• 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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