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Free Concert on the Plaza Will Feature Modern Latin Funk, Heart-pounding African Drumming, and one of the Masters of the Sitar

For the fifth consecutive year, the 2008 International Folk Art Market will feature eclectic, energetic international entertainment, including music from Nigeria, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Morocco, the Balkans, and many more.

The festivities kick off on Thursday, July 10th, with a free concert on the Historic Santa Fe Plaza by acclaimed Chicano funk masters Quetzal, preceded by the African drumming sensations Agalu, and sitar master Roshan Bhatiya. Their...

PRIDE—You've got to want it to have it...because no one can give it to you.

It comes from a place within, although felt amongst thousands...witnessed by millions. On a collective level pride can move mountains. In June, the concept is celebrated around the world. Take for instance this weekend, two favorite cities on planet earth, New York and Santa Fe share the same official pride weekend. This is both touching, and a royal pain because I've yet to be in both at the same time. The feeling, however, is definitely shared.

IN SANTA FE ... For many years now, Melanie Moore and her good...

Friday, June 27, 2008
by Melanie Moore

Choosing repertoire for unaccompanied choral concerts is challenging for Simon Carrington, professor of choral conducting at Yale University. “I am usually pleased with my final choices, but (it) can take many hours to find the right balance of repertoire,” he said via e-mail from France. “I was therefore delighted to receive this invitation from the Desert Chorale to conduct their ‘Glorious Voices’ program, for which the entire repertoire had already been chosen.”

“Glorious Voices, Sacred Spaces” is the opening concert of the Santa Fe Desert Chorale’s Summer Festival 2008 and takes place...

Friday, June 20, 2008
by Emily Van Cleve • Journal Santa Fe

In showbiz biographies, it’s always the challenging early years that sound like the most fun. After stardom, it’s just recitations of “and then I wrote ” …

A quartet of Santa Fe teens that calls itself Lydian Gray is in those beginning stages now — and they are, predictably, facing a lot of challenges. And having a lot of fun.

Lydian Gray celebrates the release of its first, self-titled CD at a release party Wednesday at Chinese Underground (which doubles at the lead vocalist’s home). Directions can be obtained by contacting the band through its Web site,...

Monday, June 16, 2008
by Kate McGraw • Journal Santa Fe

WHEN: Wednesday evenings, 6 – 8 pm June 11, 18, 25 and July 9, 16, 23

WHERE: Athletic field of St. John’s College (adjacent to the tennis courts on Camino Cruz Blanca), 1160 Camino Cruz Blanca

This event is free of charge and open to the public.

Beginning in mid-June and running through July, St. John’s College hosts a free summer concert series in a family-friendly atmosphere open to everyone in the northern New Mexico region. Adults and children picnic on the grounds of St. John’s College campus while enjoying a range of live performances, including jazz, blues, classical, and...

Friday, June 13, 2008
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As an 8-year-old boy growing up in Alabama, Patterson Hood did things that most kids that age don’t, such as writing songs and paying attention to politics — though he wasn’t always rewarded for being ahead of the curve.

“In third grade we were told to write a paper on Watergate,” recalled the Drive-By Truckers songwriter during a recent phone interview. “Most kids thought it was about Wilson Dam (in northern Alabama). I would say, ‘No, no. It’s about Nixon and breaking into Democratic Party headquarters …

“My teacher sent a letter home to my parents saying that maybe I was watching too...

Friday, June 13, 2008
by Vic Vela • Journal Santa Fe

Rehearse before a concert? Not Giacomo Gates, who will sing jazz vocals with the ensemble Straight Up at the opening performance of Music on the Hill at St. John’s College on tonight.

“We won’t work it out at all before the show,” Gates said by phone from his home in Connecticut. “I come with a list of a couple hundred tunes in my pocket. I have to see what’s happening with the bandstand, the venue and the crowd. The number of people in the audience, their ages and even the weather affect my song choices. I know we’ll do some George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Charlie Parker and...

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
by Emily Van Cleve • Journal Santa Fe

Two-time Grammy winner and New Mexican, Robert Mirabal, will appear this weekend on a special edition of the television program, "New Mexico Southwest Sounds." The 30 minute show, produced by Governor Richardson's New Mexico Music Commission, will be broadcast Saturday, June 7th at 1:00 PM on KOAT-TV.

The show also includes Grammy winning producer and musician Larry Mitchell, as well as Native American rock musicians Levi and the Plateros.

The live performances were taped during the worlds largest Native American Powwow - The Gathering of Nations. Dressed in colorful attire, more...

Monday, June 9, 2008
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The Mik’dash Center for Hebrew Heritage Wisdom and Embodied Jewish Practice is newly establishing in Santa Fe, NM. It serves the community in a unique way by providing a connection to the ancient Hebraic essences and universal wisdoms and kabalistic teachings in current Jewish practice. The unique teachings and facilitation support participants to carry on the essences of pre-Judaism, earth-based Hebraic culture into a contemporary Jewish practice.

The center offers teaching and practice in the Jewish/Hebrew tradition and wisdoms, kabalistic arts, as well as language and prayer....

Monday, June 9, 2008
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In the secret lives of professional musicians, there are certain pieces they play on the concert stage that they like more than others. The program that Canadian-born pianist Marc-André Hamelin will perform Sunday in Los Alamos with the Los Alamos Concert Association is one of his favorites.

“I love this program,” he said by phone from his home in Boston. “I played it a couple of weeks ago in Moscow. There are two sonatas in the first half that are in the same key, but they couldn’t be more contrasting.”

Hamelin performs one of the sonatas featured on the Grammy-nominated two-disc set of...

Friday, April 18, 2008 at 4:00 PM
by Emily Van Cleve • Journal Santa Fe