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Spring Creek
Friday, September 10
Cherry Hills Library
6901 Barstow NE
Noon

Spring Creek from Lyons, Colorado, are quickly gaining a reputation as the hottest young band in the Rocky Mountains. The quartet play a mix of bluegrass standards and compelling originals, and all four musicians are also accomplished vocalists. Spring Creek is built on the fundamentals of bluegrass, yet they create their own classic contemporary style.

Barrence Whitfield and the Savages
Saturday, September 18
Low Spirits Bar & Stage
2823 2nd Street NW
8 PM (Doors at 7)

Barrence Whitfield is a full-throttle soul screamer in the spirit of Little Richard, Wilson Pickett and Solomon Burke. He has been described as the "owner of one incredible pair of lungs" with "limitless energy" and unmatched enthusiasm for his music and his audience. After twenty-six years of performing, Barrence shows no sign of slowing down.

AMP Concerts & Fan Man Productions present
The Felice Brothers
Wednesday, September 22
Santa Fe Brewing Company
37 Fire Place
(Just Off NM Highway 14)
7:30 PM

The Felice Brothers and their long time friends and band mates, Greg Farley and Christmas Clapton, come to us from the Catskill Mountains, where a homegrown sound has been working its way through the bloodlines for generations. Their rambling journey so far has brought them from busking in New York City subway stations, to tours across the world that have included enthusiastically received performances at major music festivals including Bonnaroo, All Points West, Outside Lands, and Langerado.

¡Globalquerque!
September 24-25
National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 4th St SW

New Mexico's Annual Celebration of World Music and Culture will return to the NHCC in September! Our sixth annual show, produced in partnership with Avokado Artists, will feature a brand-new lineup of great artists from all over the world! Don't miss it!

Hayes Carll
Thursday, October 7
The Cooperage
7220 Lomas Blvd NE
(Just east of Louisiana)
8 PM concert (6:30 PM doors)
21 and over • Limited Seating

Hayes Carll delivers songs born of baptism-by-fire experience, world-weary observations and sharp wit. While his songs draw from Texas songwriting heroes such as Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, Carll has managed to put a stamp on his music that is truly his own. As a performer, Carll's clever anecdotes, genuine sincerity and self-deprecating humor invite listeners in to his world.

Bryan Bowers
Tuesday, October 12
Taylor Ranch Library
5700 Bogart NW
6 PM

Wednesday, October 13
East Mountain Library
1 Old Tijeras Road, Tijeras
Noon

For nearly four decades, Bryan Bowers has been to the autoharp what Earl Scruggs was to the five-string banjo. He presents instrumental virtuosity combined with warmth, eloquence, expression and professionalism. In 1993, Bowers was the first living member inducted into the Autoharp Hall of Fame. He has a dynamic outgoing personality and an uncanny ability to enchant a crowd in practically any situation. His towering six foot four inch frame can be wild and zany on stage while playing a song like "Dixie" and five minutes later he can have the same audience singing "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" in quiet reverence and delight.

AMP Concerts & the National Hispanic Cultural Center present
Badi Assad - in Concert & Conversation
Monday, October 18
National Hispanic Cultural Center's Bank of America Theatre
1701 4th St SW
7:00 PM live interview, concert to follow

As a singer, Brazil's Badi Assad is vibrant and electric, responding to her inner passion with deft creativity. As a guitarist, she has inspired audiences and critics worldwide with a unique combination of technical mastery and innovation that has caused many to reexamine their notions about the instrument. Through it all, Badi's adventurous spirit and buoyant personality have become an integral part of her music. "Hearts opened and jaws dropped... a Badi Assad performance is an intimate tableau of an artist in motion" —Austin Chronicle.

The evening will start with a special live interview by John and Viv from Art of the Song—Creativity Radio

MarchFourth Marching Band
Monday, October 25
El Rey Theater
610 Central Ave SW
7:30 PM show (7 PM doors)

Back by popular demand! MarchFourth Marching Band is a high-energy surrealist global-groove alternative big band, propelled by electric bass, diverse percussion ensemble, and brassy horn section. Visually enhanced by costumed dancing beauties, acrobatic stilt walkers, fire, and theatrics, Portland, OR-based M4 invokes dancing in the streets and beyond! MarchFourth writes and performs its own material, and also draws inspiration from an eclectic range of worldwide influences, such as Eastern European Gypsy Brass, Samba, Funk, Afro-Beat, Big-Band, Jazz, and Rock music, as well as television, film, circus, and Vaudeville.

Kids welcome (with parent/guardian) and only $8!

AMP Concerts & the National Hispanic Cultural Center
present
Dan Zanes & Friends
Wednesday, October 27
National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 4th St SW
6:30 PM

Dan Zanes' story is one of a rock 'n' roller who found a second career when he decided to make kids' music that parents could enjoy just as much as their little ones. A former member of the Del Fuegos, a Boston-based group that was named "Best New Band" by Rolling Stone in 1984, Zane retired from rock in 1991, got married, and became a father. He soon discovered the joy of making music for kids with other parents, and started a band and record label dedicated to the concept of kids' music that's enjoyable for adults.

AMP Concerts & the National Hispanic Cultural Center present
The Latin Diva Series
featuring
Lucía Pulido
Saturday, November 6
National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 4th St SW
8 PM

Lucía Pulido is a Colombian singer with one of the richest voices on the international Latin American musical scene today. She has an experimental style marked by a distinct vocal sophistication, and has participated in various projects, ranging from traditional Colombian music to jazz and world music. Traditional genres such as cumbia, bullerengue, currulaos as well as joropos are the point of departure for musical creativity. Lucía's vocal sophistication is enhanced in genres such as herding songs (cantos de vaquería), funeral laments (alabaos) and harvest chants (cantos de zafra), which give the singer the liberty to explore her voice fully.

Po' Girl
Saturday, November 6
Old San Ysidro Church
966 Old Church Road, Corrales
7:30 PM

Sponsored by OGB Architectural Millwork

The interplay between the members of Po' Girl is truly something to behold. They are distinct voices with incredible harmonies; multiple instrumentalists who bring the perfect sound to each song and songwriters who pen poetic tunes you'll find yourself humming. Po' Girl showcases a wide array of instruments—from gutbucket bass, accordion, clarinet, banjo, dobro, guitar, to electric bass, glockenspiel, piano, harmonica, bicycle bells, drums—and they all frequently trade off instruments with each song. Their fluid and joyous musicality is one of the group's most endearing and irresistible features.

Patty Larkin
with Birdsong at Morning
Wednesday, November 10
The Cooperage
7220 Lomas Blvd NE
(Just east of Louisiana)
7:30 PM
21 and over • Limited Seating

2010 marks Patty Larkin's 25th year of recording music. Over her 25-year career, Larkin has worked with some of the brightest stars in American music, honing a reputation as a "musician's musician" along the way. A self described "guitar driven songwriter," Larkin has wound her way through soundscapes of evocative vocals, inventive guitar wizardry and imaginative lyrics. Her songs run from impressionistic poetry to witty wordplay. Acoustic music ensemble Birdsong At Morning will open the show.

Rachael Sage
Tuesday, November 16
Lomas Tramway Library
908 Eastridge NE
6 PM

Wednesday, November 17
Main Library
501 Copper NW
Noon

Singer, songwriter and producer Rachael Sage has penned quirky, melodic pop songs since she was old enough to reach the piano keys. Over the course of her career she has steadily built a loyal grassroots fan base with a rigorous international tour schedule that has seen her sharing stages with such seminal artists as Eric Burdon, John Lee Hooker and Judy Collins, and prompted Performing Songwriter Magazine to name her "One of the Top 100 Independent Artists Of The Past 15 Years." Leaving aside set lists in favor of a more spontaneous approach, every show she performs combines top-notch musicianship with hilarious between-song banter.

Johnny Clegg
Saturday, May 7
Villa Hispana @ Expo NM
300 San Pedro NE
8 PM Concert, Doors TBD

Johnny Clegg is one of South Africa's most celebrated sons. He is a singer, songwriter, dancer, anthropologist, and a musical activist whose infectious crossover music, a vibrant blend of Western pop and African Zulu rhythms, has exploded onto the international scene and broken through all the barriers in his own country. Over three decades, Johnny Clegg has sold over five million albums of his brand of crossover music worldwide. This year marks his 30th anniversary as a recording artist.

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