• Student Recital—Maddison Ramirez, soprano

    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Maddison Ramirez, soprano, presents their Bachelor of Music (B.M.) recital, with music from Renaissance, Romantic, and Modern eras. Accompanied by Luke Shepherd, piano; Faith Lanam, harpsichord, Denali Zia, cello, and […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • NOIZ—April in Santa Cruz festival opening

    Digital Arts Research Center 407 McHenry Rd, Santa Cruz, CA

    NOIZ: An Evening of Words, Sounds + Ideas is a live gathering at the intersection of Hip Hop, activism, and the spoken word—a space where music meets testimony. Hosted by […]

    FREE and open to UCSC affiliates
  • Night of Ideas 2026

    Institute of the Arts and Sciences 100 Panetta Ave, Santa Cruz, United States

    Enlightenment, Now! Join us for a nocturnal celebration of art, philosophy, and activism! Enlightenment, Now! As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its independence, the 2026 Santa Cruz […]

  • Palaver Strings—”A Change is Gonna Come”—April in Santa Cruz

    Kuumbwa Jazz Center 320-2 Cedar St, Santa Cruz, United States

    Kuumbwa Jazz, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, and the Arts Division at UC Santa Cruz partner to present: A Change is Gonna Come, featuring Palaver Strings and tenor Nicholas Phan. […]

    $31.50 – $89.25
  • Pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi—April in Santa Cruz

    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi graces UC Santa Cruz’s Music Center Recital Hall with Rippling, Resistance, and Rain, a unique concert of 21st century piano music written by composers from Japan and […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • Denim Day Open Mic & Survivor Share-Out

    Namaste Lounge 615 College Nine Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join CARE in closing out Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2026, during Denim Day, for a space where we’ll connect as a community, hand out copies of the new volume of […]

  • Percussionist Christopher Clarino—April in Santa Cruz

    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Join percussionist Christopher Clarino in a concert of revolutionary work that invites listeners of all kinds to rethink hearing itself. This concert features a wide range of pieces—some well known […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • UCSC Orchestra

    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    UCSC Orchestra

    Free – $12
  • Music on the Meadow—April in Santa Cruz

    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Music On The Meadow (MOTM) presents “Episode 0: Music with the Meadow.” MOTM showcases engagement from students, artists, scientists, scholars, and culture bearers, who engage in “listening with the meadow” […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • UCSC Wind Ensemble

    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    UCSC Wind Ensemble concert

    Free – $12
  • ABC Ensemble—April in Santa Cruz

    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    Pianists/experimentalists Amy Beal and Ben Carson, and friends in the This Never Happened Ensemble, present a concert of toys, noise, open-questions, and a love of play, including one piece involving […]

    FREE and open to the public
  • UCSC Concert Choir

    Music Center Recital Hall 400 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA

    UCSC Concert Choir

    Free – $12
  • SF’s Del Sol Quartet with Iranian and Chinese Masters—April in Santa Cruz

    Music Center Performance Studio 131 Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join acclaimed Iranian virtuosi Siamak Barghi (kamancheh, tombak), and Arya Tavallaei (santour); Stanford University’s celebrated guzheng master Hui You; and San Francisco’s Del Sol Quartet (“excavations of beauty from the […]

    FREE and open to the public