Mendocino Music Festival
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Sunday July 5 3:00pm PDT
Susan Waterfall presents: Beethoven
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 ......More
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Friday July 10 2:00pm PDT
Rehearsal, Orch. 7/12
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 1 (7/12): Bernstein Candide overture, Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3, Beethoven Symphony No. 7.You are invited to attend Festival Orchestra rehearsals in the Tent Concert Hall. Performances are all the better for having witnessed the proces......More
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Friday July 10 6:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
An Evening in Paris
Paris is closer than you think!For one enchanting evening, the Mendocino coast transforms into a celebration of French flavor and joie de vivre. It's An Evening in Paris, the Festival's 40th season opening gala, where celebrated hosts Fedele and Linda Bauccio, creators ......More
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Saturday July 11 10:00am PDT
Rehearsal, Orch. 7/12
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 1 (7/12): Bernstein Candide overture, Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3, Beethoven Symphony No. 7.You are invited to attend Festival Orchestra rehearsals in the Tent Concert Hall. Performances are all the better for having witnessed the proces......More
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Saturday July 11 7:30pm PDT
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Sunday July 12 10:00am PDT
Rehearsal, Orch. 7/12
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 1 (7/12): Bernstein Candide overture, Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3, Beethoven Symphony No. 7.You are invited to attend Festival Orchestra rehearsals in the Tent Concert Hall. Performances are all the better for having witnessed the proces......More
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Sunday July 12 6:00pm PDT
Festival Orchestra 1, with Stephen Prutsman, Piano
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 P......More
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Monday July 13 2:30pm PDT
Business Casual
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 ......More
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Monday July 13 7:30pm PDT
Carolyn Wonderland
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 ......More
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Tuesday July 14 2:30pm PDT
Beethoven Chamber 1
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)......More
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Tuesday July 14 7:30pm PDT
Brittany Davis & Black Thunder, with D'Vonne Lewis and Evan Flory-Barnes
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.......More
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Wednesday July 15 10:00am PDT
Rehearsal, Orch. 7/17
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 2 (7/17): Puccini la bohème.You are invited to attend Festival Orchestra rehearsals in the Tent Concert Hall. Performances are all the better for having witnessed the process of creating them. The rehearsals are also a wonderful way to intr......More
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Wednesday July 15 2:30pm PDT
Jacksonport, with special guest Julian Pollack
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 a......More
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Wednesday July 15 7:30pm PDT
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Thursday July 16 10:00am PDT
Rehearsal, Orch. 7/17
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 2 (7/17): Puccini la bohème.You are invited to attend Festival Orchestra rehearsals in the Tent Concert Hall. Performances are all the better for having witnessed the process of creating them. The rehearsals are also a wonderful way to intr......More
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Thursday July 16 2:30pm PDT
Piano Series: Anthony Ratinov
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 betwe......More
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Thursday July 16 7:30pm PDT
Steel Wheels
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......More
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Friday July 17 10:00am PDT
Rehearsal, Orch. 7/17
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 2 (7/17): Puccini la bohème.You are invited to attend Festival Orchestra rehearsals in the Tent Concert Hall. Performances are all the better for having witnessed the process of creating them. The rehearsals are also a wonderful way to intr......More
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Friday July 17 2:30pm PDT
Zoe Ellis & Friends
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......More
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Friday July 17 7:30pm PDT
Festival Orchestra 2: La bohème, with Ryan Murray, Conductor
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......More
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Saturday July 18 10:30am PDT
Rehearsal, Big Band 7/18
Rehearsing Festival Big Band (7/18).You are invited to attend Festival Orchestra rehearsals in the Tent Concert Hall. Performances are all the better for having witnessed the process of creating them. The rehearsals are also a wonderful way to introduce children to the ......More
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Saturday July 18 2:30pm PDT
Fire & Grace
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 Ba......More
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Saturday July 18 7:30pm PDT
Festival Big Band, with Maiya Sykes
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 Car......More
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Sunday July 19 2:30pm PDT
Calder Quartet
“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 progr......More
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Sunday July 19 7:30pm PDT
Julian Pollack
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 Chr......More
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Monday July 20 10:00am PDT
Rehearsal, Orch. 7/22
Rehearsing Festival Orchestra 3 (7/22): Shuying Li Purple Mountains overture, Barber Violin Concerto, Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (the “Pastoral Symphony”).You are invited to attend Festival Orchestra rehearsals in the Tent Concert Hall. Performances are all the better for......More
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Monday July 20 2:30pm PDT
Piano Series: Cahill/Myers Duo
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 Flowe......More
