Jul 31 Friday
Gather your friends and head over to Hubba Wines in Tin City for live music every Friday evening from May 1 to August 28th. Raise a glass to the setting sun while swaying to the tunes of talented local bands. We’ll have wine and food available for purchase.
Doors open at 5:00 pm. Music starts at 6:00 pm. All ages welcome. $5.00 donation per person at the door.
The 2026 Chamber Music Series wraps up with an exciting and diverse program of music. Before he became a Hollywood film score composer, Korngold received incredible praise for his sextet, with critics calling it the finest such work since Brahms. Steve Reich’s Double Sextet is up next, which combines two identical sextets of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and vibraphone for a very unique sonic experience. Dvořák’s third string quintet closes the program, nicknamed “American” as he composed it while living in Spillvile, Iowa.
Aug 01 Saturday
Step into lavender season with a relaxed, one-hour walk through the fields, led by farmer Milton Hambly. Learn how lavender is grown, harvested, and distilled, meet the animals, and harvest your own bouquet along the way.
Includes:—One-hour guided walk with the farmer—Insight into lavender varieties and growing practices—Hand-harvested lavender bouquet—Time in the fields and picnic areas
Reservations required; space is limited
Scott Yoo leads the Festival Mozaic Orchestra in a thrilling finale concert of the 2026 San Luis Obispo Summer Music & Arts Festival. Earl Kim's Cornet opens the program, featuring Jane Kaczmarek as narrator. Following this is Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto, one of the composer's most enduringly popular works, with Sergei Babayan as soloist. After intermission is Brahms's second symphony, a piece in many moods that ultimately ends with an exuberant finale.
Experience an orchestral program combining Sibelius’ lush Symphony No. 1 with an “ingenious and beautiful” work by American composer Samuel Adams for solo piano, led by renowned conductor Hannu Lintu and starring teaching artist pianist Conor Hanick.
Aug 02 Sunday
The Cambria Center for the Arts is pleased to announce its next studio exhibit, “What is Revealed: Paintings by Margaret Biggs.” Bigg's work consists of stylized realism that opens the mind to the imagination. Her imagery has been popular in the evidence-based Healing Arts Movement and can be found in medical facilities, hotels and businesses nationwide.
Exhibit: June 30 through August 30, Tuesdays to Sundays from noon to 4 pm.Artist Reception: Sunday, July 5th from 4:30 to 6 pm.
Back by popular demand, the brass fellows will perform an array of works anchored by American composers in celebration of the 250th Anniversary in the historic Plaza del Mar Bandshell. The afternoon will also include food trucks, an instrument exploration station, and games for family and friends to enjoy.
12 pm Family Activities / 1 pm Performance
Aug 04 Tuesday
Come join the SLO Skiers (and Social Activities Club) at Milestone Tavern on the first Tuesday of every month. Social Hour is from 5:30 to 6:30 pm, meeting is from 6:30 to 7:30 pm. Come meet this fun group and find out what activities we do all year around.
Mosher Guest Artist Stephanie Blythe performs with select fellows in an all-American program of 1930’s selections from the Great American Songbook and Tin Pan Alley, paired with Alan Louis Smith’s Vignettes: Ellis Island.