Santa Fe’s nonprofit provider of alt-country, folk, blues, rock, & world music.
UPCOMING HAPPENINGS
Quarantine Songs from our favorite artists
SHELTER IN PLACE Sessions
Friday, May 1, 2020 - Sunday, May 1, 2022
We can't get together in person, so we've just launched a series of videos called the SHELTER IN PLACE Sessions with submissions by artists Joe West, Alex Maryol, and Jono Manson. Plus Earth Day messages from the first-ever Native U.S. Poet Laureate JOY HARJO, 350.org founder BILL McKIBBEN, and su...
Hot licks, steel guitars, and gorgeous vocals
Eilen Jewell
Thursday, June 4, 2020
8:00 pm - 9:15 pm
8:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Tumbleroot Brewery
Given the corona crisis, it's not surprising that Eilen has to postpone this show. Please stay tuned for a new date in 2021. All tickets will be honored. "Packed with vivid lyrics, steel guitars, and hot licks, Jewell’s Americana-driven brand of country music sounds tailor-made for sweltering, sta...
JOE WEST kicks off our SHELTER IN PLACE sessions.
John Prine, One of America's Greatest Songwriters, Dead at 73 - What a GREAT artist. https://t.co/1vIId2W8QA
Outreach
For two decades, Southwest Roots Music has provided free educational outreach activities for more than 20,000 New Mexicans, from grade schoolers to seniors. Activities have included interactive demonstrations and workshops with internationally touring artists, dance lessons, film programs, sustainable cuisine events, and in-school programs. One of our favorites places ninth-generation Nigerian drummer Akeem Ayanniyi in schools and libraries, where he engages students in conversation about Africa and forms an ensemble with the kids using the traditional ashiko, djembe and bata drums. If you would like to arrange free Southwest Roots Music outreach programming in your school or community center, please contact us at ThirstyEarFest@gmail.com.
Thank You Sponsors and Supporters
Thanks for your support: Santa Fe Performance Exchange, Kitchen Sink Studio, Occasional Music and Rick & Gail Thaler, Hotel Santa Fe, Double D Productions, New Mexico Arts (a division of the Dept. of Cultural Affairs) and the National Endowment for the Arts.