Memorial Day-Labor Day
Sunday Tours at the Steinbeck House
Salinas
Tel: 831-424-2735
www.steinbeck.org/SHouse2.html
Explore the boyhood home of author John Steinbeck with two-hour guided tours. Sundays between May 29 and Sept. 4, cost $4 for adults, $2 for children (5-15), $3 for seniors and students.
May 3
Natalie MacMaster in Concert
Carmel
Tel: 831-620-2048
www.sunsetcenter.org
Natalie MacMaster returns to the Sunset Center for an infectiously joyfull evening of crowd-pleasing fiddle music, from jigs to reels to ballads.
May 6-7
Monterey Bay Spring Arts & Wine Festival
Monterey
Tel: 831-622-0700
www.pacrep.org
Original hand-made arts and crafts exhibition and sale. All artists on-site, as well as food, drink and family entertainment, plus special wine-tasting opportunities.
May 7
Jeffers Tor House Garden Party
Carmel
Tel: 831-624-1813
www.torhouse.org
Annual Garden Party offers afternoon tea, silent auction and gifts for sale. Live music (songs from Una Jeffers's songbook) serenades artists, including well-known local artist Johnny Apodaca, painting in the gardens. Photography allowed this day only.
May 11-14
8th Annual Parkfield Bluegrass Festival
Parkfield
Tel: 805-937-5895
www.parkfieldbluegrass.com
Appropriately, this Deep South (County) hamlet puts on a great bluegrass festival every spring, just as the wildflower season busts loose. Camping available on site.
May 12
Robinson Jeffers at Point Sur
Big Sur
Tel: 831-624-1813
www.torhouse.org
A most unusual evening exploration of Point Sur Lighthouse followed by a poetry reading celebrating the relationship of poet Robinson Jeffers to this remote and beautiful landscape. Reservations are a must.
May 12-28
Urinetown
Monterey
Tel: 831-646-4213
www.mpcfaculty.net/drama_dept/season.htm
The Morgan Stock Stage at MPC presents Greg Kotis' and Mark Hollman's triple-Tony Award-winning musical that slyly takes a Brechtian poke at authority while lobbing grenades at the traditions of musical comedy.
May 13
Henry Rollins in Concert
Big Sur
Tel: 831-667-2574
www.henrymiller.org
Actor, musician and spoken-word performer Henry Rollins comes to the Henry Miller Library for a special one-night-only benefit performance. From punk bands to films like Dogtown and Z-Boys to his own radio show, Rollins is as unique as Miller was.
May 14
To Mom With Love
Carmel
Tel: 831-333-1283
www.ensemblemonterey.org
Ensemble Monterey plays a perfect Mother's Day card, with Finzi's Romance for String Orchestra, Brahms' Alto Rhapsody and a new work by Imant Raminsh commissioned by the Ensemble with Cantiamo! and the Cabrillo Youth Chorus.
May 18
Third Thursday at MMA
Monterey
Tel: 831-372-5477 ext 12
www.montereyart.org
Enjoy a mellow cocktail hour of art, wine and nibbles at the Monterey Museum of Art, during this free monthly event.
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May 18-21
13th Annual Carmel Art Festival
Carmel
Tel: 831-642-2503
www.carmelartfestival.org
Gallery events, lectures, receptions and demonstrations at 43 art galleries and a Plein Air Painting competition. Outdoor art show at Devendorf Park featuring bronze, glass, stone, marbles and acrylic sculpture. Look for the artist-decorated 'Art of the Dog' entries in Carmel shop windows, including one painted by actor Tony Curtis!
May 20
Sha Na Na
Carmel
Tel: 831-620-2048
www.sunsetcenter.org
Prepare for a night of time travel when you cross Sunset Center's threshold tonight: it's Sha Na Na, the originators of rock nostalgia. Hard to imagine that their doo-wop renditions of Fifties classics were performed at Woodstock...
May 20-21
Artichoke Festival
Castroville
Tel: 831-633-2465
www.artichoke-festival.org
Sample the many unique flavors of the artichoke in an atmosphere of fun, tasteful treats, musical entertainment, and more. The arts and crafts section is led by the Agro-Art Competition, the best way to play with food!
May 20-22
Monterey Symphony
Salinas (20), Carmel (21-22)
Tel: 831-624-8511
www.montereysymphony.org
Max Bragado-Darman conducts two unusual pieces by Spanish composer Joaquin Turina (1822-1949): his Danzas fantasticas and La procesion del rocio. Also on the program: Carl Orff's aural spectacle of medievalism, the Carmina Burana.
May 21
Emerging Choreographers Showcase
Marina
Tel: 831-384-1050
www.spectordance.org
Rivetting new choreography from New York, Los Angeles, the Bay Area and elsewhere in California, presented in two programs (2pm and 5pm) at SpectorDance Studios.
May 27
"Home Among the Swinging Stars"
Big Sur
Tel: 831-667-2574
www.henrymiller.org
The poet Jaime de Angulo (1887-1950) was known as the Old Coyote of Big Sur; his connections to both the Native American cultures of Monterey and to the Bohemian artistic and philosphical worlds of Robinson Jeffers, Harry Partch and Carl Jung were remarkable. Editor Stefan Hyner talks about Angulo and reads his poems at the Henry Miller Library.
May 27
"Golden Poppies of California"
Pacific Grove
Tel: 831-648-5716
www.pgmuseum.org
Photographer George Lepp talks about the remarkable series of images in his recently released book, surrounded by the exhibition in the galleries of the PG Museum of Natural History.
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