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August 1stLuke Bulla
August 7th7Horse
August 9thLuke Bulla
August 9thRaul Midón
August 13thRaul Midón
August 14thLara Ruggles
August 20thLara Ruggles
August 21stThe WesternHers
August 23rdLevi Platero | Chris Dracup :Funk of the West
August 23rdThievery Corporation
September 3rdTab Benoit
September 9thDevon Allman's Blues Summit
September 9thTab Benoit
September 10thBands of Enchantment: Griffin William Sherry, Sgt. Splendor and JD Nash & the Rash of Cash
September 17thCoco Montoya
September 19thBands of Enchantment FREE Outdoor Music Festival
September 20thCoco Montoya
September 20thAlasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas
September 24thAlasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas
September 25thJohn Moreland
September 26thJ2B2
September 26thLasotras
September 27thMasters of Hawaiian Music
October 3rdMasters of Hawaiian Music
October 4thSlim Cessna + Maria de Cessna
October 4thShonen Knife
October 11th"Stop Making Sense" Screening
October 12th"Stop Making Sense" Screening
October 13thHayden Pedigo
October 22ndKurbasy
November 8thKurbasy
November 9thThe Bébé La La 15-Year Anniversary Concert & Celebration
November 15thLuca Stricagnoli
November 21stRyanhood
November 29thRyanhood
November 30thJane Siberry
December 2ndJane Siberry
December 3rdSadness, Madness, & Mayhem III
January 24thLúnasa
March 16thLara Ruggles
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Thanks to the New Mexico Music Commission and the Friends of the Public Library for funding these library shows!
Register for the event and we'll send you updates if there are any schedule changes, as well as info on future free programs and other events around Santa Fe and Albuquerque.
We are happy to welcome Lara back in celebration of her first album in 9 years! She was here a few years ago in her electronic persona Sharkk Heartt.
Lara Ruggles' new record Anchor Me, her first release under her own name in 9 years, is a return to form, a rediscovery of Ruggles' vulnerability both in lyricism and production. Ruggles grew up 40 miles outside of Tucson on 7 acres surrounded by cattle ranches, her songwriting emerging from the isolation she felt. Eventually she moved to Denver, from where she spent the better part of a decade touring and performing, firmly rooting herself in the Colorado folk scene. In 2016 she returned home to Tucson where she started her project Sharkk Heartt, which allowed her to explore songwriting through infectious electro-pop anthems that marked a distinct departure from her previous sound. It was only recently that Ruggles found herself collecting songs (and writing a few new ones) that didn't seem to have a place to go, songs that felt too intimate and personal for Sharkk Heartt.
The songs on Anchor Me are compassionate and warm, even while circling deep pain and loss. The arrangements are left open, alternating between piano ballads and understated folk-rock that allow Ruggles's powerful voice to soar through the mix. Whether she is delivering a gut-punch of a realization or a contemplative rumination, the songs feel close, tangible, and real. "This album represents a return to myself in a way," Ruggles says. In "Love Me Instead," she looks boldly at the discrepancy between the love we ask for and the love we receive. In "Luckier," she tries to make sense of falling in love while the world is in turmoil. In "Hard Road" she cracks open her relationship with the music industry itself in a heartbreaking meditation on the artist's path in the modern world, a relationship that had been a catalyst for leaving behind her own name in the first place. It is the healing of this wound that has allowed Ruggles the opportunity to be bravely, boldly, herself.
"I don't expect the industry to be different than it is," she says. "I'm ready to put something a little more intimate and personal out there, and I don't have everything in my world riding on whether or not this album breaks even or allows me to make a decent living. It's freeing."