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  • Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/16)

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

  • CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band

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

    CJ Chenier, “The Crown Prince of Zydeco,” was born into an indigenous American culture with a distinctive language and music. The Creole son of Clifton Chenier, he started playing in ...

    $15 – $55

  • Festival Orchestra 1, with soloists Jessica Fellowes and Katie Kadarauch

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

    To begin the classical Festival, Maestro Allan Pollack will lead the orchestra in Shostakovich’s Festive Overture in A Major, Op. 96, an appropriately effervescent opening. Mozart’s joyful Sinfonia Concertante in ...

    $15 – $45

  • Foxglove, with Gwyneth Moreland

    Foxglove, with Gwyneth Moreland
    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    Over the past 20 years, Foxglove has established itself as a Mendocino County favorite. The band’s selection of heartfelt originals and carefully curated covers have featured tight harmonies and tasty ...

    $15 – $30

  • The Steel Wheels

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

    From their base in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, this acoustic roots music collective has played the most prestigious festivals, listening rooms, and clubs in the world, cementing a reputation as ...

    $15 – $45

  • Foxglove, with Gwyneth Moreland

    Foxglove, with Gwyneth Moreland
    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    Over the past 20 years, Foxglove has established itself as a Mendocino County favorite. The band’s selection of heartfelt originals and carefully curated covers have featured tight harmonies and tasty ...

    $15 – $30

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 2 (7/21)

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

  • Mads Tolling, with pianist John R. Burr

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

    An internationally renowned violinist and composer originally from Copenhagen, Denmark, Mads Tolling now calls San Francisco home. As a former nine-year member of both bassist Stanley Clarke’s band and the ...

    $15 – $30

  • Blind Boys of Alabama

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

    The Blind Boys of Alabama have the rare distinction of being recognized around the world as both living legends and modern-day innovators. They are not just gospel singers borrowing from ...

    $15 – $45

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 2 (7/21)

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

  • Mads Tolling, with pianist John R. Burr

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

    An internationally renowned violinist and composer originally from Copenhagen, Denmark, Mads Tolling now calls San Francisco home. As a former nine-year member of both bassist Stanley Clarke’s band and the ...

    $15 – $30

  • Otis Taylor

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

    Hailing from Boulder, Colorado, blues singer/composer Otis Taylor is a multi-instrumentalist whose talents include vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin, and harmonic. Capable of exploring any musical mood at any given time, ...

    $15 – $45

  • Kalil Amar Wilson

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

    Kalil Wilson’s bright re-imaginings of jazz standards and originals are informed by the rich history of great jazz singing and meld with their heartfelt, eclectic stylings. An Oakland native, they ...

    $15 – $30

  • Festival Orchestra 2, The Barber of Seville (concert version)

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

    Concert Version; Guest Conductor Ryan Murray The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution, is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. Musicologists believe that the music was ...

    $15 – $55

  • Piano Series: Ralph Van Raat and Heather Pinkham, duo pianos

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

    The artists will play John Adams’ Hallelujah Junction for two pianos, named after a small truck stop on US 395 near the California–Nevada border. Pinkham’s Mechanical Transcendence for two pianos ...

    $15 – $30

  • Festival Big Band, featuring Maiya Sykes

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

    This year the big band musicians are going to find their groove with Maiya Sykes, a former back-up singer whose rendition of “Stay with Me” on The Voice in 2014 ...

    $15 – $55

  • Calder Quartet 2023

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

    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 ...

    $14 – $45

  • Tierney Sutton

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

    Julian Pollack, along with bassist Trey Henry and drummer Ray Brinker, will begin the evening with jazz standards beautifully and inventively performed. Tierney Sutton will join the band for the ...

    $15 – $45

  • Sam Reider, with Jorge Glem

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

    Pianist, accordionist, composer, and educator from San Francisco, Reider brings together various streams of American music, from jazz and folk tunes to popular song and contemporary composition. He has appeared ...

    $15 – $30

  • Ledford House: the Iconic Festival Dinner Party 2023

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

    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.

    $100

  • Sam Reider, with Jorge Glem

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

    Pianist, accordionist, composer, and educator from San Francisco, Reider brings together various streams of American music, from jazz and folk tunes to popular song and contemporary composition. He has appeared as a bandleader and soloist at major festivals and venues around the world, and his performances and original compositions have been featured on NPR, PBS ...

    $15 – $30

  • Ravel: The Attraction of Modernism, featuring Susan Waterfall

    Ravel: The Attraction of Modernism, featuring Susan Waterfall
    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    Susan Waterfall will play Sonatine. Silvie Jensen, mezzo-soprano, will be joined by Daniel Lockert on piano for Deux melodies hébraïques. Harpist Anna Maria Mendieta will be joined by a small group of string and woodwind players to perform the chamber piece, Introduction et Allegro. On Chansons Madécasses, Silvie Jensen, mezzo-soprano, will be joined by Mindy ...

    $15 – $30

  • California Bluegrass Reunion

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

    Every year since 2012, banjo master Bill Evans brought together a stellar collection of banjo players from all over the world and joined them with an all-star California-based band to ...

    $15 – $45

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 3 (7/26)

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

  • Piano Series: Rachel Breen

    Piano Series: Rachel Breen
    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    Currently based in Germany, American pianist Rachel Breen’s performances have been described as “truly show-stopping” (Gramophone UK), having “a beautiful piano sound and original detail.” She has enjoyed an active ...

    $15 – $30

  • Crary, Evans and Barnick

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

    A flatpicking bluegrass guitar legend with an international reputation for innovation, taste and brilliance, Dan Crary is one of the founding fathers of the flatpicking and “newgrass” movements in Americana ...

    $15 – $30

  • Festival Orchestra 3

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

    Allan Pollack will open this concert by conducting his own “Scenes from the Pandemic,” inspired by sounds he heard while sheltering in place on his farm. Stephen Prutsman will play ...

    $15 – $45

  • Crary, Evans and Barnick

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

    A flatpicking bluegrass guitar legend with an international reputation for innovation, taste and brilliance, Dan Crary is one of the founding fathers of the flatpicking and “newgrass” movements in Americana and Bluegrass music. He is joined by Bill Evans, one of the most celebrated virtuosos in the history of the banjo, and their soulful-singing partner ...

    $15 – $30

  • Piano Series: Rachel Breen

    Piano Series: Rachel Breen
    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    Currently based in Germany, American pianist Rachel Breen’s performances have been described as “truly show-stopping” (Gramophone UK), having “a beautiful piano sound and original detail.” She has enjoyed an active and successful competition career and has performed and taught masterclasses world-wide. Breen will put her own stamp on Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Nicolai Medtner’s Sonata Op. ...

    $15 – $30

  • Olatuja

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

    This new project finds Alicia and Michael Olatuja reuniting in music. OLATUJA blends Afro-Beat, Jazz, Funk, and Soul. Praised by the New York Times as “a singer with a strong ...

    $15 – $45

  • Emerging Artists Recital

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

    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 ...

    $15 – $30

  • Ranky Tanky

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

    A musical ensemble based in Charleston, South Carolina, Ranky Tanky specializes in jazz-influenced arrangements of traditional Gullah music, a culture that originated among descendants of enslaved Africans along the coast ...

    $15 – $55

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 4 (7/29)

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

  • Festival Orchestra and Chorus

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

    The final concert will open with Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, with the Festival Chorus, and soloists Silvie Jensen, mezzo-soprano; Angela Moser, soprano, and Anders Froehlich, baritone. Fauré wrote of the 1888 ...

    $15 – $55

  • The Festival Chorale: Christmas Through the Ages

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

    The Festival Chorale will present its first concert under the direction of Matthew Evans, including music by Praetorious, J.S. Bach, and Vaughan Williams, followed by a selection of carols, both ...

    $25