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Badi Assad, Diego Figueiredo 2019

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

Brazil’s Badi Assad is lauded as one of the world’s most unique performance artists of this generation. She transcends traditional styles of her native Brazilian music with a mixture of pop, jazz and world/ethnic sounds from around the world. Combining an extraordinary guitar talent, unique mouth percussion and beautiful singing, Assad creates an exciting, fresh sound. Fellow Brazilian Diego Figueiredo, a virtuoso with an infectious, joyful feeling, is a fast-rising star among the world’s greatest jazz guitarists. His superb technique and imagination have made him one of the hottest international names as he unites a fusion of Brazilian music with jazz. Twice a winner at the Montreux Jazz Competition, Figueiredo is also a producer, arranger, orchestrator and multi-instrumentalist.

$15 – $42

Kathleen Grace 2019

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

Kathleen Grace has forged a remarkable career that has sent her around the globe playing for audiences who appreciate her eclectic musical tastes that range from jazz, to blues, to indie folk. Following a year recording with the iconic Jim James (of My Morning Jacket) and performing with the chart-topping rock band, Portugal. The Man, ...

$15 – $30

Guitars in the Mendocino Village 2019

Various Mendocino, CA, United States

If you’re out and about Mendocino on Friday afternoon July 19 during the Festival you may happen upon a little Bach, some bossa nova, or even a classic pop song being conjured up on one or more guitars. The Mendocino Guitar Workshop, in co-operation with the Mendocino Music Festival, will unleash another eclectic crew of ...

Pre-Concert Lecture, Anne Woodhead 2019

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

Lecture admission is included with your concert ticket. Ann Woodhead, Stage Director for this year’s opera, L’elisir d’amore,  is an award-winning dancer, choreographer, actor, and director. This is her second production for the Mendocino Music Festival. Now a full-time Mendocino Coast resident, Ann lived in Sonoma County for 30 years, teaching at Sonoma State University ...

Opera: L’Elisir d’Amore 2019

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

Featured wines at this performanceGuest conductor Mary Chun. Stage director Ann Woodhead. Donizetti’s enduringly popular comic opera features a spunky and beautiful landowner, a poor but good-hearted country boy and a puffed up sergeant who vie with each other for her affections, and a quack doctor who specializes in love potions that may bring two ...

$15 – $52

Alex de Grassi and Andrew York 2019

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

Fingerstyle guitar master Alex de Grassi is the founder of the Mendocino Summer Guitar Workshop which runs concurrently with the Mendocino Music Festival. Grammy Award-winning classical guitarist, composer and guest workshop teacher Andrew York joins him again this year in a concert program featuring their solo and duo compositions and arrangements that blend the sonorities ...

$15 – $30

Festival Big Band: Tribute to Aretha, featuring Kim Nalley 2019

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

Featured wines at this performance. With a reputation as one of the world’s best jazz and blues vocalists, Kim Nalley is back to join the big band musicians in a tribute to the incomparable Aretha Franklin. She has pipes to burn, a 3½ octave range that can go from operatic to gritty blues on a ...

$15 – $55

Brahms: His Life and Times, featuring Susan Waterfall 2019

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

Brahms' momentous meeting with Clara and Robert Schumann when he was only 20 forged a bond of love and familial connection that lasted throughout Brahms’ and Clara’s lifetimes. Susan’s lecture will be supplemented with images and recorded examples. The two chamber concerts divide Brahms’ life roughly in half: before and after 1878, when he grew ...

$15 – $30

Ruthie Foster 2019

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

Featured wines at this performanceHailing from rural Texas, Foster is a singer-songwriter of blues and folk music. Mixing a wide palette of American song forms, from gospel and blues to jazz, folk and soul, she is often compared to Bonnie Raitt. Drawing influence from legendary acts like Mavis Staples and Aretha Franklin, Foster has developed ...

$15 – $52

Ledford House: the Iconic Festival Dinner Party 2019

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

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 ...

$100

Brahms: Clean-Shaven-2019

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

Susan Waterfall will play the Four Ballades Op. 10; Miles Graber, Larry Lowe, and Jay Zhong will essay the Horn Trio in E-flat Major Op. 40; and Carolyn Steinbuck, Jay Zhong, Tammie Dyer, Susan Freier, and Stephen Harrison will interpret the F minor Piano Quintet Op. 34. BUY TICKETS

$15 – $30

Carolyn Wonderland 2019

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

Featured wines at this performance. A musical force equipped with the soulful vocals of Janis and the guitar slinging skills of Stevie Ray, Carolyn Wonderland reaches into the depths of the Texas blues tradition with the wit of a poet. She hits the stage with unmatched presence, a true legend in her time. Carolyn Wonderland ...

$15 – $42

The Odd Dogs 2019

Hill House Inn 10701 Palette Drive, Mendocino, CA

The Odd Dogs’ sound is a melting pot of dynamic rock and world music, expressed through jazz and improvisational sensibilities. The band draws from a rich pallet of musical influences: Rush, Tool, Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck, Joe Zawinul, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Frank Zappa, and Thelonious Monk. Each an accomplished musician in his own right, the members ...

$15 – $30

Pre-Concert Lecture, Kayleen Asbo, Ph. D. 2019

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

Kayleen Asbo is a passionate scholar: a cultural historian, musician, writer and teacher who weaves myth, music, psychology, history and art with experiential learning. A faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for seventeen years, Kayleen also teaches regularly for the Osher Life Long Learning Institutes at UC Berkeley, Sonoma State University and ...

Festival Orchestra 2, featuring Spencer Myer 2019

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

Festival Orchestra with pianist Spencer Myer Featured wines at this performance.The concert will open with Mendelssohn’s evocative concert overture, The Hebrides; long-time crowd favorite Spencer Myer will bring his warm and intelligent interpretation of Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor Op. 54; and Brahms’ last symphony, No. 4 in E minor Op. 98 will wrap ...

$15 – $52

Brahms: Bearded 2019

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

Susan Waterfall and Eric Kritz will play the Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op. 120; Christopher Nomura and Daniel Lockert will sing Vier Ernste Gesänge; and Jay Zhong, Tammie Dyer, Susan Freier, Stephen Harrison, and Danny Sheu will play the String Quintet No. 2 in G Major Op. 111, “Prater.” BUY TICKETS

$15 – $30

Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band 2019

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

Featured wines at this event Grammy-award winner Peter Rowan is a singer-songwriter who started his career as a Blue Grass Boy in 1964. By Bill Monroe's own admission, Peter sounded a lot like him and when the two harmonized, they were said to have reached "heavenly heights.” The Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band is made up ...

$15 – $42

Emerging Artists Concert 2019

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

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

Sweet Honey in the Rock® 2019

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

Featured wines at this performanceSweet Honey is a well-known Grammy Award-winning (and many times nominated) a cappella ensemble that expresses their history as African American women through song, dance, and sign language. Rooted in the hymns, gospel music, and spirituals, the troupe seeks to preserve and extend the traditions of African American vocal music while ...

$15 – $52

Business Casual 2019

Hill House Inn 10701 Palette Drive, Mendocino, CA

Bay Area vocal band Business Casual explores a wide range of genres including pop, jazz, soul, folk and swing to produce fresh a cappella versions of vintage chart toppers, today's top 40 hits, and award-winning original songs. In 2018, Business Casual was named National Champion at the Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival and their first ...

$15 – $30

Pre-Concert Lecture, Daniel Lockert 2019

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

As a soloist or collaborator, Daniel Lockert is equally versatile on the piano, organ and harpsichord. A native of San Diego, CA, he began formal piano studies at the age of five. Throughout high school, he exclusively studied the organ. After getting his Bachelor’s in Piano Performance and a minor in organ from Loma Linda ...

Festival Orchestra 3, featuring the Festival Chorus 2019

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

Featured wines at this performance.Festival Orchestra and Chorus The season finale will feature Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major; Brahms’ orchestrally-accompanied choral work, Schicksalslied Op. 54; and Beethoven’s great choral Symphony No. 9 in D minor Op. 125, with soloists Shawnette Sulker, Betany Coffland, Christòpheren Nomura, and Alex Boyer. Ticket price includes pre-concert ...

$15 – $55

Event Series Mendocino Music Festival Chorale Auditions

Mendocino Music Festival Chorale Auditions

Eidseth House Choir Room 44867 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States

September 9, 11:00 AM-1:30 PM and 6:00-8:00 PM. The Mendocino Music Festival Chorale is looking for singers for its small auditioned ensemble. Particularly seeking tenors, and potentially other voice types, for two concerts per year plus possible involvement in the Festival Opera. Rehearsals are Sundays 6:00-8:00 PM. Please prepare a song (accompanist will be provided) ...

Festival Christmas Concert and Celebration 2019

Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church 201 E Fir Street, Fort Bragg, CA, United States

Festival Christmas Concert and Celebration Saturday, December 7, 2:30-5:00 Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, and Larson Hall $50 per person, to benefit the Mendocino Music Festival adult education department. CLICK TO RESERVE NOW Join us in the warm redwood embrace of the lovely 1904 sanctuary for the first half of the concert, in ...

$50

Wonder Women: Hidden Heroines of Music History, Kayleen Asbo, Ph. D.

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

Composer, musicologist and pianist Kayleen Asbo, the acclaimed cultural historian for the Santa Rosa Symphony, will introduce us through lecture and performance to four of the most fascinating women from music history. Meet Hildegard von Bingen, a Benedictine abbess of the 12th century whose art, music and writings about nature contain revelations of wonder for ...

$15
Event Series Vocal Masterclass (8 times, 1/20-3/9)

Vocal Masterclass (8 times, 1/20-3/9)

Eidseth House Choir Room 44867 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States

Mondays, 10:00 AM-11:30 AM, January 20-March 9 (eight weeks). Join a small group of singers who want to hone their skills and become better at their craft. If you sing in a local chorus, at church, at events, or even privately, this class will help you find better vocal technique and artistry, and help you refine your voice and performance skills. Best for singers who have taken the beginning voice class, Finding Your True Voice, or who have had some private training.

$80
Event Series The World of Duets, Trios and Small Ensembles (8 times, 1/20-3/9)

The World of Duets, Trios and Small Ensembles (8 times, 1/20-3/9)

Eidseth House Choir Room 44867 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States

Mondays, 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, January 20-March 9 (eight weeks). Enjoy singing with others but get lost in a big group? Let us introduce you to the small ensemble repertoire. You will be partnered with another singer(s) and learn the skill of singing and holding your part.

$80
Event Series Solo Singing for the Meek and Humble (8 times, 1/20-3/9)

Solo Singing for the Meek and Humble (8 times, 1/20-3/9)

Eidseth House Choir Room 44867 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States

Mondays, 5:30-7:00 PM, January 20-March 9 (eight weeks). Emerge from just singing in the car, the shower, or even in a group, to become a more confident solo singer. Students will learn better vocal techniques as well as interpretive skills to unleash the solo singer buried deep inside, all in a safe and supportive environment to become brave and confident.

$80
Event Series Sight-Singing 2 (8 times, 1/20-3/9)

Sight-Singing 2 (8 times, 1/20-3/9)

Eidseth House Choir Room 44867 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States

Mondays, 7:15-8:30, January 20-March 9 (eight weeks). For those who attended Sight Singing I . Daniel Lockert will continue with the book Successful Sight Singing as well as enhance the class with the tricks and hacks to make sight singing easier.

$80

A Jubilant Song

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

Join the Festival Chamber Chorale in a concert featuring the music of some of America’s greatest composers. Included in the concert are the haunting melodies of Samuel Barber, the edgy harmonies of Norman Dello Joio, choral super-star Eric Whitacre, as well as glimpses into the Mendocino Music Festival’s final concert with foot-stomping selections by Aaron Copland. The featured work will be Randall Thompson's great choral cycle Frostiana. Spend the afternoon basking in our rich American musical heritage.

$20

MacCallum House Winemaker’s Dinner with Graziano Wines

MacCallum House Restaurant 45020 Albion Street, Mendocino, CA

Featured wines at this event. A perfect pairing: scrumptious food from MacCallum House’s celebrated chef Alan Kantor and elegant wines from Graziano. An all-inclusive bargain at $125, the evening includes hors d'oeuvres and wine at 6:00, followed by dinner with wine at 7:00. This event has been cancelled. If you have already reserved, you will ...

$125

Event Series Sight-Singing 3 (7 times, 3/23-5/11; not 4/20)

Sight-Singing 3 (7 times, 3/23-5/11; not 4/20)

Eidseth House Choir Room 44867 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States

Mondays, 7:15-8:30, March 23-May 11 (except 4/20). The next class for those who attended Sight Singing 1 and 2. Daniel Lockert will continue with the book Successful Sight Singing as well as enhance the class with the tricks and hacks to make sight singing easier. The Old American Songs by Aaron Copland score will be used for part of the class. A $10 score fee will be collected at the first class.

$80
Event Series Advanced Masterclass (7-week course, 3/23-5/10; not 4/20)

Advanced Masterclass (7-week course, 3/23-5/10; not 4/20)

Eidseth House Choir Room 44867 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States

Mondays, 10:00 AM-11:30 AM, March 23-May 4 (except 4/20), plus a student public performance on Sunday, May 10 at 6PM. Come join a small group of seasoned singers who want to hone their skills and become better at their craft. If you sing in a local chorus, at church, at events, or even privately, this class will help you find better vocal technique and artistry, and will help you refine your voice and performance skills.

$80
Event Series Beginning Masterclass (7 times, 3/23-5/10; not 4/20)

Beginning Masterclass (7 times, 3/23-5/10; not 4/20)

Eidseth House Choir Room 44867 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States

Mondays, 5:30-7:00 PM, March 23-May 4 (except 4/20), plus a student public performance on Sunday, May 10, at 6 PM. This class is designed for the beginning singer who is ready to spread their wings. Music will be assigned based on voice type. New genres and styles will be introduced. Singers will be scheduled to sing for the class and work on songs in a nurturing, encouraging environment. Focus will be on vocal technique and presentation, to bring the shyest of singers out of their shell.

$80

We’re Still Here! Virtual Opening Night 2020

Zoom Cyberspace

Opening Night, on July 11: With some scenic aerial footage of the tent site and fun discussions with Festival Orchestra musicians and the makers and shakers of the July season, get yourself a glass of your favorite beverage and feel again the heartening spirit of music in Mendocino. 7:30 PM, at your house. FREE TICKET ...

Free
Event Series Young People’s Musical Theater Workshop (July 11-12, 1-4PM)

Young People’s Musical Theater Workshop (July 11-12, 1-4PM)

Zoom Cyberspace

Saturday-Sunday, July 11-12, 1PM-4PM both days. For ages 12-19. This two-day intensive workshop will get to the nitty-gritty of the Musical Theater world. Work on audition technique, monologues, performance etiquette, and more. Music will be hand-chosen for potential casting, and Jenny Matteucci and Daniel Lockert will help fine-tune performances. Leave with a better grasp of the tumultuous world of Musical Theater.

$100

We’re Still Here! Lucia Micarelli Virtual Visit

Zoom Cyberspace

On July 16, spend some time with Lucia Micarelli. Audience members begged us to bring her back after her stunning concert in 2018. She is an unbelievably talented, eclectic musician whose creativity seems almost limitless. A singer, a violinist, an explorer of styles, her musical life will fascinate you. Her fresh youthfulness spills over into ...

Free

We’re Still Here! Virtual Big Band Night 2020

Zoom Cyberspace

Saturday, July 18 is Big Band night! Allan Pollack, Kim Nalley, and the Festival Big Band rhythm section will all get together to talk about Jazz, pop, and the lives that all the players have led. They have played with some famous musicians, and stories of their experiences will be something you won’t want to ...

We’re Still Here! Virtual Closing Night 2020

Zoom Cyberspace

Saturday, July 25, is Closing Night. This night has traditionally featured a large choral work, so we have asked Jenny Matteucci and Daniel Lockert to join us to talk about a singer’s life as well as what is entailed in preparing the chorus for performance. Conductor Mary Chun and Stage Director Elly Lichtenstein will also ...

Free
Event Series Beginning Masterclass (8-week course, 6/8-7/27)

Beginning Masterclass (8-week course, 6/8-7/27)

Zoom Cyberspace

Mondays, 4:00-5:30 PM, June 8-July 27. This class is designed for the beginning singer who is ready to spread their wings. Music will be assigned based on voice type. New genres and styles will be introduced. Singers will be scheduled to sing for the class and work on songs in a nurturing, encouraging environment. Focus will be on vocal technique and presentation, to bring the shyest of singers out of their shell. Register as full Participant, or choose "View-only" at a reduced fee.

$80
Event Series Lunchtime Lecture Series

Lunchtime Lecture Series

Zoom Cyberspace

Eight Wednesdays at noon, June 10-July 29. An eight-week series of weekly Wednesday noontime talks curated by Jenny Matteucci and Daniel Lockert. Topics range from the art of accompaniment to talks with composers, recitalists and more. Buy individually or as an eight-week series. Virtual; attend from anywhere. Missed the first one or two? For a limited time, buy the remaining (7 or 6) lectures at the series price ($80), still a savings.

$80

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