Featured wines at this event Jack Broadbent started his career with humble beginnings busking, and has since been leaving audiences spellbound with his live shows and unique style of slide guitar. Raised in rural England and with a musician father, Jack was brought up on a diet of music that could later be described as his ...
Deepen your enjoyment of the evening's concert by attending this pre-concert lecture by Kayleen Asbo, Ph. D.
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.
Violin virtuoso David McCarroll returns to dazzle Festival audiences with his rapturous, yet tender, interpretation of Beethoven’s great Violin Concerto. The Festival Orchestra also performs Beethoven’s majestic Eroica Symphony, full of drama and pathos. Two defining symphonic masterpieces from Beethoven’s Heroic Period, and a soloist of international repute.
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.
After 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.
Marko 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 ...
This is the annual, much anticipated recital by the outrageously excellent young string players from the festival’s Emerging Artists Program. BUY TICKETS
Since 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 ...
Gwyneth 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 ...
Stefanie 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 ...
The 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 ...
A 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.
Support 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.
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!
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Watch the House Jacks singers work their magic on several local a cappella groups. FREE TICKETS
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. ...
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; ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
“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; ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...