AMP Concerts - Community Series

Community Series

AMP is doing a series of events in collaboration with the Friends for the Public Library and the VSA North Fourth Art Center.

Two shows with Miss Tess & The Bon Ton Parade

Tuesday, March 23
N4^th Theater
4904 Fourth Street NW
12:30 PM
FREE! Reservations required

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Low Spirits Bar & Stage
2823 2nd Street NW
8 PM (Doors at 7)

Miss Tess is a soon-to-be New York-based songwriter and performing musician, who tours regularly with her band, as "Miss Tess & The Bon Ton Parade". After nationally touring for the last five years, Miss Tess has just released her anticipated fifth album, Darling, oh Darling. The album presents an ecclectic array of originals, all stemming from roots in jazz, swing, blues, and folk. Miss Tess draws comparisons to artists such as Jolie Holland, Madeleine Peyroux, Regina Spektor, or Ella Fitzgerald, but maintains a style all of her own.

Two shows with Walter Strauss & Mamadou Sidibe

Tuesday, March 30
The Main Library
501 Copper NW
Noon
FREE! Reservations required

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Chroma Studios
600 1st Street NW
7:30 PM

When American guitarist Walter Strauss and Malian kamal'ngoni master Mamadou Sidibe engage in a musical interplay of finger-style guitar and West African hunter's harp, the result is a deep, soulful music that is simultaneously ancient and fresh. These two unique musicians from distant origins create an intoxicating blend of music in which they gracefully complement each other through intertwining melodic grooves and spirited improvisation.

The noon show is the latest in a monthly series of free events in collaboration with the Friends for the Public Library.

Two shows with Steve Smith & Chris Sanders

Saturday, April 24
North Valley Library
7704 2nd Street NW
11 AM

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Taylor Ranch Library
5700 Bogart NW
3 PM

Both shows are FREE! Reservations required

Sponsored by Zoukfest

Steve Smith (mandolin, vocals, guitar) and Chris Sanders (guitar, vocals) have been performing together for five years as a duo and in the Las Cruces based group Steve Smith and Hard Road. Their award winning song writing has landed them both best gospel and best instrumental at the New Mexico Music Awards.

Two shows with Claude Bourbon

Wednesday, May 26
The Main Library
501 Copper NW
Noon

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Tony Hillerman Library
8205 Apache NE (near Wyoming and Menaul)
6 PM

Both shows are FREE! Reservations required

Born in France in the early 60s, Claude Bourbon grew up in Switzerland, where he was classically trained for many years. This finger picking guitarist has performed and studied all over the world; he has crafted an unbelievable fusion of classical and jazz, with ethereal Eastern influences, Spanish and Latin elements with strains of Western folk. Claude's inimitable style incorporates all five digits on each hand dancing independently but in unison, plucking, picking and strumming at such speed and precision that his fingers often seem to melt into a blur.

Two shows with Ted Ramirez

Saturday, June 5
South Valley Library
3904 Isleta SW
11 AM

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East Mountain Library
1 Old Tijeras Rd.
3 PM

Both shows are FREE! Reservations required

Songs and Stories of the Old Southwest

Ted Ramirez is world-recognized Southwestern performer, the founder of the Santa Cruz River Band and a true native son of the Southwest. His illustrious Southwestern family history includes both indigenous and European roots. Ted's new solo show blends his powerful style of Southwestern Folk Music with insightful historical stories about the people, places and events of his beloved Sonoran Desert.

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