Featured wines at this performanceAudience favorite Stephen Prutsman will play the Mozart Piano Concerto in C minor in the opening Festival concert. “Conga” by Marquez will have you dancing in ...
Featured wines at this performance J. S. Bach enjoyed life enormously, and this certainly included beer drinking. He was often paid in beer. Find out more interesting and seldom considered facts ...
Featured wines at this performanceCombining strength and purity of voice, enchanting and subtle song writing, and superb musicianship, the Claire Lynch Band takes bluegrass to new heights. The band is ...
Pianists Susan Waterfall and Carolyn Steinbuck will consider Bach’s role as father and teacher, and will explore the international influences on his music. The concert consists of the Two-Part Inventions, ...
Featured wines at this performanceSix incredible artists, all virtuosi of their art forms, draw global inspiration from contemporary art and dance. Three-time Isadora Duncan nominees for Most Outstanding Music, Ensemble, ...
Bach’s keyboard works are often played, but there are not so many opportunities to hear the wonderful suites for other instruments, and even more rare, to hear them in the ...
The Coast is home to several excellent small a cappella groups, all singing for the pure love of it while holding down their day jobs. Men’s Acafellas, women’s In the ...
Susan Waterfall will describe the history and significance of Bach's Musical Offering. Fascinating canons and the Trio Sonata from that work will be performed by Waterfall, with Jeremy Cohen, violin; Mindy ...
Pianist Robert Schwartz is returning to the Festival to play Mozart Sonata in Bb Major K. 570, Mendelssohn Songs Without Words (Selected) and Brahms Sonata in F Minor Op. 5. Schwartz ...
Wines featured at this performance April Verch specializes in the hybrid heritage of her native Ottawa Valley, creating North American roots music with fantastic fiddling, great songwriting, a terrific band, ...
The Piano Series regulars always welcome Paul Hersh’s lecture recitals. This season Hersh will bring his son, violinist Stefan Hersh, to explore Beethoven’s last violin and piano sonatas. iPad/iPhone/Safari Users ...
Featured wines at this performance Mozart’s Don Giovanni is one of the most important operas of all time, and is an audience favorite for good reasons. An extremely dramatic work, full ...
Saturday, July 19, 2014, 3:00 PM Preston Hall A favorite of the Festival as Big Band singer, Kathleen Grace returns with her own band and her own songs that fuse ...
Featured wines at this performance The annual Big Band concert will feature vocalist Kim Nalley, former owner of the San Francisco Jazz Club at Pearl’s. She has an amazing 3 ...
Featured wines at this performance. Chris Hillman, formerly of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, teams up with his buddy Herb Pedersen from the Desert Rose Band to play ...
Featured wines at this performance One of the first and longest-lasting country-rock groups, POCO will perform an encore concert on the stage of the Mendocino Music Festival. Rusty Young has ...
Featured wines at this performance Benjamin Jacobson, violin Andrew Bulbrook, violin Jonathan Moerschel, viola Eric Byers, cello. Called “outstanding” and “superb” by the New York Times, the Calder Quartet defies ...
Enjoy a delightful evening of gourmet food and music at one of the area’s leading restaurants, with premium wines generously supplied by Goldeneye Winery, and an intimate musical performance by ...
Featured wines at this performance The wonder of an art song is that it tells a story, defines its characters and makes an emotional connection in just a few brief ...
Superheroes of the Bay Area Jazz Scene. Listen to the magic as Smith, who combines the confessional imperative of a singer/songwriter with the rhythmic acuity of a jazz chanteuse, teams ...
Featured wines at this performance Join us in a celebration of romance as you listen to the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra by Jean Sibelius and Symphony #2 of Rachmaninoff, ...
The concert will consist of the Mozart Quintet in E flat Major for Piano and Winds K.452, and the Schumann Quintet in E flat Major for Piano and Strings, played ...
Featured wines at this performancePoncho Sanchez’s music is a swirl of some of the hottest colors and brightest lights to emerge from either side of the border. At every show ...
This is a recital by the outrageously excellent young string players from the Emerging Artists program. The Emerging Artists have won scholarships to receive intensive training at the Festival, and ...
Featured wines at this performanceIrma Thomas won a Grammy in 2007 for Best Contemporary Blues Album and was chosen as one of NPR’s 50 Great Voices. Dubbed the Soul Queen of ...
Two of the most brilliantly talented pianist/composers from the New York scene team up to play the driving, rhythmic music of Adams, Reich, and their own compositions, as well as ...
Featured wines at this performance The final orchestral concert of great choral works by Haydn and Bach will provide a fitting climax to the Festival. Handel’s Royal Fireworks for orchestra alone ...
Support the Mendocino Music Festival by treating yourself to a sumptuous meal! On Wednesday, November 5, the MacCallum House Inn and Restaurant will donate all proceeds from the evening to the Festival.
Saturday December 6, 2014 2:30-5:30
Little River home of John and Kathy Danhakl
Festival Big Band All-Stars Kathleen Grace, Julian Pollack, Allan Pollack, Ralph Humphrey; Libations, Sensations, Delectables, Treats, and your Festival Family—all in a matchless setting!
A delicious gourmet dining experience awaits you at the Festival's annual MacCallum House Winemaker's Dinner from the kitchen of Executive Chef Alan Kantor and featuring Navarro Vineyards’ acclaimed artisan wines, handcrafted ...
For one night only, the Bay Area’s own formidable jazz and blues singer Kim Nalley will sing Aretha Franklin's hits, backed up by the powerful Festival Big Band. This reprise of last summer’s ...
Friday, July 10, 2015, 6-9 pm Click to Reserve Now At the spectacular oceanfront home of Linda and Fedele Bauccio. Celebrate music and the sustainable abundance of Mendocino County. Enjoy ...
Mendocino merchants will celebrate the Festival this year with extended Saturday hours during the Festival. Opening night, July 11, 5-6 pm, during the Second Saturday Art Walk, galleries and shops throughout the town of Mendocino will host “Meet the Orchestra Musicians.” Look for balloons, and meet the musicians, from the Mendocino Art Center to the Ford House.
Featured wines at this performanceThe Festival will open with the delightful Second Jazz Suite of Shostakovich, showing the light side of this composer. Award-winning violinist Livia Sohn will perform the ...
