Events and Festivals Calendar for Ventura, California

VMF’s live July 23^rd
concert presents

Aubrey Logan: Voice of the trombone

By
Richard Newsham, VMF consultant

Lovers
of Jazz, R&B and Pop—don’t miss this global star of stage and stream with her
transfixing voice and slide-in-your-tracks trombone technique during her 2021
Ventura Music Festival concert on Friday, July 23, at 8 pm, at Pacifica High
School Performing Art Center, 600 E Gonzales Rd, in Oxnard.

Aubrey
Logan—a.k.a. the “Queen of Sass”—has cast a spell on audiences large and small with
her postmodern jukebox concerts that tilt hard for Jazz standards, Pop hits and
R&B classics.

An
“American Idol” contestant—who has worked with Quincy Jones, Burt Bacharach,
Josh Groban, Dave Koz, Linda Ronstadt, Smokey Robinson and Pharrell Williams—she
uses her phenomenal vocal powers— now
chanteuse, now opera singer—and sly Tommy Dorsey inspired “glides” on her
trombone (the only brass instrument with a slide) to draw her listeners into
compellingly sultry and adventuresome arrangements of popular music.

Around
the corner of every familiar tune (and the songwriter’s originals) are “anything
but standard” surprises—a favorite song magically transformed by her singular
brass and vocal gifts. Don’t miss witnessing this once-in-a-generation talent!

Tickets and details for this 100% vaccinated event at www.venturamusicfestival.org.

Saturday Ukulele Jam with Kool Hand Ukes 10am

Almost four years ago we began a tradition of an ukulele jam on Saturday mornings, rain or shine we held the jam. In that time the Kool Hand Ukes were born a collective of ukulele enthusiasts. Their numbers have ebbed and flowed over the years reaching almost 50 people for a regular jam session. During the shut down they moved online with Facebook Live. They are back and their numbers have grown again. While the jam is marked from 10-12, they have been known to go longer. So grab that tiny guitar and join the jam, now on book 9!

California’s Largest Traveling Tequila & Taco Music Festival is returning to Surfer’s Point LIVE at the Ventura County Fairgrounds!

Top Shelf Tequila Sampling

Gourmet Street Tacos

Craft Beer

Award-Winning Margaritas

Arts & Craft Vendors

Live Music All Day

Enjoy an afternoon sipping on an assortment of Margaritas, eating delicious tacos, all while enjoying a great lineup of live music! Tequila Sampling is on both days! Get your tickets early before the Tequila Sampling tickets are sold out!

Tequila Sampling:

SATURDAY 2:00PM – 6:00PM 

SUNDAY 1:00PM – 5:00PM

This is a Rain or Shine Event there are NO Refunds.

VMF’s live July 24^th
concert presents

Time for Three: a string trio
who sings

By Richard Newsham, VMF consultant

It’s “time” for “three of a perfect pair”—three musicians flawlessly “pairing”
impeccable voices to astonishing strings (two violins and one double bass)—in
other words, a string trio who sings! Charles Yang, Nicolas Kendall and Ranaan
Meyer bring their sensationally uncommon blend of vocals and instruments to the
2021 Ventura Music Festival live concert on Saturday, July 24, at 8 pm, at the Pacifica
High School Performing Arts Center, 600 E Gonzales Rd, in Oxnard.

Time For Three (TF3) celestially navigates the busy intersection of bluegrass
and jazz Americana, modern pop and classical music. Besides its five albums and
the 2021 Sundance film score for “Land” are Pulitzer-Prize composer commissions
from Jenifer Higdon and William Bolcom.

To experience TF3 live is to hear the various eras, styles, and
traditions of Western music fold in on themselves and emerge anew. This
unequalled ensemble of energy, intensity and artistry makes every audience—from
PBS and NPR to Carnegie Hall and Yoshi’s jazz club—feel transportive joy!
Truly, no one else is like Time for Three.

Tickets and details for this 100% vaccinated event at www.venturamusicfestival.org.

VMF’s live July 25^th
concert presents

Guitar Competition Gold Medalist
Andrea Roberto

By
Richard Newsham, VMF consultant

25-year-old
guitar prodigy Andrea Roberto from Italy—Parkening International Guitar
Competition Gold Medalist in 2019—returns to California to demonstrate the
musicianship that won him this coveted title during the 2021 Ventura Music
Festival live concert on Sunday, July 25, at 3 pm, at the Pacifica High School
Performing Arts Center, 600 E Gonzales Rd, in Oxnard.

This
wunderkind’s fingers have been on a guitar since age 4, under his father’s
tutelage, followed by admission at 9 and graduation at 14 from the Conservatorio
di Musica Umberto Giordano and further studies in Naples, Koblenz (Germany) and
Maastricht (Netherlands).

His
artistic career includes performances throughout Europe, including the
14-guitar-festival tour of the European Euro String Project, the Americas and
first prizes at eight international competitions.

Italian,
German, English and Spanish masterworks by Mauro Giuliani, Michael Praetorius, John Dowland,
J.S. Bach, Joaquin Rodrigo, Isaac Albéniz, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and
Francisco Tárrega are all on his ambitious program.

Don’t
miss this rare “rapt music” performance by a young guitar genius at the Ventura
Music Festival’s Sunday matinee finale!

Tickets
and details for this 100% vaccinated event at www.venturamusicfestival.org.