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  • Rehearsal, Orch. 7/26

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

    Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 4 (7/26) Rehearsal order: Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring Górecki, Ad Matrem Lauridsen, Lux Aeterna 

  • Calder Quartet

    Cotton Auditorium 500 N Harold Street, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    Hailed as “imaginative, skillful creators” by the New York Times, the Calder Quartet captivates audiences with its explorations of a broad repertoire, always striving to fulfill the composer’s vision in their performances. The group’s distinctive artistry is exemplified by the musical curiosity they bring to everything they perform. One of America’s most satisfying—and most enterprising—quartets" ...

    $15 – $65

  • Charlie Musselwhite

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

    American blues harmonica player and bandleader who came to prominence, along with Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, and Elvin Bishop, as a pivotal figure in helping to revive the Chicago Blues movement of the 1960s, Musselwhite has often been called a "white bluesman.” He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2010. At the ...

    $15 – $65

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 7/26

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

    Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 4 (7/26) Rehearsal order: Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 7/26

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

    Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 4 (7/26) Rehearsal order: Lauridsen, Lux Aeterna Górecki, Ad Matrem

  • Emerging Artists Recital

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

    The annual concert by the wonderfully talented young string players from the Festival’s Emerging Artists Program is anticipated by all who love hearing accomplished musicians interpret chamber music classics. CHOOSE SEATS AND BUY

    $15 – $40

  • Skerryvore

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

    Three-time winners of Scotland’s “Live Act of the Year” award, Skerryvore have evolved from their humble beginnings to become one of their country’s leading Celtic rock bands. With a mix of bagpipes, fiddles, accordions, and whistles, alongside guitar and vocals and underpinned by driving bass, drums and keys, Skerryvore represent the best in contemporary Scottish ...

    $15 – $65

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 7/26

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

    Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 4 (7/26) Rehearsal order: Górecki, Ad Matrem Lauridsen, Lux Aeterna Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring 

  • Festival Orchestra 4

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

    The final concert will open with Ad Matrem, Henryk Gorecki’s sacred work for soprano, mixed chorus, and orchestra. Based on the text of the 13th century hymn, Stabat Mater Dolorosa, ...

    $15 – $65

  • Big Time in Little River 2025

    Abalone Room, Little River Inn 7901 CA-1, Little River, CA, United States
    Benefit Events

    Sunday, December 14, 2025, 7:00 PM
    Abalone Room, Little River Inn
    Kenny Washington with Pianist John R. Burr
    Wines and treats (savories and sweets)

    $100

  • Kurt Weill: His Life, His Songs

    Preston Hall 44867 Main St., Mendocino, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    Celebrate Kurt Weill with a screening of Susan Waterfall's 2021 film, The Life and Music of Kurt Weill, followed by a live performance by mezzo-soprano Silvie Jensen with pianist Sarah Cahill. We'll ...

    $30

  • Festival Chorale: An Afternoon of American Song

    Festival Chorale: An Afternoon of American Song
    Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary 44831 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Classical

    Celebrate the richness and resonance of American song in this uplifting spring concert featuring the 24-voice Mendocino Music Festival Chorale. In two performances, May 2 and 3, An Afternoon of American Song weaves together beloved folk melodies, spirituals, protest anthems, and lyrical art songs—from the timeless beauty of "Shenandoah" and "America the Beautiful" to the ...

    $25

  • Festival Chorale: An Afternoon of American Song

    Festival Chorale: An Afternoon of American Song
    Mendocino Presbyterian Church Sanctuary 44831 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Classical

    Celebrate the richness and resonance of American song in this uplifting spring concert featuring the 24-voice Mendocino Music Festival Chorale. In two performances, May 2 and 3, An Afternoon of American Song weaves together beloved folk melodies, spirituals, protest anthems, and lyrical art songs—from the timeless beauty of "Shenandoah" and "America the Beautiful" to the ...

    $25

  • Volunteer Sign-Up Day 2026

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

    The Mendocino Music Festival is, first and foremost, a community of music lovers who collaborate to produce the Festival, create the music, and enjoy the performances. Volunteers are at the heart of our production. Over two hundred people serve as door captains, ticket scanners, ushers, and concessions workers. Many more help out at fundraising events, ...

  • Opera Preview Party 2026

    Brian James and Shariq Yosufzai Residence Mendocino, CA, United States
    Benefit Events

    Imagine yourself... ...in a stunning seaside setting, with a small gathering of fellow opera lovers, grazing on delicacies both savory and sweet, sipping fine wines and other libations, enhanced by the 'golden hour' ambience of a mid-June North Coast evening... ...hearing Artistic Director Allan Pollack and Guest Conductor Francisco Lecce-Chong share a few opera insights... ...with ...

    $200

  • Susan Waterfall presents: Beethoven

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

    Susan Waterfall’s biographical film on Ludwig van Beethoven provides the perfect prologue to this summer's programming. The riveting story of western classical music's greatest composer, and the turbulent period of history he inhabited, includes excerpts from 25 of his works, along with compelling contemporaneous art and images.

    $20
  • The four members of JigJam sit on a bench with their instruments.

    JigJam

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

    When virtuoso Irish playing jumps the pond running naked through the wide open fields of bluegrass/Americana, JigJam is born. Bluegrass and American Folk music originated from the group’s home, and now JigJam is here to take it back! Described as “The best Irish band in bluegrass,” these lads have been hailed as “Ireland’s answer to ...

    $15 – $75

  • Festival Orchestra 1, with Stephen Prutsman, Piano

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

    To kick off the Festival's 40th season's orchestral offerings, Allan Pollack will lead the musicians in Leonard Bernstein’s sprightly Candide overture. The energy will continue to flow when soloist Stephen Prutsman returns to Mendocino to perform Prokofiev’s demanding Piano Concerto No. 3. After we catch our breaths at intermission, we’ll enjoy the energetic 7th Symphony ...

    $15 – $75

  • Business Casual

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

    Exploring a wide range of genres, Bay Area vocal band Business Casual is celebrated for their smart and surprising covers of popular songs. What would Mozart sound like as performed by a salsa band? What if Justin Timberlake were a jazz quartet? Taking inspiration from artists like Postmodern Jukebox and Scary Pockets, Business Casual delights ...

    $15 – $45

  • Carolyn Wonderland

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

    With her dynamic guitar playing, formidable songwriting and pure vocals, Carolyn Wonderland hits the stage with an unmatched presence, mixing the depths of the Texas blues tradition with the wit of a poet. Wonderland plays original, bluesified, cosmic soul music, mixed with heavy doses of Tex-Mex and riff-fueled rock 'n' roll. Performing professionally since the ...

    $15 – $75

  • Beethoven Chamber 1

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

    Beethoven's charming, enigmatic, and deeply felt Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Opus 10 No. 3 will be played by Susan Waterfall. The brooding and complex String Trio in C minor No. 3, Op. 9 will feature Terrie Baune (violin), Susan Freier, (viola) and Stephen Harrison (cello). In the late-period Cello Sonata No. 1, Op. ...

    $15 – $45

  • Brittany Davis & Black Thunder, with D’Vonne Lewis and Evan Flory-Barnes

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

    For Brittany Davis, sound is three-dimensional. It is size, shape, and color. It is language. Blind since birth, Davis discovered a world of vivid, vibrant color in music. A childhood appreciation for gospel and jazz gave way to a teenage obsession with hip-hop and R&B. Later, Davis crossed paths with Afro-punk musicians, rock artists, and ...

    $15 – $75

  • Jacksonport, with special guest Julian Pollack

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

    Cuban-American artist and musican John Fonseca Fatum is the solo creator of Jacksonport, named for the small Wisconsin town where he spent summers growing up. Now a Los Angeles-based songwriter, session drummer, record producer, and performer, with four studio records as Jacksonport and two more under his own name, he's also worked with artists Sarah ...

    $15 – $45
  • Five members of Solas pose on a paved surface holding instruments.

    Solas

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

    Formed in New York City in 1995, Solas quickly rose to prominence as a revolutionary force in Irish-American music, and they have been lighting up stages across the globe ever since. Hailed by The Wall Street Journal as “an Irish traditional band bearing all the marks of greatness,” Solas continues to captivate audiences with their ...

    $15 – $75

  • Piano Series: Anthony Ratinov

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

    Pianist Anthony Ratinov’s impressive talents will be on display when he performs selections from Debussy’s Douze Études, both Book I and Book II. The compositions address aspects of pianistic technique in the first book and explore new sonorities in the second. In between the Debussy, he will draw upon his virtuosity to carry us through ...

    $15 – $45

  • Steel Wheels

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

    Virginia-based folk-rock band The Steel Wheels have spent almost 20 years writing, recording, and touring, all the while constantly honing their evolving brand of American roots music. Additionally, they are the founders and hosts of the Red Wing Roots Music Festival, a beloved staple of the Shenandoah Valley. Through the years, The Steel Wheels have ...

    $15 – $75

  • Zoe Ellis

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

    Zoe Ellis's dramatic and colorful voice is 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. Ellis’s credits include live performances with the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Donald Byrd, Phil Lesh and ...

    $15 – $45
  • Painting entitled Luigi-Morgari-Scenery-for-the-scene-with-Mimi-and-Rodolfo-in-the-opera-La-Boheme-by-Giacomo-Puccini depicting characters from the opera in a dramatic scene.

    Festival Orchestra 2: La bohème, with Ryan Murray, Conductor

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

    Puccini’s famous opera is the story of love, friendship, poverty, and tragic death. Set in Bohemian Paris of the 1830s, it tells of four friends, all struggling artists of one sort or another. Mimi and Rodolfo meet and fall in love on Christmas Eve. Musetta and Marcello also love one another and, like Mimi and ...

    $15 – $75

  • Fire & Grace

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

    This dynamic collaboration between guitarist William Coulter and violinist Edwin Huizinga explores the world’s musical landscape. Their performances blend iconic favorites with classic ballads, mixing North American folk and Celtic melodies with Argentinian tango and Bach sonatas. Described as “a monument to musical diversity and crossover brilliance,” this duo explores classical, folk, and contemporary traditions ...

    $15 – $45

  • Festival Big Band, with Maiya Sykes

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

    Maiya Sykes, a classically trained vocalist and producer, wowed the audience at last year’s Festival Big Band concert. A graduate of Yale University, she continued her musical education at The Musicians’ Institute and studied independently with Nina Simone and Betty Carter. Sykes is a former back-up singer who has sung with the likes of Macy ...

    $15 – $75

  • Calder Quartet

    Cotton Auditorium 500 N Harold Street, Fort Bragg, CA, United States
    Chamber Music

    “Few string quartets can command the stage like the Calder Quartet,” according to The Washington Post. The extraordinary ensemble is just as renowned for its expert, empathetic readings of core repertoire as it is for its thrilling commitment to new and unexpected programming. Returning to the Festival for the 12th year, the Los Angeles-based musicians ...

    $15 – $75

  • Julian Pollack

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

    Prepare for an exciting evening of piano and keyboard work by perennial favorite, Julian Pollack (AKA J3PO). The San Francisco Chronicle calls him a “ferociously assured and creatively dazzling pianist, composer, and arranger.” After extensive touring this year with Chris Botti, Terence Blanchard, and Marcus Miller, Julian returns to the Festival stage to present his ...

    $15 – $75

  • Piano Series: Cahill/Myers Duo

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

    The energetic duo of Sarah Cahill and Regina Myers will excite you with their interpretations of a wide range of contemporary two-piano music. The two San Francisco-based pianists have collaborated on many occasions, most recently for a duo performance at the 2025 Flower Piano in Golden Gate Park. This concert will feature both venerable and ...

    $15 – $45

  • BeauSoleil

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

    For the past 50 years, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet has been making some of the most potent and popular Cajun music on the planet. Born out of the rich Acadian ancestry of its members, and driven by bandleader Michael Doucet’s spellbinding fiddle playing and soulful vocals, BeauSoleil is notorious for bringing even the most staid ...

    $15 – $75

  • Beethoven Chamber 2

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

    In what has become something of a Festival tradition, Julian Pollack will join Susan Waterfall on one piano for the Sonata for Piano 4 Hands in D Major, Op. 6, a two-movement exercise in pianistic flair. Beethoven wrote beautifully balanced works for strings and piano, and this concert will celebrate that mastery. Sam Weiser will ...

    $15 – $45

  • Laila Biali

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

    Award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, and national radio host Laila Biali has headlined festivals and venues on five continents. Winner of a Juno award, she has worked with Chris Botti and Sting. When not on stage or in the studio, Biali is busy hosting CBC Music’s national radio show, ”Saturday Night Jazz,” a weekly program broadcast ...

    $15 – $75

  • Evie Ladin and Keith Terry

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

    The polyrhythmic heat of Evie Ladin’s clawhammer banjo, resonant voice, real stories, and rhythmic dance have been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Lincoln Center, Celtic Connections to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Brazil to Bali. A prolific creator and gracious facilitator, Ladin grew up steeped in traditional folk music/dance throughout the East Coast. She brings ...

    $15 – $45

  • Festival Orchestra 3, with Francesco Lecce-Chong, Conductor; Mio Imai, violin

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

    Shuying Li’s Purple Mountains overture will begin an evening of graceful lyricism and energetic rhythms. Amazing young violinist Mio Imai will perform Samuel Barber’s esteemed Violin Concerto. In her hands, elegant solo melodies will soar and mesh with lush orchestral textures. Beethoven’s 6th Symphony, the "Pastoral Symphony," is one of his few pieces with explicitly ...

    $15 – $75

  • Piano Series: Rachel Breen

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

    American pianist Rachel Breen’s performances have been described as “truly show-stopping” (Gramophone UK) and having “a beautiful piano sound and original detail.” She has enjoyed an active and successful competition career and has performed and taught masterclasses around the world. If you enjoyed her performance last year, you will certainly appreciate this one. ...took into ...

    $15 – $75

  • Tom Rush

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

    Tom Rush is a gifted musician and performer whose shows offer a musical journey into the tradition and spectrum of what music has been, can be, and will become. His distinctive guitar style, wry humor, and warm, expressive voice have made him a legend to audiences around the world. His shows are filled with the ...

    $15 – $75

  • Emerging Artists Recital

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

    The annual concert by the wonderfully talented string players from the Festival’s Emerging Artists Program is anticipated by all who love hearing accomplished young musicians interpret chamber music classics and present exciting contemporary works. Each year twleve participants are chosen from the many who apply to come to Mendocino, receive chamber music coaching from principals ...

    $15 – $45

  • Sue Foley

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

    Originally from Canada, Sue Foley is a multi-award-winning blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. A five-time winner of the Blues Music Award for Traditional Blues Female Artist, Foley has won a Juno Award among other honors. Touring internationally, she has shared stages with B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Jimmie Vaughan, and Billy F Gibbons (ZZ Top), earning ...

    $15 – $75

  • Festival Orchestra 4

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

    The season will conclude with “Songs of Love and Loss” by Allan Pollack, a work for soprano, chorus, orchestra. The piece deals with emotions of grief and longing, blending contemporary texts and musical materials with Biblical passages. The mood will shift with Beethoven’s beloved Symphony No. 9 in D minor, a fitting finale for the ...

    $15 – $75