Thank you for your interest in the California Autoharp Gathering.

Our event is the largest autoharp-staffed gathering and festival in world.

The California Autoharp Gathering is a multi-generational, multi-cultural, educational event originally sponsored by the Mendota Unified School District and presented as a gift to the community.

We have moved the event to the St. Nicholas Ranch to accommodate on-site lodging and camping for all participants and to provide special activities for children.

This annual event is the brain child of the Mendota School District's Director of State & Federal Programs, Mike Mueller. Mueller, a musician and artist in his own rite has built a festival that brings together some of the nations foremost autoharp masters. These great performing artists act as your workshop instructors during this three-day weekend event.

Each artist also performs a concert during one the various evenings.

The gathering takes place at the base of Kings Canyon National Park (close to Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks) in a mountain resort that is fully equipped with everything you need to have a great weekend in a camping-like environment.

There will be music in the air!

The evening stars will illuminate the gathering while autoharp masters fill the hills with natural acoustic music and song. The cultural and historical value of this festival, which celebrates our worlds rich heritage of folk music and more, is unmeasured anywhere.

Adults and children are invited to attend. There is a very full schedule of activities filled with tons of fun and workshops for you to grow your autoharping skills — designed for autoharpists of all levels of development.

The event includes a complete balanced menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner that will excite anyone's taste buds while draped in the surroundings of the Sierra National Forest.

Please join us. This is an experience that will lift you and your spirit, emotionally, musically and spiritually. Hanging out with the array of master autoharp players for a weekend in mountains of Central California is sure a cool place to be! Hope to see you there.

Please peruse our web site to investigate the event fully. You might enjoy looking at some photographs from the 2004 event and 2005 event, which was held at our campus in Mendota California and at St. Nicholas Ranch respectively.