OUR PICKS FOR THE WEEK
H ow many chances do you get to see a genuine Mississippi bluesman?
If your answer is “not enough,” then shake a leg down to the Skylight, 139 W. San Francisco St., tonight to soak in the tunes of 82-year-old Leo “Bud” Welch Sr. This hidden treasure picked up a guitar in 1945 and was playing well enough to go public two years later. He played gospel and blues in between his logging jobs in the hills and hollers of northern Mississippi, but he only issued his first album, “Sabougla Voices,” a year ago. Reportedly, B.B. King invited him to audition, but Welch couldn’t afford the trip to Memphis.
Alex Maryol will lead off the concert at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $17 for general admission and $27 per person for a reserved table. You can get them at holdmyticket.com.
ALOHA, MON: The Skylight is also hosting one of the more unusual hybrid musical styles at 7:30 p.m. Monday when The Green brings its Hawaiian reggae on a Chocolates and Roses Tour. (Does everyone in the audience get one of each?) The group, which won iTunes Best Reggae Album of the Year in 2010, opens its concerts with a Hawaiian chant for blessings. Tickets are $16 through holdmyticket.com for this all-ages show.
EAR SCHOOL: The Santa Fe Community Orchestra periodically presents sessions to help make your ear smarter. At 2:30 p.m. Sunday, the effort will focus on Schubert and his Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished). Music Director Oliver Prezant will offer musical illustrations of various aspects of the symphony, and then the orchestra will play the complete work.
Or as complete as an unfinished symphony can be. Maybe you can earn extra credit by finishing it.
SONIC FLIGHT: Art of Flying will bring its “sonic atmospheric expression” to the Jean Cocteau Cinema 7 p.m. Monday. The tunes of David Costanza and Anne Speroni were referred to as “shamanic madrigal psychedelia” in J. Simpson’s review on online The Equal Ground. On its Facebook page, Art of Flying says it takes “a ghostly, lost-on-the-moor sound and transfers it to the desert.”
Tickets are $12 per person, or two for $20.
Art of Flying