The 25th Annual Oregon Coast Music Festival begins Saturday, July 12 and continues for two full weeks, to Saturday, July 26 offering classical, jazz, and popular music in a beautiful Oregon Coast setting where the great Northwest forest meets the blue Pacific Ocean.
 

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July 2003 25th Anniversary OREGON COAST MUSIC FESTIVAL			Ticket Prices Most events: $10 ~ $8 OCMA members ~ $5 Students with i.d. Sunday at the Boathouse ~ all tickets $20 Orchestra Concerts ~ tickets from  $18 (Premium Reserved non-members) to $6 (Student with current school i.d.) CLICK for details on Orchestra concerts TO ORDER TICKETS 756-8889 or TOLL FREE  877-897-9350			12 Bay Area  Concert Band 12:30 pm  Mingus Park  FREE  Cabaret night Grooveyard at Roger's Zoo  8:00 pm  $5 cover charge.
13 Tour art galleries and shops of Old Town Bandon. Drive the Beach Loop scenic route to Face Rock.	14 Build your dream castle in the sand of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area.	15 Evening in Song Molly Jo Bessey with Robert Trentham and Rebecca Jeffers 7:30 p.m.  Southwestern Performing Arts Center  Coos Bay	16 Take a stroll on the Coos Bay Boardwalk. Plan a bird- watching excursion along the waterfront.	17 Festival Chamber Players in Bandon Piano and strings featuring Cesar  Franck Sonata for violin and piano with Victor Steinhardt and Hernan Constantino  7:30 p.m.  Sprague Theater  Bandon	18 Shore Acres Concert Oregon Coast  Lab Band FREE  12:30 p.m.  (State Park parking  fee $3)  Festival Chamber Players in Coos Bay Piano and strings featuring Cesar  Franck Sonata for violin and piano with Victor Steinhardt and Hernan Constantino  7:30 p.m.  Southwestern Performing Arts Center	19 Equal Temperament Contemporary classical  percussion music 7:30 pm  Southwestern Performing Arts Center
20 Sunday at the Boat House. Gamelan Sari Pandhawa 2:00 p.m.   Oregon Institute of Marine Biology Boathouse in  Charleston	21 Explore the working waterfront at  Charleston Harbor. Picnic on salmon and crab at Sunset Beach	22 James Paul and the Festival Orchestra  Music of Chabrier and Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 6 "Pathetique"  7:30 pm  Marshfield Auditorium  Coos Bay	23 Take the "Working Forest" driving tour. See the largest living Douglas fir.	24 Jason Klein and the Festival Orchestra Pops Concert "A Festive  Celebration"  including Beethoven Academic Festival Overture and other celebratory pieces  7:30 pm  Marshfield  Auditorium  Coos Bay	25 Visit art galleries and the Discovery Center on the Umpqua River in Reedsport.	26 James Paul and  the Festival  Orchestra Bartok, Concerto  for Orchestra and Schubert Symphony no.8 "Unfinished"  7:30 pm  Marshfield  Auditorium

Recreational attractions abound on the southern Oregon Coast -- charter boat fishing, forest hikes, tide pool exploring and beachcombing, sight-seeing along the harbor Boardwalk, picnics at nearby State Parks, the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, museums, shops, prime birdwatching sites -- all within a short and scenic drive from Coos Bay / North Bend. The suggestions in our calendar are but a few of the enormous variety of activities you might enjoy.

For travel information, please visit our Bay Area Chamber of Commerce