The world's leading charity event aimed to find ways to treat, and, ultimately, cure mental illness

"The Music Festival is a marvelous event to hear about the latest science, hear great music and taste the best wines!"
Louann Brizendine, M.D., past Music Festival speaker and author of the bestseller The Female Brain

This Year's Event - Sept. 13, 2008

The Research
We Support:

"Shari and Garen have had a galvanizing effect on schizophrenia research that is almost impossible to quantify," said Sophia
Vinogradov, a researcher at University of California at San Francisco. "Not only through their phenomenal fundraising efforts, but more important, they are able to articulate a vision where very soon, through the advances of science, we will conquer schizophrenia. They are unfailingly optimistic and results-driven, and accept nothing less from the researchers they support. It's electrifying."

Learn more about our sponsored research

The 14th Annual Music Festival for Mental Health
will take place on September 13, 2008 at Staglin Family Vineyard in Rutherford, California.

Bring your dancing shoes, your taste buds, and a healthy curiosity about the brain to the event:
Trevor Robbins 12:00 noon: Professor Trevor Robbins, Head of the Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience Institute at Cambridge University, will give a seminar titled The New Brain Science of Cognitive Enhancement: Future Reality or Fools' Gold? You can ask questions at the Q&A session to follow.
2:00 PM: Nosh on the cuisine of Chef Todd Humphries of St. Helena's Martini House Restaurant, and taste an array of classic wines which will include Harlan, Abreu, Colgin, Sloan, Screaming Eagle, Corton Charlemagne, Antinori Tignanello, and many others.
3:30 PM: Jump (and dance!) with The Pointer Sisters, as they perform the classic R&B and pop hits of their 35-year, 3-time Grammy winning career. Emceed by comedian Bob Sarlatte.
5:30 PM: Michelin Star rated "Rising Star Chef," Mark Dommen, Chef/Partner, One Market Restaurant and Lark Creek Restaurant Group will prepare you delicacies you've never tasted and may not know how to pronounce.

Come join us for a unique day of fun, food, wine, and music as we raise awareness, funding, and the roof for the cause of mental health research.

There are three ways you can contribute to the Music Festival for Mental Health:
Purchase tickets to this year's event, make a donation, or to volunteer,
please contact Cindy Dyar at (707) 944-0477 or via email.

a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, tax ID number 68-0359707 under the name Staglin Music Festival for Mental Health
P.O. Box 680 Rutherford, CA 94573bullet(707) 944-0477bulletSite MapbulletContact UsbulletHome