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Upcoming Shows:

Sihasin and Lindy Vision Bring Contemporary Indigenous Music to Albuquerque, May 4th

FUSION/THE CELL. 700 1ST ST. NW, ALBUQUERQUE NM 87102

SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2024 7:30 PM | All Ages | Price: $15 - $20

Tickets at the door or by phone through Hold My Ticket at 505-886-1251. This is an AMP Concert. Sihasin is the duo of Jeneda and Clayson Benally, award- winning musicians from the Diné Navajo Nation in Northern Arizona. Originally from Black Mesa on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, the siblings were born into the heart of a political land dispute, in which a fence separated them from traditional homeland and family. They grew up protesting this separation, as well as environmental degradation and the destruction of their traditional way of life. The name Sihasin is a Diné word that means hope and assurance, and the music reflects hope for equality, healthy and respectful communities, and social and environmental justice. Sihasin combines harmony vocals with bass and drums, in a style rooted in Native, rock, punk and world music. Lindy Vision is a black native sister band formed in Albuquerque. The band’s current lineup features Dorothy Cuylear (lead vocals/keys/lyrics) and Natasha Cuylear (lead/ rhythm guitar,backup vocals).

Cedric Burnside Brings Mississippi Hill Country Blues to Santa Fe on May 13th - 7:30pm

Hill Country Love Tour | Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery 2791 Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe DOORS 6:30pm • 21+ WITHOUT PARENT OR GUARDIAN

Tickets at support@holdmyticket.com or call 1-877-466-3404.

North Mississippi’s Cedric Burnside is a blues guitarist and singer/songwriter who contains within himself the legacy and future of the region’s prescient sound stories. His newest album is I Be Trying, a 13-track treatise on life’s challenges, pleasures, and beauty. “Life can go any kind of way,” Burnside says.

The 42-year-old Burnside was born in the blues as much as he was in funk, rock, soul, and hip-hop. These latter sensibilities are reflected across his work, as he drives Hill Country blues into grooves that lend themselves readily to an urgent, modern moment. He is keenly his grandfather’s RL Burnside’s grandson. The late elder Burnside and his wife Alice Mae wrapped their Holly Springs land and family in warmth, joy, and music.

Burnside’s blues inheritance, the North Mississippi Hill Country blues, is distinct from its Delta or Texas counterparts in its commitment to polyrhythmic percussion and its refusal of familiar blues chord progressions. It leads with extended riffs that become sentences or pleas or exclamations, rendering the guitar like its West African antecedent, the talking drum. Riffs disappear behind and become one with the singer’s voice, like the convergence of hill and horizon in the distance. Information at https://tickets.lensic360.org/tickets/427418?tc=hmt

Michael Franti and Spearhead Bring Rebel Rocker Music to Santa Fe w/Bombargo | May 25, 2024 • 7:00 pm DOORS 5:00pm • ALL AGES – KIDS UNDER 12 FREE ADMISSION!

Michael Franti is a globally recognized musician, activist and award-winning filmmaker revered for his high-energy live shows, inspiring music, worldwide philanthropic efforts and the power of optimism. Franti & Spearhead’s 13th studio album Big Big Love is available everywhere now, featuring 17 tracks cowritten by Franti, reflecting his tenacity, inclusiveness, and optimism.

The Bay-Area native resides in Bali when he is not on tour. Franti continues to foster community both on and off stage with a wish granting non-profit, Do It For The Love, which brings those with life threatening illnesses, veterans, and children with severe challenges to concerts worldwide, fulfilling over 3,500 wishes and touching the lives of over 15,000 people to date. Concert presented by Lensic 360. Tickets at: https://tickets.lensic360.org/ tickets/428554?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TheLatest4%2F23%2F24&utm_ content=version_A&sourceNumber=22266

Chicken Sedan Bring Their Rockabilly, Surf rock and Oldies to Taos – and More Music To Come at Taos Lifestyle Friday, May 31st - Chicken Sedan; Sat. June 1st - 70’s DJ Dance Party w/ DJ FloordaMike; Friday June 14th - Max Flinn- country; Sat. June 15th - Fletcher & John Trio

Taos Lifestyle | 815 Paseo del Pueblo Sur | Taos, NM 87571

575-758-5885 store/575-770-6033 cell | taoslifestyle.com

Eliza Gilkyson Sings in Albuquerque and Santa Fe | May 31st, 7:30 pm

Taos-based, world-famous singer/songwriter Eliza Glikyson will give two concerts this month for AMP Concerts in Albuquerque and in Santa Fe. Guitarist/singer Don Richmond will accompany Eliza at both shows. South Broadway Cultural Center 1025 Broadway SE Albuquerque 87102 | June 1st, 7:30 pm At San Miguel Chapel 401 Old Santa Fe Trail Santa Fe 87501 Details and tickets at https://www.ampconcerts.org/event/431257/eliza-gilkyson

James McMurtry Brings His “Real Music for Real People” to NM This June, w/Betty Soo

James McMurtry and his band will play shows in Santa Fe at Tumbleroot Brewery June 7th and in Albuquerque June 8th at the KiMo Theater! Tickets are selling fast, so plan ahead if you want to catch him.

On his latest album, The Horses and the Hounds, the acclaimed songwriter says. “The ghost of Warren Zevon seems to be stomping around among the guitar tracks. Don’t know how he got in there. He never signed on for work- for- hire.” The Horses and the Hounds is McMurtry’s debut album on Americana record label New West Records. McMurtry perfectly fits a label housing “artists who perform real music for real people.” “McMurtry fuses wry, literate observations about the world with the snarl of barroom rock,” National Public Radio says. “The result is at times sardonic, subversive and funny, but often vulnerable and always poignant.”“James McMurtry is one of my very few favorite songwriters on Earth and these days he’s working at the top of his game,” says Jason Isbell, “I don’t think anybody writes better lyrics.”

McMurtry tours year-round and consistently throws down unparalleled powerhouse performances. He is accompanied on this tour by opener, Austin singer Betty Soo, about whom Acoustic Guitar Magazine says, “Betty Soo may well have the most gorgeous voice in Texas at the moment, if not in all contemporary folk: Its purity and strength can be downright devastating and her flashing sense of humor is as wicked as the true grit that characterized her Gurf Morlix-produced 2009 release, Heat Sin Water Skin.” Both shows are organized by Lensic 360. For ticket information: Albuquerque show https://artsandculture.cabq.gov/4230/4232

Santa Fe show https://tickets.lensic360.org/tickets/430476?tc=hmt

Xavier Rudd Brings Music and Environmental Vision from Australia to Taos on Sunday, June 2nd, 6:30 pm

Australian singer/songwriter Xavier Rudd has recorded more than a dozen albums and he has become a known name at music festivals worldwide including the Bonnaroo and High Sierra Fests and others. Rudd often likes to spend time in the Australian bush, championing the traditional indigenous (aboriginal) way of life. His songs include stories of the mistreatment of the Indigenous people of his homeland. Rudd has taken part in several aboriginal ceremonies and in 2003 he was adopted into the Dhuwa mob of the Yoingu people. He has also spent time with people from several North American indigenous groups

Rudd is a keen surfer, having started when he was five or six years old, and says at times surfing inspires his music. When asked about his religious beliefs, Rudd has said “I’m not religious in the sense that I don’t believe in a God and I don’t follow the tenets of organized churches, but I believe in nature and everything that surrounds me: I love Earth, the sun, the sea and animals. Music is my only church.”

Xavier Rudd is in a dance-concert at Taos Mesa Mother Ship for Lensic 360 TICKETS: $32-$37 at the door or via support@holdmyticket. com or call 1-877-466-3404.

Terry Winchell & the Fine Line are playing gigs throughout New Mexico this month and on into coming months. We hope they will play in the Enchanted Circle area soon. Information at: https://www.terrywinchell.com

First Purple Light, by Jefferson Berry & the UAC, is the

First-Ever all A.I. Folk Music Video

First Purple Light is a song from the 2023 Prairie Fire album by Jefferson Berry & the UAC, their third album in four years. It is also the third video collaboration between Jefferson & Provoke Film’s Ciro Ayala. First Purple Light exposes the scourge of domestic violence in our society. The project supports the Domestic Violence Hotline.

Check it out here: s.disco.ac/cmtffjylafoa (Contains themes of domestic violence. While beautiful, this video may be disturbing (or even triggering) for some folks.)

For this video, Jefferson Berry scripted the A.I. storyboard and, along with the lyrics of the song, Art Director Ciro Ayala applied six different A.I. programs to execute that script. Joe Schufreider managed the camera and lighting of the band’s performance which was shot at Lafayette Hills Studios just outside Philadelphia.

“The pretty music draws you in nice and easy with its twinkling mandolin and acoustic guitar and it’s a song of sunrise, until things take a deeper, darker more somber turn just as the first birds of daylight have begun their singing. It’s a song of bruises, justice and redemption. As it is placed here against a background of Jefferson and the band, and visuals that are at once clearly AI but also capture the essence of the tale in startling accuracy, it’s also a pioneer in the AI age that’s right around the corner for us all.” -- Americana Highways