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Ranky Tanky
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesA musical ensemble based in Charleston, South Carolina, Ranky Tanky specializes in jazz-influenced arrangements of traditional Gullah music, a culture that originated among descendants of enslaved Africans along the coast of South Carolina and nearby islands. Apart from lead vocalist Quiana Parler, four of the group's members—Quentin Baxter, Kevin Hamilton, Clay Ross, and Charlton Singleton—previously ...
$15 – $55
Rehearsal, Orch. 4 (7/29)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Rehearsal, Orch. 4 (7/29)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Olatuja
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesThis new project finds Alicia and Michael Olatuja reuniting in music. OLATUJA blends Afro-Beat, Jazz, Funk, and Soul. Praised by the New York Times as “a singer with a strong and luscious tone and an amiably regal presence on stage,” Alicia Olatuja has been captivating audiences with her exquisite vocals and artistic versatility. She first ...
$15 – $45
Rehearsal, Orch. 4 (no chorus) (7/29)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Festival Orchestra 3
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesAllan Pollack will open this concert by conducting his own “Scenes from the Pandemic,” inspired by sounds he heard while sheltering in place on his farm. Stephen Prutsman will play Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16, the atmospheric tone poem for piano and orchestra. Before the magic has evaporated from that performance, Dvořàk’s ...
$15 – $45
Rehearsal, Orch. 3 (7/26)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
California Bluegrass Reunion
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesEvery year since 2012, banjo master Bill Evans brought together a stellar collection of banjo players from all over the world and joined them with an all-star California-based band to present his California Banjo Extravaganza. In 2021, Bill changed the format to a gathering of well-loved bluegrass musicians with strong California connections. These musicians have ...
$15 – $45
Rehearsal, Orch. 3 (7/26)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Rehearsal, Orch. 3 (7/26)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Tierney Sutton
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesJulian Pollack, along with bassist Trey Henry and drummer Ray Brinker, will begin the evening with jazz standards beautifully and inventively performed. Tierney Sutton will join the band for the second half in a tribute to the great drummer Ralph Humphrey. A fabulous singer with a gorgeous trio—who could ask for more? Sutton is not ...
$15 – $45
Festival Big Band, featuring Maiya Sykes
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesThis year the big band musicians are going to find their groove with Maiya Sykes, a former back-up singer whose rendition of “Stay with Me” on The Voice in 2014 catapulted her to lead singer fame. Based in Los Angeles, Sykes is a classically trained musician who graduated from Yale and studied with Betty Carter ...
$15 – $55
Rehearsal, Big Band (7/22)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Festival Orchestra 2, The Barber of Seville (concert version)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesConcert Version; Guest Conductor Ryan Murray The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution, is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. Musicologists believe that the music was composed in just under three weeks, although the famous overture was actually recycled from two earlier Rossini operas. Nonetheless, The Barber has proven to be ...
$15 – $55
Rehearsal, Orch. 2 (7/21)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Otis Taylor
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesHailing from Boulder, Colorado, blues singer/composer Otis Taylor is a multi-instrumentalist whose talents include vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin, and harmonic. Capable of exploring any musical mood at any given time, Taylor lets his audience experience the unexpected. While his music, an amalgamation of root styles in their rawest form, discusses heavyweight issues like murder, homelessness, ...
$15 – $45
Rehearsal, Orch. 2 (7/21)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Blind Boys of Alabama
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesThe Blind Boys of Alabama have the rare distinction of being recognized around the world as both living legends and modern-day innovators. They are not just gospel singers borrowing from old traditions; the group helped to define those traditions in 20th century and almost single-handedly created a new gospel sound for the 21st. Since the ...
$15 – $45
Rehearsal, Orch. 2 (7/21)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
The Steel Wheels
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFrom their base in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, this acoustic roots music collective has played the most prestigious festivals, listening rooms, and clubs in the world, cementing a reputation as one of the top independent bands. The Steel Wheels give folk, folk rock and Appalachian roots music a modern twist. Their records and performances are ...
$15 – $45
Festival Orchestra 1, with soloists Jessica Fellowes and Katie Kadarauch
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesTo begin the classical Festival, Maestro Allan Pollack will lead the orchestra in Shostakovich’s Festive Overture in A Major, Op. 96, an appropriately effervescent opening. Mozart’s joyful Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat Major for violin and viola will feature soloists Fellowes and Kadarauch. The partnership and equality shared by the soloists creates a searingly beautiful sound ...
$15 – $45
Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/16)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesCJ Chenier, “The Crown Prince of Zydeco,” was born into an indigenous American culture with a distinctive language and music. The Creole son of Clifton Chenier, he started playing in his father’s band shortly before Clifton died. CJ delivers soulful vocals along with masterful accordion-driven Zydeco and blues. A Grammy-nominated musician and recording artist, CJ ...
$15 – $55
Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/16)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/16)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Festival Orchestra 3, featuring the Festival Chorus 2019
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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
Pre-Concert Lecture, Daniel Lockert 2019
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesAs 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 ...
Rehearsal, Orch. 3 (7/27)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Sweet Honey in the Rock® 2019
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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
Rehearsal, Orch. 3 (7/27)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Rehearsal, Orch. 3 (7/27)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band 2019
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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
Rehearsal, Orch. 3 (no chorus) (7/27)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Festival Orchestra 2, featuring Spencer Myer 2019
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFestival 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
Pre-Concert Lecture, Kayleen Asbo, Ph. D. 2019
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesKayleen 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 ...
Rehearsal, Orch. 2 (7/24)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Carolyn Wonderland 2019
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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
Rehearsal, Orch. 2 (7/24)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Rehearsal, Orch. 2 (7/24)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Ruthie Foster 2019
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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
Festival Big Band: Tribute to Aretha, featuring Kim Nalley 2019
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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
Rehearsal, Big Band (7/20)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Opera: L’Elisir d’Amore 2019
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesFeatured 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
Pre-Concert Lecture, Anne Woodhead 2019
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesLecture 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 ...
Badi Assad, Diego Figueiredo 2019
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesBrazil’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
Rehearsal, Opera Dress (7/19)
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
Le Vent du Nord 2019
Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United StatesThe award=winning and highly acclaimed band Le Vent du Nord is a leading force in Quebec’s progressive francophone folk movement. The group’s vast repertoire draws from both traditional sources and original compositions, while enhancing its hard-driving soulful music (rooted in the Celtic diaspora) with a broad range of global influences. Le Vent du Nord must melt ...
$15 – $42