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  • Hanging Out With the Stars 2018

    The Wave House 15320 Seadrift Ave., Caspar, CA
    Benefit Events

    The Wave House, Mendocino
    Libations, Sensations, Delectables, Treats, and your Festival Family—all in a matchless setting!

    $100

  • MacCallum House Winemaker’s Dinner with Brutocao 2018

    MacCallum House Restaurant 45020 Albion Street, Mendocino, CA
    Benefit Events

    A perfect pairing: scrumptious food from MacCallum House’s celebrated chef Alan Kantor and elegant wines from Brutocao. An all-inclusive bargain at $100, the evening includes hors d'oeuvres and wine at ...

    $100

  • Thoughts on Interpretation: a discussion with Allan Pollack and Susan Waterfall 2018

    Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CA
    Classical

    Thoughts on Interpretation: a discussion with Allan Pollack and Susan Waterfall Join in a discussion of the interpretation of classical music. What does interpretation mean? What kind of effect does it have on the listener, if any? What are some of the issues musicians explore as they study, prepare and perform a piece of music? Does ...

    Free

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/8)

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

  • Sostenuto: A Celebration of Sustainability 2018

    Home of Linda and Fedele Bauccio
    Benefit Events

    Friday, July 6, 2018, 6-9 pm At the spectacular oceanfront home of Linda and Fedele Bauccio. Celebrating the cuisine and music of the Caribbean, with Caribbean-flavored music from Pankind. Click ...

    $175

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/8)

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

  • 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 A Major, instrumental versions of familiar arias by Bizet, Verdi, and Gluck, and Hubay’s Carmen Fantasie. the Jon Stewart of chamber music" Sohn simply makes ...

    $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

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/8)

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

  • 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 songs “New York New York,” “A Little Bit in Love," “Some Other Time,” “Glitter and be Gay”; and dances from Bernstein’s West Side Story. CHOOSE ...

    $15 – $50

  • Rehearsal, Opera (7/13)

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

  • 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, Op. 5; and the Beethoven String Quartet No. 16, Op. 135. Performances like these — freshly rethought, impeccably played — do more than provide enjoyable ...

    $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

  • Rehearsal, Opera (7/13)

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

  • 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 2006, the quartet takes its name from the Hungarian estate where Joseph Haydn lived and worked for nearly three decades. BUY TICKETS

    $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 of her musical peers and made her an audience favorite throughout the country. Equally at home in the operatic, lied and oratorio repertoires, Ms. Neff ...

  • 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 has a hearing problem and constantly misunderstands everything he's told. Carolina has recently married Geronimo's clerk, Paolino, without telling anyone because Geronimo would never have ...

    $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; Jay Zhong, violin, Eric Kritz, clarinet; Tom Nugent, oboe; Stephen Harrison, cello; Carolyn Steinbuck, piano. BUY TICKETS

    $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 Kim Nalley returns again this year to set the woods, and the house, on fire.  According to Down Beat, "Sultry voiced Nalley brings an irresistibly ...

    $15 – $55

  • Chopin: Dreams and Memories of a Lost Homeland; Multimedia Lecture by Susan Waterfall

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

    Chopin Series Opening Presentation Susan Waterfall’s multimedia exploration of Frederic Chopin’s life and times (1810-1849) will explore his early years as a musical prodigy in Warsaw, and his last 19 years as a popular composer and piano virtuoso in Paris.  Chopin’s dedication to Bach, Mozart, Italian opera, and traditional Polish music and his relationships with ...

    $15 – $30

  • 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 worldwide. Batalla’s gorgeous, rich, contralto voice adds another layer of beauty to Cohen’s elegantly crafted songs.” Beautifully conceived and executed, Bird on the Wire is ...

    $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. Susan will also play Chopin’s Barcarolle, Opus 60, and touch on its special place both in Chopin’s output. and as a source for the future ...

    $15 – $30

  • Ledford House: the Iconic Festival Dinner Party 2018

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

    Featured wines at this event 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, and an intimate musical performance by TBA. The Ledford House Restaurant is located seven miles South of Mendocino on Highway One in Albion, California. Its bluff ...

    $85

  • Chopin 3, Piano Series: John Novacek 2018

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

    Piano Series, with continued focus on Chopin In his recital for the Piano Series,  John Novacek has chosen examples from four important Chopin genres: the etude, the nocturne, the impromptu, and the ballade. Chopin’s Etude in A-flat Major, Nocturne No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Impromptu No. 1 in A-flat Major, and Ballade No. 1 in ...

    $15 – $30

  • The Dustbowl Revival 2018

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

    With a vibrant mix of vintage Americana sounds, this eight-piece group “would have sounded utterly at home within the hallowed confines of Preservation Hall in New Orleans' French Quarter,” according to the Los Angeles Times. Their sonic explorations exemplify everything shows should be: hot, spontaneous, engaging and, best of all, a pleasure to hear.” The ...

    $15 – $40

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 2 (7/18)

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

  • Chopin 4, Piano Series: Spencer Myer 2018

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

    Piano Series, with continued focus on Chopin In his recital for the Piano Series Spencer Myer will play, among other works, the Four Scherzi of Chopin. Haydn’s Keyboard Sonata in ...

    $15 – $30

  • Pre-Concert Lecture, Marcia Lotter 2018

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

    A freelance musician throughout northern California, Marcia Lotter received her undergraduate training from the University of Washington in Seattle and has studied with such noted teachers as Vilem Sokol, Andor ...

  • Festival Orchestra 2, featuring John Novacek, piano 2018

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

    Festival Orchestra with pianist John Novacek Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D minor and Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major. Ticket price includes pre-concert lecture at 6:30 CHOOSE ...

    $15 – $50

  • Venice 2018

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

    Performing together since 1980 and consisting of two sets of brothers, Venice’s music is a reflection of growing up in the California beach town for which the group is named. ...

    $15 – $40

  • Emerging Artists Concert 2018

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

    The annual recital by the enormously talented young string players from the festival’s Emerging Artists Program is anticipated by all who love chamber music. BUY TICKETS

    $15 – $30

  • Pine Leaf Boys 2018

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

    A smash hit at last year’s festival, the Pine Leaf Boys have been described by the New York Times as “the best new, energetic, and fun Cajun band in a ...

    $15 – $50