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Wednesday Jul 1, 2026
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Wednesday Jul 1, 2026
Friday Jul 3, 2026
Fourth of July, Independence Day, Monterey, Carmel, free, pool, games, BBQ, The Money Band, Scarlet
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Categories: Annual Special Event, Food Event, Music Event
Friday Jul 3, 2026
Saturday Jul 4, 2026
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Saturday Jul 4, 2026
Saturday Jul 4, 2026
Monday Jul 6, 2026
Storytime at the Farm Stand
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Categories: Community Event, Educational Event, Food Event, Retail Event, Youth Event
Monday Jul 6, 2026
Storytime at the Farm Stand
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Categories: Educational Event, Food Event, Retail Event, Youth Event
Monday Jul 6, 2026
Storytime at the Farm Stand
Stories, songs, rhymes, and crafts! Janet Fearnside animates and reads familiar family favorites. Fun for the whole family!
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Categories: Community Event, Food Event, Retail Event, Youth Event
Monday Jul 6, 2026
Counter-tenor Reginald Mobley appears in this special pre-festival recital.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Wednesday Jul 8, 2026
Wednesday Jul 8, 2026
Wednesday Jul 8, 2026
Classical Cabaret is an intimate, cabaret-inspired evening.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Friday Jul 10, 2026
Saturday Jul 11, 2026
Saturday Jul 11, 2026
Haydn’s The Seasons is a large-scale oratorio depicting Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Saturday Jul 11, 2026
Sunday Jul 12, 2026
This program traces how composers use music to explore our deepest responses to the world — grief and wonder, chaos and order, sorrow and joy.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Sunday Jul 12, 2026
This candlelit string quartet concert explores musical depictions of nature, from sunrise and weather to birdsong and the infinite.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Monday Jul 13, 2026
Storytime at the Farm Stand
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Categories: Community Event, Educational Event, Food Event, Retail Event, Youth Event
Monday Jul 13, 2026
Storytime at the Farm Stand
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Categories: Educational Event, Food Event, Retail Event, Youth Event
Monday Jul 13, 2026
Storytime at the Farm Stand
Stories, songs, rhymes, and crafts! Janet Fearnside animates and reads familiar family favorites. Fun for the whole family!
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Categories: Community Event, Food Event, Retail Event, Youth Event
Monday Jul 13, 2026
Enjoy a morning of organ music in the historic Carmel Mission Basilica.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Monday Jul 13, 2026
This program features music by John Dowland, one of the most influential composers of the English Renaissance.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Monday Jul 13, 2026
Works by François Couperin and Jean-Féry Rebel capture the refined beauty, rich harmonies, and vivid character of the French Baroque.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Monday Jul 13, 2026
This concert features Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Handel's Water Music.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Tuesday Jul 14, 2026
This concert features 19th-century works for fortepiano and mandolino by Beethoven, Hummel, Giuliani, and Carulli.
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Categories: Music Event
Tuesday Jul 14, 2026
Works by Poulenc, Martin?, and Stravinsky capture the energy of the era.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Tuesday Jul 14, 2026
Baroque music forms the foundation of the Carmel Bach Festival, and this program honors that tradition.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Wednesday Jul 15, 2026
Wednesday Jul 15, 2026
This concert features two landmark string quartets.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Wednesday Jul 15, 2026
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Categories: Annual Special Event, Chamber Event, Community Event, Food Event, Wine Event
Wednesday Jul 15, 2026
Set within the historic Carmel Mission, this choral concert highlights the work of Rainer Maria Rilke, often called “Nature’s Poet”.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Thursday Jul 16, 2026
Spanning Classical-era works and 20th-century repertoire, the concert highlights a variety of instrumental pairings and chamber textures.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Thursday Jul 16, 2026
This program brings musical worlds together in one exhilarating evening.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Friday Jul 17, 2026
This concert explores music’s ability to depict the changing seasons and the natural world.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Friday Jul 17, 2026
Bach Cantatas features two expressive works by J.S. Bach.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Friday Jul 17, 2026
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, Copland's Appalachian Spring, and Angélica Negrón's Marejada.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Friday Jul 17, 2026
Saturday Jul 18, 2026
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Saturday Jul 18, 2026
Music by Vivaldi, Haydn, Respighi, Saint-Saens, Mussorgsky, Kats-Chernin, Britten, and yes, Byrd.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Saturday Jul 18, 2026
Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg are two of the most compelling voices in the world of mandolin.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Saturday Jul 18, 2026
Saturday Jul 18, 2026
Enjoy live music by Scarlet and delicious food and drinks from Shearwater Tavern at Carmel Mission Inn
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Categories: Music Event
Saturday Jul 18, 2026
Haydn’s The Seasons is a large-scale oratorio depicting Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Saturday Jul 18, 2026
Sunday Jul 19, 2026
This program traces how composers use music to explore our deepest responses to the world — grief and wonder, chaos and order, sorrow and joy.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Sunday Jul 19, 2026
This candlelit string quartet concert explores musical depictions of nature, from sunrise and weather to birdsong and the infinite.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Monday Jul 20, 2026
Storytime at the Farm Stand
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Categories: Community Event, Educational Event, Food Event, Retail Event, Youth Event
Monday Jul 20, 2026
Storytime at the Farm Stand
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Categories: Educational Event, Food Event, Retail Event, Youth Event
Monday Jul 20, 2026
Storytime at the Farm Stand
Stories, songs, rhymes, and crafts! Janet Fearnside animates and reads familiar family favorites. Fun for the whole family!
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Categories: Community Event, Food Event, Retail Event, Youth Event
Monday Jul 20, 2026
Enjoy a morning of organ music in the historic Carmel Mission Basilica.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Monday Jul 20, 2026
This program features music by John Dowland, one of the most influential composers of the English Renaissance.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Monday Jul 20, 2026
Works by François Couperin and Jean-Féry Rebel capture the refined beauty, rich harmonies, and vivid character of the French Baroque.
... read more
Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Monday Jul 20, 2026
This concert features Vivaldi's Four Seasons and Handel's Water Music.
... read more
Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Tuesday Jul 21, 2026
This concert features 19th-century works for fortepiano and mandolino by Beethoven, Hummel, Giuliani, and Carulli.
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Categories: Music Event
Tuesday Jul 21, 2026
Works by Poulenc, Martin?, and Stravinsky capture the energy of the era.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Tuesday Jul 21, 2026
Baroque music forms the foundation of the Carmel Bach Festival, and this program honors that tradition.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Wednesday Jul 22, 2026
Wednesday Jul 22, 2026
This concert features two landmark string quartets.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Wednesday Jul 22, 2026
Set within the historic Carmel Mission, this choral concert highlights the work of Rainer Maria Rilke, often called “Nature’s Poet”.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Thursday Jul 23, 2026 -
Sunday Jul 26, 2026
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Wendi Kirby Music - Piano Unscripted - A Retreat into the Keys of Authentic Expression. Using the Piano Freeology method, pianists explore creativity!
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Categories: Seminar
Thursday Jul 23, 2026
Spanning Classical-era works and 20th-century repertoire, the concert highlights a variety of instrumental pairings and chamber textures.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Thursday Jul 23, 2026
This program focuses on the nature of sound itself.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Thursday Jul 23, 2026
This annual concert highlights Baroque music for strings and organ.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Thursday Jul 23, 2026
This program brings musical worlds together in one exhilarating evening.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Friday Jul 24, 2026
This Showcase Concert features a program curated by BCA musicians with guidance from Festival mentors.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Friday Jul 24, 2026
This concert explores music’s ability to depict the changing seasons and the natural world.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Friday Jul 24, 2026
Bach Cantatas features two expressive works by J.S. Bach.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Friday Jul 24, 2026
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, Copland's Appalachian Spring, and Angélica Negrón's Marejada.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Friday Jul 24, 2026
Saturday Jul 25, 2026
At the end of each festival season, our VBA Fellows perform in a Showcase.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Saturday Jul 25, 2026
Counterpoint is a collaboration between pianist and composer Conrad Tao and choreographer and dancer Caleb Teicher.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Saturday Jul 25, 2026
Saturday Jul 25, 2026
Best of the Fest is a special, not-to-be-missed party that commemorates and honors music, the enduring legacy of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Categories: Festival Event, Music Event
Saturday Jul 25, 2026
Sunday Jul 26, 2026
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Monday Jul 27, 2026
Storytime at the Farm Stand
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Categories: Community Event, Educational Event, Food Event, Retail Event, Youth Event
Monday Jul 27, 2026
Storytime at the Farm Stand
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Categories: Educational Event, Food Event, Retail Event, Youth Event
Monday Jul 27, 2026
Storytime at the Farm Stand
Stories, songs, rhymes, and crafts! Janet Fearnside animates and reads familiar family favorites. Fun for the whole family!
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Categories: Community Event, Food Event, Retail Event, Youth Event
Wednesday Jul 29, 2026
Thursday Jul 30, 2026
Enjoy fresh tunes and fresh oysters at Carmel Mission Inn!
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Categories: Food Event, Music Event
Friday Jul 31, 2026
