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April 10thMatt Andersen
April 11thNefesh Mountain
April 11thMatt Andersen
April 12thNefesh Mountain
April 12th"Hugo" Film Screening
April 14th"Hugo" Film Screening
April 15thRight in the Eye
April 18thArkansauce
April 19thPrism Bitch
May 2ndSelwyn Birchwood
May 7thMax Gomez & Shannon McNally
May 9thThe Martin Sexton Abbey Road Show
May 10thThe Martin Sexton Abbey Road Show
May 11thProyecto Cumbion with 123 Andres
May 11thZoë Keating (New Date)
May 13thJoe Abercrombie
May 15thCris Williamson
May 15thSkaldik
May 16thThe Young Dubliners
May 16thCris Williamson
May 16thABBAquerque | The Mango Cakes
May 30thLuciane Dom
June 3rdMargo Cilker
June 4thLuciane Dom
June 6thMike Zito
June 10thMike Zito
June 11thJesse Dayton
June 13thJesse Dayton - New Date!
June 15thEsther Rose
June 27thEliza Gilkyson
June 27thDracup & Malé
June 28thEliza Gilkyson
June 28thEsther Rose
June 28thKhumariyaan
July 8thKhumariyaan
July 9thFlor de Toloache
July 16thFlor de Toloache
July 17thAndrea Magee's She Rises
July 18thOscar Butler
July 23rdMark Hummel
August 2ndMark Hummel
August 3rdTab Benoit
September 9thTab Benoit
September 10thAlasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas
September 24thAlasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas
September 25thShonen Knife
October 11thKurbasy
November 8thKurbasy
November 9thLuca Stricagnoli
November 21stMary Gauthier
with special guest Jaimee Harris
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Tickets cost $25 in advance, $30 day of show (plus service charges). They are also available by phone through Hold My Ticket at 505-886-1251.
FUSION | 708 is a beautiful black box theater and art gallery in the FUSION arts campus on the edge of downtown (at 1st and Lomas). The theater can be configured in a variety of ways. This show will be all seated.
Mary & Jaimee are hanging out in New Mexico after performing as Three Women & The Truth (with Carrie Rodriguez) at the She Rises festival in Taos on August 31. (Click here for info on this amazing women-led music fest!)
"Writing helps me sort out confusion, untangle powerful emotions, and ward off desperation. It helps me navigate the powerful emotional weather systems of life." —Mary Gauthier, Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting
As she has so eloquently accomplished over the past 25 years, acclaimed singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier has used her art once again to traverse the uncharted waters of the past few years. "I'm the kind of songwriter who writes what I see in the world right now," she affirms. Thankfully, amid dark storms of pandemic loss, she found and followed the beacon of new love: Her gift to us, the powerful Dark Enough to See the Stars, collects ten sparkling jewels of Gauthier songcraft reflecting both love and loss.
Gauthier's early work, which she began at age 35, reflected her newfound sobriety, delving into events from a troubled life, which persisted after she became a renowned chef in Boston. Dark Enough to See the Stars returns Gauthier to the scintillating confessional mode on such albums as her breakthrough release, 2005's Mercy Now, as well as such ear worms as the hook-laden "Drag Queens in Limousines." In addition to crafting instantly memorable songs, Gauthier has never shied away from difficult self-exploration, as with 2010's The Foundling, on which she explored the repercussions of her adoption from a New Orleans orphanage and subsequent search for her birth mother.
On Dark Enough to See the Stars, she mourns recent devastating losses: the deaths of John Prine, David Olney, Nanci Griffith, and her beloved friend Betsy. But she also sings open-heartedly of love. All ten tracks prove Gauthier's belief, as stated in Saved by a Song, that "songs can bring us a deep understanding of each other and ourselves and open the heart to love."
Jaimee Harris turned 30 during the pandemic. It's a milestone that is a rite of passage even during normal times. But for this Texas-born singer-songwriter, it came in the midst of one of the strangest and most tumultuous periods in American history. When the world stopped during lockdown, Harris, like many others, found herself gazing back into the past, ruminating on the nature of her hometown and family origins, and reckoning with their imprint on her. The term "nostalgia" derives from the Greek words nostos (return) and algos (pain), and if Harris's Boomerang Town can be regarded as a nostalgic album, it is only nostalgic in the sense that the longing for home is a desire to return to the past and heal old wounds.
Harris's sophomore effort, Boomerang Town marks a bold step forward for this country-folk-leaning singer-songwriter. It is an arresting, ambitious song-cycle that explores the generational arc of family, the stranglehold of addiction, and the fragile ties that bind us together as Americans.