A magical blend of fine music by outstanding performers in one of the most enchanting sites in Northern California. Evenings include orchestra concerts, Big Band, chamber music ensembles, dance, blues, jazz, world, folk, bluegrass and popular contemporary music. Daytime concerts include lecture/recitals at the Piano Series, a performance by participants in the Emerging Artists Program, and small concerts in intimate venues throughout the historic town of Mendocino.

Schedule:

2:30 p.m: Piano Series: Rachel Breen (Preston Hall)
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. In the first half of this concert Breen will perform a set of ten etudes by various composers that she arranged. There will be transcendental etudes, miniature etudes, nocturnal etudes, and one for repeated notes. John Bull's Fantasia on Ut Re Mi Fa Sol La and Stravinsky's Trois Mouvements de Petrushka will round out her program.

7:30 p.m: Festival Big Band, with Maiya Sykes (Tent Concert Hall)
Maiya Sykes is back for her third Big Band concert and she's ready to pull out all the stops. 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 and Nina Simone. Her recent guest vocal on funk band Scary Pockets' mash-up of Etta James' "I'd Rather Go Blind" and Lauren Hill's "Doo Wop" has 20.7 million YouTube views. With the Julian "J3PO" Pollack Trio as the band's rhythm section, the tent is gonna really rock.