Community Calendar

The award-winning Cuesta vocal ensembles promise to lift your spirits with an evening of music celebrating hope, light, joy, grace, and dance. The Cuesta Chamber Singers are performing pieces by living modern composers from England, Namibia, California, and Minnesota. Cuesta Voce will get your toes tapping with their usual blend of swing, be-bop, Bossa Nova and jazz ballads.

Reserve tickets online, or call the Box Office at (805) 546-3198.

The program will explore the diverse styles that have shaped jazz performance, from swing and hard bop to Latin American and Caribbean traditions, soul and funk. The University Jazz Band and four Jazz Combos will perform, and the Jazz Lab Band will make its performance debut on the concert. The group is a “little big band,” with six to eight horns and a rhythm section. Jamaal Baptiste directs the bands, and Dylan Johnson directs the combos. More at https://music.calpoly.edu/calendar/jazz

Join us for this exciting event as part of the Jazz Jubilee Central Coast festival! Featuring the honored big bands from five schools, this event will be overflowing with exciting sounds. Cuesta College, Cal Poly, Allan Hancock College, Atascadero High School, and Paso Robles High School will all perform short sets.

Tickets available online, or call the CPAC Box Office at (805) 546-3198.

The award-winning Cuesta vocal ensembles promise to lift your spirits with an evening of music celebrating hope, light, joy, grace, and dance. The Cuesta Chamber Singers are performing pieces by living modern composers from England, Namibia, California, and Minnesota. Cuesta Voce will get your toes tapping with their usual blend of swing, be-bop, Bossa Nova and jazz ballads.

Tickets available online, or call the CPAC Box Office at (805) 546-3198.

Up in the Air plays at Castoro Cellars Lazy Locals. It's our last gig of the warm season since we go into hibernation in the winter months.

The Atascadero Community Band invites you to attend their 2026 Fall Concert, "Critter Pitter Patter." This concert will explore and celebrate animals found on land, in the sea, in the sky, and in the imagination.

All donations will benefit the Central Coast Zoo Foundation.

The great music legend Herbie Hancock once called pianist Carmen Staaf "a consummate jazz pianist with equal talent in composition, orchestration and arranging." Carmen’s musical resume is truly impressive: She was the pianist and Musical Director for NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater for over eight years, and has performed everywhere from the Village Vanguard (with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra as well as with John Zorn), to Lincoln Center as a guest soloist with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, to recordings with Natalie Merchant (Keep Your Courage) and Lila Downs (Pecados Y Milagros).

She was honored as a Fellow at the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute, where she studied with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock. Later, she was tapped, with Herbie’s approval, to transcribe his performances and consult on his course for masterclass.com.

As a recording studio musician, Carmen is featured on albums by Samuel Torres, Jenny Scheinman, Noah Garabedian, Dan Blake, Ayn Inserto, Jeff Williams, Ryan Keberle, Michael Winograd, Allegra Levy, and countless others.

TMHA presents an intimate evening of live local music and lush greenery with folk rocker Max MacLaury. Ynana Rose will host and open the show.
Additional opportunities to learn about the mental health resources offered by Transitions Mental Health Association. Donations are encouraged.

For their first concert of the season, the Cuesta Wind Ensemble features the music of Eric Whitacre with his work "Sleep." You'll also enjoy music of Percy Grainger, John Barnes Chance, John Philip Sousa, and others, conducted by Jennifer Martin.

Tickets available online, or call the CPAC Box Office at (805) 546-3198.

The Music Department’s Kaitrin Cunningham, Jennifer Freye, Amy Goymerac and Lorenzo Johnson Jr. will perform arias, duets and a rousing quartet; in languages including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and even “cat.”