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  • Elegance in Elk 2016

    The Prow House 7300 South Highway One, Elk, CA, United States
    Benefit Events

    Saturday 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, CA
    Lecture

    Does 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 ...

    Free

  • MacCallum House Winemaker’s Dinner with Witching Stick 2017

    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 Witching Stick. See the menu and learn about Clayton and Meredythe Daley's wine donation to this year's silent auction.

    $100

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/9)

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

  • Sostenuto: A Celebration of Sustainability 2017

    Home of Linda and Fedele Bauccio
    Benefit Events

    Friday, 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 ...

    $175

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/9)

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

  • Calder Quartet 2017

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

    Back 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. ...

    $12 – $40

  • The House Jacks 2017

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

    Featured 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 ...

    $12 – $50

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/9)

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

  • The House Jacks Workshop 2017

    Matheson Performing Arts Center Cahto Street and Ford Street, Mendocino, CA
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    Watch 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 States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    Hip. 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. ...

    $12 – $30

  • Festival Orchestra 1, featuring Jeremy Cohen 2017

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

    Soloist 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; ...

    $12 – $50

  • Rehearsal, Opera (7/14)

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

  • In Bocca al Lupo 2017

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

    A 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 ...

    $12 – $30

  • Laurie Lewis, Rita Hosking 2017

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

    A 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 ...

    $12 – $40

  • Stenberg/Cahill/Winant Trio Celebrates Lou Harrison 2017

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

    In 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 ...

    $12 – $30

  • Rehearsal, Opera (7/14)

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

  • Kathleen Grace 2017

    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Boogie-Blues-Bluegrass

    “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 ...

    $12 – $30

  • Pine Leaf Boys 2017

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Around the World

    Featured 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 ...

    $12 – $40

  • Piano Series: John Novacek 2017

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

    “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; ...

    $12 – $30

  • Band of Heathens 2017

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

    Featured 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 ...

    $12 – $40

  • Zoe Ellis with Maya Kronfeld, piano 2017

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

    Zoe 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 ...

    $12 – $30

  • Opera: Don Pasquale 2017

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

    Featured 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 ...

    $12 – $50

  • ZOFO Duet 2017

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

    When 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 ...

    $12 – $30

  • Alex de Grassi with Andrew York 2017

    Hill House Inn 10701 Palette Drive, Mendocino, CA
    Jazz

    Fingerstyle 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 States
    Jazz

    Featured 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 ...

    $12 – $55

  • Understanding Schubert: Multimedia Lecture 2017

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

    In 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. ...

    $12 – $30

  • Kanekoa, Joan Soriano: Double Bill 2017

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Around the World

    Featured 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 ...

    $12 – $40

  • Joan Soriano Workshop 2017

    Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary 44831 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States
    Around the World

    Be 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

  • Schubert Chamber Music 1 2017

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

    Susan 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 ...

    $12 – $30

  • Ledford House: the Iconic Festival Dinner Party 2017

    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 ...

    $85

  • Schubert Chamber Music 2 2017

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

    The most domestic of all genres, the four-hand piano piece, attained its pinnacle with Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor, written in the last year of Schubert’s life.  It will be ...

    $12 – $30

  • Richie Goods and Nuclear Fusion 2017

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

    Featured wines at this performance Bassist Richie Goods, the youngest person ever inducted into the Pittsburgh Jazz Hall of Fame, has toured with a variety of jazz and popular artists ...

    $12 – $40

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 2 (7/19)

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

  • Babaghanoush 2017

    Preston Hall 44867 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Around the World

    Event Sponsor Guitarist Dimitris Mahlis, drummer Ralph Humphrey, bassist Jerry Watts and saxophonist Antti Suzuki bring life to the multi ethnic compositions of Mahlis. Mahlis’s playing style has been described ...

    $12 – $30

  • Pre-Concert Lecture, Kayleen Asbo, Ph. D. 2017

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

    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 ...

  • Festival Orchestra 2 2017

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

    Featured wines at this performance Our inquiry into Schubert concludes with one of his most deeply felt orchestral works, the Symphony No. 8 in B minor (Unfinished); Richard Strauss’ Burleske ...

    $12 – $50

  • Julian Pollack and J3P0 2017

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

    Featured wines at this performance Julian Pollack brings his project and band J3P0 to the Festival stage this summer. Pollack will be joined by Cale Hawkins, Justin Golder and Adam ...

    $12 – $40

  • Emerging Artists Concert 2017

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

    The annual and much anticipated recital by the enormously talented young string players from the Festival’s Emerging Artists Program is one of the season’s highlights. BUY TICKETS

    $12 – $30

  • San Jose Taiko 2017

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Around the World

    Acknowledged as one of the premier taiko ensembles in the world, San Jose Taiko has mesmerized audiences and critics alike with the powerful, spellbinding and propulsive sounds of taiko, the ...

    $12 – $50