Tag: Ventura Music Festival

Ventura Music Festival November News — Dear Music Lover! Look at what you’ve helped us achieve!

A Note of Thanks from our Executive Director

As we welcome November and embrace the shift toward shorter days (and change in general) there’s also something reflective and revitalizing in the air as we approach Thanksgiving season.

As I choose to focus on gratitude and hope, I’d like to start by thanking our long time VMF’s supporters and sponsors, the VMF Board of Directors, and sister organizations with whom we have forged new and renewed collaborations. In 2024 so far we have received funding from VCCF, the City and County of Ventura’s Arts & culture divisions who have supported VMF with generous grants to augment our music and educational offerings for the entire Community. To them we extend a deep gratitude for spending our tax dollars wisely to enrich our culture in so many ways.

Ventura Music Festival — What’s on this Halloweekend? Mariachi Camarillo to perform at OPAC on Nov. 2

Mariachi Camarillo
Saturday, Nov 2, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Oxnard Performing Arts Center

We are so proud to be a part of the free Dia de Los Muertos celebration hosted by the Oxnard Performing Arts Center this Saturday! Don’t miss Mariachi Camarillo, brought to you by the Ventura Music Festival, from 6:30 – 8:00pm.
Learn More – OPAC

Ventura Music Festival announces upcoming events

Lark, Roman & Meyer

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

8:00 PM

The Soraya

18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA

Master of the upright bass and five-time GRAMMY® Award-winner Edgar Meyer is joined by two like-minded artists to pluck and bow original contemporary compositions by Meyer paired with Bach favorites.

Ventura Music Festival — New tickets and Fall news!

Hello friends of VMF and music-lovers! As I come to the end of my first year with the festival, I’m reflecting on this past 29th season with gratitude. From the foot-stomping bluegrass of Michael Cleveland to the smooth sounds of Anderson & Roe, this year was something truly special: a “first” for me and a “last” for our twenties. As we turn our attentions to the holidays (and onward into our 30th Season) I’m excited to announce the final concert of the year: The King’s Singers will close Season 29 this December with an a cappella holiday performance!

Ventura Music Festival Friends, That’s a wrap on Season 29

What a 2024 festival it was! For its 29th season the Ventura Music Festival opened at the city’s most historic outdoor party site. In the high-walled adobe courtyard where the Olivas family hosted a celebration for the election of President Abraham Lincoln came another Kentucky-Indiana resident, Michael Cleveland and his band Flamekeeper. A full house of patrons picnicked, danced and drank from our new cantina to the amazingly intricate strings of the Bluegrass Fiddler and Group of the Year. New to bluegrass and bluegrass cognoscenti alike exclaimed it was an extraordinary night to hear America’s unique brand of folk music combining old-time?mountain music, square dance fiddling, blues, gospel, jazz, and popular music! 

Ventura Music Festival — Save on Weekend Two!

If you missed weekend one, don’t miss WEEKEND TWO starting this Friday at the Ventura College Performing Arts Center! Grab last-minute tickets with a 20% discount using code NEIGHBOR at venturamusicfestival.org

INFO & TICKETS

Ventura County Music Festival announces youth music summer camp, concerts through Aug. 4

Join us this Summer for music and fun!

Two Sessions & Scholarships Available

July 22-26 at NAMBA Arts, Ventura

July 29-August 2 at Ojai Underground, Ojai

Time: 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Daily Sessions)

Ages: 11-20, Groups: Intermediate & Advanced

Ventura Music Festival tickets on sale for April 18 event

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain: An evening of music & comedy in Ojai!
Thursday, April 18, 2024
7:00 PM – Doors Open 6:30
Libbey Bowl
210 S Signal St, Ojai
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Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain brings us popular songs and interpretations from a wide variety of musical genres. A British musical ensemble founded in 1985 by George Hinchliffe and Kitty Lux as a bit of fun, playing around the world to sold out audiences ever since.

Aug. 2, 3, 4 — Ventura Music Festival announces upcoming events including performance by Perla Batalla (Aug. 2)

Perla Batalla

Friday, August 2, 2024
7:00 PM
Ventura College PAC

A festival favorite returns! Singer-songwriter Perla Batalla earns critical acclaim for her distinctive voice, emotional honesty, and culture-merging compositions.

Dec. 14 — Ventura Music Festival — The King’s Singers “Christmas Time is Here”

The King’s Singers

“Christmas Time is Here”

Saturday, December 14, 2024

Concert at 4:00 PM (Doors 3 PM)

Ventura Center for Spiritual Living

101 South Laurel Street, Ventura

Join us for a holiday concert this Dec 14th! The King’s Singers have set the gold standard in a cappella singing on the world’s greatest stages for over fifty years.

Happy Holidays from Ventura Music Festival

To VMF donors, colleagues, and festival–goers: 

I leave VMF after a grand nine-year run, grateful for the music and the memories. I love my successor Lalé Welsh’s experience, energy & skill-set. If anyone can grow and nurture the Festival, she can.

Susan Scott,  VMF Executive Director, 2014-2023

Dear Ventura Music Festival Community, 

It’s an honor to be selected as the new Executive Director for this wonderful organization. I am delighted to be here, and grateful to the Board of Directors, staff; Grace Mooney, Lacey Utter, Nuvi Mehta and of course, to Susan Scott for an exciting and fun-filled transition. We all stand on the shoulders of those who have come before us, and as such, I will do my best to continue the VMF mission and spread the joy and healing power of music in ways that can make my predecessors proud. In the meantime, I look forward to meeting and working with each and every one of you toward our goals over the coming weeks, months and years.

Lalé Welsh, VMF Executive Director