Sunset Center
San Carlos and Ninth, Carmel (831) 620-2048, sunsetcenter.org
Sunset Center provides the community with quality performances from living legends such as Lindsey Buckingham, Boz Scaggs and Bobby McFerrin. They also host a number of local, nonprofit partners, like the Monterey Symphony, Carmel Music Society, Chamber Music Monterey Bay and the Carmel Bach Festival. If that’s not enough performing arts super-packed into one venue they are also home to the Center for Photographic Art (established in part by Ansel Adams) and this year launched an edgy stand-up comedy series, dubbed XYZ. What started as a school in 1926 is now home to a state-of-the-art, 718-seat theater with gothic architecture and some of the best acoustics around.