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Late Beethoven (1813-1827)
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesAfter the renunciation of his “immortal beloved,” in social withdrawal and complete deafness, Beethoven forged a final style.
Join Susan Waterfall and an array of exceptional Festival musicians for five days of lectures and narrated concerts exploring the life and music of Beethoven, the most influential and consistently popular composer in Western music. For this concert she is joined by Brian Thorsett, Miles Graber, Tammie Dyar, Tingting Gu, Alexander Volonts, and Burke Schuchmann.
$12 – $29
Julian Pollack, featuring Sveti and ROSA 2016
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesMarko Djordjevic (left) with Julian Pollack (right) An exciting and many faceted evening inspired by traditional Serbian folk music. Enjoy Julian with drummer Marko Djordjevic’s band, Sveti, and their amazing compositions based on Serbian folk rhythms. The international women's vocal group ROSA, specializing in Serbian non-tempered singing, will round out a complex and riveting musical ...
$12 – $39
Rehearsal, Orch. 3 (7/23)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesRehearsal, Orch. 3 (7/23)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Emerging Artists Concert 2016
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesThis is the annual, much anticipated recital by the outrageously excellent young string players from the festival’s Emerging Artists Program. BUY TICKETS
$12 – $29
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet 2016
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesSince forming in 1975, Grammy winners BeauSoleil have claimed their undisputed role as the most esteemed Cajun group in music. BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet take the rich Cajun traditions of Louisiana and artfully blend elements of Zydeco, New Orleans jazz, Tex-Mex, country, blues and more into a satisfying musical recipe. From The Grand Ole Opry ...
$12 – $49
Rehearsal, Orch. 3 (7/23)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Gwyneth Moreland and Friends 2016
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesGwyneth Moreland’s gift for open-hearted storytelling is perfectly suited to the modern art of folk music. No wonder, then, that “Slaughterhouse Gulch,” the first single from her latest album, landed her on the Folk Airplay charts. Gwyneth’s songs flow with a graceful simplicity infused with the ambience of her home perched in the majestic redwoods ...
$12 – $29
Pre-Concert Lecture, Stefanie Tcharos 2016
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesStefanie Tcharos is a historian of early modern music with broad expertise in 17th- and 18th-century Europe, and specialties in Italian music and musical practices. Her research and teaching traverse diverse subjects, including the critical history of opera, baroque music drama and related vocal traditions, music production and reception in early modern contexts, genre study, ...
Festival Orchestra 3, featuring the Festival Chorus 2016
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesThe season closes with Bach’s moving and magnificent Mass in B minor, a sublime choral experience with orchestra, chorus. The Mass in B minor shows Bach at the height of his powers, expressing the grandeur of heartfelt spiritual expression as no one else has ever been able to do. Nothing can compare to the glory ...
$12 – $49
Glorious Gardens and Bluegrass 2016
Home of Deborah Whigham and Gary Ratway 31101 Middle Ridge Road, Albion, CA, United StatesA performance by bluegrass and Americana icon Laurie Lewis with long-time collaborators Tom Rozum, Nina Gerber and Max Schwartz forms the centerpiece of a perfect autumn afternoon of festive food, locally-produced ciders, and fine local wines, presented in the stunning Albion home and noted private gardens of Deborah Whigham and Gary Ratway of Digging Dog Nursery, once featured in a Martha Stewart Living cover story.
MacCallum House Dine-Out
MacCallum House Inn & Restaurant 45020 Albion St., Mendocino, CA, United StatesSupport the Mendocino Music Festival by treating yourself and your friends to a sumptuous meal in the restaurant, or lighter fare, wine and artisanal cocktails from the Grey Whale Bar! The MacCallum House Inn and Restaurant will donate a portion of the evening's food and beverage proceeds to the Festival.
Elegance in Elk 2016
The Prow House 7300 South Highway One, Elk, CA, United StatesSaturday December 3, 2016 2:00-5:00
The Prow House, Elk
Kathleen Grace Band; Libations, Sensations, Delectables, Treats, and your Festival Family—all in a matchless setting!
$125
Does Music Transform Young Lives?
Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CADoes Music Transform Young Lives? Yes! The Mendocino Music Festival and the Community Center of Mendocino invite you to spend an hour experiencing the transformative joy that music can bring to kids. Listen to nine-year old Frej Barty describe the process of developing a plot for the mini-opera we presented at last summer’s Operation Opera, Abduction ...
Free
MacCallum House Winemaker’s Dinner with Witching Stick 2017
MacCallum House Restaurant 45020 Albion Street, Mendocino, CAA perfect pairing: scrumptious food from MacCallum House’s celebrated chef Alan Kantor and elegant wines from Witching Stick. See the menu and learn about Clayton and Meredythe Daley's wine donation to this year's silent auction.
$100
Volunteer Sign-Up Day 2017
Community Center of Mendocino 998 School Street, Mendocino, CARehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/9)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Sostenuto: A Celebration of Sustainability 2017
Home of Linda and Fedele BauccioFriday, July 7, 2017, 6-9 pm At the spectacular oceanfront home of Linda and Fedele Bauccio. Celebrating the cuisine and music of New Orleans, with dancing to the lively Zydeco band CZ and the Bon Vivants. Click to Reserve Now In music, Sostenuto means to sustain. Just as Fedele Bauccio is committed to sustainable food, ...
$175
Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/9)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Calder Quartet 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesBack 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. 15 in A minor, Op. 132. Performances like these — freshly rethought, impeccably played — do more than provide enjoyable listening. They reveal hidden dimensions, ...
$12 – $40
The House Jacks 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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 were used for the smash hit movie Pitch Perfect and their music has been the soundtrack for NBC’s The Sing-Off and ESPN’s Monday Night Football. ...
$12 – $50
Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/9)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
The House Jacks Workshop 2017
Matheson Performing Arts Center Cahto Street and Ford Street, Mendocino, CAWatch 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 StatesHip. 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. Performing everything from classic 60s hits to mashups of the latest chart toppers, it's contemporary a cappella pushed to the limits of pop, R&B, funk, ...
$12 – $30
Festival Orchestra 1, featuring Jeremy Cohen 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesSoloist 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; and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade. CHOOSE SEATS AND BUY
$12 – $50
Rehearsal, Opera (7/14)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
In Bocca al Lupo 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesA 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 early and traditional music. A member for many years of Ensembles Alcatraz and Project Ars Nova, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, Kitka ...
$12 – $30
Laurie Lewis, Rita Hosking 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesA 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 of the International Bluegrass Music Association award for Female Vocalist of the Year, multiple times and a Grammy winner for her contribution to True Life ...
$12 – $40
Rehearsal, Opera (no orch.) (7/14)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Stenberg/Cahill/Winant Trio Celebrates Lou Harrison 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesIn 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 – exuberant dance music from his early years, dissonant complexity from the 1940s, and substantial works from the 1980s. Their program will include Harrison's Varied ...
$12 – $30
Rehearsal, Opera (7/14)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Kathleen Grace 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States“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 Place to Fall, presents Grace’s dynamic original songs alongside revelatory covers of artists as diverse as Duke Ellington, Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt and The Meat Puppets. Grace’s ...
$12 – $30
Pine Leaf Boys 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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 songs and bringing them to the bandstand. Hailing from southwest Louisiana, they are known for their wild shows, thoughtful arrangements, and breathing new life into ...
$12 – $40
Rehearsal, Opera Dress (7/14)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Piano Series: John Novacek 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States“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; Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, No. 1 in C Major & No. 15 in D-flat Major; Ginastera Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2; and Novacek 3 Concert ...
$12 – $30
Band of Heathens 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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 rhythm section. Hailing from Austin, Texas, and together ten years, the group fuses Lone Star blues, rock, and soul sounds with influences from Southern boogie-woogie, ...
$12 – $40
Zoe Ellis with Maya Kronfeld, piano 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesZoe 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 many years with the Bay Area funk band, the Mo’Fessionals. A dynamic performer, Ellis’s credits include live performances with the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Donald ...
$12 – $30
Pre-Concert Lecture, Jason Sherbundy and Ann Woodhead 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Opera: Don Pasquale 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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 young couple in love schemes to thwart the plans of an old buffoon who wants to marry the girl himself. , Sara LeMesh, Norina Sergio ...
$12 – $50
Rehearsal, Big Band (7/15)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
ZOFO Duet 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesWhen 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 to Tokyo with their dazzling artistry and outside-the-box thematic programming for piano-four-hands, blazing a bold new path for four-hands groups by focusing on 20th and ...
$12 – $30
Alex de Grassi with Andrew York 2017
Hill House Inn 10701 Palette Drive, Mendocino, CAFingerstyle 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 StatesFeatured 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 blues on a dime, projection that can whisper a ballad yet is capable of filling a room with no microphone. She has been compared to ...
$12 – $55
Understanding Schubert: Multimedia Lecture 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesIn 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. Schubert’s potent settings of Romantic lyric poetry thrived in bourgeois settings where there was a growing need for personal emotional outlet. The inwardness and subjectivity ...
$12 – $30
Kanekoa, Joan Soriano: Double Bill 2017
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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 and has never looked back. Soriano plays steel string bachata with equal parts romance and grit. The Afro-infused rhythm that permeates his music has made ...
$12 – $40
Joan Soriano Workshop 2017
Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary 44831 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United StatesBe 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
Rehearsal, Orch. 2 (7/19)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Schubert Chamber Music 1 2017
Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesSusan 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 women in lieder will be demonstrated by soprano Julie Kierstine and pianist Daniel Lockert. The Octet, modeled on Beethoven’s popular Septet, is unusually outgoing, but ...
$12 – $30
Ledford House: the Iconic Festival Dinner Party 2017
Ledford House Restaurant 3000 CA-1, Albion, CA, United StatesFeatured 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 tenor Brian Thorsett and pianist Daniel Lockert. The Ledford House Restaurant is located seven miles South of Mendocino on Highway ...
$85