As Alban Berg once said to George Gershwin, “Music is music.” No other festival seems to embody this sentiment as fully as the Carlsbad Music Festival, or CMF. The three-day weekend is packed with daily classical performances in one part of town, while a lineup of indie, folk and jazz bands play in another.
21CM Takeaway: Although CMF rests on a backbone of classical music performances, the festival also features a wealth of jazz, folk and world music.