When was the last time you listened to live music that really moved you?

If you are a Ventura Music Festival family member, some of our 2025 concerts are surely on your list. 

While tradition says, "celebrate your 30th wedding anniversary with pearls," the Ventura Music Festival presented or cosponsored its most ambitious ever 30th season in 2025--with a string of 30 treasured performances over eight months for audiences of every music taste in a dazzling array of music styles.

If music moves with hands and feet, our concerts made footprints into adventuresome new venues, large and small, all over Ventura County, beyond Ventura College. Our expanded season went far beyond our traditional "summer of love," two long weekends that straddled July and August. Our featured performers' hands and voices brought in new audience fans beyond our exquisite classical and jazz offerings--reaching out to cutting-edge rhythms of Latin Sounds, vintage and local So-Cal talent…