Grand Canyon Music Festival

The 42nd Season

August 29 – September 13, 2025

We’re updating our website for 2025 –

Come back soon!

All concerts at The Shrine of the Ages, unless otherwise noted. 20 South Entrance Road, South Rim, Grand Canyon.
Join Grand Canyon Conservancy for the 17th Annual Celebration of Art (CoA), September 18-21, 2025. CoA invites participating artists to paint "en plein air" (outside on location) for a week at the South Rim. Paintings produced during this special event are sold onsite and sales benefit a dedicated art venue at the park. For more information visit grandcanyon.org/coa.

Our Ed Mell posters and note cards, including our 40th season and centennial posters, are available for sale on our web site.

  • Raven Chacon

    Teaching composer and mentor for the Native American Composer Apprentice Project Raven Chacon was recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2023 and was recently named a MacArthur Fellow.

    Congratulations, Raven, and well deserved!

    Raven Chacon
  • NACAP

    Celebrate with us the achievements of this year’s cohort of Native American Composer Apprentice Project apprentice composers.

    On August 31st at 5:00 at the Shrine of the Ages, violinists Grant Houston and Ariel Horowitz, violist Kayla Williams, and cellist Nicholas Johnson, will premiere 2025’s NACAP works.

    NACAP
  • Robert Bonfiglio

    Grand Canyon Music Festival co-founder Robert Bonfiglio continues to expand the possibilities of the harmonic, with friends Steve Benson, guitar, and Mark Berman, piano, on August 29th.

    Robert Bonfiglio
    Join us in Thanking our Corporate and Foundation Friends.
    The Grand Canyon Music Festival is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment
    for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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