Making Laguna a Music Town
23rd ANNUAL LAGUNA BEACH MUSIC FESTIVAL WITH CAROLINE SHAW
February 12-16, 2025
We are excited to announce that the 23rd Annual Laguna Beach Music Festival will spotlight Artistic Director Caroline Shaw! This year features uniquely curated programs at Laguna Playhouse with musical friends Salastina, members from Pacific Chorale, Jake Tribus from Laguna Dance Festival, Sō Percussion, and Gabriel Kahane.
Caroline Shaw is a musician who works often in collaboration with others, as producer, composer, violinist, and vocalist, which won her the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music and three Grammy Awards. Caroline has written over 100 works in the last decade including for Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Fleming, and Dawn Upshaw, and has contributed to films and podcasts such as Beyonce’s Homecoming, Tár, and Dolly Parton’s America, among others.
In recent news, Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion received a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for their album "Rectangles and Circumstance."
Individual concert tickets from $41.
FESTIVAL PRELUDE
Wednesday, February 12th, 2025
Laguna Art Museum
305 Cliff Drive
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Help us kick off the 2025 Laguna Beach Music Festival with a celebration of music! Indulge in hors d’oeuvres, wine, and intimate performances.
For more information or to purchase tickets, contact Nicole Gonzales at (949) 553-2422, ext. 234, or nicole@philharmonicsociety.org.
EVENTS
CONCERTS
LBMF: Night one
Friday, February 14th, 2025 - 8:00 PM
PERFORMANCE BY
Caroline Shaw & Friends
Laguna Playhouse
606 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
PROGRAM
Program to be announced.
The Festival’s opening concert features Caroline Shaw joined by a string quartet and chorus.
Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves roles, genres, and mediums, trying to imagine a world of sound that has never been heard before but has always existed. She works often in collaboration with other, as producer, composer, violinist, and vocalist, which won her the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music and three Grammy Awards. Caroline has written over 100 works in the last decade including for Yo-Yo Ma, Renée Flemming, and Dawn Upshaw, and has contributed to films and podcasts such as Beyonce’s Homecoming, Tár, and Dolly Parton’s America, among others.
A co-presentation of Laguna Beach Live! and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County
LBMF nIGHT two
Saturday, February 15th, 2025 - 8:00 PM
PERFORMANCE BY
Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion
Laguna Playhouse
606 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
PROGRAM
Program to be announced.
Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion dissolve the boundaries between classical and pop, drawing inspiration from sources as varied as James Joyce, ABBA, American roots music, and Christian hymns.
A co-presentation of Laguna Beach Live! and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County
LBMF: night three
Sunday, February 16th, 2025 - 8:00 PM
PERFORMANCE BY
Caroline Shaw and Gabriel Kahane
Laguna Playhouse
606 Laguna Canyon Road
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
PROGRAM
Program to be announced.
After more than a decade of musical friendship, composer-performers Caroline Shaw and Gabriel Kahane embark on their first large-scale collaboration, orbiting a new work inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’ story, “The Library of Babel.” In this jointly-written song cycle, Shaw and Kahane invite audiences to contemplate the joy, grief, wonder, and bewilderment that spring from life in a world oversaturated with information.
A co-presentation of Laguna Beach Live! and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County
