African Drumming ensemble @ Santa Fe Fiesta
AGALU
Friday, September 1, 2023 | 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
De Vargas Park
| Santa Fe,
NM
FREE
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, […]
singer-songwriter
JOHN GORKA
Saturday, August 26, 2023 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
San Miguel Mission
| Santa Fe,
NM
$35
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 […]
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FREE Nigerian Drumming @ International Folk Art Market
AGALU African Drumming
Saturday, July 8, 2023 | 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Santa Fe Railyard
| Santa Fe,
NM
FREE
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 […]
Creole meets Deep Blues
CEDRIC WATSON & COREY HARRIS
Saturday, May 20, 2023 | 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Tumbleroot Brewery
| Santa Fe,
NM
$27
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 […]
singer-songwriters
Tony Gilkyson & Rick Shea in Concert
Friday, May 12, 2023 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Kitchen Sink
| Santa Fe,
NM
$20
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 […]
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FOUR featuring Johnathan Blake, Gerald Clayton & Gregory Tardy
BILL FRISELL
Monday, March 20, 2023 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
St. Francis Auditorium @ NM Museum of Art
| Santa Fe,
NM
$45 – $79
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 […]
singer-songwriter
MAX GOMEZ
Sunday, March 5, 2023 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Old San Ysidro Church
| Corrales,
NM
$25
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 […]
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singer-songwriter
Peter Mulvey
Saturday, February 25, 2023 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Kitchen Sink
| Santa Fe,
NM
$27
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 […]
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FREE performance & workshop - 9th generation Yoruba drummer
Akeem African Drumming
Saturday, February 25, 2023 | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
FREE
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 […]
singer-songwriter
Peter Mulvey
Friday, February 24, 2023 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Old San Ysidro Church
| Corrales,
NM
$25
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 […]
straight from Dingle, Ireland
TOMMY & SAUNDRA O’SULLIVAN
Sunday, February 19, 2023 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Kitchen Sink
| Santa Fe,
NM
$25
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 […]
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world-class traditional music from Dingle, Ireland
Tommy & Saundra O’Sullivan
Saturday, February 18, 2023 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Old San Ysidro Church
| Corrales,
NM
$25
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, […]
our favorite folk duo
Ordinary Elephant
Saturday, February 18, 2023 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Tumbleroot Brewery
| Santa Fe,
NM
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 […]
$25 suggested donation
America's finest folk duo
Ordinary Elephant
Friday, February 17, 2023 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Old San Ysidro Church
| Corrales,
NM
$25
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 […]
Grammy-winning American roots music
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore
Saturday, February 11, 2023 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
San Miguel Mission
| Santa Fe,
NM
$29
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 […]
Grammy-winning American roots music
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore
Friday, February 10, 2023 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Old San Ysidro Church
| Corrales,
NM
$29
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 […]
multi-instrumentalist
Jason Crosby
Thursday, January 26, 2023 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Kitchen Sink
| Santa Fe,
NM
$20
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 […]
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master of all things stringed
TONY FURTADO
Saturday, January 21, 2023 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
San Miguel Mission
| Santa Fe,
NM
$29
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 […]
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“His banjo playing scares the crap out of me.” – David Lindley
TONY FURTADO
Friday, January 20, 2023 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Old San Ysidro Church
| Corrales,
NM
$25
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 distinctive gravelly voice shining alongside a blend of melodic folk & blues
Kate Vargas & Eric McFadden
Sunday, December 18, 2022 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Kitchen Sink
| Santa Fe,
NM
$20
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, […]
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Americana quartet live in Santa Fe
Eilen Jewell
Thursday, June 9, 2022 | 7:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Tumbleroot Brewery
| Santa Fe,
NM
$25 – $29
“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 […]
singer-songwriter
David Berkeley
Saturday, March 26, 2022 | 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Old San Ysidro Church
| Corrales,
NM
$20
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 […]
Americana-folk with Swedish roots
Sofia Talvik
Sunday, March 1, 2020 | 7:30 pm
Corrales Community Center
| Corrales,
NM
$15
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 […]
International Folk Music's Artist of the Year
Ordinary Elephant
Sunday, February 23, 2020 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Kitchen Sink
| Santa Fe,
NM
$20
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 […]
Grammy-winning American roots music
Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore
Saturday, February 22, 2020 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Kitchen Sink
| Santa Fe,
NM
$29
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 […]
Original Southwest bluegrass
Higher Ground Bluegrass
Friday, February 14, 2020 | 7:00 pm
White Rock United Methodist Church
| White Rock,
NM
$20
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 […]
Mexican boleros, rancheras, and corridos
Lara Manzanares
Saturday, January 18, 2020 | 7:00 pm
Corrales Senior Center
| Corrales,
NM
$15
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 […]