Rehearsal, Orch. 7/14

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

Miko Marks

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

Miko Marks is one of the Bay Area’s most visible country music singers, but recently her role as a Black, woman country music pioneer has gained attention. Marks, who lives in Oakland, was named one of CMT’s Next Women of Country in 2022 and recently made her third appearance on the Grand Ole Opry. The ...

$15 – $65

Festival Orchestra 1

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

The opening concert begins with a wild gallop of gauchos over the plains of Argentina in Ginastera’s Estancia. Cellist Evan Kahn is featured in two works, the dramatic Elgar Cello Concerto, which depicts hope for the future after the tragedy and loss of war, and the lovely Elégie by Fauré. Moussorgsky’s grand “Pictures at an ...

$15 – $65

Mr Sun

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

Mr Sun is made up of some of the most original musicians to apply themselves to the American string band genre. Legendary fiddler Darol Anger is at home in a number of musical genres, some of which he helped to invent, and is a member of the original "nuclear" generation of pickers who extended bluegrass, ...

$15 – $65

Julian “J3PO” Pollack Trio, with featured artist Sy Smith

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

Embark on an evening of soul-tinged jazz and fusion, with a look to the future, marbled by intricate glistenings of electronica and hip-hop. This trio, who tours throughout the year with Chris Botti as his rhythm section, features Albion native Julian Pollack on piano and synthesizers, Juilliard-trained Dan Chmielinski on bass and synthesizer, and the ...

$15 – $65

Rehearsal, Opera 7/19

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

Rehearsal, Opera 7/19

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

JigJam

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

When virtuoso Irish playing jumps the pond and runs naked through the wide open fields of bluegrass/Americana, JigJam is born. Bluegrass and American Folk music originated from the group’s home, and now JigJam is here to take it back! Described as “The best Irish band in bluegrass,” JigJam has been hailed as “Ireland’s answer to ...

$15 – $65

Festival Orchestra 2: Così fan tutte

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

Mozart’s comic masterpiece shows us what can happen when two sisters and their suitors are tested by a manipulative friend, Don Alfonso. The men accept his wager that their brides-to-be will remain faithful to them, and orchestrate a plot to test that hypothesis: they will be “called away to war,” but will in reality disguise ...

$15 – $65

Festival Big Band, featuring Maiya Sykes

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

Maiya Sykes completely and utterly wowed the audience at the 2023 Big Band concert. She’s 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 – $65

Rose’s Pawn Shop

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

With its fusion of bluegrass instrumentation and folk-rock amplification, Rose’s Pawn Shop has spent the better part of two decades perfecting a sound that’s as diverse as the band’s native Los Angeles. Their past releases offer modern day roots music shot through with electric guitar, fiddle, raw percussive stomp, and stacked vocal harmonies. It’s a ...

$15 – $65

Rehearsal, Orch. 7/24

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

Stephanie Anne Johnson

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

A singer’s talent is complete when they can bring a crowded dive bar to a collective hush and also get one of the biggest audiences on the planet to a collective standing ovation. Stephanie Anne Johnson is that special singer. Stephanie can don a cowboy hat and sing over a slide as old timers weep. ...

$15 – $65

Rehearsal, Orch. 7/24

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

Festival Orchestra 3

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

Allan Pollack will conduct his own “From an Ancient Book,” written especially for the Festival Orchestra. The brilliant colors of Stravinsky’s ballet score for “The Firebird” will explode in sparkling music that brought instant success to the composer and has delighted audiences ever since. The concert concludes with perhaps the most beloved of all piano ...

$15 – $65

Damn Tall Buildings

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

In their early days, Brooklyn-based Damn Tall Buildings didn’t rehearse; they busked. Now, whether live or on record, the band still radiates the energy of a ragtag crew of music students playing bluegrass on the street. But anchoring that energy are their instrumental chops, their strong songwriting, and their varied influences that stretch beyond bluegrass, ...

$15 – $65

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

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

Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a South African male choral group singing in the local styles of isicathamiya, which developed in the mines of South Africa, and mbube, rhythmic homophonic a cappella singing. They became known internationally after performing with Paul Simon on his 1986 album Graceland, and have won multiple awards, including five Grammys. Their ...

$15 – $65

Rehearsal, Orch. 7/27

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

Festival Orchestra 4

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

The final concert offers comfort and hope in difficult times. Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, sometimes referred to as the "Great G minor symphony" to distinguish it from No. 25, the only other symphony he wrote in a minor key. It is one of his last works, showing him at his most introspective and thoughtful. The ...

$15 – $65