Sonoma Music Festival

The Sonoma Music festival, founded and run by rock entrepreneur Bruce Cohn and for many years held at his former Glen Ellen winery, moved inside Sonoma city limits in 2015, in a three-day series of concerts featuring Ringo Starr among others.

The 2015 Sonoma Music Festival saw close to 10,000 music lovers from around the country come to wine country to listen to the music. Last year’s fundraising event raised about $200,000 for charity, which included on-stage auctions over three days, which raised over $11,000, thanks to generous bids for a drum set from the late Doobie Brother Keith Knudsen. Twenty-two bidders also paid to sing along onstage with the Doobies during their classic hit “Listen to the Music” – a tactic that raised over $50,000 for charity.

The Lise Sonner Fund is the presenting sponsor. The charities that stand to benefit from the concert include Fisher House, Redwood Empire Food Bank, Kids Street, CASA and American Legion Post 489. Over its 29-year history B. R. Cohn Charity Events has raised more than $7 million dollars for charity.

CANCELLED October 7-9, 2016 Field of Dreams, Sonoma, CA (Headliners (7th) John Fogerty, (8th) Steve Miller, (9th) Toby Keith)