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September 14thNight 3 - Lauren Ruth Ward, Kevin Herig & Willajay
September 14thNight 4 - The Free Label & Zinadelphia
September 15thAlejandro Brittes
September 20thExtravaganza on Museum Hill
September 21stJoe Boyd
September 24thJoe Boyd
September 25thMaryna Krut
September 27thMaryna Krut
September 28th3 On A Match Kabarett
September 28thMaryna Krut
September 29thAl Di Meola
October 2ndThe Tannahill Weavers
October 3rdThird World
October 3rdThe Bones of JR Jones
October 10thMasters of Hawaiian Music
October 11thMasters of Hawaiian Music
October 12thBuckethead - SOLD OUT!
October 12thBuckethead - Second Night!
October 13thPeter Bradley Adams
October 16thPeter Bradley Adams
October 17thIndigenous Heritage Celebration featuring Innastate
October 19thHataałii
October 23rdKassa Overall
October 26thKassa Overall and The Boomroots Collective
October 27thCimafunk
October 30thCoco Montoya
November 2ndArkansauce
November 7thInnastate
November 9thThe Real Matt Jones
November 14thZoë Keating
November 15thKristina Jacobsen
November 17thTopHouse
November 21stCheryl Wheeler with Kenny White
December 4thCheryl Wheeler with Kenny White
December 5thIris DeMent
December 5thLaurianne Fiorentino & Michael Kott
December 11thLaurianne Fiorentino & Michael Kott
December 11thKalos
January 15thKalos
January 16thJesse Cook
February 2ndJesse Cook
February 3rdSadness, Madness, & Mayhem
March 1stAltan
March 12thLúnasa
March 18thAlejandro Brittes
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Tickets cost $30 and $50 (plus service charges). They are also available by phone through Hold My Ticket at 505-886-1251.
Alejandro is particularly excited to be performing in San Miguel Chapel! Much of his music and research explores how the unique chamamé music of Argentina grew from a melding of indigenous Guaraní culture and Baroque music introduced by Jesuit missionaries, so the setting is perfect. If chamamé sounds familiar, we have brought it to New Mexico once before, when another leading practitioner and sometime collaborator Chango Spasiuk came to ¡Globalquerque! in 2007.
Hailed by the Boston Globe as a "premier exponent of Chamamé," composer and researcher Alejandro Brittes explores his chamamé heritage, an ancestral rhythm connecting us with the Earth and the Universe through music and dance, which was born of the encounter between the ritual musicality of the indigenous Guaraní and Baroque music. Having toured extensively in South America and Europe, Brittes recently completed a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Iber Exchange-supported 2023 U.S. East Coast Tour: Library of Congress, Georgetown University, Hamilton College, The Trust PAC (PA), Levitt Pavilion (CT), and other venues.
Alejandro's concerts establish a connection with the earth, with the origins of the music of his home region and with the universe, in primordial verticality. His trademark is to employ his accordion as if it were a bandoneón, in conversation between the left and right hands, achieving that the instrument be utilized in its highest performance. The basses of the left hand are masterfully explored, because according to Alejandro, the low basses connect us with the earth, and the right hand button keyboard, beyond providing melody to the music, elevates us to the Universe.