albums, written for both film and television, and toured ...

    $15 – $40

  • Chopin 2: Susan Waterfall, Miles Graber, David Kadarauch

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

    Susan Waterfall will discuss and perform a selection of Chopin’s  Mazurkas,  the dance genre where he refined his mastery of the folk idiom and launched his most daring compositional experiments. ...

    $15 – $30