Entertainment & Activities
Music, Theater, & Story-telling
You will be entertained!
Join us for a full lineup of local and national musical talent on our beautiful main stage under the redwoods. At the Children's Grove, you’ll find delightful performances and family activities to share with your budding artists. And do not miss the community Art Project! Find details and schedules below.
Live Music Performance Schedule 2025
Saturday, September 20, 2025
12 Noon – CBD
1pm - The Aguilar~Blumenfeld Project
2pm – Dead Sailor Girls
3pm – Bermudagrass Triangle
4pm – Anthony Arya
Sunday, September 21, 2025
12 Noon – Marin County Breakdown
1pm – April and Monroe Grisman Project
2pm – Wil Roc Project
3pm – Marina Crouse
4pm – Roberta Donnay
About our Main Stage Programing
Since stepping in mid-season in 2021, Dore Coller has continued the tradition of high-quality music on the MVFAF Mainstage. A longtime Mill Valley resident, Dore has spent his adult life in the music industry as a composer, performer, and producer, including 12 years with Bill Graham Presents and 14 years working on onsite production crews for the Mountain Play.
Dore’s approach to booking reflects the spirit of an arts festival—not a street fair or club showcase. He focuses on eclectic, original, primarily local artists who mirror the diversity, creativity, and quality found throughout the festival’s artist booths. Drawing on deep roots in the local arts community, the Mainstage has featured performers spanning generations, genres, and backgrounds—from emerging youth artists to legendary icons, and from bluegrass to rock, reggae, Latin, funk, soul, and beyond.
The result is a Mainstage lineup that celebrates artistic excellence, originality, and the vibrant creative community surrounding us.
Children’s Grove
Two days of delightful performances and creative activities for children and families include marionettes and puppets, story telling, singing, face painting, arts and crafts and more.
Children’s Grove Schedule 2025
Saturday, September 20, 2025
MC Blue Fairy
10 am - 3 pm - Art with Woander
10:30 am - Stories and songs
11 am - Story Time with MV Library
11:30 am - Kid Sing Along
12pm - Fratello Marionettes
1p - Kirk Waller Storyteller
2 pm - Steve the Ventriloquist
3 pm - Brian Scott Magic
Sunday, September 21, 2025
MC Blue Fairy
10 am - 3 pm - Art with Woander
10:30 am -Stories and songs
11am - Story Time with MV Library
11:30 am - Kid Sing Along
12 pm - Fratello Marionettes
1 pm - Happy Feet Dance School
2 pm - Woander Puppet Show
3 pm - Interactive Improv with Tam High
Community Art Project
Each year it will be something new, but always the opportunity to jump in and participate in a group art making project. All ages are welcome. Click here to see our giant mural painting for 2025.
Community Art Project 2025
This will be the first community art project at the Mill Valley Fall arts Festival!
Robert is preparing a large mural surface with a "ready to paint" line drawing of Samantha Ferro's "Map of Mill Valley" poster image and visitors will be able to have fun painting it at the festival. It will be set up on Cascade Drive, near the bridge. Look for the sign!
Make a donation of your choice, and have fun "painting the town!"
Robert Louthan (b.1986) is a fine artist, muralist and educator passionately committed to the upliftment of society through collaborative arts-based programming. Born in San Francisco, raised on the coast in Pacifica, and now based in Corte Madera~ Robert is forever inspired by the dynamic nature of the Bay Area. His studio work is a labor of Love, shining a light on the depth and beauty of transitory human experience.
