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Coming SUNDAY November 23
LARA MANZANARES
with special guest
JONO MANSON
Historic Old San Ysidro Church
ALBUM RELEASE SHOW
Doors 6:30pm, Music 7:30pm - 10:00pm - ALL AGES
We are excited to announce the release of Lara Manzanares’ second album. This has been a long time coming since her debut Land Baby in 2017!
Yo Soy de Ti contains 11 tracks packed with original lyrics and storytelling and a host of spectacular local musicians. Jono Manson co-produced the album with Lara and appears on many songs.
Lara's band will include:
Lara Manzanares - vocals, guitar
Jono Manson - guitar
Justin Bransford - bass
Mo Roberts - drums
Plus special guests!
Lara Manzanares is an award-winning bilingual singer-songwriter of Northern New Mexican heritage. In addition to singing the Mexican boleros, rancheras, and corridos of her sheep-ranching childhood, Lara also composes her own style of music in both English and Spanish. Through a combination of storytelling and songs both playful and sincere, Lara draws on her rural New Mexican roots and her urban experiences across the U.S. and abroad as she sings about love, loss, a sense of place, and her own connection to the land. Lara collaborates with many local musicians and notably has two singles with Felix Gato Peralta that have become huge regional hits.
Jono Manson is a prolific singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and producer. During a storied career spanning over five decades he has performed everywhere from the local dive to Madison Square Garden and has amassed an impressive discography that includes numerous major label and indie releases on three continents. His songs have been recorded by Grammy winners and have been featured in major motion pictures, on network television, and in national advertising campaigns. Jono has produced albums for Grammy winners and local heroes, "American Idol" finalists and folk singers, Italian pop stars and Pakistani Sufi folk-rockers. He makes his home in Santa Fe, where he has also put down deep roots in the local community, as a performer, educator, organizer and producer. He is the founder and chief engineer of the Santa Fe's The Kitchen Sink recording studio, and has five times been named Producer of the Year by the New Mexico Music Awards.
This show will also be presented in Santa Fe on November 20th. MORE INFO
Coming SUNDAY December 14 2025
Randy Lewis Brown
with opener Kent Gurley
Solamente Natural Plaster
135 North Camino Del Pueblo
Bernalillo, NM 87004
505 205 6010
Doors 6:30pm, Music 7:00pm - 9:00pm - ALL AGES
You may bring your own food and drink.
ALL TICKET PROCEEDS GO TO FEATURED ARTISTS
“With a gritty directness and a quiet strength, Randy Lewis Brown has been the voice of reason for quite some time. Just add him to each of our own never-ending lists of artists you must hear during these trying times.... “With shades of Rodney Crowell and Steve Earle, Brown’s well-worn voice is that of a punctuating intelligence and grace.” - Glide Magazine
Songwriter and poetic lyricist Randy Lewis Brown crafts Americana tales steeped in hard‑won truth and wounded optimism. Born in Louisiana and raised in Texas, he began writing songs at fourteen with a $10 guitar and has since built a career defined by evocative storytelling and lyrical poetry. Brown has opened for Ray Wylie Hubbard, David Olney, and Jim Lauderdale to name a few and performed at major festivals including Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, Kerrville Folk Festival, Rocky Mountain Folks Festival and the South Florida Folk Festival. In his spare time he teaches songwriting.
His 9th and latest release, Wind of Change in 2023 (Berkalin Records), produced by Merel Bregante, features thirteen original songs brought to life by a stellar ensemble of musicians. A repeat winner of national songwriting contests—including the Woody Guthrie Songwriting Contest (2021)—Brown continues to weave cosmic imagery and Americana tradition into songs that haunt, heal, and endure. Now based in New Mexico, his music reflects the vast skies and quiet resonance of the high desert.
Coming SATURDAY January 24 2026
Doors 7:00pm, Music 7:30pm - 9:00pm - ALL AGES
GOLDPINE
powerhouse Americana duo
Sage Valley Pottery
4908 Corrales Road, Corrales, NM
“A sound that’s cast in honesty, emotion and homespun sentiment…” —Goldmine Magazine
From Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion and the Kansas City Chiefs’ Arrowhead Stadium to listening rooms throughout the United States, husband-wife duo Goldpine has been offering their own brand of bold harmony-driven Americana to audiences large and small. Winner of the 2022 Rocky Mountain Songwriter Contest, their distinctive harmonies are clearly a channel for their sometimes-raucous, sometimes-reminiscent compositions. With an incredible collection of stories about life, love, and purpose, their live performance is a powerful projection of everything Goldpine is about: striking vocals, bold harmony, and introspection into the human experience. After a decade of honing their sound, the duo recently released their third album, Three, showcasing Kassie’s powerhouse of a voice and continuing their ongoing musical conversation about real people and real situations, told through candid and passionate songwriting. Goldpine is cathartic, moody, dissonant and relevant, all intertwined into one.
Coming FRIDAY February 6 2026
Doors 7:00pm, Music 7:30pm - 9:00pm - ALL AGES
Mollie O’Brien
& Rich Moore
at
Sage Valley Pottery
4908 Corrales Road, Corrales, NM
For three decades Grammy winner Mollie O’Brien and her husband, guitarist Rich Moore, have made it their mission to find, mine and reinvent other artists’ songs. As songwriters they add their own tunes to the canon of American roots music, boasting a fluid ability to make themselves at home in any genre. Known for his hilarious onstage banter,Rich is a powerhouse guitar player who can keep up with O’Brien’s twists and turns from blues to folk to jazz. For the Corrales performance, Mollie & Rich will play an intimate, unplugged set with limited seating (only 50 seats available).
They met in 1981 at the Denver Folklore Center on April Fool’s Day. Mollie was singing with the vintage swing outfit Prosperity Jazz Band, and Rich was playing bass with The Late Show, a rock-steady blues outfit. Within a year Mollie joined The Late Show, and they began playing Colorado blues festivals and concerts. In the late ’80s, Mollie earned fame when she and her brother Tim released three critically-acclaimed albums for Sugar Hill Records (Take Me Back, Remember Me and Away Out On The Mountain). Eventually, Mollie recorded five equally well-received solo albums and was a regular on Prairie Home Companion. Recent years have seen a renewed focus on wife-husband duet recordings and tours.
$29 advance, $35 door GA.
Unplugged performance 7:30 / Doors 7PM / no opener.
Mollie & Rich will also pay a show in Santa Fe on 2/7 – INFO HERE
Coming THURSDAY February 19, 2026
Doors 7:00pm, Music 7:30pm - 9:00pm - ALL AGES
ORDINARY ELEPHANT
Historic Old San Ysidro Church
966 Old Church Road, Corrales, NM
Folk duo Ordinary Elephant has spent the better part of the last decade on a never-ending tour that’s earned married couple Crystal & Pete Damore widespread critical acclaim and made fans of luminaries like Tom Paxton and Mary Gauthier. In 2017, the pair took home the International Folk Music Award for Artist of the Year on the strength of their breakout album Before I Go. Two years later, they returned with the similarly lauded Honest, which the Associated Press hailed as “one of the best Americana albums of the year.”
The band’s latest stripped-down, self-titled collection is the purest distillation of their sound yet, showcasing the arresting power of the couple’s gorgeous harmonies and intricate fretwork. The songs are rooted in rich, character-driven storytelling, and the performances are similarly transportive, fueled by delicately intertwined banjo, guitar, and octave mandolin. Though the songs were born out of a period of deep uncertainty, the record itself is a work of profound self-assurance, one delivered by a duo whose personal and professional lives embody the limitless possibility of honest, organic collaboration and reveling in the simple beauty of the moment.
Ordinary Elephant will also play Santa Fe on 2/20 INFO HERE.