David Berkeley
Thursday, December 12, 2013
The Lodge at Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Ian Moore
Thursday, December 12, 2013
The Lodge at Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Rory Block
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Garrett's Desert Inn, Santa Fe, NM
Birds of Chicago
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Historic San Ysidro Church, Corrales, NM
Birds of Chicago
Monday, October 28, 2013
Garrett's Desert Inn, Santa Fe, NM
Birds of Chicago
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Private Residence, Santa Fe, NM
California Guitar Trio
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
The Lodge at Santa Fe (Maria Benitez Theater), Santa Fe, NM
Buckwheat Zydeco
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Farmer's Market Pavilion, Santa Fe, NM
The Far West
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
James A. Little Theater, Santa Fe, NM
Dave & Phil Alvin with The Guilty Ones
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
James A. Little Theater, Santa Fe, NM
Mary Gauthier
Friday, August 15, 2014
Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque, NM
Michael Martin Murphey
Saturday, June 21, 2014
James A. Little Theater, Santa Fe, NM
Carrie Rodriguez
Saturday, June 14, 2014
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
Dave Alvin, Phil Alvin, John Doe & Terry Allen
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Historic San Ysidro Church, Corrales, NM
Dan Bern
Saturday, April 5, 2014
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
Awna Teixeira
Saturday, April 5, 2014
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
Peter Mulvey
Sunday, February 23, 2014
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Lensic Theater, Santa Fe, NM
Ray Wylie Hubbard
January 26, 2014
Sunday, St. Francis Auditorium (MFA), Santa Fe, NM
Peter Mulvey
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Historic San Ysidro Church, Corrales, NM
Peter Mulvey
Friday, November 20, 2015
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
Eilen Jewell
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Center Stage at CSL, Santa Fe, NM
Rory Block
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque, NM
Chipper Thompson
Friday, October 16, 2015
James A. Little Theatre, Santa Fe, NM
Rory Block
Friday, October 16, 2015
James A. Little Theater, Santa Fe, NM
Amy LaVere & Will Sexton
Thursday, September 24, 2015
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
Birds of Chicago House Hootenanny
Friday, September 11, 2015
Private Residence, Santa Fe, NM
Birds of Chicago
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Historic San Ysidro Church, Corrales, NM
Awna Teixeira House Hootenanny
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Private Residence, Santa Fe, NM
Ellis Paul
Thursday, May 14, 2015
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
David Berkeley
Thursday, February 12, 2015
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
Dan Bern
Thursday, February 12, 2015
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
Tony Furtado Trio
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
Crystal Bowersox
December 7 & 8, 2016
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Blake & Groves
Friday, November 18, 2016
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Zickey & the Kondor
Friday, November 18, 2016
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore
Saturday, November 5, 2016
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
AGALU African Drumming
Saturday, July 9, 2016
Entrance to International Folk Art Market, Santa Fe, NM
Laurie Lewis
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Center Stage Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Pieta Brown
Friday, January 15, 2016
James A. Little Theater, Santa Fe, NM
David Berkeley’s Studio Sessions #4 featuring Freddy & Francine
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Tony Furtado Duo
Thursday, December 7, 2017
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
Max Gomez
Saturday, December 2, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Tommy Stinson’s Cowboys in the Campfire
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Lara Manzanares
Sunday, November 12, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
David Thom & Andy Shaw of Vintage Grass
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Chuck Prophet
Sunday, September 24, 2017
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
African Drumming with Akeem
September 15 - September 24, 2017
Southside, LaFarge & Main Library branches, Santa Fe, NM
Leyla McCalla Trio
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Hello Dollface
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Son of Town Hall
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Agalu African Drumming
Saturday, July 15, 2017
Entrance to International Folk Art Market, Santa Fe, NM
Kalinec & KJ
Saturday, July 15, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Jeffrey Foucault
Saturday, June 17, 2016
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Phoebe Hunt & the Gatherers
Friday, June 9, 2017
Skylight Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Justin Johnson
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Grazzhopper
Wednesday, May 28, 2017
Sandia Bar, Corrales, NM
Tiffany Christopher
Thursday, May 18th, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Tony Furtado Duo
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Historic San Ysidro Church, Corrales, NM
Awna Teixeira & Whippoorwill
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Lee Roy Parnell & Jay Boy Adams
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Sonospheric
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Whiskerman
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Catfish Hodge
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Peter Mulvey
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Jono Manson & Friends
Sunday, March 5, 2017
Eldorado House Concert, Santa Fe, NM
Tommy and Saundra O’Sullivan
Friday, March 3, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Tony Furtado
Friday, Jan. 27, 2017
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
Rosie Flores
Saturday, January 7, 2017
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Joaquin Gallegos
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Gabrielle Louise
Saturday, December 15, 2018
Corrales Senior Center, Corrales, NM
Tony Furtado
Thursday, December 13, 2018
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
Ley Line
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Higher Ground Bluegrass
Saturday, December 8 2018
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
South Austin Moonlighters
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Freedy Johnston
Friday, November 2, 2018
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Auld Lang Syne
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Corrales Bistro, Corrales, NM
Richard Smith
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Corrales Arts Center, Corrales NM
Amy Lavere & Will Sexton
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Sara Romano
Friday, September 28 2018
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Marc Black
Friday, September 21, 2018
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Dom Flemons
Sunday, September 16, 2018
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
Mary Gauthier
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Corrales Senior Center, Corrales, NM
Eilen Jewell
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Historic San Ysidro Church, Corrales, NM
Glass Key Trio
Saturday, August 11, 2018
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Awna Teixeira
Saturday, August 4, 2018
Corrales Arts Center, Corrales NM
Chris Smither
Sunday, July 22, 2018
Center Stage Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Moody Little Sister
Friday, July 20, 2018
Corrales Arts Center, Corrales NM
Agalu
Saturday, July 14, 2018
Entrance to International Folk Art Market, Santa Fe, NM
T Sisters
Friday, June 22, 2018
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Little Mazarn
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Son of Town Hall
Thursday, June 14, 2018
San Miguel Mission, Santa Fe, NM
Bébé La La with Bobby Shew & Friends
Saturday, June 9, 2018
Corrales Arts Center, Corrales NM
Max Gomez
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Historic San Ysidro Church, Corrales, NM
Trevor Bahnson
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Historic San Ysidro Church, Corrales, NM
T.J. George
Friday, May 11, 2018
Corrales Arts Center, Corrales NM
Masontown
Saturday, May 5, 2018
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Ordinary Elephant
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Stephanie Schneiderman
Sunday, April 8, 2018
Corrales Arts Center, Corrales NM
Stephanie Schneiderman
Saturday, April 7, 2018
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Bill Hearne Trio
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Corrales Arts Center, Corrales NM
C. Daniel Boling
Saturday, March 10, 2018
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Tret Fure
Friday, February 9, 2018
Corrales Arts Center, Corrales NM
South Austin Moonlighters
Friday, January 26, 2018
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Piper Jones Band
Friday, January 26, 2018
Corrales Arts Center, Corrales NM
Anna Tivel
Thursday, January 11, 2018
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Eric McFadden
Saturday December 21, 2019
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Max Gomez, Joe West & Elizabeth Scarinzi
Friday, December 13, 2019
James Little Theater, Santa Fe, NM
Amy LaVere & Will Sexton
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole (featuring members of Feufollet)
Friday, November 15, 2019
Tumbleroot Brewery, Santa Fe, NM
Piper Jones Band
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Historic San Ysidro Church, Corrales, NM
Ronny Cox w/ Radoslav Lorkovic and Panda
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Curtis McMurtry
Friday, October 25, 2019
Corrales Senior Center, Corrales, NM
Trout Steak Revival
Thursday, October 24, 2017
Historic San Ysidro Church, Corrales, NM
Bill Hearne
Saturday, September 21, 2019
Corrales Community Center, Corrales, NM
Eliza Gilkyson
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Emerging From the Garden of Thorns (Documentary on artist Bill Worrell)
Thursday, August 15, 2019
The Worrell Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Agalu
Saturday, July 13, 2019
Entrance to International Folk Art Market, Santa Fe, NM
Awna Teixeira
Saturday, July 6, 2019
Corrales Senior Center, Corrales, NM
T Sisters
Friday, June 14, 2019
San Miguel Mission, Santa Fe, NM
Sugarcane Jane
Monday, May 27, 2019
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Nels Andrews & Jess Morgan
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Corrales Senior Center, Corrales, NM
Ben Dickey
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Thom Chacon
Friday, April 26, 2019
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Forest Sun with Enion Pelta-Tiller & David Tiller
Saturday, April 20, 2019
GiG Performance Space, Santa Fe, NM
Baron Wolman – Making Magic
Friday, April 12, 2019
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Monica Rizzio
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Corrales Arts Center, Corrales NM
Thomas Hinds & Terri Lynn Davis
Friday, March 8, 2019
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Lou Barlow
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Abbie Gardner
Friday, February 22, 2019
San Miguel Mission, Santa Fe, NM
Savor
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Sandia Bar, Corrales, NM
Tommy & Saundra O’Sullivan
Saturday, February 2, 2019
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Greg Brown
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Historic San Ysidro Church, Corrales, NM
Red River Songwriters in Concert
Saturday, January 19, 2019
Kitchen Sink Studio, Santa Fe, NM
RSVP: music@occasionalmusic.net or 505-980-6161 $15 suggested donation. 100% of proceeds go to artist. Lara Manzanares is an award-winning bilingual singer-songwriter of Northern New Mexican heritage. In addition to singing the Mexican boleros, rancheras, and corridos of her sheep-ranching childhood, Lara also composes her own style of music in both English and Spanish. Through a combination […]
Higher Ground Bluegrass is New Mexico’s premier Bluegrass band, known for its tight harmonies and tasteful instrumentation. Performing both original material and a variety of traditional and contemporary selections, the band’s philosophy is to find dynamic arrangements for its original material, and to add something new and unique to standard bluegrass tunes to make them […]
For three decades Grammy winner Mollie O’Brien and her husband, guitarist Rich Moore, have made it their mission to find, mine and reinvent other artists’ songs. As songwriters they add their own tunes to the canon of American roots music, boasting a fluid ability to make themselves at home in any genre. Rich, known for […]
Winner of the International Folk Music award for 2017 “Artist of the Year,” husband and wife duo Crystal and Pete Damore have been performing together as Ordinary Elephant since 2011. The duo’s sophomore release, Before I Go, produced at Santa Fe’s Kitchen Sink Studio, established them internationally. Their latest album, Honest, is widely lauded as […]
The first Swedish female artist to play Lollapalooza, Sofia Talvik’s seven full-length albums of original music are full of sparkle and melancholy. The singer-songwriter grew up in Sweden, but a recent 16-month, 37-state RV tour through the U.S. infused her unmistakably Nordic music with an Americana flavor. The adventure spurred a lot of emotions—triumph and joy, but […]
Jeffrey has decided to cancel this show, due to the coronavirus threat. We are truly bummed! But we promise we'll bring him back when it's safer. Meanwhile, tickets to this sold-out show will be automatically refunded in the next 10 days through Brown Paper Tickets. For questions regarding refunds, please call Brown Paper Tickets at […]
Sorry for the cancelation. All tickets will be refunded through Brown Paper Tickets. If you’ve seen more than a handful of shows in Texas, there’s a pretty good chance you’ve already seen most, if not all, of the musicians who make up the South Austin Moonlighters, who are among the elite of Austin’s burgeoning music […]
Phoenix-based folk-rock band The Senators recently left the desert to go to the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, a long-time cultural hotbed of folk art and musicians including The Band, Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell. After sending a homemade demo to one of their idols, producer Simone Felice (Felice Brothers, The Lumineers, The Avett […]
Canceled due to corona virus. All tickets will be refunded. "Packed with vivid lyrics, steel guitars, and hot licks, Jewell’s Americana-driven brand of country music sounds tailor-made for sweltering, stagnant summer nights." – Entertainment Weekly. Crafting a unique style that mixes poetic ballads with swinging rockers, Eilen Jewell ranks among the best in the Americana […]
Presented by The Santa Fe Performance Exchange, in collaboration with Southwest Roots Music, this free online event is the brainchild of hosts Tom Mauter and Kris Swedin, who have long been presenters of house concerts and great supporters of live music. It was their idea to bring together this particular eclectic group of talented singer-songwriters, […]
SOLD OUT - Must present proof of vaccination to attend. Purchase of a ticket is an acknowledgement of your willingness to wear a proper face mask for the entire event, if called upon to do so. Eliza Gilkyson is a 2-time Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and activist who has become one of the most respected musicians in Folk, […]
Bosque Music in Corrales presents this gifted and evocative songwriter-poet performing with his trio. Berkeley, a Santa Fean, has released six studio albums, one live album, and authored two books. His 2017 release was a novella comprising ten intertwining stories and an album of 10 accompanying songs (one for each story). And his 2018 EP […]
The bluesmen of the Delta and the Appalachian mountaineers made timeless art with just voice, guitar, and a stomping foot. And that is the root of New Orleans native Chris Smither's style, an insistent, understated groove featuring his trademark deft fingerpicking. The uninitiated, listening to Smither play live, might think two or even three musicians […]
A master of American folk music, Irish music, Scottish music—it doesn’t matter. A fine songwriter and one of my favorite singers.—Mark Knopfler. In duet with his wife Jan Fabricius on mandolin and vocals, you can expect rootsy acoustic instrumentation and sweet harmony singing, interspersed with O’Brien’s self deprecating humor. Born in West Virginia in 1954, […]
Eilen also plays Santa Fe's Tumbleroot Brewery on 6/9/22. GET TICKETS This Boise-based songwriter leads a tight quartet that blends influences of surf-noir, early blues, classic country, folk, and 1960s era rock ’n’ roll. For well over a decade, they’ve toured relentlessly, from large festivals to coffeehouses, and shared stages with the likes of Lucinda […]
“Sometimes as darkly damaged as Lucinda Williams, at others as defiant and teasing as prime Peggy Lee, and always authentically Americana in the Gillian Welch tradition...” —Los Angeles Daily News This Boise-based songwriter leads a tight quartet that blends influences of surf-noir, early blues, classic country, folk, and 1960s era rock ’n’ roll. For well […]
Enjoy this free performance at the entrance to International Folk Art Market. Agalu is an ensemble with roots in Oshogbo, Nigeria that keeps alive traditional Yoruba stories, rituals and mythology through drumming, storytelling and dance. Led by Akeem Ayanniyi, a ninth-generation practitioner of the Yoruba talking drum, Agalu features the traditional talking drum, ashiko, djembe […]
Kate Vargas’ songs are grounded in a darkly melodic, reverb-washed sonic palette of dream-pop, dusty folk and junkyard blues, all carried by rough-hewn vocals and guitar playing. Channeling a surprising array of artists, from Tom Waits to K. Flay, the New Mexico-raised, NYC-based artist has played venues as diverse as Ireland’s Westport Folk & Bluegrass Festival, […]
Few musicians of any stripe so personify a musical genre as completely as Tony Furtado embodies Americana roots music. An evocative and soulful singer, the Portland-based artist is a wide-ranging songwriter and a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist adept on banjo, cello-banjo, slide guitar and baritone ukulele. He mixes and matches sounds and styles with the flair of […]
Few musicians of any stripe so personify a musical genre as completely as Tony Furtado embodies Americana roots music. An evocative and soulful singer, the Portland-based artist is a wide-ranging songwriter and a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist adept on banjo, cello-banjo, slide guitar and baritone ukulele. He mixes and matches sounds and styles with the flair of […]
After decades on the road as one of rock’s most in-demand sidemen touring with the likes of Jackson Browne, John McLaughlin, and The Blind Boys of Alabama, multi-instrumentalist Jason Crosby took time for a solo career, revealing the keyboard/violin/guitar player to be an honest, thoughtful lyricist and songwriter in his own right. For his new album, Gilder, Crosby wanted […]
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR for three decades Grammy winner Mollie O’Brien and her husband, guitarist Rich Moore, have made it their mission to find, mine and reinvent other artists’ songs. As songwriters they add their own tunes to the canon of American roots music, boasting a fluid ability to make themselves at home in […]
For three decades Grammy winner Mollie O’Brien and her husband, guitarist Rich Moore, have made it their mission to find, mine and reinvent other artists’ songs. As songwriters they add their own tunes to the canon of American roots music, boasting a fluid ability to make themselves at home in any genre. Known for his […]
Husband and wife duo Crystal and Pete Damore have been performing together as Ordinary Elephant since 2011, and just 6 years later won the prestigious International Folk Music award for Artist of the Year. The duo’s sophomore release, Before I Go, produced at Santa Fe’s Kitchen Sink Studio, established them internationally, with musical nods to […]
Winner of the International Folk Music award for 2017 “Artist of the Year,” husband and wife duo Crystal and Pete Damore have been performing together as Ordinary Elephant since 2011. The duo’s sophomore release, Before I Go, produced at Santa Fe’s Kitchen Sink Studio, established them internationally, with musical nods to Guy Clark, Anais Mitchell […]
One of the most musically accomplished & tasteful purveyors of traditional & contemporary Irish music, the husband-wife duo of Tommy and Saundra O’Sullivan own, run and book the famous O'Sullivan's Courthouse Pub, smack in the middle of Dingle, Ireland, home to many of the island's best musicians. Prior to opening the esteemed establishment in 2011, […]
One of the most musically accomplished & tasteful duos playing traditional & contemporary Irish music, husband-&-wife Tommy & Saundra O’Sullivan own, run and book the famous O'Sullivan's Courthouse Pub, smack in the middle of Dingle, Ireland, home to many of the island's best musicians. Prior to opening the esteemed establishment in 2011, Tommy was a […]
Peter Mulvey has been a songwriter roaddog raconteur for as long as he can remember. Raised in working-class Milwaukee, he went to school in Ireland for a semester and began cutting classes to busk on Grafton Street in Dublin and hitchhike through the country, finding whatever gigs he could. Back stateside, he spent a couple […]
FREE at Santa Fe Library Southside, 6599 Jaguar Dr., Santa Fe, NM 87507. Bring the kids! Akeem is a 9th-generation Nigerian drummer whose mission is to keep alive traditional Yoruba stories, rituals and mythology through drumming, storytelling and dance. He leads an engaging, interactive African drumming program that engages both kids and adults in conversation about […]
Peter Mulvey has been a songwriter roaddog raconteur for as long as he can remember. Raised in working-class Milwaukee, he went to school in Ireland for a semester and began cutting classes to busk on Grafton Street in Dublin and hitchhike through the country, finding whatever gigs he could. Back stateside, he spent a couple […]
When he’s not on the road, Max Gomez splits his time between his beloved hometown of Taos and Los Angeles. He apprenticed in the rarefied musical micro-climate of northern New Mexico, where troubadours like Michael Martin Murphey and Ray Wylie Hubbard helped foster a Western folk sound both cosmic and cowboy. Gomez has assumed stewardship […]
Jazz icon Bill Frisell’s four-decade career as a guitarist and composer has been cited by Downbeat as "the best recorded output of the decade.” "Frisell has had a lot of practice putting high concept into a humble package,” writes the New York Times. “Long hailed as one of the most distinctive and original improvising guitarists […]
TONY GILKYSON was born in Hollywood and raised in an environment of musicians, recording as a boy with his father, Terry Gilkyson, a composer for Walt Disney and a prominent folksinger-songwriter in his own right. Tony has played and/or recorded with Bob Dylan, Dave Alvin, Alice Cooper, Kris Kristofferson, k.d. lang, Lone Justice, Ray Wiley […]
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that two ultra-talented, hugely curious, phenomenally music-literate musicians have teamed up to stir a plethora of musical spices into a shared gumbo. Needless to say, its gonna be tasty. Spearheading the emerging generation of Cajun and Creole musicians, CEDRIC WATSON is a fiddler, vocalist, accordionist and songwriter of enormous […]
Agalu - an ensemble with roots in Oshogbo, Nigeria that keeps alive traditional Yoruba stories, rituals and mythology through drumming, storytelling and dance - will be performing FREE near the entrance to SITE Santa Fe in the Santa Fe Railyard. Led by Akeem Ayanniyi, a ninth-generation practitioner of the Yoruba talking drum, Agalu features the […]
John Gorka is a world-renowned singer-songwriter who got his start at a neighborhood coffeehouse in eastern Pennsylvania in the late 1970s, encountering legendary folk troubadours Eric Andersen, Tom Paxton, Claudia Schmidt and the like. Their brand of folk-inspired acoustic music inspired him to write and perform his own songs at NYC’s legendary Fast Folk circle […]
Agalu – an ensemble with roots in Oshogbo, Nigeria that keeps alive traditional Yoruba stories, rituals and mythology through drumming, storytelling and dance – will be performing FREE at De Vargas Park during Santa Fe's Fiesta celebration. Led by Akeem Ayanniyi, a ninth-generation practitioner of the Yoruba talking drum, Agalu features the traditional talking drum, […]
Peter Mulvey has been a songwriter roaddog raconteur for as long as he can remember. Raised in working-class Milwaukee, he went to school in Ireland for a semester and began cutting classes to busk on Grafton Street in Dublin and hitchhike through the country, finding whatever gigs he could. Back stateside, he spent a couple […]
“One of our most truly poetic songwriters.” --No Depression Jeffrey Foucault has spent the last decade mining the darker seams of country and blues, producing a string of spare and poetic albums of rare power while garnering accolades internationally for a tersely elegant brand of songwriting set apart by itsinherently warm throaty delivery, hauntingly honest […]
Jeffrey Foucault has spent the last decade mining the darker seams of country and blues, producing a string of spare and poetic albums of rare power while garnering accolades internationally for a tersely elegant brand of songwriting set apart by itsinherently warm throaty delivery, hauntingly honest and poetic imagery, and weather-beaten cool. In addition to […]
A Grammy nominated musician who burst onto the scene with her 2004 multi-platinum debut, Eye to the Telescope, spawning hits like “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” and “Suddenly I See,” Tunstall's knack for balancing introspective folk and propulsive rock, complemented by her pioneering looping skills, established her as a dynamic must-see performer. “I feel there are two […]
NM-raised KATE VARGAS has received praise from Billboard, NPR, Noisey, and the Huffington Post for her folksy storytelling and darkly melodic, reverb-washed sonic palette of dream-pop, dusty folk and junkyard blues, all carried by rough-hewn vocals and guitar playing. The NYC-based artist has played venues as varied as Ireland’s Westport Folk & Bluegrass Festival, the Troubadour in […]
There are still tickets available for BeauSoleil's show at Tumbleroot in Santa Fe on Feb. 16. INFO HERE. BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet has been making some of the most potent and popular Cajun music on the planet. Born out of the rich Acadian ancestry of its members, and created and driven by bandleader Michael Doucet’s […]
For the past 50 years, BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet has been making some of the most potent and popular Cajun music on the planet. Born out of the rich Acadian ancestry of its members, and created and driven by bandleader Michael Doucet’s spellbinding fiddle playing and soulful vocals, BeauSoleil is notorious for bringing even the […]
Master of all things stringed TONY FURTADO is teaming with multi-instrumentalist STEPHANIE SCHNEIDERMAN for an evening of virtuosic, flexive folk & Americana. Few musicians a musical genre as completely as TONY FURTADO embodies Americana roots music. An evocative and soulful singer, the Portland-based artist is a wide-ranging songwriter and a virtuoso adept on banjo, cello-banjo, […]
Few musicians of any stripe so personify a musical genre as completely as TONY FURTADO embodies Americana roots music. An evocative and soulful singer, the Portland-based artist is a wide-ranging songwriter and a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist adept on banjo, cello-banjo, slide guitar and baritone ukulele. He mixes and matches sounds and styles with the flair of […]
A hard-touring troubadour with a heartfelt, largely autobiographical folk-rock repertoire, Hinds' exquisite third full-length, Where Do We Go From Here, recorded at Alabama’s legendary FAME Studios (Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding etc.), has him poised to gatecrash the mainstream. “I want people to get a sense of comfort from my music, knowing that they’re not alone. […]
“The Carter Family for the millennial generation” is how the Boston Globe describes Damn Tall Buildings, a bluegrass trio dipping its musical toes into swing, ragtime, jazz, and country. The influences are old as the hills, but the infectious dance energy is decidedly young. In their early days, Damn Tall Buildings didn’t rehearse – they […]
