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Gwyneth Moreland
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesBoogie-Blues-BluegrassBorn and raised in Mendocino, Gwyneth Moreland has toured with her Folksy Americana tunes from coast to coast and has released five solo albums. Her songs have ranked as high ...
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Rehearsal, Opera 7/19
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesEducation -
Fauré: The Early Salon Years
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesChamber MusicSusan Waterfall will accompany mezzo-soprano Silvie Jensen in a selection of songs. She will be joined by Julian Waterfall Pollack for “The Dolly Suite.” Susan will play two of Fauré's ...
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JigJam
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesBoogie-Blues-BluegrassWhen virtuoso Irish playing jumps the pond and runs naked through the wide open fields of bluegrass/Americana, JigJam is born. Bluegrass and American Folk music originated from the group’s home, ...
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Rehearsal, Opera 7/19
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesEducation -
Kim Nalley, with Tammy Lynne Hall
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesJazzDr. Kim Nalley has been a fixture in the San Francisco Bay Area—and here in Mendocino as well—as a quality soulful jazz and blues singer, very much in the tradition ...
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Festival Orchestra 2: Così fan tutte
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesClassicalMozart’s comic masterpiece shows us what can happen when two sisters and their suitors are tested by a manipulative friend, Don Alfonso. The men accept his wager that their brides-to-be ...
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Rehearsal, Big Band 7/20
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesEducation -
Piano Series: Jeffrey LaDeur, with Kindra Scharich
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesClassicalThe second Fauré program will feature pianist Jeffrey LaDeur and mezzo-soprano Kindra Scharich in L’hiver a cesse, an exploration of Fauré’s music for voice and piano. Jeffrey LaDeur is known ...
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Festival Big Band, featuring Maiya Sykes
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesJazzMaiya Sykes completely and utterly wowed the audience at the 2023 Big Band concert. She’s a former back-up singer whose rendition of “Stay with Me” on The Voice in 2014 ...
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Calder Quartet 2024
Cotton Auditorium 500 N Harold Street, Fort Bragg, CA, United StatesChamber MusicHailed 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 ...
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Rose’s Pawn Shop
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesBoogie-Blues-BluegrassWith its fusion of bluegrass instrumentation and folk-rock amplification, Rose’s Pawn Shop has spent the better part of two decades perfecting a sound that’s as diverse as the band’s native ...
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Rehearsal, Orch. 7/24
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesEducation -
Big Band Rhythm Section: An Afternoon of Jazz
Matheson Performing Arts Center Cahto Street and Ford Street, Mendocino, CAJazzThese extraordinary Los Angeles based musicians are the power drivers of the always thrillingly swinging Festival Big Band, and now you can hear them break out on their own. Julian ...
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Ledford House: the Iconic Festival Dinner Party
Ledford House Restaurant 3000 CA-1, Albion, CA, United StatesBenefit EventsEnjoy 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.
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Rehearsal, Orch. 7/24
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesEducation -
Piano Series: Robert Schwartz
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesClassicalAn active performer and teacher at the San Francisco Conservatory, Robert Schwartz has recently performed at the Beijing Conservatory, the Vienna International Pianists series, in master classes at the Chautauqua ...
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Stephanie Anne Johnson
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesBoogie-Blues-BluegrassA singer’s talent is complete when they can bring a crowded dive bar to a collective hush and also get one of the biggest audiences on the planet to a ...
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Rehearsal, Orch. 7/24
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesEducation -
Piano Series: Ralph van Raat & Heather Pinkham, duo pianos
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesClassicalEach one a solo artist of distinction, Van Raat and Pinkham join up to make beautiful music together. They will play two-piano pieces by a range of composers: Chick Corea’s ...
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Festival Orchestra 3 2024
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesClassicalAllan Pollack will conduct his own “From an Ancient Book,” written especially for the Festival Orchestra. The brilliant colors of Stravinsky’s ballet score for “The Firebird” will explode in sparkling ...
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Rehearsal, Orch. 7/27 (no chorus)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesEducation -
Fauré: Indian Summer
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesChamber MusicFaure wrote some of his most astonishing music in his late seventies, when he was becoming increasingly deaf. Susan Waterfall will accompany mezzo-soprano Silvie Jensen in Le jardin clos, Stephen ...
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Damn Tall Buildings
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesBoogie-Blues-BluegrassIn their early days, Brooklyn-based Damn Tall Buildings didn’t rehearse; they busked. Now, whether live or on record, the band still radiates the energy of a ragtag crew of music ...
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Rehearsal, Orch. 7/27
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesEducation -
Rehearsal, Orch. 7/27
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesEducation -
Emerging Artists Recital
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesChamber MusicThe 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 ...
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesAround the WorldLadysmith Black Mambazo is a South African male choral group singing in the local styles of isicathamiya, which developed in the mines of South Africa, and mbube, rhythmic homophonic a ...
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Rehearsal, Orch. 7/27
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesEducation -
Festival Orchestra 4 2024
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesClassicalThe final concert offers comfort and hope in difficult times. Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, sometimes referred to as the "Great G minor symphony" to distinguish it from No. 25, the ...
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The Festival Chorale: This Christmastide
Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary 44831 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesClassicalDecember 7 and 8 the Festival Chorale will present a joy-filled concert in the Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary under the direction of Matthew Evans. This year's musical selections include songs ...
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Big Time in Little River 2024
Abalone Room, Little River Inn 7901 CA-1, Little River, CA, United StatesBenefit EventsSunday, December 8, 2024, 7:00 PM
Abalone Room, Little River Inn
Kim Nalley with Pianist Kent Strand
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Festival Chorale: All Around the Blooming Heather
Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary 44831 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesClassicalThe 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, ...
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Volunteer Sign-Up Day 2025
Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CAPerformanceThe 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 ...
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Opera Preview Party 2025
Brian James and Shariq Yosufzai Residence Mendocino, CA, United StatesBenefit EventsImagine yourself... ...in a stunning seaside setting, with a small gathering of fellow opera lovers, grazing on delicacies both savory and sweet, sipping fine wines and other libations, enhanced by the 'golden ...
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Susan Waterfall presents: Why We Love Igor
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesEducationSusan 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.
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New Orleans Gala
Mendocino Grove 9601 California 1, MendocinoBenefit EventsEnjoy a brilliant meal with friends as Fedele and Linda Bauccio (creators of Sostenuto, the Festival's legendary annual culinary event) bring us an evening of color and culinary exploration dedicated ...
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Rehearsal, Orch. 7/13
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesRehearsalRehearsing Festival Orchestra 1 (7/13): Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite, de Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.
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Rehearsal, Orch. 7/13
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesRehearsalRehearsing Festival Orchestra 1 (7/13): Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite, de Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.
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Villalobos Brothers
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesAround the WorldThis 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 ...
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Rehearsal, Orch. 7/13
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesRehearsalRehearsing Festival Orchestra 1 (7/13): Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite, de Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony.
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Festival Orchestra 1, with soloist James D’León
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesClassicalIn 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 ...
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Piano Series: Keisuke Nakagoshi
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesClassicalPianist 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 ...
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Kelsey Waldon
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesBoogie-Blues-BluegrassThis 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 ...
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Kenny Washington, with John R. Burr
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesJazzRecently dubbed the "Superman of the Bay Area jazz scene" by the San Francisco Chronicle, Kenny Washington is a jazz virtuoso who thrills audiences with his soulful interpretations, seemingly limitless ...
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CLOSED Rehearsal, Stravinsky Chamber (7/20)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesRehearsalNOT PUBLIC - PERFORMERS ONLY. This is one of the few MMF rehearsals not open to the public.
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Rehearsal, Orch. 7/18
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesRehearsalRehearsing Festival Orchestra 2 (7/18): Don Pasquale (concert version)
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Piano Series: Sergey Belyavsky
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesClassicalA 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 ...
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Jackie Venson
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesBoogie-Blues-BluegrassHeralded 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 ...
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