• 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 Jackson. These jazz musicians explore popular songs from the later part of the 20th century as well as originals, through the lens of talk box ...

    $12 – $40
  • 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 in D minor for piano and orchestra features dazzling keyboard work; and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 closes the concert with ...

    $12 – $50
  • 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 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 (7/19)

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Rehearsal
  • 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 including the Headhunters, Lenny White, and Whitney Houston, among others. Goods’ lengthy discography also includes Grammy award-winning and platinum albums of Alicia Keys and Common. ...

    $12 – $40
  • 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 and has never looked back. Soriano plays steel string bachata with equal parts romance and grit. The Afro-infused rhythm that permeates his music has made ...

    $12 – $40
  • 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. Schubert’s potent settings of Romantic lyric poetry thrived in bourgeois settings where there was a growing need for personal emotional outlet. The inwardness and subjectivity ...

    $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 blues on a dime, projection that can whisper a ballad yet is capable of filling a room with no microphone. She has been compared to ...

    $12 – $55
  • 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 young couple in love schemes to thwart the plans of an old buffoon who wants to marry the girl himself. , Sara LeMesh, Norina Sergio ...

    $12 – $50
  • 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 rhythm section. Hailing from Austin, Texas, and together ten years, the group fuses Lone Star blues, rock, and soul sounds with influences from Southern boogie-woogie, ...

    $12 – $40
  • 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 songs and bringing them to the bandstand. Hailing from southwest Louisiana, they are known for their wild shows, thoughtful arrangements, and breathing new life into ...

    $12 – $40
  • Rehearsal, Opera (7/14)

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Rehearsal
  • 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 of the International Bluegrass Music Association award for Female Vocalist of the Year, multiple times and a Grammy winner for her contribution to True Life ...

    $12 – $40
  • Rehearsal, Opera (7/14)

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Rehearsal
  • 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; and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade. CHOOSE SEATS AND BUY

    $12 – $50
  • Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/9)

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Rehearsal
  • 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 were used for the smash hit movie Pitch Perfect and their music has been the soundtrack for NBC’s The Sing-Off and ESPN’s Monday Night Football. ...

    $12 – $50
  • 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. 15 in A minor, Op. 132. Performances like these — freshly rethought, impeccably played — do more than provide enjoyable listening. They reveal hidden dimensions, ...

    $12 – $40
  • Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/9)

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Rehearsal
  • Rehearsal, Orch. 1 (7/9)

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Rehearsal
  • Festival Orchestra 3, featuring the Festival Chorus 2016

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

    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 his powers, expressing the grandeur of heartfelt spiritual expression as no one else has ever been able to do.  Nothing can compare to the glory ...

    $12 – $49
  • Pre-Concert Lecture, Stefanie Tcharos 2016

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

    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 diverse subjects, including the critical history of opera, baroque music drama and related vocal traditions, music production and reception in early modern contexts, genre study, ...

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 3 (7/23)

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Rehearsal
  • BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet 2016

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

    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 ...

    $12 – $49
  • Julian Pollack, featuring Sveti and ROSA 2016

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

    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 ...

    $12 – $39
  • Festival Orchestra 2, featuring David McCarroll 2016

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

    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.

    $12 – $49
  • Pre-Concert Lecture, Kayleen Asbo, Ph. D. 2016

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

    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.

  • Rehearsal, Orch. 2 (7/20)

    Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States
    Rehearsal
  • Jack Broadbent, Liz Vice: Double Bill 2016

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

    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 ...

    $12 – $39
  • Nora Jane Struthers and the Party Line 2016

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

    American singer/songwriter Nora Jane Struthers, a former Brooklyn high school English teacher, grew up singing and playing music with her father, a bluegrass musician. Making a major life and career change during a visit to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in the early 2000's, she made the decision to move to Nashville and went on to ...

    $12 – $49
  • All About Beethoven 2016

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

    A witty and penetrating multi media lecture by Susan Waterfall, providing an overview of Beethoven’s life, music, family, friends, patrons, fellow musicians, Napoleon, the Viennese cultural milieu, and the ongoing controversy about the immortal beloved.

    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.

    $12 – $29
  • Festival Big Band, featuring Clairdee 2016

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

    This woman can do it all!" --Los Angeles Daily News With her lustrous voice, soulful delivery, and scene-stealing charisma, Clairdee has honed a repertoire of standards set to state of the art arrangements that are equally smart and entertaining. Pianist Ken French has been performing jazz piano professionally for nearly two decades on the San ...

    $12 – $53
  • Opera: Abduction from the Seraglio 2016

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

    Mozart's first operatic masterpiece, comic but passionate, written in the fervor of love for his soon-to-be wife, Konstanze.  Full of spectacular arias and charming "Turkish" orchestral effects. Our scene opens with Mozart, age 25, living in Vienna, newly released from bondage to the Archbishop of Salzburg, and perhaps best of all, living in Madam Weber’s ...

    $12 – $49
  • Pre-Concert Lecture, Erin Neff 2016

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

    Enhance your experience of this evening's opera performance with a pre-concert lecture by director Erin Neff. Mezzo-soprano Erin Neff’s dynamic performance abilities and radiant sound have earned her the veneration of her musical peers and made her an audience favorite throughout the country. Equally at home in the operatic, lied and oratorio repertoires, Ms. Neff ...

  • Alex DeGrassi/Andrew York Duo; Badi Assad 2016

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

    Alex de Grassi and Grammy award winner Andrew York are widely acclaimed as leading innovators and virtuosos of acoustic and classical guitar; the duo combine their distinctive compositions, arrangements, and technical mastery to deliver an astonishingly diverse program of music. Assad is a vibrant and exciting singer/guitarist from Brazil who transcends traditional styles with her unique ...

    $12 – $39