Seratones – Full Performance (Live on KBAC)

Looking for holiday gifts with a truly Southwestern flair? Art is always in fashion. The Traditional Spanish Market Artist Show returns to Santa Fe over Thanksgiving weekend, and there you will find some of the finest artworks ever produced. One of the most highly anticipated shows of the season, the event will feature the work of 70 adult and youth artists, as well as artist demonstrations, traditional New Mexican music, entertainment, and food for purchase. The Traditional Spanish Market Artist … Read More

Moonage Daydream was not at all what I expected. I expected a documentary. What I got was an explosion of sound and vision, like a montage. This is not to say I was disappointed. As a lifelong fan of David Bowie, I’ve come to expect the unexpected. This played like what I always imagine when, after a near-death experience, people say they “saw their lives flash before their eyes.” But this flash lasted for 2½ hours. The only narration is … Read More

Blues is the name given to the musical form and the music genre that emerged from the African-American communities and the black cultural melting pot of the American South of the 1890’s, drawing on a fascinating mixture of African-American spirituals, traditional songs, work songs of the slaves, field hollers, shouts and chants, folk ballads, European hymns, contemporary dance music and rhymed simple narrative ballads. During their back-breaking toil in the fields of the Southern plantations, black slaves developed a “call and response” way … Read More