Oct 04 Saturday
🎃 VFW Haunted Alley - Spooktacular Family Fun! 👻Location: VFW Post 1679, 3801 Market St, Ventura, CADates: October 1–4, 9–11, 16–18, 23–25, 27–30 & Halloween Night – October 31Time: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM nightlyAdmission:
Adults: $20Kids: $15Children 10 and younger - FREEVeterans with ID: FREEGet ready for screams, laughter, and unforgettable memories at the VFW Haunted Alley!Join us for a frightfully fun time for the whole family, featuring:🕸️ Haunted Alley – A spooky walk-through attraction with surprises around every corne🎁 Children’s Gift Bags – Free treat bags for all kids!🎨 Kids Pumpkin Painting Station – Get creative and take home your own pumpkin masterpiece!🍔 BBQ Grill Out – Enjoy hot dogs, hamburgers, snacks, and drinks at our family-friendly cookout!👻 Halloween Night Costume Contest – Show off your best costume on October 31st and win spook-tacular prizes!Support Your Local Veterans!All proceeds go to support programs for veterans and their families through VFW Post 1679.Bring the whole family for a night of thrills, chills, and community fun!🎟️ Get your tickets now – if you dare!
Few artists have impacted the trajectory of human creativity as much as Ludwig van Beethoven. This performance features a “Best Of” concept, exploring his vast output, with favorites of his symphonic, choral, instrumental solo, and chamber music genres, and a special spotlight on guest pianist Inna Faliks, New West Symphony Chorus and the New West Symphony.
Come ready to join the orchestra and your fellow audience members with our joyful audience sing-a-long featuring “Listen to the Music” by the Doobie Brothers and “Happy” by Pharrell Williams.
A feast from classical music’s Maestro and inspiring pop hits!
Oct 05 Sunday
Oct 11 Saturday
Panteón Fest returns to Downtown Oxnard for it's 3rd Annual Día de los Muertos Festival. Hosted by Pipiripau, a local brand celebrating the beauty of Mexican culture through art, music, and tradition.
This year’s event features live performances from four acts, including LA-based band Poco Pocho, a theatrical play highlighting storytelling and heritage, and traditional dances from across Mexico. Guests can also experience Aztec dancers, community altars, an art gallery showcasing 21 local artists, and the popular Catrín & Catrina Contest.
More than just a festival, Panteón Fest is a day of remembrance and celebration—honoring loved ones while uniting people across generations.
Oct 16 Thursday
This powerhouse sax sextet (yes really!) returns with another genre-bending, high-energy, and hilarious mix of jazz, classical, ragtime, and pop brilliance.
Oct 18 Saturday
It’s 1895: a new generation of Americans is coming of age and looking for trouble! In the barrooms and bordellos of St. Louis, New Orleans, Atlantic City – “loafing places”, as some disgruntled townie may have called them – something new and uniquely American is cooking up. Young piano players are melding southern country dances with lowdown blues with European classical, and the result is called: Ragtime, an infectious syncopation which will shape the sound of American music to come.
Award-winning pianist Eve Elliot is your raucous guide into this colorful world, with its infuriating injustices and thrilling triumphs. You’ll meet some of our story’s heroes – and villains – and get a glimpse into their lives and music. Expect plenty of hilarity and vaudevillian antics as we delve into questions like: Who kidnapped Fats Waller? Why did Jelly Roll Morton own so many suits? How did Scott Joplin uphold his artistic vision amid a slew of rejection? What does “funky butt” mean?
Embrace the duality of this elevated art form birthed by the underworld of vice. Surrender to the “weird and intoxicating effects” of delicious live ragtime and stride piano. Celebrate the lives of these debonair and debaucherous pioneers – from the national fame and fistfuls of hundred dollar bills, to the alcoholism and fatal venereal disease. And experience their music, which traveled from the 10-cent whorehouses to Carnegie Hall.
2025/26 Joint Season OpenerSaturday, October 18 | 7:30 PMSunday, October 19 | 3:00 PM
Attend "Conversations with KUSC" with on-air personality Jennifer Miller HammelSaturday Pre-Concert Chat | 6:30-7:00 PMSunday Pre-Concert Chat | 2:00-2:30 PM
A love forbidden. A love immortal. The greatest moments from Prokofiev’s greatest ballet—the ardent Romeo and Juliet performed with grace and passion by dancers from State Street Ballet on the Granada stage. These concerts—and the season—begin as Nir Kabaretti and the Santa Barbara Symphony perform Shostakovich’s spirited Festive Overture and Rachmaninoff’s Men’s Dance from the Opera Aleko.
The ArtistsNir Kabaretti, conductorState Street BalletSanta Barbara City College Brass
RepertoireSHOSTAKOVICH | Festive OvertureRACHMANINOFF | Men’s Dance from the Opera AlekoPROKOFIEV | Romeo & Juliet, Acts 1 & 2 (with dancers from State Street Ballet)Visit for more: https://thesymphony.org/concerts-events/orchestra-concerts/state-street-ballet/
Tickets start as low as $35 (does not include Granada fees).
Oct 25 Saturday
Experience site-specific installations, sculpture, video, photography and music by Land+Sky Artists in Residence at the spectacular Rancho Santa Clara Del Norte.
10am - 3pm: Free artist talks, ranch and garden tours, and tickets to master classes and family art workshops.
4pm - 5:30pm: Concert on the lawn with Olas Perdidas.
Tickets are available for grounds-only, concert-only, or all-in-one. Note: Some installations are not ADA accessible.
Nov 09 Sunday
Twice-nominated Grammy winners Opium Moon create sensuous, enchanting soundscapes that evoke ancient worlds while remaining thoroughly contemporary. Elegant yet deeply emotional, their distinctive sound draws upon the diverse backgrounds of its members: Iranian santoor master Hamid Saeidi, innovative Israeli bassist Itai Disraeli, sought-after American percussionist M.B. Gordy, and virtuosic Canadian-American violinist Lili Haydn.
With original compositions that meld sacred/classical traditions of East and West with trance-inducing grooves, the result is at times both stately and rapturous, a sultry and passionate instrumental music that seems to emanate from a deep wellspring. NPR’s Bob Boilen called it “both a deep, thoughtful breath and an upbeat celebration.”
Nov 14 Friday
In 2022, Gary Mullen & The Works celebrated the 20th Anniversary of their world-renowned One Night Of Queen live concert performance.
Gary Mullen & The Works (featuring Gary Mullen on vocals, David Brockett on guitar, Billy Moffat on bass, Malcolm Gentles on keyboards and Jon Halliwell on drums) will have you dancing in the aisles during their 2-hour show, while the band pays tribute to the stage theatrics, showmanship, and music of Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductees: Queen.
In 2000, Gary Mullen won the Granada TV programme “Stars in Their Eyes” with his performance as Queen’s lead singer: Freddie Mercury. Mullen’s embodiment of Freddie Mercury resulted in him gaining 864,838 votes in the show’s Live Grand Final. The number of fans who voted for Mullen was more than double that of the runner-up, thus setting an all-time record for votes in the history of the programme.
For over two decades, Gary Mullen & The Works have performed to sold-out audiences around the world, playing more than 2,500 live shows to audiences in over 20 countries around the globe.
Gary Mullen & The Works’ One Night Of Queen show has played at London’s Hyde Park (twice) as a featured attraction during the prestigious BBC Proms concert series in front of enthusiastic crowds of over 40,000 people! Additionally, Gary Mullen & The Works have performed at many of the same venues that Queen has performed at around the world.
So, if you're ready to rock ‘n’ roll, don't miss your chance to celebrate One Night Of Queen with Gary Mullen & The Works!
The show DOES go on and this show WILL rock you!
